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I once had an LSD-induced episode of psychosis where I thought my entire existence was a 2 minute loop on display in some higher dimensional art exhibit. Sounds silly but it was ho…

To call Le Guin’s version of the Tao Te Ching a translation is misleading—she knew little Chinese. Le Guin leaned heavily on existing translations, alongside her intuition for Taoi…

Build or join a local community! I’ve been working with https://fractal.boston/ and adjacent communities for the last year and my loneliness has been cured. I now have the opposite…

I’ve been helping build https://fractal.boston/ for about a year now and it’s been a massively rewarding experience Like the author, I highly recommend _building_ rather than simpl…

Just learned you don’t have to go full grayscale! You can put the filter on 80% and still get the color semantics while also being less stimulated Thanks to whoever added this

Some seem to think this organization was “anti free speech”. Thing is, if you believe in free speech, famously, you have to agree to let people disagree with you! “I disapprove of …

This is not a good rabbit hole

Lots of hate here, but I think this is clever and some iteration of it will sell well I get that folks are worried about what AI-generated art will do to kids sense of creativity. …

Always has been

The title seems a little click-baity and basically wrong. Gabor transforms, wavelet transforms, etc are all generalizations of the fourier transform, which give you a spectrum anal…

Probably true. Most mass-appeal science communication is bullshit. But TBKTS helped to bring "somatics"--the idea that physical and psychological issues are often interwoven--to th…

All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!

Honestly the fact that we don’t have a sovereign wealth fund invested in US equities is just silly. I get that you don’t want too much central interference in the economy but it fe…

As with most cognitive biases, there's an inverse to this, where we ignore low-probability high-impact scenarios. E.g. people drive drunk or without a seatbelt, because it'll *prob…

related: https://x.com/mxslk/status/1940832698366619681

There's a middle ground between claiming you have a final answer, and ignoring the question entirely. The best spiritual disciplines provide a _framework_ for exploring existential…

If I were King of America, the first thing I'd do is start enforcing standard protocols for things like auth, messaging, data export/migration, etc. Mostly relying on industry to d…

Subtitle makes it clear that this is a correlation, but the title (falsely) implies causation. Obviously lonely people are going to flock toward a technology that provides pseudo s…

I had great plans to feed Erowid's database through Claude to get a better classification of drug phenomenology. Sadly they have explicitly disallowed the feeding of Erowid reports…

> However, the average ketamine “user” consumes 500-1000mg of ketamine per day This is an outrageous claim with no citation. I'm a regular user, and this is roughly what I consume …