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Comment · 2 days ago

same!

Comment · 9 months ago

I once had an LSD-induced episode of psychosis where I thought my entire existence was a 2 minute loop on display in some higher dimensional art exhibit. Sounds silly but it was horrifying

Comment · 9 months ago

To call Le Guin’s version of the Tao Te Ching a translation is misleading—she knew little Chinese. Le Guin leaned heavily on existing translations, alongside her intuition for Taoist philosophy.

From the her postscript:

> This is a rendition, not a translation. I do not know any Chinese. I could approach the text at all only because Paul Carus, in his 1898 translation of the Tao Te Ching, printed the Chinese text with each character followed by a transliteration and a translation. My gratitude to him is unending.

For the interested, the original paperback contains diligent notes about her sources and word choices.

I also reference Le Guin's rendition a bunch here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/taoism-minus-the-nonsense

Comment · 9 months ago

Build or join a local community!

I’ve been working with https://fractal.boston/ and adjacent communities for the last year and my loneliness has been cured. I now have the opposite problem where I don’t get enough time to myself!

Comment · 10 months ago

I’ve been helping build https://fractal.boston/ for about a year now and it’s been a massively rewarding experience

Like the author, I highly recommend _building_ rather than simply joining a community. If you’re joining an already established scene, get involved! Host events, and bring in new members, establish new norms

Comment · 10 months ago

Just learned you don’t have to go full grayscale! You can put the filter on 80% and still get the color semantics while also being less stimulated

Thanks to whoever added this

Comment · 10 months ago

Some seem to think this organization was “anti free speech”. Thing is, if you believe in free speech, famously, you have to agree to let people disagree with you!

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.“

The federal government putting its thumbs on the scales in debates about what can and should be broadcast (on both traditional and social media) should worry anyone who cares about free speech.

Comment · 10 months ago

This is not a good rabbit hole

Comment · 10 months ago

Lots of hate here, but I think this is clever and some iteration of it will sell well

I get that folks are worried about what AI-generated art will do to kids sense of creativity. Will they still learn to draw? Play instruments? Write stories?

But I genuinely believe that tech like this will only whet their imaginations. I would have had so much fun with this as an 8 year old, and would have spent hours just in my head, dreaming up ways to use my limited stickers.

Ofc parents will still need to encourage them to pick up hard skills (as has always been the case). But having an AI companion will mean they start seeing rewards for their efforts much faster. A shallower learning curve will prove to be a very good thing for most.

Comment · 10 months ago

Always has been

Comment · 1 year ago

The title seems a little click-baity and basically wrong. Gabor transforms, wavelet transforms, etc are all generalizations of the fourier transform, which give you a spectrum analysis at each point in time

The content is generally good but I'd argue that the ear is indeed doing very Fourier-y things.

Comment · 1 year ago

Probably true. Most mass-appeal science communication is bullshit.

But TBKTS helped to bring "somatics"--the idea that physical and psychological issues are often interwoven--to the mainstream. There is very clear evidence that this is true [1], and underappreciated by a medical field that has a heavy bias toward specialists over generalists. How many people are experts in both gastroenterology and trauma? And yet we all know intuitively that stress and stomach problems go together.

I'll always appreciate TBKTS for this, despite its flaws.

[1] https://superbowl.substack.com/p/energy-healing-minus-the-no...

Comment · 1 year ago

All I want is a 4-5 inch phone :( bring back the mini!

Comment · 1 year ago

Honestly the fact that we don’t have a sovereign wealth fund invested in US equities is just silly. I get that you don’t want too much central interference in the economy but it feels like leaving money on the table