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I stood in the middle of the living room holding a hose and I thought: I have owned vacuums my entire adult life and I have never once used a vacuum. This is an essay about entropy…

I’ve been working on a framework that treats 'reality' not as a metaphysical constant, but as a coordination problem. The core argument is that shared noetic certainty—what we coll…

I don't think the issue is whether or not people are more or less rational now than in previous era. The issue, from my view, is that people are just as irrational as they've alway…

Burned out hard af this year around September. My wife loves WFH. I hate it. I wound up quitting my job at the start of November and taking a couple months off before starting the …

I fully agree with you. When it comes to technical problems, I find the conscious mind is useful for absorbing the facts of the matter, but the subconscious seems to do most of the…

It likely is. I need to start doing more running. I do have ADD but the medications fuck with my heart, which means my life is difficult all the time. Sigh. The meds work so well..…

Incidentally I have found that I am more productive when I have a hangover because all the boring shit I have to do becomes more challenging and thus more interesting. I don't drin…

incidentally, the rainbow gathering web site still uses FRAMES https://www.welcomehome.org/

and this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

/shrug. i can think of any number of totally hypothetical reasons why demonstrating incompetence would be a strategic or tactical win. - now your enemy is complacent, secure in the…

I am also puzzled about the intersection of people savvy enough to own bitcoin and dumb enough to think musk is gonna give them free money.

bullshit. this measure is twitter deferring the arbitration of truth to actual authoritative sources: "People on Twitter, including candidates for office, may not claim an election…

I wouldn't straight up call this 'awful,' but I do agree that probability should be expressed by the color of the end slots.

I was a bored 13 year old in the mid-90s who had spent too much time reading old issues of Phrack and C programming manuals. Linux represented a big, mysterious system and I had no…

> Later found out that phrase has some religious meaning. Yeah just the Hebrew name of God is all

A bit soured on being a team lead here. Things to ask: - Will I be responsible for my the results my team delivers? - And if so, what tools are available to me that are not availab…

funny though, the future may indeed read like elon musk fan fiction.

It's easy to miss the point of any analogy if you try hard enough.

Okay so Movement through space (in any direction) is movement against time. Is positive kinetic energy the direction opposite time?

My question -- and I am not being glib -- is there something to the idea that we can "raise our vibration" and would doing so decrease our speed through time?

Beats me. I can speculate a bit: Perhaps professionals would be less likely to remove casings because they do not expect to ever go to trial, or know that the gun they used can not…

I'm just saying that I'm now looking. I am not fired.