holy fuck

all the discussion about tpot and legibility the last few days and i read this:

Literally the best thing about Jung’s Red Book is how he keeps repeating “this is my path not yours” “you can’t follow me find your own way” “wor betide those who live by examples, life is not with them”

He reeeaaallly just wants folks to individuate and stop copying

disagreeing with you on purpose to confirm fragile masculinity

There’s a Hawaiian myth that says this world came out of the chaos of the destruction of a previous world, and the octopus was the lone survivor that slipped through.

a prelude to anal

"i drank a ceremonial cup of coffee today and i will change the world"

"roast it, ground it, brew it"

"the beans will change your life"

lol

imagine if coffee was illegal, what kind of drug culture would it have?

yeah Bluesky is cool, but last night I posted a short thread on the other site and got two unprompted book recommendations that are highly relevant to my current specific interests, and I'd love to bring some of that energy over here

you're in her DMs, my app doesn't have a DM feature yet, we are not the same

that sweet feeling when you finish a leg workout and the earth suddenly becomes a trampoline as you walk on it

Braitenberg's Law of uphill analysis and downhill invention:

“It is much more difficult to guess the internal structure of an entity just by observing its behavior than it is to actually create the structure that leads to that behavior.”

paul is asleep everyone say something nice so he sees it when he wakes up

this but unironically

Post your best vibe-based field guide to differentiate similar plants or animals

people are usually both ignorant of the power of personal myth/images, and stuck in shitty ones

makes it possible to switch it out

there's a myth/context creating speech often used by leaders

there's a blurred line between invention and imagination. taking fiction and making it real

you tell people where they are, who they are, where theyre going and why theyre going there

there's another kind of speech (real & in person) where the speaker is trying to convince you of smth for their own validation (if you also believe it, then its right)

more natural speech is filled with filler words e.g. "uh, you get what i mean"

the closer i look at various forms of speech the more different they look

fiction writing is a lot more interesting when you see each character as a part of the author. you need to make a toy model of the world to write fiction, and that tells you a lot

"ruling class" is useless analysis because it locates agency in an Other and enables offloading responsibility to them

whether its "true" or not is a distraction

gm

postrats stay winning

Forth, do you live in portland?

bsky.app/profile/fronk.bsky.socia...

what is it about portland that every time i hear about it its so weird???

good morning. i brought you my morning walk.

Kafka and Dostoevsky didn't use emojis, that didn't stop them from ripping your heart to shreds

The difference between an open system (email, web, Bluesky, Noosphere) and a closed one (Twitter) is not so obvious during good times.

Like how there may not be an obvious day-to-day difference living in democracy vs good emperor.

But when a bad emperor happens, the difference becomes stark.

Having a problem with nudity was the original sin in the bible, literally

yep. he and other tpot folk also organized / encouraged inviting artists too