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i don’t agree with zohran’s politics, but he ran an amazing campaign. credit where credit is due. for better or worse, this is a sign of the times.

second, i hear no one saying live and let live which is a major (and good) maxim of anti-woke crowds.

i’m sure there are parallel theses in pure sciences where the reaction would’ve been “let the nerds geek out over whatever they want to” or “scientific independence”

why treat her differently?

firstly, if they think the research is frivolous they should blame the system and machinery that enables and funds this.

blaming the player instead of the game is a common failure mode and they fell for it.

everyone jumped in with an ad hominem pointed at the author. not great.

on the olfactory phd thesis post:

very obvious anti-woke mob overreaction. we’re already starting to see cracks and signs of what is coming.

to be clear, a correction is good, but an overcorrection isn’t. this felt like an overcorrection.

i’ve heard people talk about how it is artificially propped to help park undisclosed cash / used to launder money

no evidence though so i tend not to believe. surely there can’t be that much undisclosed cash sloshing around right… right?

Many eastern religions have festivals that work based off the lunar calendar + social consensus

Some eids work like that too. The best estimate is +/- 1 day before everyone agrees to it (usually at the start of the year)

Best way to find this would be scrape an official list of gov holidays

as i think more about this i realise we often see chaos as liveness (entropy / randomness?). i wonder if there’s something there.

example - aliveness of a kaleidoscope >> aliveness of a mirror

similarly brownian motion feels “alive” even in the abstract form

mirrors, sundials, slinky toys, realistic sculptures

classic case of “right description, wrong prescription” — everything in public will be consumed by the public including agents eventually.

they should either self-restrict what they say on here or turn to encrypted private avenues if they don’t others reading their thoughts

everything you write in public will eventually end up being scraped — regulation is just a stopgap

just like liquidity seeks the best returns, or goods end up with those who want them the most, information wants to be free

penguin is a great show — but i don’t want to hear anyone compare it to succession ever again

it’s nowhere close. stop it.

the new episode was… fine

the visuals of the agony were great, but i’m starting to see a pattern here — maybe great visuals are all this series has to offer

also everyone is so focused on domestic production that they are oblivious to how tariffs are always net-negative for consumers

the “benefits” go to the producer’s bottom line, not to the consumer

our uni moved from lan to wifi a year after i joined — i saw culture and community degrade in real time

truly a blissful time

essence vs appearance all the way down?

whenever i talk to llms about something deep it never feels like a person — but better in many ways. it’s like i’m interfacing with a committee of all-knowing people

milady you have to stop
your drip too hard
your aura too strong
your traits too rare
they'll kill you

true i had to mute some when i logged in too

also been trying custom feeds to see if they are better, the discover feed is just anti-twitter content

same just logged in earlier today and so far so good

maybe we’re on different parts of the algo feed

tbd but it definitely feels calmer

new dune series is visually stunning with a great premise — the first ep was great

hope they don’t f it up

many greats have a core collection of works they study deeply, and draw inspiration from throughout their lives.

slowly building mine.

hard agree on defi comparision.

with defi we’ve crossed the rubicon of “will it work” (yes) and “is it better than current systems” (hell yeah)

we ask nuanced questions like “can this scale to trillions” and “does this have venture returns”

desci isn’t even close to defi on credibility

a dao by any other name would work just as badly

it sounds like “design by committee”, icos and dao governance wrapped in a trench coat

makes sense

the op governance analogy is spot on, it feels exactly like that with a veil of “for the greater good”

is it just early or is there no hope at all?

some writers i follow have been criticising grant processes, research incentives and academia at large for a while

haven’t looked into desci but it felt like a recourse to that

just setting up my bsky