Reminds me of a friend of mine who was on LSD, and every time his cat said, “Meow” he thought it was a person trapped inside it saying, “Let me out!” View quoted note →

had a paranoid friend who ditched the old Twitter because he didn’t like that people were “following” him View quoted note →

Starting to despise the tone and phraseology of AI. It's like music composed as commercial jingles, maybe worse. Just sounds fake. And sometimes I can’t tell whether an account is actually AI or just a person who used it so much he’s started to adopt its style.

excerpt from new podcast: https://rumble.com/v70odro-new-york.html

if you reject the story you’ve been told, not just about central banking, not just about covid, not just about modern medicine, but really reject the entire thing, you start to realize anything is possible. If you wonder why we haven’t seemed to progress in 50 years, why we don’t have 2001 Space Odyssey-level tech, why we don’t have flying cars, it might be because even though you’re questioned many particular false narratives, we still fundamentally haven’t questioned everything. And having not questioned everything, we are stuck in only the possibilities we’ve been offered.

I can shitpost longer than you can stay scrolling.

At the airport stupid early again. Think it’s more relaxing to be at the shitty terminal than waiting at home not knowing how much traffic there will be or how long the line is at security. At the gate, you just have to walk onto the plane.

I think the results were so-so. Woke too many people up. Overplayed their hand. Problem was Trump was president. Had it been Hillary, they could have succeeded a lot more, but he delayed the plan, they got impatient, had to fix 2020, do the J6 psyop, jumped the gun. They fucked up IMO. View quoted note →

Went to a furniture design showroom yesterday. Very high end, way out of my range. Like 300K for a table. Some of it was nice, some not. But it occurred to me some of the designs would just not have occurred to me as a possibility.

Had this idea my job was just to notice and post shit for which the only “market” is people who want to think about things they might not otherwise have considered.

Sometimes I imagine I’m watching a movie and things unfold cinematically, frame by frame. Like a word-class cinematographer is doing every shot. The East River at dusk, the highway traffic signs, the slow-speed airport traffic, the skinny untrimmed highway-side trees. It all portends something profound but you don’t yet know what, so you notice things.

Sometimes you gotta finish what you’re doing before you can move on, but other times you just need to drop it. Advice fails because the whole game is about discernment, not heuristics.

It’s odd how I get caught up in habits for hours or days, like a zombie and then have moments of crystal clarity where I know exactly what’s up.

Of course I got a scratchy throat after three days of jet lag sleep and the change to windy fall weather. Gonna will myself to kill this off with only the most minor symptoms. Sleep a few hours on the plane, get ready for my Padel tournament tomorrow. Physics rules over biology and mind rules over physics.

you assholes need to capitulate, sell everything, then we can have Uptober.

The fuck happened to Uptober?

Still use a beaten up IPhone 8, zero desire to get a new phone, but it doesn’t take the latest updates, and apps are starting not to work.

Say what you want about NYC, but it destroys Europe for breakfast options. Bacon, eggs, steak, potatoes and a pot of black coffee cost $50 with tip but quality is very high.

Bought a used car from a former friend a couple years ago, turns out it had a flaw where one of the crucial belts gives out every 2Ok miles. Thought I was getting a Citroen, but really was a Citron.

I remember seeing (x+1) ^ 2 in math class and thinking it would just be x^2 + 1. But it’s actually x ^2 + 2x +1. Okay fine, you have to multiply out each term by each term. The x * x, the x * 1, the other x * the other 1 and 1 *1. I just took this for granted, like it was just how you’re supposed to do it via the formula. But if you look at it on a piece of graph paper, say draw a 2 x 2 square, and say, if x = 2, what is (x +1) ^ 2? Well you keep the x ^ 2 (the box with area 4), and you add 2x (2) to the top of the box and 2x to the side of the box, but then there’s one small square missing, so you add that, and now you have a 3 x 3 box. And you do it again to get a 4 x 4 square, just add another 3 on top, 3 on the side, and fill in the one that’s missing. And you can keep going, and the formula makes perfect sense. And you realize to go from x ^ 2 to (x + 1) ^ 2, you can always just add x + (x+1) to x ^2. Or 2x +1 to x ^2. That’s why a 4 x 4 square = 16. And a 5 x 5 square = 16 + (2 * 4) +1. And a 6 x 6 square = 25 plus (2 * 5) + 1. Etc. So if you want to calculate 101 squared in your head, you can just do 100^2 = 10K, plus 100, plus 101 - 10,201. And 101 ^ 2 = 10,201 plus 101 plus 102 - 10,404. Etc. Maybe this is obvious to some people, but it blew my mind how you can do this easily in your head.