Mr Springs
@mrsprings.bsky.social
Geographically: Taiwanese cosmopolite.
Ideologically: Theravada extensionalist.
Professionally: Editor, book doctor, ghostwriter.
Temperamentally: Into care, compassion, and sick burns.
Ideologically: Theravada extensionalist.
Professionally: Editor, book doctor, ghostwriter.
Temperamentally: Into care, compassion, and sick burns.
People on the bank and people on boats waving at each other?
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
People on the bank and people on boats waving at each other?
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Courage, moral outrage, love and care — these are things I struggle to maintain in my mind. Other people may need to cultivate different affects.
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Courage, moral outrage, love and care — these are things I struggle to maintain in my mind. Other people may need to cultivate different affects.
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
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Truly, not trying to be doomer. If anything I think that the hope that arises out of *determination* — the capacity to fight on despite all odds — comes not from painting a falsely reassuring picture of the past and present, but by cultivating qualities that allow us to rise up and fight on.
7/n
7/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Truly, not trying to be doomer. If anything I think that the hope that arises out of *determination* — the capacity to fight on despite all odds — comes not from painting a falsely reassuring picture of the past and present, but by cultivating qualities that allow us to rise up and fight on.
7/n
7/n
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I know it can be UNBEARABLE to hold this knowledge right now — and it’s very hard to see how to have hope in this dark — but we have to remain poised to grab the next political opportunity to turn this ship around, which we won’t be ready to do if we think THIS what we have now is “progress.”
6/n
6/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I know it can be UNBEARABLE to hold this knowledge right now — and it’s very hard to see how to have hope in this dark — but we have to remain poised to grab the next political opportunity to turn this ship around, which we won’t be ready to do if we think THIS what we have now is “progress.”
6/n
6/n
“Low barriers to entry to a position in a debate” is ironically exactly the kind of conceptual mangle AI excels at
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“Low barriers to entry to a position in a debate” is ironically exactly the kind of conceptual mangle AI excels at
They’re saying it’s the correctest opinion there’s ever been. No one’s seen a correcter opinion
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
They’re saying it’s the correctest opinion there’s ever been. No one’s seen a correcter opinion
Existence? It precedes essence.
June 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Existence? It precedes essence.
That of which we cannot speak? We must remain silent.
June 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
That of which we cannot speak? We must remain silent.