../melody in chaos
A society run on batteries is kinda non-biodegradable, yes?
In due course, billions of bricked iPhones will need to be shot into space
At some point, everything will be hand-cranked
lol the hand-cranked car was the future
Is half-baked… a moment of potential or decay?
No one ever says they’re “half-baked” as the drugs kick in.…
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lol on the internet, first drafts are final drafts
writing online is changing light fixtures in a house with no circuit breakers
all strains of a virus begin life as a variant.
Not all variants, however, become new strains
so it is with intelligence as with disease
all intelligence begins life as a thought exercise
not all thought exercises, however, become intelligence
The true epidemic of covid19 is to be overwhelmed by absolute certainty
Joe Rogan is a thought exercise in existential uncertainties, rendered in flesh
Canceling comedians is, in effect, an attempt to cancel laughter, and to shame those laughing.…
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Why silence anyone, lest we’re ok silencing ourselves as an unintended consequence?
There should be, however, a corollary right to free speech that confers the right to silent spaces.
Freedom of speech = freedom from speech
i.e., Freedom of Silence
social media comprises self-selecting containment zones
virologist ≠ epidemiologist
some body = some bot-ty
The apocalypse is now only one short-sale away
Everyone is redeemable or no one is redeemable – Anywhere in between, someone (or some algorithm) will need to play god
i can never remember the time in australia
but I’m getting better at it
i always, to a point, play the dumbest possible person on Help lines & chats – why reach out for help if you think you know the answer?…
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a running list of useless phrases and rhetorical filler
I will say this…
I think that…
You know, it’s funny…
The funny thing is…
In my opinion…
Let me be clear…
Let me be perfectly clear…
Just so we’re clear…
I honestly think…
…literally…
I believe that…
In my view…
Personally, I…
Personally I think…
Personally I believe…
In my world…
In a perfect world…
I mean,…
I deeply believe…
I firmly believe…
I for one…
My personal theory is…
If you want my take, I…
I’m no expert, but…
I don’t know about that, but…
This is probably controversial, but…
This is a hot take, but…
I don’t know him personally, but…
I’ve never been there, but…
I’ve never had to experience that, but…
I cannot emphasize enough…
It’s obvious that…
I’m pretty sure…
Here’s the thing…
I obviously think…
Truth be told,…
It goes without saying…
This is textbook ________ …
You know what I mean?…
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The opposite of love is indifference.
Indifference, fwiw, is also the opposite of hate.
From indifference’s POV, love and hate are, in effect, the same emotion. They converge in equivalent affect.
They both may inspire equal sensations of asphyxiation, and the sustained acts of haters or lovers may require equal obsessive compulsion.…
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Making plants taste like meat will not matter when people no longer know the tastes + textures of meat
Also, why did it end up “chicken fingers” and “fish sticks,” not “fish fingers” and “chicken sticks”?
only people with no self-worth believe there are worthless people
History vilifies the happiest
the powerful laugh themselves to sleep
Currently Day 10 of my COVID+ journey. 3 days ago, I lost 90% of smell & taste. Hasn’t returned yet. It’s been a dark, sobering lesson that you don’t own your senses, and your memories of sensations are only on loan
to the soul, laughing is like a toilet bowl in the middle of the night lit from within
lol every social media post is a potential statement to police, Eventually anything posted on the internet will require mediated deletion
Still positive 6 days after first one. I guess it’s officially high quality Covid.
“Inspected By 01” again. They are one busy inspector, for sure.
all of our physics would break down if not for the assumption that there’s a fixed amount of mass in the entire universe
no one inside a mob is aware of the moment of mob-rule. Balloon basket passengers traveling in 100mph winds do not feel (or even hear) the wind. They are within the wind; they become the wind
We have flooded our perceptions of others with aspirational archetypes to displace demeaning stereotypes.…
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outsourcing math to an AI eliminates all moral pressure in human decisions
there’s no such thing as artificial intelligence. it’s either/or
my homeowners and car insurance company portrays its customers as game show winners in its tv ads
comfort is too often conflated with safety
complacency is a form of comfort
complacency is creativity’s fetal position
So much wiki-gurgitation mistaken for knowledge
things that just are need no explanation
My drafts folder knows everything
In every political discussion, ppl reveal what they will cover up as much as they illuminate their views
anything that happens anywhere to anyone now also happens everywhere to everyone
Fear of never being able to surf is a surfer’s only fear
You can’t be an omnipotent idiot (it’s either/or)
pottery was an early social media platform
People with power in any system know that any human custom, behavior, or thought process can be eliminated in 3 generations.
Take human custom “X.”
“X” is outlawed during Gen 1.
Gen 1 becomes the last to experience “X.”
Gen 2 relies on the accounts of Gen 1 for their view of “X.”…
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The death of comedy signals an upstream, tactical conflation of embarrassment and shame.
Banning jokes is a means to censor laughter, not words, or comedians.
How do you censor a few comics?
Make one die onstage.
What is the world’s most offensive joke?
Depends who laughs.
Any word can be made dirty.…
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medium mirror
“Free-stuff? More like free baggage!” Luna piped up, looking at the discarded wedding memento, a painting inscribed by guests with personal wishes to the newlyweds, now left to the sidewalk free-cycle giveaway wilds (presumably by one of the ex-spouses still residing in the brownstone behind the wrought iron rail on which it leaned).…
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The paradox of truth in the context of privacy arises where lying is not always unjustified, or even unproductive.
Sometimes, lying is downright forgivable, even necessary.
Anonymity and pseudonymity, for example, are forms of lying. But in these cases, untruth protects the truth. The “lie” is IRL armor; shielding a true identity.…
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the acoustic zen of an almost-moved-out-of home is never underrated, however wistful https://t.co/Axrgo7MXfc
— ../westy (@westyreflector)
Jul 29, 2021
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take your fences
take your shutters
take your blinds
— you are here —
take your window screens
take your windows
take your mosquito nets
take your flashlights
turn off the sun