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If you have a habit of being hard on yourself or are chronically unhappy, it's good to regularly strive to cultivate self-compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. If you've tried to cultivate these things and you still feel bad, it's because you're a failure and piece of shit
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the airbnb i’m in has fake books on the bookshelves and now i’m developing a horseshoe theory of inoffensive decor
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Why does Airbnb think that "nightly rate" is what I'm interested in, rather than total cost? I've seen listings for $29/night where cleaning fee is $150. Not in anyone's interest to obscure that info — creates bad sentiment, bad reviews, angry customers. @AirbnbHelp me out here
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One time i was on drugs at a festival & i wandered into a hot tub where two beekeepers (who seemed to have just met) were having a conversation. When one of them got up to leave, the other said “bee kind”, and without missing a beat the one leaving said “bee friendly”, and to this day i don’t know if that was improvised or if i witnessed part of the secret beekeeper code
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you might think these are just journals, but no. the books with city names on them are just as empty
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🧵 When I was in high school, my physics teacher casually mentioned during lecture that “the number zero is neither odd nor even”. I knew he was wrong; we ended up getting in an argument about it at the end of which he still didnt agree with me. I wasn’t going to let it drop
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They had to develop entirely new kinds of materials to make the gears out of, because gears on a 10,000-year clock move so slowly that existing metals/alloys would fuse together on that timescale, stopping the clock
Jeff Bezos has spent $42 million building a clock that will outlast human civilization in a mountain in Texas
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“Of course it is.
x is even if and only if x mod 2 = 0.
(What a shame that your teacher couldn’t tell you this.
I wonder if the situation in California is any better!
But in Europe or Asia there would be no question...)
Best wishes don knuth”
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To be clear: that teacher was a great teacher! I liked him and learned a lot from him. But I’ll mostly remember him for this
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it would be really satisfying to invent a new pasta shape and then start seeing it in restaurants or something
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He didn’t come back for ten minutes or more, long after class was supposed to begin. I don’t actually remember what happened after that — I think he was pretty embarrassed, and I felt for him. But. he deserved it
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Giddy and nervous, feeling both compassion and anticipatory schadenfreude for my teacher’s imminent defeat, I brought the letter to school and handed it to him just before class started. He read the letter and, with a resigned grimace, wordlessly turned and left the room
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one time i was using an online service and was looking at my billing, and the url had "/user/437163" or something in it, so i tried changing it to 437162 and discovered i was able to see the finances of every other customer in the database
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hippies & woo people or whoever talk about “high frequency vibrations” being good and “low vibrations” being bad, & as far as i can tell it’s 100% semantic association with high=virtuous & low=depraved
for me high frequency vibrations correspond to things like anxiety & tinnitus
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So, I did what any high school student would be forced to do in such a situation: I wrote a letter to Donald Knuth asking him to settle the question.
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so I started being a little passive-aggressive. I turned in homework assignments with footnotes at the bottom that had references to reputable sources agreeing with my contention that zero is an even number. He STILL didn’t change his mind
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I wanted my letter to be as neutral as possible, so I didn’t mention my teacher at all. I simply asked if zero is even, adding “I’ve yet to find a definite answer.”
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It didn’t take long for me to hear back from him. He scrawled a reply on the same piece of paper I sent him and mailed it back to me. His reply:
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Ever since learning about the Japanese art form suiseki, I’ve wanted to try my hand at it. Yesterday I finally did! in a very modest way
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RT 🔒:
when you think about it all het sex should be illegal due to the attractiveness gap between men and women. men can't meaningfully consent to sex in the presence of a hot naked girl because of this power differential
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I’ve dumpster dived, table dived, eaten from trash cans, left food out for days… never gotten sick. There are vast unexplored regions of food safety which most people will never inch toward, having internalized purity myths from a young age
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i did report this to them and they fixed it, but really, how bad at information security can you be
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would emotional honesty be rewarded?
“i resent having to write this essay, but i’m terrified of failure. i feel i am suddenly in the position of having to prematurely make lots of extremely consequential decisions. i hate this”
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if decor is inoffensive enough, at some point it becomes offensive again. who put these here? what kind of world are they trying to manifest? a world with no substance at all? is that what they think i want, a world without substance? without meaning? a millennial gray ganzfledt?
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u can really learn a lot about a person by obsessively analyzing every single thing that they do
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my guess is that someone worked very hard in crafting it, but that it’s almost definitely AI generated, or AI-assisted-generated. Too many anomalies to be a real photo.
Also, the perspective looks to be straight-on, but the camera is all the way to the side. Should be distorted
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low frequency vibrations correspond to things like heartbeats, the breath, the tides, the seasons, and horizons of time that reach out toward eternity
whoever is talking about “high vibrations” being the vibrations of love has not considered basic physics
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the last time i went to a dentist i asked a lot of questions about what they were doing, why this instead of that, etc, & left with a strong sense that my dentist had been programmed by dental establishment dogma & had lost the ability to think for himself about teeth & mouths
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i once met a university professor who drank 12 quarts of coffee per day. he'd fill up 12 thermoses in the morning, set them all in a line on his desk, and drink one every hour on the hour
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UPDATE: i'm being told there is now a setting on the app to show total cost instead of the misleading nightly rate, but it doesn't seem to be set to that by default
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New thread because these are starting to get really cool. I’m asking ChatGPT to think of animation ideas, and then to code them up using HTML5’s <canvas> element.
Here are a few of my first attempts ones:
#8: "Think of an idea for an interesting animation, and then write code using a <canvas> element to implement the animation"
it made a starfield!
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I have a friend who, when he navigates with Google Maps, always has the compass set so the map faces north. So when he rounds a corner, the map doesn’t turn with him. Says he can’t drive any other way. Only person I’ve ever met who does that.
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“green eggs and ham” is a story about how if you relentlessly push other people’s boundaries, they will eventually give in and come to believe they were wrong to ever have resisted in the first place
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fwiw i don’t think that was necessarily what was happening
i think he just disagreed with me and thought he was right
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"The Great Wave off Kanagawa" is Hokusai's best-known work. It was part of a series, "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji".
Over his career Hokusai used more than 30 different names, always beginning a new cycle of works by changing it, and letting his students use the previous name.
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twitter is wild, it’s like you’re mumbling to yourself in your tiny apartment with the window open, and if the wrong person is walking by on the street they put it on CNN and you lose your job
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i believe they chose the location with a bunch of things in mind:
- low probably of being bombed/raided/destroyed by humans (has to be in isolated/rugged terrain)
- low humidity, consistent weather (prevent rust/decay/wear)
- far from geological activity
- [not sure what else]
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It’s an amazing project that’s worth reading about:
longnow.org/clock/
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i guess it never occurred to me that the people using this language might actually be speaking entirely in metaphor and are not actually talking about vibrations at all. like by “high vibrations” they just mean “good energy” or something
i always interpret it in a physical sense
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I'm sad that the word "diversity" has come to be associated with a few narrow and not even very useful dimensions. A room full of straight white men (or of black lesbians, etc) can be—and typically is—hugely diverse in significant ways. Humans are so complex.
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all right, i guess it's time for me to share my list of ingroup memes that i've been collecting all year
tell me which ones i'm missing and i'll add them to this list
in no particular order... 🧵
the true ingroup memes are.. what
medium dose of acid
do 100 things
greebles
if you're so smart why aren't you x
"ingroup" itself
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if raising your heartrate by running is good for your heart, why isn't raising your heartrate by taking amphetamines good for your heart
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as a person who’s done a lot of self-transformative work, it is clear that the more at peace i become, the less, & more slowly, i vibrate (literally)
when someone is “uptight”, they are literally tight (muscle tension) and they are literally vibrating more quickly (higher freq)
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age-segregating schools/classes is one of the worst things that ever happened to the project of education
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keep noticing more and more absolutely-unacceptable-to-my-social-group thoughts/beliefs/feelings that i have
it's kind of cool to realize where the hidden boundaries of thought are
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To be clear, I'm not criticizing owners for covering their cleaning costs. I'm criticizing the Airbnb interface for poor design that deceives customers. Airbnb shouldn't pretend that "nightly rate" is what customers are interested in, rather than total cost.
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just encountered (for the first time??) a microwave which doesn't beep, at all. (it beeps neither when buttons are pressed nor when the timer runs out.) why is this not standard, at least as an option? why have we (i) simply accepted the tyranny of microwave beeping?
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with the help of hardcore meditation™® i have metabolized a lot of my superficial desperation, which has left me with an inner spaciousness from which i can embody a deeper, subtler, more enveloping desperation
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from my point of view the language is exactly backwards
thank you for coming to my ted talk
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cat person = avoidant attachment
dog person = anxious attachment
is it that simple????
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I’m making a spreadsheet of everyone I have had a romantic or sexual history with and am trying to quantify some things. For the most part i am now remembering people with a lot of fondness and sentimentality. I am also discovering some surprising things
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over a geologic timescale it will (it’s synchronized to the sun)
your apple watch battery will die in a decade. the clock will live on for millennia
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