resist the tiny tyrannies. the small overreach, the little regulation, the innocent tracker a permissioned surveillance state is normalized gradually. oppression doesn't happen all at once in one totalitarian go. it's the accumulation of all the microtyrannies you allow that eventually ensnare you in the end

if someone dies and you didn't like them just don't say anything

i know more people who got lasik surgery and their eyes ended up getting worse eventually than people who got lasik surgery and still rave about the results many years later most people i know who got lasik surgery now wear glasses lasik is great if you're an ophthalmologist though 💰

gluten intolerance has nearly 10x'd over the last 30 years researchers wanted to work out whether this is due in some part to what's known as the "expectation effect," since people have been hearing a lot of demonization of gluten in society only recently the researchers bring people into the lab, run tests, and gather a mix of participants that both do and do not have biological intolerances to gluten they then sit everybody down and give them all the same meal. they tell everyone that the meal has gluten in it. (it does not, in fact, have gluten in it) within minutes several people are running to the toilet with diarrhea, some breaking out in hives, inflammation, tension headaches... no one in the room had eaten gluten

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"Pathological anxiety about fate and death impels toward a security which is comparable to the security of a prison. He who lives in this prison is unable to leave the security given to him by his self-imposed limitations. But these limitations are not based on a full awareness of reality. Therefore the security of the neurotic is unrealistic. He fears what is not to be feared and he feels to be safe what is not safe. The anxiety which he is not able to take upon himself produces images having no basis in reality, but it recedes in the face of things which should be feared. That is, one avoids particular dangers, although they are hardly real, and suppresses the awareness of having to die although this is an ever-present reality. *Misplaced* fear is a consequence of the pathological form of the anxiety of fate and death." —Paul Tillich

my favorite mathematician is Poincaré and it's not even close

moved from calyx to graphene can't tell if graphene is legitimately better now or if my years spent with calyx helped me to acclimate faster & appreciate the differences or if i'm just happy to upgrade from my 4 generations ago pixel 😅

your insurance plan would never Crowdhealth has consistently overdelivered

There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes. Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers. —Naval

people don't want money, they want what money buys them

feeling super thankful for #nostr and all you nostronauts today 🫡

anyone looked at an m&m wrapper lately? "contains bioengineered food ingredients" lol

"you should try it, it tastes sooooo good!" i am not a child. i don't just eat whatever tastes good. all the worst things you can eat "taste good" flavor is not a metric that serious adults use to make decisions about what to put in their bodies

they kicked people out of the army and ridiculed them for choosing not to get an experimental shot, but now they're low on people to go and get shot in the middle east "you can come back now, we've decided that killing brown people is more important. please come die for us." so honorable

telling people to be persistent and not give up seems at odds with that famous not-Einstein quote about the definition of insanity isn't doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results also known as... persistence? i think the key is to maintain the effort and keep the goal but vary the method

more than anything else, the swan thing is a signal of the kinds of things they will do to their users in order to stay compliant/obedient with government institutions and their corporate financiers

Swan's response this merely *proposed* fincen ruling is about as disappointing and sad as it gets i get it, they're encouraging you to withdraw from Swan first and wink-wink then you can use whatever privacy tools you want, but still at some point it becomes hard to support a company like this, one tied up in partnerships and relationships that are so embedded in the system your customers are trying to escape

having lived in nyc for a long time and chicago for a short time i assure you that i know what a blue city looks like and Austin is not blue. it is purple.

the more i know about something the more disappointed i am of media coverage abut it

fun fact: fungal decomposition (mostly woody plant matter) is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions, emitting ~85 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere every year In 2018, the combustion of fossil fuels by humans emitted around 10 gigatons gm