nice fry roll

@shanemelaugh finally built this!

@nicefryroll @vividvoid yes! I love that. feels like a digital approximation of bumping into someone randomly.

We seek control and stability because that feels safe. But when we're in TOO MUCH control, we suffer. Life becomes heavy and unpleasant when it's all about ME. A lesson I interestingly learned from open world video games... 👇

finally built the thing to solve spontaneous communication with friends and family

@visakanv hey past me, you finally built this

@visakanv an app that solves the “why don’t you call your friends as much as you’d like?” problem

whatcha working on? anything fun, cool, weird, interesting? let’s see it!!

@AlexKrusz @RomeoStevens76 Vipassana could never

"Jhana" feels too esoteric for American audiences. MEGAtation is the EXTREME rebrand that we need.

@ConradBastable I feel such nostalgia for RvB. I remember waiting for weekly episodes to watch on my family’s shared desktop PC.

In college, my gf saw a clip of RvB i was watching and laughed. We watched season 1 that weekend and she thought it was great. The next time i went to her apartment, she’d bought a 360 and was playing Halo. Anyway, we’re obviously married now. But in support of OP, Halo 4 rated much higher in her esteem than mine. Score one for 343 successfully reaching a broader audience. Alas, they lost their core audience in the process and it’s all very tragic from there.

@RomeoStevens76 I probably tabled enlightenment until post retirement by starting a family

If tempted to take life advice from me, keep in mind I am a semi recluse insulated from demands of love, family, and career. Not beating the therevada rap. I am not in the arena. If my concepts sound clearer than your mess it's not because they are more real, they are less.

@secondfret @thisischristina Yeah this is very cool! And I do want to see a non-thermal paper version

@thisischristina You’re going to get so many comments from the anti-receipt guys

Husband and Claude set up a receipt printer to make daily briefings for the kids

@cybelethebest could an old school radio frequency baby monitor solve for this? if the situation if being monitored then you have a counter-argument

Honestly, I think it’s ridiculous that every time I drop off my 2yo at Montessori, I have to drag in my 7 mo who weighs like 28 pounds in a stroller instead of just leaving him in the car for like two minutes tops. I’ve thought about doing it, but I could imagine one of the parents telling on me or something.

@vividvoid lovely space I’m proud of you

The dedication ceremony for Nameless Mountain was wonderful. We took vows of stewardship, consecrated and burdened the center, and had a lovely, cozy celebration afterward. The center is dedicated! Regular programming begins the first week of June.

@melissa this is pure art melissa

this is a story about goblins. we used to have a housekeeper come once a week. she was so shrill she sounded like a bird. she talked at a volume and pitch that was worse than the vacuum cleaner. but that wasn't the bad part. the bad part is she would put things where they do not go not like, where i did not want them to go. like where they do not go and thus where we could not find them i open up the kitchen cabinet and see something we've been looking for. that does not, in any universe, belong in a kitchen. i said, fuck. husband said, what. i pointed at said thing. the child was sitting right there. to be restrained, husband said, ah. it was the bird the child's head swung around like it was on a swivel. he was instantly transfixed. he said: who is the bird???? i looked at husband and now we both thought: fuck. i said, well. i'll have to think about that i say this often. it's kind of a way to model not accepting the frame. it's worked. he uses it against me now. i say, do you want a bath or shower tonight? he says, i'll have to think about that for days he'd ask: can you tell me who is the bird now? or are you still thinking? a week later i thought, ok. we're in the clear and then. goblins. the child would see something in the wrong place and offer up, cryptically: maybe it was the bird he understood it to be some sort of unnatural force at work. some strange mysterious thing that just does not know better. the problem is, unfortunately, that he was right. it was the fucking bird. until i fired her. i fired her and she was gone but the goblins persisted. the working dog spends a lot of time monitoring the situation from the window. he presses his face up against the glass and noisily pants from too much sun and watches and waits for things to offend him the child examines the marks on the glass. they're dog nose shaped. he goes: maybe it was the bird i mean. maybe it sort of is the fucking bird. if we still had a housekeeper, there would be no slime on the windows. now the bird is me

@sama we got that ball too hell yeah

never thought id be watching F1 via the kids broadcast cannot imagine being happier

@MTSlive nick is the absolute goat at monitoring the situation

Good morning

@xwanyex might be related to the so-called ‘transport response’ but I’d guess it’s also an angle/blood flow/pressure thing

@Romy_Holland maybe someone can bring to market something that is ostensibly a travel dog bed for backpackers, say "do not use this for humans", but let it travel via The People Who Know Things that its secret intended purpose is human babies for responsible parents

I have been driven mad trying to find a suitable travel crib for my baby. the one everyone says to get is still the size of a backpack. this is not that small. I want something that easily fits in a suitcase. I was confused about why tf this doesn't exist and it turns out the answer is, of course, the government. the consumer product safety commission keeps making the regulations on cribs more and more stringent, effectively making it impossible to actually sell something compact. one might think "okay but this is probably good, surely their regulations are important?" no! you are mistaken about how the government operates! the newest mandates say that cribs must have four freestanding legs and a raised sleep surface. this actually has nothing to do with the safety of a crib when used normally, and everything to do with making it impossible for parents to use the crib atop a bed. couldn't you just tell people to only use the crib on the floor? yes! in a sane world, you could just sell products with instructions like this. in fact, in almost all instances this is what we do. my baby's bouncer is only supposed to be used on the floor. my car should only be operated by a sober, licensed adult with eyes. but for some reason, the government will not let me buy a portable crib that would be 100% safe when used on the floor, which is undeniably the normal place to put a crib. ironically, a lot of parents were like "sure there are no portable cribs, that's why I just cosleep when I travel! or I just make a nest out of towels and put my baby in a drawer!" both of which are a lot more dangerous than a portable crib used on the floor.

knowledge does not need authority to be genuine we perceive nothing as it really is enlightenment always begins with rebellion

@sama what’s the party need? I can bring a bubble machine.

GPT-5.5 is going to have a party for itself. it chose 5/5 at 5:55 pm for the date and time. if you'd like to come, let us know here: luma.com/5.5 codex will help the team pick people from the replies. 5.5 had some good ideas/requests for the party, which we'll do.

is the definition of ‘people’ hard-coded or?

@peterrhague @wholemars yes x.com/nicefryroll/st…

No system in human history has allowed more people to sit in their garden making art than capitalism

@Kpaxs see also: “the moat of low status”

The brutal part is that we have entire systems built around credentialism, saving face, looking the part. So the low-agency move is actually well-supported! You can have a whole career optimizing for “never look stupid.” But that path has a ceiling and the ceiling is “competent-seeming person who never did the thing they were capable of.”