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@inflammateomnia

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Just saw it twice in twelve hours, and I was thrilled that Villeneuve hates Dune as much as me and Tolkien He ripped the black antihuman heart out of Herbert's story and stitched in plausible motivations He nailed Herbert's worldview with the repeated shot: kneeling before power

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@inflammateomnia

8 months

gf who wants to know what's wrong, bf who hasn't identified a feeling since childhood

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Finally programmed a wifi capture portal so I can host a digital mini free library on planes and subways when people have no wifi Now the question is, what do I put in the library?

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@inflammateomnia

4 months

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling

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Crazy how this 1 meme literally applies to everything in life

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Hilarious but uh Isn't it weird how everything is Marvel now? Isn't it weird how even people involved in high stakes objectively important drama have trained themselves to look at the camera and do a little ironic quip and a Jim Halpert face? Or am I crazy

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first and last time i ever wear one of these

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@inflammateomnia

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@coldhealing Nicememe but they genuinely used mindfulness techniques (prayer mantras) talk therapy (confession) IFS (ascribing impulses to demons) and medication (everything they drank was fermented) within a community unit tighter than any of us have ever experienced

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@inflammateomnia

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Whenever I hear one of you talk about MBTI or horoscope or Enneagrams or big five I picture the inadequacy of such shallow vector spaces to model the gnarled recursive organic chaos of the human mind, and it makes me glad

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@michaelcurzi

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Calling bullshit on seasonal color analysis. People aren't seasons. No reason to believe there would be four clusters. If it told you all movies are of 4 types & each type follows different rules you'd hear me out but it better be good. Makes no sense tho. Just wear good colors

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

People are curious about what you learn interviewing 20+ nyc women about dating apps, so here we go Buckle your seatbelts, pour a cuppa, and put your men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-the-seventh-circle culture war gladii and scuta aside Let's take the numbers first:

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

One time in ~2016 I built a dating app for a client and interviewed 20+ women in NYC about their app usage And the results were informative from a UX design perspective and cripplingly blackpilling from a human perspective

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

K we're in business with the tiny free wifi library, people will probably appreciate these books right?

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Finally programmed a wifi capture portal so I can host a digital mini free library on planes and subways when people have no wifi Now the question is, what do I put in the library?

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@inflammateomnia

5 months

All boys want is to finally find brief respite from toil and strife in the lap of a woman who holds them in esteem and will stroke their head a little bit, followed by more toil and strife

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Wherever the "drop out and seek authenticity" bit starts to feel attractive, I picture my immigrant great-grandfather who dug the Holland tunnel beating the shit out of Tyler durden with his lead core shillelagh. then I get back to work

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At the age where half of my friends have given into becoming corporate drones

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Yeah, yeah, the genius of Dune is that the hero is actually powerless Everybody in the world of bleak sixties environmentalist Herbert is controlled by invisible strings, the irony of prescience is that Paul can see the strings but remains powerless against them

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@inflammateomnia

6 days

No anon you're not failing at a dead end job You're actually too good for this, because you're a special boy

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@inflammateomnia

8 months

Every eng org has like ten guys who show up to every incident and save the day even when they're not on call And everyone is really respectful to them, partly because they understand the deep magic, but also because it's evident they don't have much of a life

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I don't know how much more monitoring the situation the boys can take

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Villeneuve, being a world-class storyteller, knows he can't hang the motivations of an intergalactic crusade trilogy on a paragraph of stoner-ass exposition about human nature So he invents a reason for the war that closes the film: the Great Houses threaten us!

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@inflammateomnia

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My first ~decade on this app I refused to find out how it works. I threw ideas into the void, it was beneath me to concern myself over it But now that I actually know how it works I can throw my ideas into the void much more effectively! If you're curious here's How Twitter Works

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

So thanks, Denis, for giving me my giant sandworm Lawrence of Arabia Silent Spring oil crisis space epic with the boomer-ass antihuman sixties pessimism excised as cleanly as possible I've been picturing this moment for decades, and now I can enjoy it without wrinkling my nose

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

But why do the Fremen want to go genocide everybody, again? Herbert says it's an innate human drive to sow chaos, to murder and pillage and mix genes Can he show you an individual Fremen guy and his personal motivation for jihad? No. People aren't people to him, they're ants

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@inflammateomnia

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And I like this better. It's a truer, more human explanation for why bad things happen: not because of the inevitable strings of fate that rule us all. But because we are free, and ultimately, somebody decides to do them.

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

So I love the Villeneuve removed this historical inevitability! I love that his people kneel before other people, enact their crusade for human political reasons No time-skip past the jihad for him. He's got the balls to show Paul giving the genocide order: bring em to Paradise

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

I always hated Dune because in his gleeful inversion of the hero story, Herbert makes it clear that he thinks individuals have no agency against the tide of history I hate Foundation for the same reason Herbert thinks of people as supplicants kneeling before Hegel's Geist

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Anyway I just spent six out of the last twelve hours spiced out of my mind in front of a 97-foot screen and all I can say is, if this series doesn't bring back cloaks I'm gonna be big sad What did you guys think

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

@burritoSAMA_ Magic rock radiate forbidden knowledge

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Or most obviously, for a movie enjoyer who is normal and doesn't sit in the theater taking notes, our gal Chani is inexplicably left in the dark about this political marriage plan Because Villeneuve needs a face for the Fremen backlash of Messiah. Jilted lover works

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

But the surgery isn't perfect - for the Great Houses to threaten, the Baron needs to summon them For the Baron to summon them, the Emperor needs to surprise him For the Emperor to surprise him, Paul needs to bait him out The bait being, uh .. his existence?

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Other surgeries have their own ripples: the removal of the ecosystem of Dune means Paul has to threaten to nuke the spice The removal of the Spacing Guild means the highly populated south isn't concealed, just stupidly overlooked, and people apparently travel the galaxy at will

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

But the removal of Herbert's BS race consciousness motivation means that Villeneuve's Paul is less trapped, and more selfish: his choice is between genocide, and his own annihilation Herbert's Paul doesn't even have that choice. The genocide is happening even if he dies

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Anarchist hacker bookstore in Philly @IffyBooks has pretty good instructions on how to do this with a wemos d1 mini, only a little bit out of date w Arduino versions but you can figure it out

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Downers for book nerds: The eyes of Ibad not being a full eyeball dye but just .. blue eyes Paul not leaning into his legend even harder by claiming "it's my storm" The demotion of Fedaykin from "death commandos" to mere fighters

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

(Today people aren't joking and aren't wrong when they say Twitter is a dating app. The truth is that every community is a dating app. It's what communities are, or at least how they generally perpetuate themselves)

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Qualitatively: I found deep yearning for a parental model of a trad relationship coupled with a stubborn refusal to submit to that sort of role, at least for the caliber of men they found They wanted to date their dad, or someone's dad, and they were getting dick pics instead

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

Other wonderful tidbits: winky little symbolism crammed in everywhere! The emperor and Irulan introduced moving pieces on a game board! Baron Harkonnen dying while slowly crawling towards the throne! Chani face-melting vision, wonder who that's gonna happen to next film?

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@inflammateomnia

8 months

Inside you there are two wolves

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@inflammateomnia

7 months

Tweet view counts are great because I used to feel like a mad hermit in the forest where the occasional passing traveler would toss me a like, but now I can see that in fact I'm ranting on a crowded street corner and everyone is just politely averting their eyes

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@inflammateomnia

30 days

@JvntaWatanabe @coldhealing You are the watered down gay version of the man you could have been

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@inflammateomnia

10 months

"Everything you eat is making you sick and reducing your testosterone." I heard this a few weeks back and dismissed it because it sounds like a conspiracy, and slapping down dumb conspiracies makes me feel smart! Except, uh, guys? We might actually be in trouble. Let me explain.

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Absent community, the only factors shaping the dynamic were market forces and libido. No human connection but what you brought. And bringing human decency to these apps where you'd be rejected or propositioned ten times a day was like plugging your vagus nerve into a car battery

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

One time in ~2016 I built a dating app for a client and interviewed 20+ women in NYC about their app usage And the results were informative from a UX design perspective and cripplingly blackpilling from a human perspective

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@lainewrites

6 months

a non-trivial number of people who are single and dating subconsciously likes being single or is getting something valuable from being single even though they *think* they want a relationship

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

"Until a man is 25 or so, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the first space pirate captain in history"

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@PrinceVogel

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If you're a young man, say under thirty, and you work really hard for the next thirty-five years of your life, you could be the first space pirate captain in history. A grey-bearded menace of the black. Feared, respected, loved, the toast of New Tortuga.

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Slapping the culture fondly: this bad boy can fit so many layers of ironic abstraction in it,

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Women's expressed preference was to meet a guy they could reciprocally devote themselves to Their revealed preference was playing Farmville with a rotating crop of random dudes they'd never meet Which was their own fault, but apps + culture made it difficult to do otherwise

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I found a huge frustration with the engagement-uber-alles model of app design, a high-volume low-quality pipeline of superficial prospects, undermined by an unspoken addiction to that dopamine hit of being seen as desirable again and again and again and

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

One woman was 22, had just put a toe into the dating app world, and immediately retracted it because it was like exposing her stuffed-animal disney-princess romantic child self to a scalding molten crucible of callous demands and mediocre phalluses (phalli?)

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

App design made it unnatural to form real connection. The best apps were for the gays - the single best app was a gay cruising app called "Squirt" that had features like fiction written by users, news articles where they discussed issues in comments You know - actual community.

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Some apps like Hinge tried to do friends-of-friends dynamics to counteract the toxic community vacuum effect. Didn't work. The apps that worked better brought their own community with them: J date, Christian Mingle, Farmers Connect. Tougher to dehumanize someone on common ground

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@inflammateomnia

8 months

We joke about ha ha programmers are socially inept but The ladder of abstract is so dizzyingly high, to have ascended it you must have cast aside the weight of being a social person for a period of your life, and that has a cost Anyway. don't hire programmers who talk good

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@inflammateomnia

3 years

is the squeeze squoze yet?

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

People's expressed preference was for ~2012 okcupid. But writing reading sifting is a lot of work! In a natural community, the expression and the sifting is done for you, just by participating in the community So their revealed preference was Tiktok shopping for other humans

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

And this is probably a good thing! You want to meet somebody? Find your microsolidarity at the local running club or skee ball league or canvassing group or Part of Twitter. They're the only contexts where the guiderails to be human to each other come built-in

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

UX-wise: Nearly all of the women were lazy In contrast to guys' meticulous Sankey charts graphing out their nine thousand swipes, these women really did expect to be matched with a guy who'd make it make sense Rather than making it make sense with the guy they were matched with

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Anecdotally: One woman was afraid to ride the subway and ubered to every date (thx saudi arabia) She had one serious college boyfriend before moving to NYC She hated guys' forwardness After a few drinks she told me she'd grown to like the degradation of being a disposable hookup

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I found young people trying to reinvent the rules of the game from utopian first principles such that they were allowed to screw around, conflicting with their socially conditioned models of sluts and chads etc (I was one of these young people, but my hobby is being an old man)

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@inflammateomnia

8 months

bf who is the master of his fate and the captain of his soul, gf who just wants to reserve a pickleball court already

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

(To serve this need, I ended up building an app with the help of another phenomenal freelancer that inferred your fitness interests from your location history and made matches like "you guys both went to Soulcycle this month, maybe you can go together")

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

One woman was 33, extremely rad hipster, had been in a few relationships, and acknowledged that she'd been both selecting guys who "weren't ready" and also failing to communicate her actual desire of getting serious for fear of seeing herself as square, boring, not independent

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I saw them suffering, wanting treatment they knew they deserved, becoming more cynical each time they didn't get it, exposing the next guy to more hoops and disqualifying and dehumanization (The guys, of course, were already objectifying) I saw a feedback loop underway

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I learned that it's not possible to build a dating app that works for a culture that doesn't. People persevere - millions are finding each other On The Apps in spite of it all - but millions more are not Ask our boy Robin Hanson how the birthrate is going

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@inflammateomnia

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The for you feed is just a prediction of what Twitter thinks you're likely to engage with. It's based on what you've engaged with before (This is why the people who complain about all the toxicity on Twitter are likely to encounter more of it. Battle not with monsters, etc)

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@inflammateomnia

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It made sense that straight apps couldn't do what gay apps did in allowing free and open communication to exist, creating a community Cause gay guys cruising are uniformly horny, whereas every woman online knows the result of broadcasting your availability

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@inflammateomnia

8 months

Everything is ok You do not need to do anything with the lever Everyone is proceeding towards their destination, and so are you

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Sociologically: It was hard for these women to work against the headwinds of app design and dating culture These headwinds existed because they were operating in a vacuum, in the absence of community

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@inflammateomnia

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@xtc_feel @coldhealing That's why happiness will always elude you

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

27: women interviewed 25: avg age 11: interviews that were themselves first dates (the girls knew what they were getting into, it was actually a great opener) 8: avg hrs app usage 1: times I spit out my fake tooth in front of an interviewee 0: avg # of dates a woman had per week

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@inflammateomnia

2 months

@dankuntz This is true because the dry heaving would set in around line 5

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@inflammateomnia

10 months

Having a normal girlfriend is the biggest rationality hack out there Oh you wanna share your excitement about new esoterica? Hope you're prepared to explain eg superconductors right down to quantum, or you're gonna look like a schmuck. Cools that irrational exuberance right down

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

When you want to make a movie that appeals to everyone, you hit the common denominators: sex, action, humor, romance Similarly when you try to make a social app for everyone, they're forced to engage along common denominators

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Personally: I thought myself very wise and very jaded after listening to all these women. I saw them using guys for emotional validation, just like the redpillers said was women's wont. They were self-deprecatingly cynical about it, about getting free drinks and dinners

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@skooookum That's their secret They're not having sex

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@inflammateomnia

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Which is why the scene known as "tpot" launches daily bangers into the global memespace Cause in addition to posting all day, these fuckers like every single one of their friends' tweets This is called "escaping containment" and the poster either revels in fame or insta-mutes

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@inflammateomnia

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@deepfates Boarding groups are for cattle "Group 3?" hm no thank you I think I will recline here eating fruit and reading my kindle and then step onto my personal sky taxi ninety seconds before it pushes off

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I wrote an essay about digital sincerity and the rise of finsta and the problem of exposing your many contextual selves to The Arena, a problem with the death of community that was upstream of the dating app charnel house

Digital Sincerity - jp

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@inflammateomnia

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So long story short, Twitter is a machine for making secret clubhouses out of discrete streams of bullshit And then cracking those clubhouses open to expose their sweet sweet content to the teeming masses

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I'm not gonna get into the bigger Society stuff about young people needing stability to be able to safely make long term relationship commitments and not finding any About women's expectations for a potential partner's earnings, height, in a world where young women outperform

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@inflammateomnia

10 days

Pro tip: hang out in a clubhouse It's not hard. Just search for what you like, copy the natives, and be friendly Sorry it's so simple Have fun out there /eot

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

I both wanted no part of it and wanted to fix it I built the app, then another app called "intent" that was basically concentric Twitter circles, posting to smaller or larger subsets of your social graph (Local hammer-owner sees problem, looks like nail!)

GitHub - j4p3/tent-app: mobile app for tent project

mobile app for tent project. Contribute to j4p3/tent-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@inflammateomnia

1 month

How can anyone not be bullish on the Adderall news 4% of the US population takes it? K, when we last landed on the moon 6% of the country was on speed. Kennedy was mainlining meth! 4 is nothing, we need to accelerate this stimmie train

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

@personofswag We do it for him

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@inflammateomnia

10 months

@__drewface I used to run "rejection therapy" meetups. You weren't successful until you'd got somebody to tell you "no". The easiest challenge was asking for something for free. .. the difficulty some people had in getting that "no" was a real blackpill on pretty privilege

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@inflammateomnia

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Oh hi everybody yeah welcome to my brain sump where we throw rocks at dead geniuses and post dog pics My self-worth is entirely correlated with my follow count, we're talking p<0.1 so have some more litpoasting & follow me follow me follow me follow me f

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@inflammateomnia

2 years

Tolkien and CS Lewis both thought there was something evil about irony/cynicism/postmodernism To talk today about edgelords, real talk, the degree to which you're Online, or the Discourse is to continue in their fine tradition, horrifying as that prospect may be

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@inflammateomnia

10 months

Remember how Sorkin had to invent a girl as motivation for mark to create Facebook, because Hollywood doesn't understand creative drives that aren't tied to sex and he was clearly a sexless nerd? Just thinking this week for no reason

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

.. though on the other hand, we've got it ez compared to our boy flaco

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

Flaco the eagle owl was jailbroken from the Central Park Zoo earlier this year, now he cruises the lower east side in search of a mate, hooting into the twilight, but there are none he can breed with anywhere in the city I think about him when I walk down Essex at night

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

That's all been done to death anyway. These trends' effect on dating apps is just to make them even more toxic, to drive people into progressively smaller enclaves that are sheltered against the bitter vacuum of a communityless society

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@inflammateomnia

6 months

There are two kinds of people Those who have fun with these little lists, and those who immediately scan them for ways to break thermodynamics

The lovers, the dreamers, and Jim

@thisisjimtait

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The effects of the potions are permanent.

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@unclearirony Now the good people of Frontier 1511 will never be introduced to the first seventy chapters of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, thanks a lot Osama

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@treat_enjoyer

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@inflammateomnia

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I've bloviated enough. /EOT If you made it this far and have questions hit me up, I've got stories and stories and

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@inflammateomnia

1 month

Free your cloud bill Free your mind

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@chris_mccord

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"Building experiences with real-time components was previously only accessible to multi-billion dollar companies"🤔

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"How do they come up with this shit?" you ask in amazement seeing some prolific poster go viral again Well, they're spamming each other in chats all day about the meme of the moment, and skimming the best stuff off the top to post And then everyone in the chat boosts it

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@inflammateomnia

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There's all sorts of little tricks implied here, if reach is what you want * like every reply * reply to a few replies to your post * reply to others' posts to establish membership in their simcluster * get a cabal to boost your posts

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@jasminericegirl No, a trauma dump is saying everything sucks and I need you to hold it for me This is something else, it's a map of one way to overcome Thanks for sharing

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@inflammateomnia

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First the technicals Twitter wants to show you stuff you want to engage with A long time ago they decided you weren't competent to decide this for yourself and started defaulting to the "for you" feed, an industry-wide shift that deserves its own essay

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@inflammateomnia

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If you're a big enough account, you're assigned your own simcluster. This is why you get five posts from rainmaker1973 or science girl or skoookum when you refresh your feed They've become a topic unto themselves. The rich get richer baby

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@inflammateomnia

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There's a problem growing inside every community, and I thought it was neat how people at vibecamp improvised a solution So I wrote a bit on what youse people's problem is. You can read it here

Parasociality! At the Vibe Camp - jp

do not, at all costs, click this link

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Thinking about this cause @coldhealing was describing their x-ray Algorithm vision (that they ought to write about) and I told them that a refusal to engage with the mechanics of the platform is basically equivalent to closing your eyes walking across town (Which is what I did)

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8 months

Get some

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What this means for the lowly poster is that your stuff is seen in proportion to the people you interact with Reply guying is a valid strategy to get likes from people with bigger following, so that their followers have a larger chance to see your stuff

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No headphones, no kindle, straight rawdogging a cross borough subway trip like some kind of ascetic transit monk

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@inflammateomnia

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The stuff that's engaged with by people you follow - or people the algorithm thinks you're close to - also counts Thanks to Elon the way this prediction is calculated is now public, if you're really curious you can see how much likes RTs etc factor in

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@inflammateomnia

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Beneath the social graph and simclusters, there's a whole subterranean network of overlapping groupshats churning out eyewatering takes you wouldn't believe You don't get invited into one until you've established yourself as a known quantity of sufficient quality

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