Words are Not Things

.@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social is be interested in your thoughts on the series “Severance”.

Great interview - really good points on keeping the focus on important issues

#Snoopy look like a bitch to you #SNL #SNL50

@hozier.bsky.social covering “Fairytale in New York” on @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social is the greatest Christmas carol ever

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πάθει μάθος
(Wisdom emerges from suffering)

#ancientgreek #quotes #wisdom

The lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.
-Yuval Noah Harari
#sapiens #stories #quotes

It may be one of the nest cartoons I’ve ever seen. Def go

Κανείς δεν μιλάει για το γεγονός ότι ο συγκάτοικός του στον κοιτώνα του κολεγίου βρέθηκε νεκρός στο διαμέρισμά τους και όμως δεν έχει ανακριθεί ποτέ γι' αυτό

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory —- Viet Thanh Nguyen

“The world constantly finds novel ways to make you depressed”

- @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

Γεια και χαρά

To be free from convention is not to spurn it, but not to be deceived by it.

It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.

—Alan watts

Sign saying do not dumb here

#BFSkinner #AppliedBehaviorAnalysis

This sounds fascinating.

You should let Alex Jones keep a daily show on there, but just add a laugh track and substitute words when he gets super outrageous. Also make him sign an exclusivity contract so that he is ONLY allowed to appear on camera for the Onion.

In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled.
- BF Skinner

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool…the mistake - Westworld.

Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist-Yuval Noah Harari

When you’re on shuffle, any song can play at ANY moment, and it's through that randomness that we can totally receive meaning in our lives.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man [sic] something to be a genius about.
- BF Skinner

Words are not Things I have struggled with using the phrase “mental illness” in my writing for as long as I've been publishing about disorders of the psyche. It is not a good term. It conveys only the most general kind of...

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Words are not things. They are combinations of sounds that refer to things. And some words do not refer to things. They are the worst sound combinations of all.

What have we come to that I am in total agreement with the spawn of Dick Cheney?

I mean, if you read the history of NYC politics, all mayors were to some extent or another, goofballs and criminals, so...