Philip
@aphataeros.bsky.social
🌍 35 countries before 11, adding more while building bridges between 🇺🇸 & 🇦🇹 tech
🚀 Founder exploring organizational design
🧠 Neurodivergent multi-passionate
📚 Avid reader | DE/EN
Austin - NYC - Vienna
Research Vertical vs Horizontal Morality
🚀 Founder exploring organizational design
🧠 Neurodivergent multi-passionate
📚 Avid reader | DE/EN
Austin - NYC - Vienna
Research Vertical vs Horizontal Morality
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Philip
@aphataeros.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Building connections! 🌍
I want to be friends with:
🤖 AI optimists & tech enthusiasts
🌉 cultural bridge-builders
📸 photography nerds
🧠 pattern seekers
🚀 community builders
📚 deep readers
🎮 LitRPG creators
Extra points
- neurospicy
- appreciate parallel conversations
- find beauty in organized chaos
I want to be friends with:
🤖 AI optimists & tech enthusiasts
🌉 cultural bridge-builders
📸 photography nerds
🧠 pattern seekers
🚀 community builders
📚 deep readers
🎮 LitRPG creators
Extra points
- neurospicy
- appreciate parallel conversations
- find beauty in organized chaos
Is being an adult a constant cycle of cleaning out random rooms? If so, unsubscribe.
September 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Is being an adult a constant cycle of cleaning out random rooms? If so, unsubscribe.
I'll be waiting a long in my inbox for a confirmation code if I don't hit "request code"...
April 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'll be waiting a long in my inbox for a confirmation code if I don't hit "request code"...
Can somebody explain to me the appeal of fb in 2025? The feed is random AI generated slop begging for engagement, mixed with random propaganda groups vying for my attention.
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can somebody explain to me the appeal of fb in 2025? The feed is random AI generated slop begging for engagement, mixed with random propaganda groups vying for my attention.
It’s difficult to create consistently, especially since I’m multipassionate. Right now working on overcoming resistance in all its forms (war of art? Such a great book) aiming to go to bed fulfilled. Day 1 of mood tracking with How we Feel.
February 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It’s difficult to create consistently, especially since I’m multipassionate. Right now working on overcoming resistance in all its forms (war of art? Such a great book) aiming to go to bed fulfilled. Day 1 of mood tracking with How we Feel.
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Amid these plane crashes and derailments (not a coincidence), I’m reposting my public transportation thread from the bird app:
Now that we’re in the middle of a plane Armageddon™️, it’s a good time to remember how public transportation is *purposely* underfunded across the ENTIRE United States.
Now that we’re in the middle of a plane Armageddon™️, it’s a good time to remember how public transportation is *purposely* underfunded across the ENTIRE United States.
February 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Amid these plane crashes and derailments (not a coincidence), I’m reposting my public transportation thread from the bird app:
Now that we’re in the middle of a plane Armageddon™️, it’s a good time to remember how public transportation is *purposely* underfunded across the ENTIRE United States.
Now that we’re in the middle of a plane Armageddon™️, it’s a good time to remember how public transportation is *purposely* underfunded across the ENTIRE United States.
I was too optimistic so now v1 is actually the fourth version. Probably should go to bed instead
February 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I was too optimistic so now v1 is actually the fourth version. Probably should go to bed instead
Shout out to 5calls.org for making it easy to find your representatives and contact their staff to share what is important to you. I managed to reach 2 out of 3 reps. today.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Shout out to 5calls.org for making it easy to find your representatives and contact their staff to share what is important to you. I managed to reach 2 out of 3 reps. today.
It's an interesting framing of the situation, one that we've seen US media take very often in the recent history, but only when the topics covered are unlikely to create legal liabilities domestically.
The US media has failed this week. We would much better understand the current coup and installation of Musk’s junta if the media was covering it overseas. My attempt at such a clear-eyed dispatch: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
February 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
It's an interesting framing of the situation, one that we've seen US media take very often in the recent history, but only when the topics covered are unlikely to create legal liabilities domestically.
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After I read this, I want to crawl into a hole and throw my phone and computer out the window.
“The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”
“The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
After I read this, I want to crawl into a hole and throw my phone and computer out the window.
“The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”
“The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”
Cheers to everybody that took the last few weeks as an opportunity to “relax” and “recuperate”! Happy new year? Let’s make this a mindful year
January 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Cheers to everybody that took the last few weeks as an opportunity to “relax” and “recuperate”! Happy new year? Let’s make this a mindful year
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Great story by @wsjwernau.bsky.social about one effective way to help treat the mental health crisis. www.wsj.com/health/schiz...
One Surprising Psychosis Treatment That Works: Learning to Live With the Voices
A classroom-style treatment teaches patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other illnesses to carry on their lives despite hallucinations and imagined voices.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Great story by @wsjwernau.bsky.social about one effective way to help treat the mental health crisis. www.wsj.com/health/schiz...
Apologies for the minutia, but why do I get the notification that our flight is delayed by four hours moments after we get in the pre paid cab to jfk…
December 11, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Apologies for the minutia, but why do I get the notification that our flight is delayed by four hours moments after we get in the pre paid cab to jfk…
Have a good evening!
*repeatedly smashes the door close button*
*repeatedly smashes the door close button*
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Have a good evening!
*repeatedly smashes the door close button*
*repeatedly smashes the door close button*
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The state of media for Americans is so completely broken
I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime.
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
December 8, 2024 at 3:46 AM
The state of media for Americans is so completely broken
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My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria.
The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky.
But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵
The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky.
But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵
December 8, 2024 at 4:40 AM
My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria.
The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky.
But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵
The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky.
But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵
Streets of NYC so full, I could probably swim faster than traffic (and I’m a bad swimmer)
December 7, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Streets of NYC so full, I could probably swim faster than traffic (and I’m a bad swimmer)
Another noise related post: Sitting in a Thai restaurant and the smoke detector battery is running low, beeping obnoxiously loud every 39.6 seconds. I don’t know how the staff can handle that all day long.
December 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Another noise related post: Sitting in a Thai restaurant and the smoke detector battery is running low, beeping obnoxiously loud every 39.6 seconds. I don’t know how the staff can handle that all day long.
I’m in a hotel room, and there’s this mysterious deep brumming noise that I just can’t identify. It permeates the building, but it’s only audible in one corner of the room.
I’m suspecting some kind of weird resonance, because we are on the third floor, pretty far away from any usual culprits.
I’m suspecting some kind of weird resonance, because we are on the third floor, pretty far away from any usual culprits.
December 6, 2024 at 4:46 AM
I’m in a hotel room, and there’s this mysterious deep brumming noise that I just can’t identify. It permeates the building, but it’s only audible in one corner of the room.
I’m suspecting some kind of weird resonance, because we are on the third floor, pretty far away from any usual culprits.
I’m suspecting some kind of weird resonance, because we are on the third floor, pretty far away from any usual culprits.
Having grown up in Austria, this entire story is unfathomable to me.
I don't really post politics here, but health insurance policies are a hot topic right now, so I wanted to post my health insurance denial story. Technically, it's my sister's story.
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#healthinsurance
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#healthinsurance
December 6, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Having grown up in Austria, this entire story is unfathomable to me.
I totally forgot just how nice it is to walk through the forest, through fresh snow.
December 6, 2024 at 3:32 AM
I totally forgot just how nice it is to walk through the forest, through fresh snow.
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The thing you have to understand about the banality of evil is that it was mundane.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
The thing you have to understand about the banality of evil is that it was mundane.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.
> Actual reality is too boring to be fun and too specific to be believable.
Love this line from the verge article about ai companions – it's such a good article!
Love this line from the verge article about ai companions – it's such a good article!
What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:49 AM
> Actual reality is too boring to be fun and too specific to be believable.
Love this line from the verge article about ai companions – it's such a good article!
Love this line from the verge article about ai companions – it's such a good article!
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This is such a tragic story, a first-hand account about homelessness in the US, written by an accomplished writer, Patrick Fealey. 😞 www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:08 PM
This is such a tragic story, a first-hand account about homelessness in the US, written by an accomplished writer, Patrick Fealey. 😞 www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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siri set a reminder to research "thanksgiving dishes with fiber question mark" for nov 1, 2025
December 1, 2024 at 2:45 AM
siri set a reminder to research "thanksgiving dishes with fiber question mark" for nov 1, 2025
