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@eunoicredamancy @DefenderOfBasic @SkyeSharkie 🫡 i’ll be seeing you at the hootenanny

@cmilesb @DefenderOfBasic @SkyeSharkie “Hornswoggled.” Now there’s a word.

no, and fuck you for asking me MORE of me, after I've already made millions of dollars for you and you gave me nothing and ostracized me from my community and all my friends

@SkyeSharkie @DefenderOfBasic this whole passion thing for your job leaves many in the lurch. it’s a gambit for your soul and very dangerous to give your heart to any institution. they don’t love you back

Imo, this happened to me at a company because I was unwilling to reduce my job to simply pressing a button over and over again to meet demands of boss's bosses that I wasn't even allowed to know the names of for volume over quality... Not so much the friends thing, but I mean poverty and pain do that when you're thrown out of your socioeconomic class

@MeloBTimes @ProudSocialist i’m missing the the tough sentences

@cmilesb @ProudSocialist x.com/mikeysmith/sta…

Trump’s reaction to Robert Mueller’s death may be his pettiest post yet. I will say as someone who didn’t vote for Trump and initially fell for the whole RussiaGate thing in 2016: Russia was never the reason Hillary lost. That was simply the excuse Democrats used to prevent the party from changing and actually doing anything for the people. This is important because still a decade later and the Democratic party has no agenda besides being against Trump. The reason for this is Democrats serve the same capitalist and imperialist system as Trump, but just want to do it with nicer language and better optics. This won’t cut it or solve the problems we face, which is why we need to move beyond the duopoly. It is time for an economic and political system that works for the working class, not the donor class that both parties serve.

@MeloBTimes @ProudSocialist even then, everyone knew that in America, reports don’t count. what counts is action, indictments, hearings and tough sentences.

@ProudSocialist Ummm, maybe actually read the Mueller Report and then spout off bothism BS?

@DefenderOfBasic @SkyeSharkie idk this was a general thing. I know this path when you care more for the product, the art, and you wake up totally hornswoggled.

@SkyeSharkie everyone who has experienced this is too kind to tell their story & wreck the company/video game/product/community, because they care about the good thing continuing to exist

@PrinceVogel based

I think about this whenever I cross the golden gate bridge

@DamonZumbroegel it feels terribly off balance

Architecture Critique: OMA - New York’s New Museum Pictures of this new museum in NYC keep popping up, and it is getting quite rave reviews from the architecture world. As an architect, I’ll chime in: I have not been to it personally, but I have seen quite a few pics, and I simply don’t like it. The images come on to the screen, and my immediate reaction is ….”why”. That is not a good reaction honestly, and lets me know there is something off. Like watching Sesame Street when I was kid, and the song starts….”one of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not quite the same”. Is this another project that sways the public into more disdain for architects and modern design like the Obama Library? Is it odd now, but will someday be great like Frank Loyd Wright’s Guggenheim? Would you want a building like this in your city or town?

@mandylu good idea unfortunately ethics are a multigenerational project

is it possible for us to care about ethics again? and if not, how long until society comes back around

@nopranablem do you see an imminent paradigm shift?

Pretty sure we're going to just solve psychology in the next 20 years

@nopranablem do you see a paradigm shift in basic theory imminent?

@speakerjohnash that’s not what my comment says. there is enormous evidence, from the pov of actual experienced politicians like bernie, that the federal government is ill equipped to write or enact technical legislation. thus bbb, obamacare, the creation of epa, osha or even fed.

@cmilesb what big simple law has bernie passed.

youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWd… Bernie's logic here is literally: 1) AI companies spend hundreds of millions lobbying against regulation 2) Therefore targeted regulation can't pass 3) Therefore we should impose a moratorium on data centers But a moratorium on data centers IS regulation So the same lobbying that blocks targeted regulation would block a moratorium even harder His exact words: "The problem with what you said is that AI companies are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process to make sure that the safeguards that you're talking about actually do not take place. So while you may be right in saying that that would be a better approach, it ain't gonna happen. Given that reality, do you think it makes sense to have a moratorium on data centers so we can slow up the process?" Literally he can not see how his own logic applies to his own plan and Claude does NOTHING to push back. It just becomes sycophantic and Bernie is satisfied by the sycophancy.

@TweetATherapist @lyft all kinds of people have the system shiv them all the time. welcome to the panopticon

One time my @lyft driver made an unsafe u-turn and I go “woah” because they whipped around on a busy city street which took me by surprise. The driver immediately pulls over. “Get out.” I was stunned but got out. (Continued)

@demystifysci i don’t think many people love his architecture. mostly we love his pattern language and C++

people on here love christopher alexander and I finally went and looked at the guy's buildings and, uh, it feels like I'm missing something

@Joseph_Fasano_ one of the lessons i am still trying to learn is how to balance compassion for the world with kindness for myself. with all the suffering all around, it is a fine line. it is not selfish to prioritize your own healing. godspeed. love.

Friends, if you're familiar with my work, you know what I try to do every day in these spaces. My doctors tell me I'm on the edge of mental and physical exhaustion, so I have to rest. I have my son, my faith, my poetry, and my belief in you. I'll return soon. xo

@helin_drsaga @vividvoid as Buddhist and teacher, I applaud your comments. we learn that the coming together, our relationships, enrich us - even when we choose to abandon them. so much better to stay in the relationship if that is possible as curiosity and growth is possible. there is no exit, anyway.

When people are in pain, they go looking for permission. They scroll through Reddit, they ask their friends, they search for someone to tell them what they already want to hear. And what they find, almost always, is the same thing that they hear and that is leave… Just leave. As if the relationship were a burning building and the only rational act is to run. We have built a culture of exits. A culture that is far more comfortable handing you a door than asking you to sit with the question of how you got here. And I understand it. Leaving feels clean and it feels like agency. It looks, from the outside, like self-respect. But here is what I want you to consider. The person you are leaving the relationship with is still you. Most of what breaks us apart in love is not the other person. It is the old story we brought with us before we ever met them. The attachment wound we have been carrying since childhood. The pattern we swore we would never repeat. And if you walk away without looking at any of that, you will find yourself, six months later, standing in a new relationship that feels suspiciously familiar. There is something about the tension of staying. Not staying out of fear, not staying to keep the peace, but choosing to stay in the discomfort long enough to actually get curious. To ask not just what is wrong with them, but what is alive in me that keeps responding this way. Real intimacy is not built in the easy moments. It is built in the repair and in the willingness to be heard without immediately defending yourself. In the capacity to understand that friction, handled with care, is not the enemy of love. It is often where love actually begins to deepen. I have sat with couples who had already written each other off in their minds. Who were, emotionally speaking, already gone. And what brought them back was not grand gestures or perfect communication. It was curiosity. A single moment of genuine wondering about the other person, and about themselves. Therapy is not about saving a relationship at all costs. It is about helping you move from a reactive decision to a conscious one. Because you deserve to know the difference between leaving because you have truly grown apart, and leaving because you are afraid of what staying might ask of you.

@aki_being @speakerjohnash 💯👆

@speakerjohnash Yeah Ceasar sprang to mind for me immediately. Even FDR in his letters exhibited clearly introspective tendencies

pure sociopathy

@missamberreid @Twolfrecovery suffering, actually had there human priorities ok. and that the regular world was the hard one. 🙏

@missamberreid @Twolfrecovery thank you. you seem like a good person and i’m glad you know how to hold the worlds together. when i would work with hank, i experienced such reciprocal, genuine love. after a long night, i’d often feel like the world was backwards. that the homeless and addicted, obviously

I spent years homeless and addicted in San Francisco and lived inside the street economy people talk about today. I’m now in recovery and trying to help people understand how that world actually works. Ask me anything. Honest questions welcome-even difficult ones.