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@visakanv
Apr 29, 2021 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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i feel like somebody might've done this thread before but there's something funny about how like the nolan batmobile aesthetic went on to reverberate thru so much of product design FOR MEN, just like how zimmer's inception Bwongggg is in all movie trailers now
my casual instinct/guess is that this was sort of influenced by the stealth bomber. you know, the... [googles] Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.

very distinctive, looks like it's from a video game with low polygon count
as people are saying, the blocky aesthetic of the F117 was a consequence of the limitations of the hardware – much like Lara Croft's ol' blocky titties
and as brian eno pointed out, once a limitation is transcended, it will be romanticized. you see kids on tiktoks and fancams etc doing this right now with artificially grainy fancams meant to look like VCR footage


interesting to observe how the honda civic has evolved over my lifetime
the evolution of advertising might be even more revealing
everything has to be cinematic now, everything has to be IMAX, everything has to be sexy, thrilling, swoosh

of course then you get supernormal stimuli burnout. it's like the loudness war in audio. something has to give
your car must now look like a battlestation from which you can drone strike your enemies, otherwise what's the point
here's the entertaining thing for me though: when it comes to actual performance on the battlefield, both US Army Rangers and goddamn ISIS agree that Toyota pickups are the best
thinking also about how they turned all the power rangers into ironrobocopman in the 2017 movie reboot

everything just has to look more like a murderbot
digressing but I'm thinking *also* about how they gave spiderman – your friendly neighborhood spiderman! – a goddamn super-surveillance portable palantir NSA tool
they even made robocop more robocop ykwim

more lens flare

they somehow strip away even more of the human

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Jul 22
a lot of loneliness plays out like this: people accumulate past grievances that they feel have not been appropriately heard. they front-load interactions with this (eg complaining about ex on first date), which makes other people feel unheard. this perpetuates the wretched cycle
a lot of solutions to the loneliness problem begin by finding some way to metabolize the grievances, whether it’s through therapy, or drugs, or art

partial solutions are possible and better than nothing; and most people do live in some state of leaky compartmentalization
how that plays out is you keep it together well enough to not complain about your ex on the first date, but it slips out in a fight maybe six months later, “that’s the thing with you men/women…”
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Jul 21
nonpartisan tweets about framing: scrolling through @joebiden's timeline, which i assume is run by his team, i can't help but notice just how many of the tweets are about trump, with pictures of trump, videos of trump. look at trump, think about trump. imagine trump as president

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@JoeBiden I remember @HillaryClinton doing the same thing. imagine trump as president. picture trump in the oval office
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meanwhile @teamtrump wants you to also imagine trump as president. pictures of trump. videos of trump. trump trump trump Image
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Jun 28
a critical skill if you wanna walk through the walls of culture, and/or “see the matrix” of social reality, is to de-fixate on who the winners or losers of some social exchange are, who’s higher status or lower status, whose group is better or worse, who’s allied with who, etc
the way to de-fixate is to be curious

curious about the truth, curious about how things look from the other side, about how you might be wrong, about what is or is not technically possible, about what the material constraints are, about what the alternate narratives might be,
this sort of thing ordinarily feels redundant to me to say out loud, since it’s kind of been my natural operating system for as long as I can remember. I’m usually only reminded of it when I bump into someone who doesn’t seem to have access to curiosity
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Jun 23
met a couple of different friends yesterday and today for lots of good conversation and I wanna try and remember stuff that came up, so- a thread of kinda disjointed thoughts
one of the most powerful magical forces we’re all in thrall of is how mundane and inert everything appears to be. this is an illusion our minds generate to make things easier to navigate, but it also blocks us from seeing possibilities in plain sight
2. people who are looking for incremental solutions to a problem will often ignore or disregard solutions that eliminate the problem entirely (often requires upstream reconceptualization)
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May 24
chaos-surfing well requires understanding a buncha things

1. how things appear to me are not necessarily how they are

2. what people say is not necessarily what they mean

3. what is said/shown is not necessarily all there is

4. what is true for me may not be true for you
5. the same words mean different things to different people

6. people often don't even read what is there, they often see a few words and assume what they thought they saw. you can ask them to repeat things back to you and they'll make up completely different phrases sometimes
7. what is salient (striking, important) to me about some situation or conflict is not necessarily what will be salient to you. each of us have had a lifetime of experience that the other doesn't have a lot of information about, and that experience informs what we each pick out
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Apr 19
I’ve gotten thousands of DMs over the years from people telling me about their problems. Here’s one interesting pattern/cluster I’ve noticed, which I’d loosely describe as

“anxious self-flagellating ambitious guy who desires greatness but refuses to learn from his mistakes”
they tend to say something like, “I know perfect is the enemy of the good but I can’t bear to do merely good so I keep trying to do perfect and keep failing. how do you deal with not being perfect?” and- I’ll prob have to explain this but the vibe is very similar to-
the question I ask in return is something like, “how do you deal with accomplishing nothing over something? that seems like it would be harder to deal with than failing to be perfect, which is the default condition of all human beings from day 1”
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