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Oct 17 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
this is a fantastic and correct post, worth reading if you're young.

i probably would have had a very different life trajectory--i'm not necessarily saying better--if i'd bothered applying anywhere other than university of minnesota for undergrad.
it goes beyond school though. technical hierarchies at firms are different than business side hierarchies. management hierarchies are different than IC hierarchies; of course the possibilities for ascent are higher in the former, both in terms of rate and of peak
regional hierarchies are different than national. industrial hierarchies too; between industry, within industry

simple awareness of hierarchies outside of the ones you currently occupy is important for planning your personal trajectory

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Oct 14
I've made it through Paglia's fantastic analysis of As You Like It, and of Rosalind. TLDR:

1. She understands the Hermetic exactly as I do, in fine detail.
2. She establishes Shakespeare's place as modernity's central Hermeticist
3. So why isn't this central to Sexual Personae?!
(1) Paglia's conception of the Hermitic

Paglia's Hermetic ("Murcurial," fine) is androgyne. It crosses boundaries and transcends them but leaves the boundaries, themselves, in place.

The narrative role of the Hermetic is alchemical: a renewing perfection of the base world Image
(2) Paglia's commentary on Shakespeare. Note that to Paglia, water and fluidity are of Dionysus' realm.

She identifies his plays' action as fundamentally Dionysian; a dissolution of boundaries in society and in the self, a cavalcade of masks.

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Oct 14
i count polimath a good friend and i think this is a (characteristically) virtuous thread but i've turned this specific tweet over and i don't agree with it

the reason is that gangs taking over apartment complexes is american as apple pie

consider the following Image
those buildings are properly called "Riverside Plaza"

they were the result of midcentury american utopianism (my dad has stories about the visionaries) and great society era federal money, inspired by le corbusier's vision of tiling the world with concrete Image
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i only learned the history later in the early 10s, about a decade after i lived a few blocks away in a west bank dorm during my freshman year at UMN

to me, as with many others, riverside plaza was always just the Crack Stacks Image
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Oct 13
i think this is partly true, but the moral status of homeless people is more complicated and more interesting than that

on a first pass, one can imagine (at least) four separate modes for morally evaluating the homeless as a class
the first mode is secular. homeless people are people, in a material sense, with no notable moral valence independent of their other characteristics.

that said, their other characteristics tend to be repellent or annoying, so they're an irritant like criminals or teenagers
the second is characteristically christian and associated with dignity culture.

homeless people bear the imago dei. they are not intrinsic moral superiors but their plight is a shame to us because it denudes them of the dignity that should be theirs by right of their humanity.
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Oct 11
spose they "did it" and they can really start scaling. a bunch of thoughts follow
1. at some scale it becomes economical to start altering the existing road infrastructure to facilitate automated driving

obvious case: start with beacons along interstates + full auto semis for long haul trips

maybe gas station attendants make a comeback outside NJ/OR?
2. i mention beacons (i'm thinking something tiny, just appended to the median and edges) because i assume snow is a much more challenging case than is rain

i'm not expecting much use outside west coast + south til this gets solved
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Oct 11
why would the campaign announce the demo they're targeting? doesn't that make the entire operation feel fake and forced?

it's also unpleasant to be targeted. sending some token to do what they think people "like me" will like reveals what they think "we" like.

very presumptuous
a candidate is most likely to win my vote by politely pretending i dont exist and never sending minions to talk to me
signaling theory of open instrumentalization
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Oct 10
no internal monologue means that you think entirely right brain. protean, preverbal, gnostic. no translation to awkward verbal concretization until the last moment. a direct line to the divine.
afaict my thought is mostly wordless rotation of abstractions that only collapses to language in the final stage when i think about expressing my conclusions
i can't prove this but i suspect this is very efficient

something like: imagine running a sequence of operations on data in your ram in one uninterrupted pass before dumping it to storage

internal monologue feels like it would be writing to disk after each operation
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