Oden
@odense.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, AI and human intelligence researcher. Ph.D. student in computer science.
Against All Authoritarians.
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Against All Authoritarians.
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Hi,👋 from like 4 hours away!
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hi,👋 from like 4 hours away!
Yes! I got some high end JBL with noise cancelling. I haven’t used them much outside the house, but even being able to shut my kids’ noise out for a couple houses every so often is a great boon.
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Yes! I got some high end JBL with noise cancelling. I haven’t used them much outside the house, but even being able to shut my kids’ noise out for a couple houses every so often is a great boon.
The next time someone tells you to stop living in the past, explain how difficult it is not to!
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The next time someone tells you to stop living in the past, explain how difficult it is not to!
Everything you experience, especially externally to yourself, happens in the past. Because of signal processing time from your senses through your nervous system to your attentional faculties takes time.
Sure, the timescale is small (ms in many cases), but the delay is real.
Sure, the timescale is small (ms in many cases), but the delay is real.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Everything you experience, especially externally to yourself, happens in the past. Because of signal processing time from your senses through your nervous system to your attentional faculties takes time.
Sure, the timescale is small (ms in many cases), but the delay is real.
Sure, the timescale is small (ms in many cases), but the delay is real.
Well, I don’t know the specific etymology for rådjur, but rå can mean basic, so “rå djur” could mean a “basic animal” aka a deer, which is *the basic animal*! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Well, I don’t know the specific etymology for rådjur, but rå can mean basic, so “rå djur” could mean a “basic animal” aka a deer, which is *the basic animal*! 🤣
Yes! It’s even more obvious in Swedish, where the word is djur, which I don’t really know how to spell in English phonetics but it sounds pretty similar to deer. Maybe deeyur? A word for deer now is rådjur, to distinguish it from other djur (animals).
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Yes! It’s even more obvious in Swedish, where the word is djur, which I don’t really know how to spell in English phonetics but it sounds pretty similar to deer. Maybe deeyur? A word for deer now is rådjur, to distinguish it from other djur (animals).
In Pittsburgh, for example, drivers opposite you will turn right in front of you seemingly without regard for right of way or danger! And people regularly drove 50+ mph in 35 zone. But then they will drive like 45 mph on the motorway and just swerve around without turn signals! 🤯
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In Pittsburgh, for example, drivers opposite you will turn right in front of you seemingly without regard for right of way or danger! And people regularly drove 50+ mph in 35 zone. But then they will drive like 45 mph on the motorway and just swerve around without turn signals! 🤯
I knew it went beyond Sweden, but I never knew it went to the US!
Maybe some day it will have an effect.
Maybe some day it will have an effect.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I knew it went beyond Sweden, but I never knew it went to the US!
Maybe some day it will have an effect.
Maybe some day it will have an effect.
I knew that it spread to the EU, but I did not know it went global! Well, we can keep trying.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I knew that it spread to the EU, but I did not know it went global! Well, we can keep trying.
Even visiting Germany now, which I do a lot, I’m like WHY do you let people drive so fast in town!?
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Even visiting Germany now, which I do a lot, I’m like WHY do you let people drive so fast in town!?
My municipality has 40 kph in the Centrum on most roads, but 30 kph on many residential streets.
When I lived in Germany, it was quite unnerving how many residential streets were 50 kph. There were a lot of 30 kph, eg when the streets are particularly narrow or twisty, but dang…
When I lived in Germany, it was quite unnerving how many residential streets were 50 kph. There were a lot of 30 kph, eg when the streets are particularly narrow or twisty, but dang…
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
My municipality has 40 kph in the Centrum on most roads, but 30 kph on many residential streets.
When I lived in Germany, it was quite unnerving how many residential streets were 50 kph. There were a lot of 30 kph, eg when the streets are particularly narrow or twisty, but dang…
When I lived in Germany, it was quite unnerving how many residential streets were 50 kph. There were a lot of 30 kph, eg when the streets are particularly narrow or twisty, but dang…
As someone who has loved the internet since about 1997, I am no longer 100% convinced we are better off with it than we would have been without it.
The reality is that it is here to stay, but I can no longer say, as I would have 10 years ago even, that the downsides are nevertheless worth it.
The reality is that it is here to stay, but I can no longer say, as I would have 10 years ago even, that the downsides are nevertheless worth it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
As someone who has loved the internet since about 1997, I am no longer 100% convinced we are better off with it than we would have been without it.
The reality is that it is here to stay, but I can no longer say, as I would have 10 years ago even, that the downsides are nevertheless worth it.
The reality is that it is here to stay, but I can no longer say, as I would have 10 years ago even, that the downsides are nevertheless worth it.
We have something called Vision Zero in Sweden, which aims for zero traffic related deaths some day. I feel like we take it pretty seriously.
I feel like the US would have difficulty implementing even Vision Not Quite So Many.
My beliefs were reinforced by that hatred of speed cameras discourse.
I feel like the US would have difficulty implementing even Vision Not Quite So Many.
My beliefs were reinforced by that hatred of speed cameras discourse.
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
We have something called Vision Zero in Sweden, which aims for zero traffic related deaths some day. I feel like we take it pretty seriously.
I feel like the US would have difficulty implementing even Vision Not Quite So Many.
My beliefs were reinforced by that hatred of speed cameras discourse.
I feel like the US would have difficulty implementing even Vision Not Quite So Many.
My beliefs were reinforced by that hatred of speed cameras discourse.
I lived in Germany for many years, and let me say that they are good drivers but often impatient and a little reckless for my preferences.
But fam, I never felt so afraid for my life driving on the German autobahn as I did driving in DC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and other places in the US.
But fam, I never felt so afraid for my life driving on the German autobahn as I did driving in DC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and other places in the US.
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I lived in Germany for many years, and let me say that they are good drivers but often impatient and a little reckless for my preferences.
But fam, I never felt so afraid for my life driving on the German autobahn as I did driving in DC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and other places in the US.
But fam, I never felt so afraid for my life driving on the German autobahn as I did driving in DC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and other places in the US.
Believe in them or not, the ghosts believe in you. They are pulling for you. They know you can do it. And, really, that’s all that matters.
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Believe in them or not, the ghosts believe in you. They are pulling for you. They know you can do it. And, really, that’s all that matters.
I hated the Patriot Act-era “if you didn’t do anything wrong then you won’t have anything to hide”, but damn, gonna have to develop a theory about correlating complaining of #MeToo with being a sex creep.
In all seriousness, the problem has always been that the fallout from #MeToo has not gone far enough, never that it has gone too far.
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I hated the Patriot Act-era “if you didn’t do anything wrong then you won’t have anything to hide”, but damn, gonna have to develop a theory about correlating complaining of #MeToo with being a sex creep.
I would befriend it, if it would let me.
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I would befriend it, if it would let me.
Ha, Druids, not droids.
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Ha, Druids, not droids.
What if ghosts were the manifestations of vibes all along.
I guess that’s reinventing “The Secret”. For a New Age, if you will.
Wait, is someone going to tell me now that the witches or droids were right this whole time?
I guess that’s reinventing “The Secret”. For a New Age, if you will.
Wait, is someone going to tell me now that the witches or droids were right this whole time?
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
What if ghosts were the manifestations of vibes all along.
I guess that’s reinventing “The Secret”. For a New Age, if you will.
Wait, is someone going to tell me now that the witches or droids were right this whole time?
I guess that’s reinventing “The Secret”. For a New Age, if you will.
Wait, is someone going to tell me now that the witches or droids were right this whole time?
All I’m saying, is that maybe she should sleep more.
Lack of sleep, especially extremely lack of sleep, can have dire consequences for mental health, is all I’m saying.
Lack of sleep, especially extremely lack of sleep, can have dire consequences for mental health, is all I’m saying.
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
All I’m saying, is that maybe she should sleep more.
Lack of sleep, especially extremely lack of sleep, can have dire consequences for mental health, is all I’m saying.
Lack of sleep, especially extremely lack of sleep, can have dire consequences for mental health, is all I’m saying.