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@Austen At the rate they’re releasing this feels like it’s coming soon

The biggest reason OpenClaw took off is because you could actually do stuff with it. Claude is supposedly building out the tools to allow you to do stuff, but everything is built with kid gloves in mind.

@slvppy This was gym bro attire in the late 80s

this gotta be one of the hardest fits of all time

@sidewayskoyote @selentelechia Depends on what how you manage social and what your definition is. It’s a single channel with just my #.

@midmagus @selentelechia Thats kinda funny to me because WhatsApp is the opposite of privacy

went to an open house for a new classical school/co-op and nobody thought it was weird that I had calling cards with my contact info and I felt more socially comfortable among other parents than I ever have outside of preexisting friendships

@JamesonCamp It’s tempting, but then I think about someone dumping current into my brain. Feels risky

@midmagus Hah I get that! Maybe I’m a lush for this stuff

2,000+ days straight tracking every heartbeat, every sleep cycle, every recovery score. Obsessed with optimizing my body. And then I sit in front of a screen for 14 hours, flipping between 47 tabs, and wonder why my brain is completely cooked by 2pm... We spent a decade optimizing the body. Nobody touched the brain. That's about to change.

@sidewayskoyote @selentelechia I’m a pretty private person so I just default to sharing less. Most of the time when I meet btw people it’s just getting added to WhatsApp

A card with primarily social media would be for advertising a social media oriented or relevant business. A business card would be business contact info. A calling card would generally be some sort of ( i have three cellphone numbers right now. So pick one right?) Personal contact information but possibly filtered (its easy to have multiple email, too) I would never mix the social media and the personal information

@selentelechia Much more personal then, very nice. I watched an old Bond film last week and he was handing them out. Got me thinking about how they might be useful now.

@midmagus name, phone number, email, indication that texting is welcome I use them when I need to organize playdates, meet new moms, etc

@nosilverv I think that’s generous of you. Everyone wants to score cheap points and they saw this as an opportunity to try.

Whenever I share smth I discovered, I get snark like this. My theory: realizing we don’t all live in the same world is deeply painful. It brings up sadness/disorientation, and anger steps in to cover it. 5k people liked it—clearly many didn’t know. But that's unacceptable.

@thebeautyofsaas Mirra 2 is much better, and also costs less

don't get this chair if you are over 6.0ft you will regret it

@thebeautyofsaas That’s what I thought when I found your account. Cheers!

@midmagus great taste - insta follow

10/10 book you definitely wont regret picking up

I like a lot of RAWs books, but he gets repetitive. But if you’re up for it the Cosmic Trigger series and Undoing Yourself by Chris Hyatt (this one has its own set of exercises that deliver) In Search of the Miraculous by Ouespensky is another one that changed my perspective. I think I’ve already seen you recommend Alchemy. The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth is good for introspection that goes somewhere.

@midmagus anything else you would recommend?

@NikWestinghouse @selentelechia @MorlockP That’s probably true, but around Covid there was a surge the other way.

@midmagus @selentelechia @MorlockP Haha, interesting. I would imagine the inverse is much more common (not just because I myself am in that category). I have read Aristillus twice. I enjoyed it and found interesting insight into history (Icelandic) and drone warfare.

reading a Heinlein book I hadn't read before intro: "this was written at the peak of his career at the time, everybody adored it, this was his first hugo, many people wish he'd never departed from this style" ...and it's the worst book of his I've read yet

@turnedfourthing @selentelechia You’d think that the was the audience, but it was so bad

@midmagus @selentelechia I tried to read that in 10th grade when I was a horny teenager but even then I couldn't finish it.

@HammerMacabre @selentelechia If I get the urge to try him again, I’ll take a look. Sounds interesting

@midmagus @selentelechia Not even at the end. Just, man, that book was good. Like old Heinlein. And to toss off that awesome cliffhanger? Like he didn't even care anymore. Unlike Asimov, where in his final essay in IASFM it was more grief at seeing the end than no longer giving a shit.

@HammerMacabre @selentelechia lol that was at the end of it? That would have made me angry too

@midmagus @selentelechia "To sail beyond the sunset" was worse. What pissed me off most was "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" was almost back to his action adventure style, left with a fantastic cliffhanger. "To Sail..." had a one liner "...oh and they were all fine." throwaway that was infuriating.

@NikWestinghouse @selentelechia @MorlockP Thanks for sharing. I have thought about reading this. I have Morlock’s homesteading books

@midmagus @selentelechia 2/ updated and more historically well-grounded take on Lunar independence, I highly reccommend this duology by @MorlockP It has a much more interesting AI, as well. amazon.com/Powers-Earth-A…

@ihaphleas @selentelechia It’s a woman’s nickname. See she and an older man are with a young couple and they… Well you’ve read other Heinlein books haven’t you?

@midmagus @selentelechia ... haven't read that one, but what's the context for "nanny goat" ... a nanny goat is a real thing ...

@goblinodds @selentelechia That’s actually amazing. I was on a trip and it was the only book I brought. And I still couldn’t do it

@midmagus @selentelechia hahahah no i read the whole thing i have no idea why. i couldnt even get through stranger in a strange land lmao