Funnily enough, I got into a deep inquiry with Claude, and it too, estimated that the world most urgently needs the capacity to sit with uncertainty and deep critical thought, but acknowledges that AI is killing it in us by giving us immediate answers to everything.
I dream of being able to study ancient eastern philosophy someday, taught by those who have lived those paths and not just academic theory professors. The way the world is going, I predict it will be of utmost importance to the human race.
I feel like there should be an extra field on the standard wellness depression anxiety questionnaire in these times.
Not disproportionately anxious or worried
Every day we stray further from God's light
Anyone else see a man smoking a pipe?
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
We have hit a new low. I overheard a person in a "spiritual growth" community talking about "habit stacking" - listening to spiritual course lessons while they clean, to get the max productivity out of the experience.
We want to live - we want to live comfortably - we have to make ourselves extremely uncomfortable in order to live comfortably - so we end up living uncomfortably our whole lives. WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS DAMN IT?!
I don't know who thought it was a good idea to put us on this planet and make us pay to to live, when we didn't ask to be here. We could have all just been chilling in nothingness, no bills, no war, no calories to worry about.
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Wow Charles was having a really rough few years
Imagine two cows having sex. Now imagine them wearing tiny hats. What's wrong with you?
A friend of a friend got pulled over for speeding and had to work very hard not to ask the state trooper if his mother knew he was playing with guns. I know exactly how she feels. Everyone seems far too young and irresponsible to be in charge of things.
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I’m just here to see how we end.
As someone who moved from Texas to Berlin in 2016, I see this play out in real time. Americans are not particularly liked in Europe and protests have started in parts of Spain and Portugal already.
This is going to cause problems. As an American that lived in Europe for work with a lot of other American's;
We are in general terrible at adopting and assimilating culture.
There is no doubt the influx will disrupt local economies, look at the protests in Mexico over it.
I laughed more than I should have for this 😂
Being asked to join a group to help develop a product for AI wellbeing for educational institutions/students. I don't have much information about it yet, but not super well versed with AI product dev. What do I need to know? Can anyone help?
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A terrible thing about being 12 hours ahead of US time is that I wake up to a new horror every morning on the news.
They're raising the bar for torture so people won't be affected by less intense, yet horrible forms of torture. This is what normalising ill treatment looks like. If you haven't read The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, it's a good time to do so.
Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.
‘If I knew what I know now’
The richest white men in the world apparently all just learned how to read words in 2026
In fact, most former colonies seem to fit this picture. I work with people in the Middle East (apart from Asia, Europe, and North America) and I see status as a strong motivator with them as well. It isn't just about the money, but the respect society affords to the wealthy.
That's a win. That itself is worth the exit.
Not a single person who was ever told to "calm the fuck down" has ever calmed down, let alone "the fuck down."
In every way for me. I've been getting so much real life stuff done, less anxious, more reading, more exercising. I absolutely love it!
Most Asian countries, the UAE (still a monarchy), African nations in particular seem this way. Add colonisation to the mix and the status signaling is heightened from a mix of historical scarcity and a need to prove legitimacy in the modern day. I'm sure I'm missing something. Wdyt?
I've been thinking about status signaling as a concept and I see some patterns. It appears to me that societies that were originally monarchies/clusters of monarchies, and were forced into becoming sovereign nations, still show signs of status as supremely valuable measures of success.
