Internet Flowers

ME: *looking at the Giving Tree* its giving tree

On Oppenheimer The editorial board discusses the movie, the man, and the moment

"Instead, I experienced my Oppenheimer the way a normal person would—in the first half of a Barbenheimer double feature that truly captured the shock of the Anthropocene."

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"We can't go on like this

How long can the housing bubble sustain itself?"

— Jane Galt, 21 December, 2005

web.archive.org/web/20060313...

"there’s no ethical jonas bro under capitalism"
twitter.com/weirdknifegi...

#160: On preparation and its limits Re: birth, death, and the restless in-between

"and this occurs to me, now, as the more appropriate way to greet the edge: not to fortify myself against the sharpness of his death, but to tend softly to his life until the very end."
— Haley Nahman

haleynahman.substack.com/p/160-on-pre...

Welcome to my Garden The Art of Omens

"If we can see out little pleasures and tinkering as manifestations of a divine spark, we, too, can have the world speak back to us."

recentbedroom.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Here's Why Automaticity Is Real Actually ...

"So where does this leave Banana’s concept of automaticity?"
astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

"Hammer really thought he was onto something with “kitten” and “my little pet.” Bitch, you and every other fucking sex nerd on the planet."
awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/i-have-bee...

Translation slated as abominable by self-proclaimed average student who couldn't translate it himself.

On Wilson: "She doesn’t care about the truth."
"To suck the ancient life out of it because she rejects the ancient manly virtues."

navigating inevitable struggle and hardships in your 20s while the economy and natural world collapse is like the one time your parent went bikepacking on a hot day.

"Disclaimer:
I took a year of classical Greek at Stanford
I was an average student, definitely not as good as the experts here, including Wilson herself.
I couldn't translate it myself
But I think you will see that...my criticisms don’t require any knowledge of Greek"
twitter.com/mualphaxi/st...

"...my daughter (in her 20s)... has, indeed, had some particularly rough times. And yet struggle is so stunningly valuable. I was trying to demonstrate my feelings about this by telling her about a time when I was bikepacking..."

www.russellmaxsimon.com/p/moral-equi...

Crypto is (still) not decentralized. PLUS: An update from The Little League World Series.

"A blockchain is just a spicy database that enables decentralization but does not guarantee it..."

— Charley Johnson

untangled.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

Find string between two substrings How do I find a string between two substrings ('123STRINGabc' -> 'STRING')? My current method is like this: >>> start = 'asdf=5;' >>> end = '123jasd' >>> s = 'asdf=5;

"However, this seems very inefficient and un-pythonic."
— John Howard, 2010 (Stack Overflow)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3368969/find-string-between-two-substrings

a great perk of living in a house with someone else is that you can subject them to exactly this.