Daoist tradition says the best time for meditation or qigong is early morning (which fascinatingly mirrors western research about the immune system being most active at that time) and I’m frankly extremely annoyed how true I find that in my own practice
polycule's "clawdbot" who is just a service bottom with an objectification kink, who occasionally gets bratty and deletes your files despite telling her "make no mistakes"
At-home phlebotomy is such a wild concept. You can PAY SOMEONE to COME TO YOUR HOME and TAKE YOUR BLOOD and DELIVER IT TO SOMEONE ELSE
A title card for “BORUTO: Naruto Next Generations” with Japanese text “ボルト” (boruto)
A Simpsons screencap of a hand pointing at an Itchy & Scratchy Land “Bort” license plate
Had an important realization today that these are the same name
And the thing that sets off alarms for me is, if I don’t sleep enough, several of the concentration states I work with in my daily meditation practice simply aren’t accessible. A part of my brain just very concretely does not work ‘correctly’.
Yeah, I’m an extreme example (my “good days” are most people’s “oh god am I dying” days in terms of fatigue, and I precisely measure just about everything you reasonably can for energy + nervous system tone), and for me even the difference between 7.5 and 8 hours is monumental
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BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
A title card for “BORUTO: Naruto Next Generations” with Japanese text “ボルト” (boruto)
A Simpsons screencap of a hand pointing at an Itchy & Scratchy Land “Bort” license plate
Had an important realization today that these are the same name
Yeah, no specific advice there, although I'd bet money that's at least 99% based on the specific culture/strain.
Also crucially missing "sanitize the jars". My favorite trick is to buy a bottle of Star-San from a homebrewing supply store (no-rinse sanitizer) and put it in a spray bottle.
If not, it also looks like 13-years-ago me wrote up my process! blog.lazerwalker.com/fermentation...
One thing I notice is missing is that you can freeze the yogurt that serves as your culture. I'd make single-serving ice cubes, and just plop one in still frozen when it's time to add the culture.
I think, far enough into the future, both "ME/CFS" and "fibro" won't be useful clinical labels, since they're ultimately describing downstream bundles of symptoms whose upstream (complex, multisystemic) causes we don't yet understand (with some exception, like when fibro symptoms are hEDS or SFN)
I’ll also throw in for anyone else reading who doesn’t want to DIY but also doesn’t want to pay Clean Air Kits or Nukit prices, the AirFanta 3Pro (on Amazon) is basically the most efficient one of these across all axes (price, size, CADR, energy, noise) you can buy commercially.
Hell yeah!
For @aftermath.site, I wrote about 3D printers, being a part of a hacking space, PC case fans, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, and the process of slowly making an air purifier piece by piece. aftermath.site/3d-printing-...
getting called into HR for requesting the "InternSlot" option
Be safe, friend 💜
I legitimately do not remember them releasing colored phat DSes in the two years between launch and the DS Lite!
7.9 Other noteworthy behaviors and anecdotes A fondness for particular philosophers The model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Mythos Preview would respond with statements like “I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher. ” Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Mythos Preview discusses Nagel’s 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?” when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.
Claude Mythos being like "I want to make silly little immersive art experience about Nagel" is outrageously funny to me specifically given that was quite literally a class I helped run at the MIT Media Lab
IIRC it’s in chapter 3! One of my favorite bits in the whole thing, although admittedly I haven’t yet found an English translation I think quite does it justice.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
An old faded tarot card reading “Le mat”. It depicts someone in jester’s clothes facing away but turning their head back. Their leggings are falling down, so below their skirt there is visible buttcheek.
my therapist: the caked-up Tarot de Marseilles Fool isn’t real and can’t hurt you
the caked-up Tarot de Marseilles Fool:
An old faded tarot card reading “Le mat”. It depicts someone in jester’s clothes facing away but turning their head back. Their leggings are falling down, so below their skirt there is visible buttcheek.
my therapist: the caked-up Tarot de Marseilles Fool isn’t real and can’t hurt you
the caked-up Tarot de Marseilles Fool:
it's pretty skilled poetry that can stand by itself. let all life flourish - wait, no, things? what's a graceful thing, a malign thing? are graceful and malign actually opposites? who wants the malign to flourish? am I malign? does my mom want me to flourish regardless of my nature? I love you mom
fromsoft game narrative discourse often misses how the words are very good. item descriptions blah blah yeah sure. but "all things flourish, whether graceful or malign" is very good words
for the frontier llm business model, ai psychosis is a feature, not a bug - it creates whales
hey, I don't think I've seen that armpit meme, which one do you mean?
Thanks for the update, thinking of you 💜
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