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im back! and i made a picrew. i wanted to create a dress up game, honouring 7yo me :-) and ended up working on this for a month. if you make something, feel free to qrt. picrew.me/image_maker/11…

We don't need to take the myth of male stoicism at face value. Patriarchy is perfectly compatible with men expressing emotion! Achilles spends half of the Iliad weeping and singing songs about being sad, all while keeping women as property! Brett Kavanaugh wept throughout his

im being so for real vége van az alterbajusznak a brand elerodálódott ki kell találni valami újat ez már nem

which basically makes me think that artistic productions moved by money and power, in the old as in the now, are what could be understood as the same kind of description of an era. bigass baroque castles and cortis redred are the same to me and thats also funny and fresh

images/art have not been the same since the exponential technological advance of mass production and reproduction (printing, screens, new media, ai). it's not posible to understand artistic production like art history does anymore (based on assumptions before this evolution).

every once in a while theres a kpop performance that hits me w such freshness and fun --- in spite of, *because of* it being a deeply capitalistic creation, a multi-art team effort, something manufactured by professionals.

"life really does begin at forty. up until then you are just doing research" - Jung

This is probably the most common and pervasive way in which little girls are taught to prioritise men and placate them at all costs and little boys are taught that life should revolve around them as adults.

sometimes i think i'm reading & writing to understand my lot in the human condition, but then i start thinking it's more like listening to music: i don't want to understand, i want to just feel my being in human, like putting a foot in a river as opposed to drawing it

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maybe...maybe the grand plan of getting skinnier thru the stress of dating is not congruent with a joyful life lmfao

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and that the cause of both is the desire for love/belonging/sense of freedom/fulfillment/etc. thats also ok. letting go feels great. not of the desires, cuz u cant anyway, but of strategies/standards that seem essential but are not.

part of this is paying attention to the most personally frustrating/stimulating things, like identifying a person i hate and why (cuz they remind me of my "bad" self), or identifying a person im very envious of (cuz they embody an ideal-self picture that seems so far away rn).

this made me realize that at times i feel more lonely and bad, ppl "avoiding" me (quote marks bc i think its on a wide spectrum of intentionality) is not the cause but the effect. the worse i feel the worse i am to other people.

One of the parts of the AI revolution I’m most excited about is the prospect for translating animal and plant languages into English (and other human languages). On one hand, I do think there’s an element of Wittgenstein’s “if a lion could speak, then we wouldn’t understand them” about this endeavour. The ways of living that animals and, especially, plants are embedded in may be so alien to human ways of living, that much of their language may refer to things that humans don’t even have concepts for. This may be not just a translation issue, but also make it harder to even correlate their words to their referent if the referent is not something humans know how to look for. But on the other hand, even translating any parts of their language that do correspond to concepts roughly intelligible to humans would be so amazing. It would be fascinating in itself to be able to sit down and, say, have a conversation with a sparrow (in a physical rather than shamanic sense, the latter already being possible in many cases). Even if it was just about little mundane things that are mutually comprehensible. But more importantly, I think it would help people have more compassion for other forms of life. I do think language is a big part of how humans recognise personhood (just look how ready people are to ascribe personhood to Large Language Models for example). So, being able to understand animal and plant languages, could expand people’s vision of which living things constitute persons and / or moral patients. There’s plenty to be concerned about with how AI may negatively impact our relationship to nature. But there’s also some exciting avenues like this that I hope can support a deeper relationship between humans and the other living beings on this planet.

it is extremely important, especially for kids who were in gifted programs or honors students or manga cum laude or whatever, to have a moment before adulthood when you realize all that actually means very little and you are pretty much just a regular person

One of the biggest mistakes we made in telling the story of communist tyranny, is framing it exclusively in the context of the cold war. Communist regimes should not just be viewed in comparison to the West, but as regime entities with agency responsible for what they did.