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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The planet is going to be just fine. wired.com/story/pangaea-…
The thriving, rambunctious lithosphere means that even humans will survive in our component parts: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon. Whatever happens to the biosphere, our afterlife will be in the elements.
Heaven turns out to be down there, in the crust and mantle, rocks and lava and sloshing iron.
Favorite line from Pride & Prejudice (of all things): “What are men to rocks and mountains?”

Not just a parlor novel.

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22 Oct
Jim Cramer defines the metaverse:

“The metaverse is … you’re looking at basically — you can be in Oculus or whatever — and you say, ‘I like the way that person looks in that shirt, I want to order that shirt.’” latimes.com/opinion/story/…
Alt: The metaverse is the sum total of physical, augmented and virtual reality.

So it’s JC Penney or a scorched-earth everything nightmare
PHYSICAL reality. So reality.
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20 Oct
A brief history of move on:

Ford: Nixon has suffered enough, move on
Scalia: move on from Bush v Gore
Trump: move on from Russia investigation
Rice: move on move on move on

don’t move on dot org
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Pope
The Nazis, fwiw, loved Nietzsche on forgetting:

“No happiness, no serenity, no hope, no pride, no enjoyment of the present moment could exist without the possibility of forgetting.”

Holocaust survivors: “Never forget.”
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14 Oct
On the latest episode of ⁦@ThisCriticalPod⁩ :

The peerless Montel Williams joins me to discuss the enigma that is ⁦@Montel_Williams⁩. Don’t miss this one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…
This is the episode where I express my awe at the work of Maggie Nelson.
Montel Williams threw an elbow at a priest who assaulted him, and his parents immediately quit the Catholic Church & he never had to go again. What is it called when parents express this kind of supreme faith in their children?
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13 Oct
Listening to audiobook of yet another academic bestseller warning of the apocalypse caused by the internet, esp. “cybertrolls.” I feel like warnings to Victorian women abt “licentiousness” & “bad men” in the city were more specific. Seriously what internet are they talking about
How is this science? There are upsetting provocateurs in some precincts of computer networks and thus our brains are broken and the world is over — I get trolled a lot & I probably encounter one troll/week
Blowing past random subway small talk like “we are all in filter bubbles” or “echo chambers” without evidence of then then some false precision about the rise in “anxiety” based on lab studies in the social sciences and voila tons of funding
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12 Oct
Years ago a Mac shop dude recommended software called RAM Doubler to boost my RAM.

My computer failed & I went back a months later. What? he said in disbelief. You’re running RAM Doubler?! We call that RAM TROUBLER! 😂 Everyone howled with laughter.

nytimes.com/2021/10/12/hea…
Oh god no! You’re eating low-fat! You’re avoiding GMOs! You’re washing your hair every day! You’re taking baby aspirin! You’re taking HRT! You’re doing CrossFit!

B-but you just told me to…
An ingenious dissection of Dr. Oz — and the idea of universal health prescriptions on TV / in media (like baby aspirin for all) — is here.

By
@adamcifu:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24197635/
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12 Oct
The argument here is that Tom Cotton has emerged as a hero of democracy so the “left” should be ashamed of condemning his “Send in the Troops” op-ed in June of 2020. thedailybeast.com/how-tom-cotton…
But maybe the blowback that piece got had a salubrious effect.

It brought on the moral crisis at the NYT that led to the excellent reworking of the op-ed page, and it inspired the rise of so many righteous, well-capitalized voices who believe they are fighting illiberalism.
And maybe the “cancelation” of June, 2020, *didn’t* actually goad Cotton to more extreme positions (“don’t call them racists they’ll just get more racist!”) but made him rethink those positions.
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