there's actually something terrible about information being easily obtainable. in grad school i used to download textbooks from libgen and never read them, basically e-hoarding. universal accessibility flattens the salience landscape, makes it harder to tell what matters

good things are good bad things are bad

As someone who was an active runner for a decade (ran cross country, completed an ultra marathon and several standard marathons) I never understood the ‘runners high’. Every step sucked the whole time

Gf out of town for the week. Tendies running low…

The Martyrmade situation might be the first example of legitimate “dog whistling” of the style 2016 era leftists were concerned about that I’ve seen

I made it

Who wants to be friends on Goodreads

Chinese history is fun because every once in a while you’ll run into a throw away paragraph that just says some shit like “Great General Li Chu attempted an insurrection at regional Yuanzi province, it was resolved promptly. 650,000 people died “

Can we talk about how the Israelites appropriated the culture of indigenous folks?

Has anyone else’s feed gotten way more political recently?

There’s gotta be a good word for people who are chronically addicted to nuance

Convex optimization is the class of problems where local search always works. In today's lecture, I argue this is almost a definition. argmin.net/p/think-global…

Really all Martyrmade did was take the “nobody is better or worse than anyone else” reasoning to it’a logical conclusion. He’s the ultimate shitlib

This XKCD comic was made in 2014. Now these are both equally trivial tasks. Never bet against progress