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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · Aug 18

As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission by Matthew Zapruder

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 6h

I know this one, the sheep stings him halfway across the river

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 16h

the only downside is that now I know where that one "he just like me fr" picture is from, hate knowing stuff like that

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 1d

damn... he's being too relatable again

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

President Trump has taken to justifying his policy agenda by invoking his hope of reaching heaven after he dies. But “I don’t think there’s anything [that's] going to get me in heaven,” Trump told reporters en route to Israel on Air Force One. https://wapo.st/4q9yS1E

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 1d

in my opinion anyone who wants me to think about bari weiss positively or negatively or at all is a kind of thought police

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 1d

terrible news: this led to me reading chainsaw man which is also very good

maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · May 16

reading berserk, which from what I can tell so far is like if they made my brilliant friend but for the fellas

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 2d

okay purely as a technical matter honor is a social schema for recognizing merit: if nobody likes the shit you are doing you are definitionally not being honored

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 3d

if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of playful fun

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 3d

there are weeks where weeks happen and decades where decades happen

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 4d

can't tell if my inability to feel impressed at anything another person does is a kind of ignoble contrarian impulse, a valuable and accurate sense of perspective, or a symptom of major depression

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 5d

if having friends made you less healthy would they recommend you not have them? every good friend takes five years off your life. move to the woods, say doctors

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 5d

seems like kind of an insane perspective to be like "don't forget about the instrumental value of human connection to you personally! friends are simply a means to your own well-being"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Social relationships contribute to health and longevity in a few critical ways. But experts say it's less about the sheer number of connections you have, and more about what those connections do for you.

How to Live a Long and Healthy Life as an Introvert

You don’t have to be the life of every party to reap the health benefits.

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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 8d

I'm sorry, but I really don't know much about the town itself. I spend my time outdoors, walking the ridges and valleys.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · Apr 13

don't hear much about qanon anymore these days, though I guess they were right about a storm coming. more vindicated than a lot of people attempting to predict the future, really

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · May 23

alternatively, and I guess more likely, it's just an audacious scam where they pretend to replace people with a miraculous technology but instead the stuff those people did stops happening

maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · May 23

so the current AI culture complex is essentially a cult that has misunderstood LLMs as meaningfully generally intelligent and taken over large portions of corporate governance, right. that seems... bad

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 9d

sure, I guess. nor are most people doing the kind of labor blue jeans were designed for

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 9d

This year’s cowboy boot boom isn’t just fashion. It’s America once again clinging to a myth in search of a shared identity.

What the Cowboy Boot Boom Says About America

The style statement is also a story about nostalgia, nationalism and America’s search for identity in times of uncertainty.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 10d

speculating, but I think this is downstream of twitter and tumblr both sort of diminishing and taking the sense of internet monoculture with them

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 10d

in general I think stan culture has kind of had its heyday, I don't feel like I see the kind of grandiose threats and pile-ons from swifties or kpop people pretty much ever anymore

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 10d

I think this is a little bit awkwardly constructed but I don't see the use of passive voice here as especially exculpatory or anything, nor is "landed on the ground" from the clause in the sentence utilizing passive voice

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 11d

1776: Beans are housed. One swallow. Apples are gathered. Ivy continues to blow. Bat is out.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 11d

only if you don't read the next sentence where he describes other people being convinced by it?

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 11d

quite enjoying watching the mods and the people who don't like the mods having a days long ineffectual slap fight, this is very cozy to me as a person who has wasted their life on forums

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 11d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 12d

I think it's a little embarrassing to have foes in your 30s

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is here — and it’s an NYT Critic’s Pick. Read our full review. nyti.ms/3IOOHKn

Taylor Swift’s album cover for “The Life of a Showgirl.” A headline reads: “Album review: On ‘Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift Has a Lust for Love (and Her Foes).”

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 12d

aren't "the divisions cannot be overcome" and "the political system is too divided to solve problems" pretty different statements?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

Americans have less faith in the ability of the country’s political system to solve problems than they had five years ago, with a large majority now believing that the U.S. is incapable of overcoming its deep divisions, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University. nyti.ms/476StrS

A line graph titled "Most Americans Think the Country's Divisions Cannot Be Overcome, Poll Says." It shows 64% of respondents saying that America's political system is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems, and 33% saying the system can still address the nation's problems.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 14d

finding both concept and execution of "woman destroying glass bridge with rock" videos quite existentially scary. world passing me by moment

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