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responses here were awesome. thanks everyone! some ppl asked for my recs: — “The Great Courses” (high-quality lecture series recorded in the studio) — particularly the history courses — all-time fav is “Big History” by David Christian — any linguistics course by John McWhorter

hit me with some of your favorite writing (or other art) that defamiliarizes common things

People keep discovering over and over that LLMs can write all the same sentences people can write.

Did it ever occur to you (before now) that plants have immune systems?

this is your regular common knowledge announcement if your reply is over 280 chars, OP doesn't get a notification for it

2yo: it’s coldy outside weird that it can be sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, windy, stormy, even chilly… but not coldy sorry kid, English is hard

and successful theories of self also organize society

“mirrors don’t flip text, people flip text”