OK this is really weird. I scrolled at least 20 entries down, and the original post never shows up, though there are some that may be replies to it. Also notable that none of the replies are from people I follow.

Maybe there’s a “1 result per account, favoring most recent” rule?

OK done with meetings! Gonna take a nap

Woah. The connection to the no-self principle in particular does seem like a very plausible explanation. And the relevant bits are right there in the constitution:

@gelliottmorris.com with the best explanation I've seen for the puzzling tendency of big legacy media outlets to keep boosting and sanewashing the party that hates them.

It's a cousin to the usual "owners are Republicans" and "can't quit bothesidesing" theories, but more grounded and plausible:

I played Ultima Underworld on release, but would have gotten this sequencing very wrong. It predated Wolfenstein 3D by two months?!

About once per decade, I encounter an argument so wrong that it *literally* takes my breath away: the experience starts with a chuckle that slowly falters and stills, smothered by rapt horror, culminating in a kind of awe.

Incorrect usage of semicolons is forgivable, and can even be charming; it’s a failure to even attempt their use that repels, suggesting a mind whose ideas either flow incontinently or arrive pre-diced into neat chunks. A worthy struggle between mind and language needs the full range of punctuation.

(Not my pic, but it basically looked like this ... except in a phone booth, on a deserted residential side street, at night.)

Also, a bit surprising to see a theorist of decision-making claim that he "discovered" his value-function of death only *after* making his end-of-life decision!

This is strange: Kahneman's "peak-end rule" is about how we evaluate experiences in memory. It doesn't make sense as a rationale for euthanasia, since you won't be retrospectively evaluating anything after you're dead.

Oh no Slate, no ... here I thought we were growing old gracefully together, but now when you finish talking there's an awkward silence and our friends just smile at me sympathetically ... 😬

(cc @faineg.bsky.social )

I've been a @washingtonpost.com subscriber for more than 20 years, and just canceled. The decision to withhold an endorsement is inexcusable cowardice; the rationale given was laughably pretextual; and this blatant accommodationism is a violation of fundamental journalistic values.

I have never felt so seen.

Perfect TL serendipity: