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Matt Jugo Profile picture
@Jeanvaljean689
Sep 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1/ Ok, surreal.

I am doing some garden work and a *star shaped ice cube* (pictured, center) falls out of the sky.

I look up (I'm beneath a tree) and see a black crow(?) fly away.

Pretty sure crow collected it from somewhere, + then dropped it. It's only partially melted. Image
2/ well, you know...

As a fan of Carl Jung, oracular wisdom, divination, synchronicity, etc., I HAVE to see what its symbolism might portend.

Of these, the ace of pentacles seems to 'fit' ...

as @thejessicadore once explained, the "gift from the sky" is an "Ace of" metaphor. Image
3/ curiously, in searching for the exact card, I can't find it! That exact card has gotten separated from the rest of the deck.

Convinced the universe might be playing some silly YouTube "magic trick" on me. Like David Blaine.

HOW DID THE CROW KNOW

whatever. Synchronicity.
4/ more importantly, those three cards together are unbelievably hopeful + affirming.

They speak to creativity, healing, positivity, possibilities, + "live your life".

I don't know what to make of this but if this is the "message" the universe has for me

I'LL TAKE IT 😄 /fin
5/ ok one small post-script:

What was in the star-shaped ice cube?

Corn, half a peanut, and sunflower seeds.

The crow dropped a small package of bird food, that was wrapped in a star-shaped ice cube.

I'm so. damn. curious right now. Image
6/ I swear, sometimes life is weirder than any dream.
7/ today I learned about "hagioptasia".

this gets at the inner synchronicities that I find in stories like my encounter with the crow - on one level, yes, I am sure there are perfectly rational and boringly prosaic explanations;

and yet, sometimes ...

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Jan 5
1/n I want to post a brief thread about "seeing". 🧵
2/ Years ago I lived in Cape Town, South Africa for a year. I was a volunteer teacher.

I lived in one of the central suburbs and took a train each day into Salt River, which was the township where the school I worked was located.
3/ Cape Town is a beautifully diverse city. Arguably one of the most diverse cities in the world.

A key refresh point on trade routes for centuries. A multilingual, multiethnic city at the tip of Africa whose inhabitants nickname it "The Mother City".

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May 14, 2024
1/ You sit down next to someone at a dinner party.

After some small talk, the person effortlessly pivots to deeper talk on topics of personal interest to both of you. They make space for you, say things that are spontaneously funny, + seem curious about your perspective.

-->
2/ perhaps you have the distinct feel that this person sparkles

what you might take for granted about this whole exchange is that most of it is regulated by your body

Personal space, body language, and eye contact

Now consider what happens when you converse with an LLM.
3/ yes, what happens is, in its own way, a marvel

The fact that stochastic models function as well as they do is extraordinary + tells us things we have not fully grasped about human language

But consider for a moment that the model is essentially trying to backfill the somatic
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Nov 22, 2023
OK friends, time for a thread 🧵

this will be about one of my favorite social science experiments of all time, conducted by Dr J. Kiley Hamlin at Yale, in 2007

in which she used an elegant forced-choice frame to show that BABIES ARE MORE SOCIALLY ATTUNED THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
2/ Her subjects were a group of 6 month and 10 month old babies (each group +/- 2 weeks in age) and her experiment design was this:

Each baby sat in mothers' lap + watched tiny movies, featuring anthropomorphized plush toys -

That's right, googley-eyes smacked on plush shapes.
3/ The first movie that all the babies watched was a hero's journey in which a brave YELLOW TRIANGLE tried to ... climb a hill.

Yes, that was the plot of the story.

The Babies needed to understand "yellow triangle" was just trying to climb.
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Oct 17, 2023
@quotidiania @the_wilderless Yes - here's a link to his essay.



One of the things that's interesting to me is - he identifies the dysfunctional coping style (melancholy) with narcissism.

melancholy happens, when a person makes their losses ALL ABOUT THEM...sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-l…
@quotidiania @the_wilderless 2/ this paragraph right here: (the "melancholic", or, we could say, the "dysfunctional coper", fails, because he is making it all about HIM - which is to say, he falsely assumes that HE can "fix it all" with his intellect or his effort somehow, instead of simply feeling the loss) text from Freud's essay The essential thing, therefore, is not whether the melancholic's distressing self-denigration is correct, in the sense that his self-criticism agrees with the opinion of other people. The point must rather be that he is giving a correct description of his psychological situation. He has lost his self-respect and he must have good reason for this. It is true that we are then faced with a contradiction that presents a problem which is hard to solve. The analogy with mourning led us to conclude that he had suffered a loss in regard to an object; what he tells us points...
@quotidiania @the_wilderless 3/ his delusional coping style comes about, because he has a poverty-mindset - his reaction to loss is to become more "grasping" Image
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Dec 6, 2021
The absolute beauty of going for a run in the dark predawn fog, and meeting other runners on the paths

I ♥️ humans

Their crazy accidental fellowships, most of all.

Ok, I log off now, bye y'all, have pleasant day
2/n ok tho I'll stop for a photo

because this is hauntingly beautiful to me.

The lights on the building are there to warn low planes or, more likely, helicopters

They are a 21st century kind of lighthouse

They are, also, the arc of a flock of birds in flight, very apropos Image
3/n and another ...

Same building, seen from across the Lake, in the dawn, from the Cleveland Steps Image
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Aug 18, 2021
1/n Ok I'll bite.

A thread about the "note taking wars", + why famous s$%-p#$ter Tiag@ F@rte does not have a clue what he is talking about

@obsdmd is a gorgeous, well executed product with a fantastic community behind it. Yay!

♥️🚀 ♥️

... but it is *not* a "roam-like".
2/n block referencing and outlining, as implemented by @RoamResearch, are WAY more than just check-boxes to tick, in some arbitrary feature-comparison list.

They are *core* features of the product.

... CORE features that cannot be tacked on, if they're not in the product-DNA.
3/n Yet, it takes time to see this.

... when I first started using Roam, I was so conditioned by the Wikipedia model of backlinked pages, I couldn't 1st see that the true revolution, is at a deeper level.

Thinking in blocks means *atomizing thoughts*.

Atomized thoughts-->
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