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Dec 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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posted this morning: you may have heard about the tornado situation in kentucky. in my friends town like 70 homes were destroyed. its not much but we are selling some stuff here to raise money for it. we’re like 30% of the way to todays goal here already (~$1100). check it:
hello i will now tell you things that i know about kentucky to raise awareness for our little micro operation here

did you know kentucky has an esoteric connection with japan (its real). in fact colonel sanders went to japan many times (did u know this)
in fact although i can not find my own photos or the tweets at this time, on one esoteric americana roadtrip i went to the grave of colonel sanders. it is tucked away in the back of this nice cemetery. notice anything interesting here btw
thank you for dispensing this epic lore my friend
there is much esoterica regarding the kentucky japan connection. for example technically KFC in japan was formed with mitsubishi (zaibatsu moment), who at least recently, later, took over KFC in japan. this makes sense as KFC is technically a luxury brand
[vouched]

we are about 80% of the way to today's goal

✉️ there are 15 packs left

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Jan 22
today i flew to nyc. a guy tells me they just implemented a program where, to drive into lower manhattan, you have to pay $9. its to ease traffic congestion.

why is this unethical? well, if youre familiar with the work of B.F. skinner, its very easy to explain.

here’s why: […] Image
skinner himself wouldnt have seen this as unethical, but would have clearly recognized it as a form of operant conditioning (conditioning operants, changing people’s volitional actions) - as opposed to classical conditioning (pavlov’s dogs drooling)

can we find it on this chart? Image
the average person would intuitively see this as some type of punishment. thats what it obviously feels like: you drive into manhattan, you’re punished by having to pay $9. that makes perfect sense.

but its not. in terms of behavior modification, thats not what it is at all. Image
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Jan 8
it's fascinating how quickly a culture's conception of a topic can change. an entire civilization can basically forget or remember large pieces of its own history.

one of the first recent psychologists to treat the phenomenon of self-harm is a guy named steven levenkron.

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of course the phenomenon of self-harm had probably gotten people referred to psychologists for some time. however, when he told his colleagues he was opening a practice specifically focusing on people who engaged in self-mutilation, he got an interesting response from them.
essentially it was that: those people are failed suicides, and we already have a whole network and practice dealing with that.

this is interesting because it means that, up until very recently (he wrote a book about this in 1998), self-harm was viewed as failed suicide attempts Image
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Dec 21, 2024
i have a folder on my computer called:

“insane christmas vibes 1850-1950”

here are some things from it: Image
the above image is louis rhead

this one is eugene grasset: Image
eric gil, 1910s: Image
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Dec 21, 2024
every aspect of having a pregnant wife is almost designed to be a thought experiment that illuminates 1000 aspects of our culture that are always there, but mostly invisible - and therefore difficult to grab until they’re impressing upon you - then suddenly, they’re right there.
consider: the due date. how do they know what day your baby is supposed to be born? well, they give you this date. they don’t tell you, generally (lets presume not out of malevolence) that something like 5% of babies are actually born on their due date. almost no one knows this.
so, your wife naturally tells people this, because everyone asks. if she doesnt tell them (maybe she says “late november”) people flag it as weird. “late november? what do you mean? they didn’t give you a date?”. okay. now you’re kind of crypto-hassling my wife. lets ignore that.
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Dec 17, 2024
one thing i've enjoy about the internet is getting a window into aspects of people's story that they would never share in normal everyday life. if you're interested here's one of mine.

my life changed forever here, off the main street in burlington vermont. it looks like this: Image
i was somewhere around my early teens, in a bookstore. i looked up on a bookshelf and saw a purple book spine. i just grabbed it. there was some feeling of providence about this book. i was called to take this book from the shelf.

this is the book. it's called stencil pirates. Image
it's about doing graffiti with stencils. the idea is that you cut a design into a hard surface, then spray paint it, and the paint just goes through the part you cut out, leaving your image. pretty simple.

i basically never recovered from this book. Image
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Dec 14, 2024
if, at some point, you lived around a TV, you may be familiar with ‘festivus’: a holiday george costanza’s father created on seinfeld. as a resident atypical american religion enjoyer, let’s take a slightly academic religious ethnography pass over this (there will be magic).

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festivus is presented as a holiday created by george’s father as a reaction against commercialism. this holiday is then actually celebrated, and becomes a family tradition.

consciously crafting religion - live. a joke, but its real. is there an existing framework for this? yes. Image
discordianism is the exact meeting point for the above concepts. it is basically a joke religion, started by nerds, who found religion interesting. the dense node at the center being - if people actually “do it”, in terms of religious scholarship - then its real. it becomes real. Image
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