Poor Yorick
@yorick.bsky.social
the difference between the lion king and hamlet is that in the lion king the jester is still alive
Why do I always get what I want?
In the long run, I mean; I am generally the happiest person at my work, which is already a pretty happy wholesome place, and it would be easy to think I’m just lucky; but I don’t think I am, or at least don’t think that’s it
In the long run, I mean; I am generally the happiest person at my work, which is already a pretty happy wholesome place, and it would be easy to think I’m just lucky; but I don’t think I am, or at least don’t think that’s it
April 17, 2023 at 11:56 AM
Why do I always get what I want?
In the long run, I mean; I am generally the happiest person at my work, which is already a pretty happy wholesome place, and it would be easy to think I’m just lucky; but I don’t think I am, or at least don’t think that’s it
In the long run, I mean; I am generally the happiest person at my work, which is already a pretty happy wholesome place, and it would be easy to think I’m just lucky; but I don’t think I am, or at least don’t think that’s it
A thing I was thinking about yesterday: why are so many people loyal to me? There are probably about 50 non-family people who would take a bullet for me, not counting those who would just do it for anyone
More than that: I have a cultlike authority in the ministry I lead that makes me uncomfortable
More than that: I have a cultlike authority in the ministry I lead that makes me uncomfortable
April 16, 2023 at 11:38 AM
A thing I was thinking about yesterday: why are so many people loyal to me? There are probably about 50 non-family people who would take a bullet for me, not counting those who would just do it for anyone
More than that: I have a cultlike authority in the ministry I lead that makes me uncomfortable
More than that: I have a cultlike authority in the ministry I lead that makes me uncomfortable
couldn’t agree more, had to reskype
There is one act which is to be punishable by death in the new regime which is that of proposing dumb words to be the way we refer to posts
April 13, 2023 at 3:41 PM
couldn’t agree more, had to reskype
A riddle to bless the timeline! Might start to make this a regular thing; if you have favorite beautiful riddles, leave one in the comments!
This one is from Richard Wilbur, a favorite poet of mine, and is a beautiful poem in its own right, beside being an excellent riddle:
This one is from Richard Wilbur, a favorite poet of mine, and is a beautiful poem in its own right, beside being an excellent riddle:
April 13, 2023 at 1:53 AM
A riddle to bless the timeline! Might start to make this a regular thing; if you have favorite beautiful riddles, leave one in the comments!
This one is from Richard Wilbur, a favorite poet of mine, and is a beautiful poem in its own right, beside being an excellent riddle:
This one is from Richard Wilbur, a favorite poet of mine, and is a beautiful poem in its own right, beside being an excellent riddle:
Reposted by Poor Yorick
my wife at our favorite lake
(I’m pretty proud of this picture)
(I’m pretty proud of this picture)
April 12, 2023 at 12:45 PM
my wife at our favorite lake
(I’m pretty proud of this picture)
(I’m pretty proud of this picture)
yissss
This is the poem I read at my wedding
I wrote it myself three days before
And then my father in law got up and sang a beautiful song about giving his daughter away and everyone forgot my poem 😂
This is the poem I read at my wedding
I wrote it myself three days before
And then my father in law got up and sang a beautiful song about giving his daughter away and everyone forgot my poem 😂
April 12, 2023 at 1:11 PM
yissss
This is the poem I read at my wedding
I wrote it myself three days before
And then my father in law got up and sang a beautiful song about giving his daughter away and everyone forgot my poem 😂
This is the poem I read at my wedding
I wrote it myself three days before
And then my father in law got up and sang a beautiful song about giving his daughter away and everyone forgot my poem 😂
Social minds (economies, cultures, nations, even evolution) are embodied in conglomerates of brains, and function roughly at the dog level—they’re beasts to be tamed or trained or befriended, not really capable of self conscious imaginative self editing
Human: imagined experience (or imagined person’s response) adjusts reaction
My guess: we’ll see weird things with AI over the next century and it will all be very exciting, but no human type minds will emerge until we understand how human type brains do their thing better
My guess: we’ll see weird things with AI over the next century and it will all be very exciting, but no human type minds will emerge until we understand how human type brains do their thing better
April 12, 2023 at 1:02 PM
Social minds (economies, cultures, nations, even evolution) are embodied in conglomerates of brains, and function roughly at the dog level—they’re beasts to be tamed or trained or befriended, not really capable of self conscious imaginative self editing
everyone shut up, I figured out how minds work
Bateson was right all along
Amoeba: reacts to simple stimulus (if a then x)
Worm: reacts to complex stimulus (if a and b then y)
Fish: capacity for negative feed back; experience adjusts reaction
Dog: pack response adjusts reaction
Bateson was right all along
Amoeba: reacts to simple stimulus (if a then x)
Worm: reacts to complex stimulus (if a and b then y)
Fish: capacity for negative feed back; experience adjusts reaction
Dog: pack response adjusts reaction
April 12, 2023 at 12:57 PM
everyone shut up, I figured out how minds work
Bateson was right all along
Amoeba: reacts to simple stimulus (if a then x)
Worm: reacts to complex stimulus (if a and b then y)
Fish: capacity for negative feed back; experience adjusts reaction
Dog: pack response adjusts reaction
Bateson was right all along
Amoeba: reacts to simple stimulus (if a then x)
Worm: reacts to complex stimulus (if a and b then y)
Fish: capacity for negative feed back; experience adjusts reaction
Dog: pack response adjusts reaction
move to use only cloud/atmospheric language for bluesky stuff
I first nominate that tweets/skeets/bloots/posts be referred to as vapors, in the Ecclesiastes sense
This has two advantages
First, we can once again say “I have the vapors”
Second, when I open this app I’ll say “all is vapor”
I first nominate that tweets/skeets/bloots/posts be referred to as vapors, in the Ecclesiastes sense
This has two advantages
First, we can once again say “I have the vapors”
Second, when I open this app I’ll say “all is vapor”
April 12, 2023 at 12:50 PM
move to use only cloud/atmospheric language for bluesky stuff
I first nominate that tweets/skeets/bloots/posts be referred to as vapors, in the Ecclesiastes sense
This has two advantages
First, we can once again say “I have the vapors”
Second, when I open this app I’ll say “all is vapor”
I first nominate that tweets/skeets/bloots/posts be referred to as vapors, in the Ecclesiastes sense
This has two advantages
First, we can once again say “I have the vapors”
Second, when I open this app I’ll say “all is vapor”
nice nice
Wittgensteinian gf
Plays language games with you
talks to lions
is all that exists
Wittgensteinian gf
Plays language games with you
talks to lions
is all that exists
April 12, 2023 at 2:30 AM
nice nice
Wittgensteinian gf
Plays language games with you
talks to lions
is all that exists
Wittgensteinian gf
Plays language games with you
talks to lions
is all that exists
nice
painters poets of color poets painters of breath
painters poets of color poets painters of breath
dancers are poets of space, poets are dancers of time
April 12, 2023 at 2:26 AM
nice
painters poets of color poets painters of breath
painters poets of color poets painters of breath
this playlist is blessing me rn
Spring piano vibes
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42L7bhOWNhffOrKrN9OW07?si=b2vu5w5lTY22N03Xq8YDyQ&dd=1
Spring piano vibes
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42L7bhOWNhffOrKrN9OW07?si=b2vu5w5lTY22N03Xq8YDyQ&dd=1
April 12, 2023 at 2:20 AM
this playlist is blessing me rn
Spring piano vibes
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42L7bhOWNhffOrKrN9OW07?si=b2vu5w5lTY22N03Xq8YDyQ&dd=1
Spring piano vibes
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42L7bhOWNhffOrKrN9OW07?si=b2vu5w5lTY22N03Xq8YDyQ&dd=1
I like this
Blue sky implies daytime, but cloud formation doesn’t really work… “welcome to the Nimbus”
Blue sky implies daytime, but cloud formation doesn’t really work… “welcome to the Nimbus”
welcome to The Constellation
Look it's clearly TPOTS (This Part of The Sky) -- also known as a Constellation (officially!)
April 12, 2023 at 2:18 AM
I like this
Blue sky implies daytime, but cloud formation doesn’t really work… “welcome to the Nimbus”
Blue sky implies daytime, but cloud formation doesn’t really work… “welcome to the Nimbus”
I like this
Mine:
feature not bug!
have you prayed about it?
what do you actually want?
prototype it
are you happy?
I’m right about this
what’s up handsome
hate to see it
Mine:
feature not bug!
have you prayed about it?
what do you actually want?
prototype it
are you happy?
I’m right about this
what’s up handsome
hate to see it
Hmm summary of my sayings..
- befriend your sadness
- do life experiments
- the path will materialize as you go down it (? This is new)
- what’s up late night crew
- befriend your sadness
- do life experiments
- the path will materialize as you go down it (? This is new)
- what’s up late night crew
April 12, 2023 at 2:17 AM
I like this
Mine:
feature not bug!
have you prayed about it?
what do you actually want?
prototype it
are you happy?
I’m right about this
what’s up handsome
hate to see it
Mine:
feature not bug!
have you prayed about it?
what do you actually want?
prototype it
are you happy?
I’m right about this
what’s up handsome
hate to see it
This is my spicy meme thread
April 12, 2023 at 1:26 AM
This is my spicy meme thread
Gregory Bateson has thing where he emphasizes “patterns that last longer than other patterns outlast other patterns”
I think a lot about that recently—how to build patterns that outlast what seems to me to be a rapidly disappearing world order
I think a lot about that recently—how to build patterns that outlast what seems to me to be a rapidly disappearing world order
April 12, 2023 at 1:24 AM
Gregory Bateson has thing where he emphasizes “patterns that last longer than other patterns outlast other patterns”
I think a lot about that recently—how to build patterns that outlast what seems to me to be a rapidly disappearing world order
I think a lot about that recently—how to build patterns that outlast what seems to me to be a rapidly disappearing world order
Reposted by Poor Yorick
A Code
I will be kind
I will not thirst
I will not sneer
I will not be bitter
I will repost judiciously
I will like all good replies
I will seek out good accounts, large or small
I will protect my feed with mutings and blocks
I will post creatively
I will post with craft
I will be kind
I will not thirst
I will not sneer
I will not be bitter
I will repost judiciously
I will like all good replies
I will seek out good accounts, large or small
I will protect my feed with mutings and blocks
I will post creatively
I will post with craft
April 10, 2023 at 12:42 PM
A Code
I will be kind
I will not thirst
I will not sneer
I will not be bitter
I will repost judiciously
I will like all good replies
I will seek out good accounts, large or small
I will protect my feed with mutings and blocks
I will post creatively
I will post with craft
I will be kind
I will not thirst
I will not sneer
I will not be bitter
I will repost judiciously
I will like all good replies
I will seek out good accounts, large or small
I will protect my feed with mutings and blocks
I will post creatively
I will post with craft
this is beautiful
Remembering living on the upper east side of manhattan, hanging out with my recently-moved-from-hawaii girlfriend. We just went to the met and she saw snow for the first time as we left. We're smoking cigarettes inside, ashing in a glass, and laughing about dumb things people say
April 12, 2023 at 1:18 AM
this is beautiful
favorite books you fools should read:
—vorkosigan saga, immediately
—discworld
—so you want to be a wizard
—name of the wind
—disco elysium, which is like if DFW wrote a choose your own adventure and Goya illustrated it and then it became a video game
—Robert frosts Masque-of-reason and -mercy
—vorkosigan saga, immediately
—discworld
—so you want to be a wizard
—name of the wind
—disco elysium, which is like if DFW wrote a choose your own adventure and Goya illustrated it and then it became a video game
—Robert frosts Masque-of-reason and -mercy
April 12, 2023 at 1:17 AM
favorite books you fools should read:
—vorkosigan saga, immediately
—discworld
—so you want to be a wizard
—name of the wind
—disco elysium, which is like if DFW wrote a choose your own adventure and Goya illustrated it and then it became a video game
—Robert frosts Masque-of-reason and -mercy
—vorkosigan saga, immediately
—discworld
—so you want to be a wizard
—name of the wind
—disco elysium, which is like if DFW wrote a choose your own adventure and Goya illustrated it and then it became a video game
—Robert frosts Masque-of-reason and -mercy
Things I like to do in the morning:
—shit
—take a walk
—have a smoothie (mango! banana! blueberries! chia seeds! ice cream or yogurt or Greek yogurt! Milk or water! I’m still figuring it out!)
—read on my porch
—talk to god for a long time
—not check email, in an active way
—shit
—take a walk
—have a smoothie (mango! banana! blueberries! chia seeds! ice cream or yogurt or Greek yogurt! Milk or water! I’m still figuring it out!)
—read on my porch
—talk to god for a long time
—not check email, in an active way
April 12, 2023 at 1:13 AM
Things I like to do in the morning:
—shit
—take a walk
—have a smoothie (mango! banana! blueberries! chia seeds! ice cream or yogurt or Greek yogurt! Milk or water! I’m still figuring it out!)
—read on my porch
—talk to god for a long time
—not check email, in an active way
—shit
—take a walk
—have a smoothie (mango! banana! blueberries! chia seeds! ice cream or yogurt or Greek yogurt! Milk or water! I’m still figuring it out!)
—read on my porch
—talk to god for a long time
—not check email, in an active way
I got the “yorick” username on bluesky! preeeetty big deal
The “yorick” name was always meant to be a play on the jester figures in hamlet (yorick), lion king (rafiki) and a little bit infinite jest (Don Gately, I think); but I worry that @meekaale.bsky.social’s cool new AI art avi obscures that
The “yorick” name was always meant to be a play on the jester figures in hamlet (yorick), lion king (rafiki) and a little bit infinite jest (Don Gately, I think); but I worry that @meekaale.bsky.social’s cool new AI art avi obscures that
April 12, 2023 at 12:56 AM
I got the “yorick” username on bluesky! preeeetty big deal
The “yorick” name was always meant to be a play on the jester figures in hamlet (yorick), lion king (rafiki) and a little bit infinite jest (Don Gately, I think); but I worry that @meekaale.bsky.social’s cool new AI art avi obscures that
The “yorick” name was always meant to be a play on the jester figures in hamlet (yorick), lion king (rafiki) and a little bit infinite jest (Don Gately, I think); but I worry that @meekaale.bsky.social’s cool new AI art avi obscures that
please share something beautiful for the timeline—here’s my contribution
April 12, 2023 at 12:50 AM
please share something beautiful for the timeline—here’s my contribution