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Leitha Matz
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Former NYC. Currently Berlin. Neurospicy. Emodiverse. Working online since forever. Technology product person by profession, artsy/athletic in my free time.
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“One side offers me no guiding light to direct my vision towards the truth, while the other just gouges my eyes out” 👀
Seneca says we need to avoid garbage information. Apparently that was a problem even 2000 years ago. “Measure your life: it just does not have room for so much.” 🤷🏻‍♀️
Not a lot of majestic around here. Unless maybe lakes and fields can be majestic.
Great shots! Mountain 🏔️
Idiotic, but it does again demonstrate how imaginary (and politically biased) most “awards” are. Maybe you could should just establish the “Kabas Award for Responsible Journalism” as a counterpoint.
A nice — though unexpected — alignment between Portuguese (saudade) and German (Sehnsucht) for the concept of "a vague and constant desire for something that does not (and possibly cannot) exist." 😔
Could it be last year’s survivors breeding an elite fruit fly force?
Helpful to get a friend to offer a perspective. You’re too close to the subject matter. 😁
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my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
Play and discuss as if you were friends trying to get to know each other better, rather than as if you were rival squawking merchants trying to sell competing goods in a marketplace. The world is full of friends and potential friends, and it's much lonelier and more frightening when it isn't.
“… what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in un-certainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” - Keats
First they came for chess, and I said nothing.
As we enter the era in which companionship, therapy, art, labor and sport are all performed by AI, I wonder when we’ll just fully embrace the idea that “passive consumption” is now the definitive occupation of humanity? Glad I lived in the before times.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
China hosts fully autonomous AI robot football match
Footage of three-a-side game shows humanoids struggling to kick the ball or stay upright
www.theguardian.com
“The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.”

Thoughts on the limits of PKM and the power of minimalism for the brain.

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-...
I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
www.joanwestenberg.com
I always try to keep gratitude in the forefront of my mind, but when it looks like my apartment might be on fire, but it’s actually a different building, the feeling comes pretty readily.
Not going to pass judgement on anyone, but I’m finding that my feelings of mortality surpass any drink or party drug for life-affirming weekend shenanigans. Bonus points for fewer side effects, too. 💃🏻🪩
This post makes me nostalgic for the old days of the internet when people had basic blogs and would focus on a narrow topic, such as field research into what media was produced for children in a particular country and era.
In case it helps anyone else manage their weird little brain🧠 , I’ve started calling the easily eaten snack-size vegetables my “Strategic Crudités Reserve,” and it’s a tiny game that helps me romanticize (and restock) my radishes, carrots and cherry tomatoes. 🍅🥕🫜
This line of thought actually makes me want to see a dozen more variations of costumes, lighting, positioning and interaction between the players in a staged version.
I think they’re often unengaged, but it’s interesting to see the interaction between the performers when they’re “on” and playful.
Just realizing I’ve never heard applause for a particularly lovely rendition of the “brief airline safety demonstration,” on a flight, but the choreography on LH1711 was honestly excellent. Wondering if I’m the only person who watched the show?
Perhaps the earliest evidence of pareidolia in our ancestral findings? 🥰
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😱 NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! NEANDERTHAL FINGERPRINT! 🤯

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Wondering how old one needs to be before we stop feeling some lack of agency while in the presence of our parents. Apparently 50 isn’t enough.
Does anyone look at this and NOT have a pareidolia moment? I would be as surprised as this power socket.