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"some personal news": i'm starting a newsletter thing on the forbidden platform. it is called **GLUNKER STEW**. intro post is up now, first meaty post to follow tomorrow ("Notes toward Proto-World, part 1")
Lucre Snooker
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- pretty wild: a woman with amygdala damage was ~literally fearless, so doctors are like "hm what if we make you breathe a lot of CO2, probably won't bother you" but whoops "this was the first time patient SM experienced fear in any setting...since childhood"
- Replying to @natural_hazardyou inspired me to check and there's actually a bit of a first-person description in the supplement to the piece. probably raises more questions than it answers though
- Replying to @tszzlI don’t like the movie but I think it’s hard for you youngsters to imagine the pre-fast-internet noosphere…Howard Zinn was obscure!! People didn’t know anything! It took a long time to look things up!
- it’s weird how “it” in English has such a bad brand now that singular “they” is more popular. in old (Victorian?) children’s book you’ll see things like “every child had its hands in its pockets”
- sorry but I hate the menswear guy. it’s all just vehement assertions without grappling with the obvious “so what?” question. either clothing choice is instrumental, and people should mostly care about looking normal and/or attracting mates, or it’s art/entertainment, in which
- once a girl in a philosophy freshman seminar I was in flippantly said that Kant was naive and the professor stopped class, went to buy a doughnut and smoke a cig, came back and literally pounded the table while saying through gritted teeth KANT. IS NOT. NAIVE.
- bike bolsheviks be like “my hobby is insanely dangerous, like, vastly more deadly than any normal activity. also it should be heavily subsidized and evangelized to everyone, especially children”
- for starters, I don’t think beetles even have amygdalas
- I am overall pro-EA but it’s funny to observe that they created a philosophy so anodyne that surely no one could really dislike it and then found that tons of people passionately hate them
- I used to not be a big “Sapir-Whorf” guy but the fact that English has no clean easy way to distinguish causal “blame” from moral “blame” does seem to cause a lot of confusion
