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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 7h

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.

nyti.ms

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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.

bloom.bg

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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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d

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 · 13d

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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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 14d

they always call it “pain at the pump” when gas prices go up but they never call it “pleasure at the pump” when they go down

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Ppallo @ppallo.bsky.social · Nov 24

The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

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