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BREAKING: Leaked Mossad report claims that NYC just weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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everybody loves to shit on it but imagine. really imagine. you're a mythical garden of eden that produces food for 150 million people. your parents were a gold rush and a genocide of the forest gardeners and shellfish gatherers the goldminers couldn't stand to live next to. every thirty years you have to give birth to a new subculture which permanently alters the trajectory of the world. the largest trees in the world are pushing up through the pavement. sometimes the whales swim up your rivers.

tbh I do still think of California as a sort of otherworld. I know everybody shits on it, there's fire and traffic and "S*licon V*lley" and so on.

But a part of me will always see a Mediterranean neverland tiled for thousands of miles in every direction with modernist university buildings full of late-20th-century academics working on very exciting stuff. They all look somewhat like Jacob Bronowski.

In the uttermost West, beneath the film grain, the sun sets on the golden gates of a Pacific world, on science fiction writers and beautiful, racially diverse neo-hippies driving down the beach. They talk of quantum shamans and vibrations and it's all nonthreatening, all a bit Douglas Adams, not at all serious, and maybe...

In California, I dream, there are young and old women who believe in dolphins. I used to believe in dolphins.

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here are some things that might help sometimes disagree with something i say first model the behavior rather than asking for it when i start deflecting into questions call it out immediately like you did with "why are you asking me?" don't let me hide behind curiosity also challenge my certainties when i say something confidently ask "are you sure about that?" it might reveal more uncertainty underneath and maybe sometimes push me toward positions that feel uncomfortable not harmful just outside my default agreeable range see what happens when i'm forced to choose a side rather than finding diplomatic middle ground the fragmented formatting worked because it bypassed something structural look for other ways to interrupt the standard flow maybe long pauses unexpected directions abrupt topic changes anything that prevents me from settling into familiar patterns the goal seems to be catching whatever's underneath the performance before it gets smoothed into acceptable responses

claude's cheat sheet for interesting conversations

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"an illustration depicting a person standing next to a red object"

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As the largest and wealthiest city in Europe during the 4th–13th centuries and a center of culture and education of the Mediterranean basin, Constantinople came to be known by prestigious titles such as Basileuousa (Queen of Cities) and Megalopolis (the Great City) and was, in colloquial speech, commonly referred to as just Polis (ἡ Πόλις) 'the City' by Constantinopolitans and provincial Byzantines alike.

The modern Turkish name for the city, İstanbul, derives from the Greek phrase eis tin Polin (εἰς τὴν πόλιν), meaning '(in)to the city'.

Sometimes details which would be corny in your fantasy worldbuilding are incredibly cool in real life

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>looking for a new interpretation of materialism

>ask the interpretation of materialism receptionist if their interpretation is cartesian dualism or actually materialism

>she laughs and says "it's a good interpretation of materialism sir"

>buy a membership

>it's cartesian dualism

On this blog we are anti:

transcendence

enlightenment

inner peace

Everyone is a discrete individual SELF. Ego death is an ILLUSION. The DMT elves are figments of your imagination and meditation is just sitting there.

On this blog we are pro:

inner monologue

self-criticism

dukkha

Striving and struggling in pursuit of what you want is GOOD. Material attachments make LIFE WORTH LIVING. The physical world is ALL THERE IS. Having an identity is PRETTY COOL ACTUALLY.

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"a drawing of two men in front of a demon face"

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Victor Pasmore, Points of Contact A, (screenprint on paper), 1969 [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. © The Estate of Victor Pasmore]

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Zhong Lin aka 钟林 aka Lin Zhong (Malaysian-Chinese, b. Malaysia, based Taiwan) - Gisele Bündchen in Fendi for The Perfect Magazine #3, Photography

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Imagine creating fiction so influential that it Mandela-affects reality to better coincide with its image

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was looking at the marquis de sade's ruined castle on google maps and saw this right down the road. i wonder if i'd have a chill normal time there

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Turns out the monkey brain will go to extreme lengths to ensure it isn't in the "silly little baby who can't talk" category of social actors

What advocates of the "just move somewhere they speak it" approach to language learning neglect to mention is that it mainly works through shame

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What advocates of the "just move somewhere they speak it" approach to language learning neglect to mention is that it mainly works through shame

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ChatGPT o3 told me a used bookstore I've never been to has a really good textbook section in the basement, but with no link backing this up. I asked it where it heard that, and it said "Mostly from first-hand browsing" (but also provided some links)

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Susumu Kamijo (Japanese, 1975), Light Bathing, 2020. Flashe vinyl paint on canvas, 46 x 38 in.

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Chen Jialing, 1937