This is what they're trying to take away from you
September 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is what they're trying to take away from you
I'm suspicious of my gut
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'm suspicious of my gut
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One of the hardest but most important practices: realize that you are not the stuff inside your head. You are the awareness that decides what to do with the stuff inside your head. The ability to choose which thoughts to pursue and which to leave behind is key to everything.
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One of the hardest but most important practices: realize that you are not the stuff inside your head. You are the awareness that decides what to do with the stuff inside your head. The ability to choose which thoughts to pursue and which to leave behind is key to everything.
Not-seed
Essential
Crude
Snake
Connections category: Oils entering their superstar era
Essential
Crude
Snake
Connections category: Oils entering their superstar era
March 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Not-seed
Essential
Crude
Snake
Connections category: Oils entering their superstar era
Essential
Crude
Snake
Connections category: Oils entering their superstar era
Orange cream Coca Cola sounds like some marketing exec's sweaty late-meeting Hail Mary
March 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Orange cream Coca Cola sounds like some marketing exec's sweaty late-meeting Hail Mary
There was a point in reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric novellas that I realized her fantasy Europe was in the southern hemisphere of her fantasy Earth. My mind rejected this information. My mental map was set. Metaphor?
March 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There was a point in reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric novellas that I realized her fantasy Europe was in the southern hemisphere of her fantasy Earth. My mind rejected this information. My mental map was set. Metaphor?
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Turkey’s Interior Ministry formally removes Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu from office.
This will likely increase protests in Turkey
This will likely increase protests in Turkey
March 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Turkey’s Interior Ministry formally removes Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu from office.
This will likely increase protests in Turkey
This will likely increase protests in Turkey
Been listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social and @coolzonemedia.bsky.social talk about LessWrong and the Zizians this week
To my shame, I used to splash around in the shallow end of that pool
...which means, I've read the associated Harry Potter fanfic, which, off the top of my head, includes:
To my shame, I used to splash around in the shallow end of that pool
...which means, I've read the associated Harry Potter fanfic, which, off the top of my head, includes:
March 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Been listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social and @coolzonemedia.bsky.social talk about LessWrong and the Zizians this week
To my shame, I used to splash around in the shallow end of that pool
...which means, I've read the associated Harry Potter fanfic, which, off the top of my head, includes:
To my shame, I used to splash around in the shallow end of that pool
...which means, I've read the associated Harry Potter fanfic, which, off the top of my head, includes:
Oversimplifying complicated issues doesn't actually make them simpler
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Oversimplifying complicated issues doesn't actually make them simpler
Know many things.
Believe few, true things.
Believe those things hard.
Believe few, true things.
Believe those things hard.
February 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Know many things.
Believe few, true things.
Believe those things hard.
Believe few, true things.
Believe those things hard.
Cracker thin lahmacun crust using a pasta roller. Unreal. Thanks, Reddit.
February 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Cracker thin lahmacun crust using a pasta roller. Unreal. Thanks, Reddit.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Not pithy or anything, but the chestnut about a lie making it halfway around the world while the truth is still lacing up its shoes is ringing extra true.
But what if we also gave the lie a bazooka?
But what if we also gave the lie a bazooka?
February 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Not pithy or anything, but the chestnut about a lie making it halfway around the world while the truth is still lacing up its shoes is ringing extra true.
But what if we also gave the lie a bazooka?
But what if we also gave the lie a bazooka?
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The greatest wealth you will ever experience is having a healthy body, a calm mind, and the right people in your life.
February 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The greatest wealth you will ever experience is having a healthy body, a calm mind, and the right people in your life.
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1. Short thread. When I started writing this piece - crookedtimber.org/2025/02/02/t... - , I wasn't aware that the musician Grimes was talking about how alienated she felt from the antiwoke crowd that she used to hang with. Nor that people on Bluesky would start banging on about "wallet inspectors."
February 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1. Short thread. When I started writing this piece - crookedtimber.org/2025/02/02/t... - , I wasn't aware that the musician Grimes was talking about how alienated she felt from the antiwoke crowd that she used to hang with. Nor that people on Bluesky would start banging on about "wallet inspectors."
Question from an eight-year-old: What's the best fictional object?
Make of that what you will.
Make of that what you will.
February 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Question from an eight-year-old: What's the best fictional object?
Make of that what you will.
Make of that what you will.
When nothing means anything, when you slice away signifiers of truth, when nothing can make you raise your head and reconsider, then there's only power, its exercise, and your affiliation with those doing the exercising.
February 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
When nothing means anything, when you slice away signifiers of truth, when nothing can make you raise your head and reconsider, then there's only power, its exercise, and your affiliation with those doing the exercising.
There it is. I was griping into the void before finishing the book. "Attention is a zero-sum game." Spend it well, with the corollary that some stuff demands less of it
January 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There it is. I was griping into the void before finishing the book. "Attention is a zero-sum game." Spend it well, with the corollary that some stuff demands less of it
If you do violence to your own beliefs and they survive, give em a big hug
January 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you do violence to your own beliefs and they survive, give em a big hug
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social wrote a good book! Verified is straightforward. That's not a put down. It's pragmatic in a way anyone else who has been told they're 'good at Googling' will resonate with. You should read it.
January 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social wrote a good book! Verified is straightforward. That's not a put down. It's pragmatic in a way anyone else who has been told they're 'good at Googling' will resonate with. You should read it.
Let me just take a sec and talk about special pleading in particular
January 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Let me just take a sec and talk about special pleading in particular
In all humility, Mr Referee, sir, that was a fair and just call, even though it hurts my favorite team
December 22, 2024 at 4:26 AM
In all humility, Mr Referee, sir, that was a fair and just call, even though it hurts my favorite team
Confirmation is my favorite bias because, anecdotally, I've observed so much evidence for it.
December 18, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Confirmation is my favorite bias because, anecdotally, I've observed so much evidence for it.
It's not always possible to follow the thread back out of the labyrinth
December 18, 2024 at 3:34 AM
It's not always possible to follow the thread back out of the labyrinth
Debates don't work
December 14, 2024 at 4:50 AM
Debates don't work