Jacob Tarr

@RachelZader Strauss esque

If you start reading people well, one of my best suggestions is to constantly be asking yourself, "What does this person want me to see about them?"

@DanielW_Kiwi I keep plugging it in and the switch isn’t working.

I have dealt with a few IT professionals in other companies. Most are great but some are totally useless. How do these people stay employed? I know I'm a dev and not the best at IT but still worlds better. For example one didn't know that a patch panel is not a switch.

@justalexoki They are friends.

half my moots are retweeting these guys. are they friends? are they all paid? what's going on. there's no way they're all using this

@BecomingCritter Claude Microsoft Phone

this is what the world is like now. anthropic is going to have a new release every day for the rest of your life. get used to it

@hopes_revenge This can’t be happening this can’t be happening we are all going to die

BREAKING: MOO DENG’S BODY FOUND FLOATING IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ

@GarrettPetersen Was too busy listening to the Hamster Dance.

Remember when they shut down Napster?

@DanielW_Kiwi It’s good if there is some sort of acute loud noise to block it out just enough.

What? I thought everyone could do this?

@47fucb4r8c69323 Cliche, but God knows your intention and one should ask for the ability to think clearer and moral strength from Him. Practically, how do private intentions not lead to some sort of action in the world? At the very least there would be sensory feedback which is real in the body.

Two men kill two young children by driving drunk. They don't know each other. One of the men feels intense remorse for this mistake and dedicates his life to stricter DUI legislation. The other man loved the feeling of taking another life, and now has an urge to kill again, making his life miserable. To stop this from happening to another person, he dedicated his life to stricter DUI legislation. I'm not going to ask you who is better or more moral, fuck that normie ass bullshit. My question is: are hidden, immeasurable, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, entirely private intentions real?

@plasmarob I didn’t realize any Christian church allowed baptism by women. I knew of women pastors but didn’t know this far.

Move over Canadian Healthcare, here comes American Religion

@jiratickets Very kind and thoughtful friend. Those books are nice too.

I have a friend who I often go out late drinking with, and inevitably we get into conversation about books, and when I tell him I haven’t read whatever he’s raving about, he orders a copy to my house no matter how much I protest. I’m at 6 books now. Good friend to have

@henumhowie One of the best tweets I’ve seen.

I was squadmates with John Fetterman in WW3, and we had to give him a wooden gun because he wouldn't stop trying to shoot himself in the head.

@DanielW_Kiwi Looks so good.

Chilli beef and cheese pie is a top 10 meat pie

Throwback to Bear as a tiny baby. He always looked like he was smirking due to the indent and black whisker

@47fucb4r8c69323 Good taste. I enjoy how Quintilian took his passion for Cicero’s rhetoric and systemized it for education and such. Epic. I have not read Geoffrey. Thanks for the heads up.

@JacobDTarr When I was doing my Phd I preferred Quintilian but I do not remember why. Also, Geoffrey of Vinsauf has been forgotten to history but he's very important and insightful.

In 2020 Time published this piece titled "Social Media Platforms Claim Moderation Will Reduce Harrassment, Disinformation and Conspiracies. It Won't": time.com/5855733/social… . It begins: "If the United States wants to protect democracy and public health, it must acknowledge that internet platforms are causing great harm and accept that executives like Mark Zuckerberg are not sincere in their promises to do better. The “solutions” Facebook and others have proposed will not work. They are meant to distract us." Just a few years later, it has promoted Yudkowsky (several times) warning that we need to shut AI down, it's dangerous, etc. etc. And now we have the public attempting to kill human beings because they've been whipped into a frenzy. Look, we all gotta eat. I get it. And the media needs attention to get clicks to get revenue to make money. However, we need limits. I don't mean censorship or regulations (those don't work, they just make this problem worse), I mean we all need to have the backbone, the confidence, and the moral values to refuse to enable hysteria and polemical fear mongering. Whatever political thing you care about, it matters less than fear mongering. Before Hitler/Stalin/Mao/insertbadguyhere killed millions of people, he had to convince others to kill millions of people. You are easy to convince to believe X if you do not know how people use words to convince you to believe X. Others are as well, so if you want to make the world a better place educate people so that they cannot be duped into stupid acts of violence. Rhetoric matters. Learn it.

@repligate Not my experience. CS was full of some of the biggest nimwits I’ve met. Philosophy and Math departments stacked with intelligence.

when i was in undergrad the STEM classes were mostly fine. but people in the humanities (e.g. philosophy) classes seemed extraordinarily dumb. i often didnt read assignments or pay attention, but i was consistently the only kid able to carry discussions or answer questions. it was pretty awkward because i'd try to give others a chance so whenever the professors asked a question there would be like 15 seconds of uncomfortable silence and then i'd answer.

@BecomingCritter I hope she finds God.

i’m speechless

@coldhealing “sapphic soccer” is a redundant phrase