Passage from screenshot of book:
> > How could love be anything other than a rapture? "You should date," my mother says. "Meet someone nice." As if there's any correlation between this force, this feeling, and dating.
> > Oh, the interchangeable men on the Google Calendar-Chris, Pete, Rob, Malcolm-like so much bland litter; taking Ubers and Lyfts to restaurants and bars; doing the math to split the bill and match the tip with men who own bicycles more expensive than their furniture, men who are oddly puritanical about hops and vegetables, men who are boastful of their neuroses the trauma, the therapy, the meta-therapeutic rejection of therapy. One told me in earnest that it was important that I know right away, from the start, that he hated his mother. I just nodded over my Korean short rib, sipped my orange wine. Men so weak that I have to break up with myself for them. Sperm on crutches, Grandma Rose would've said.
Isaac Saul on X: "I’ve said repeatedly that I share some of Kennedy’s views about our health. We are being ravaged by diseases of despair. We don’t eat well. Our sedentary lifestyles are bad for physical and mental health. But we don’t talk nearly enough about the successes of public health and" / X
But we don’t talk nearly enough about the successes of public health and
tom bombadil on X: "i feel like it would be good for society if there was a default job you could go get if you don't know what else to do. idk what it should be, but some people just need direction they struggle to supply on their own" / X
Tyler Alterman on X: "On Finding Your People: I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal" / X
I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city
Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal…
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman)
i have been asked "what are cool tech/art/games spaces in NYC" a lot; today I made a big triangle (and a blog) to answer that question
lmk what i've missed!!
— nolen (@itseieio)
I dunno man. I think people getting this wrong.
No one been under the impression that alcohol is good for you. We know it’s bad. Duh.
Reason why alcohol use gonna decline is cause we exist in a culture of narcotics and gluttony now. the phones. Porn. Social media. Dating…
— Joe Holder (@JoeHolder_)
I’m a student you have no idea how much we are using ChatGPT | Hacker News
We need separate systems, one for actually learning without financial pressure, and one for joining the workforce - before anyone brings up College/Uni as the solution, they can be if transformed but as of right now there are too many in Uni doing so to get a job.
When you have a system organized around the morality of work and not working ostracizes you from society, health care, shelter, food security, etc, what do you expect?My wish is the next 20 years brings a post scarcity society where wage slaving for a corporation so your family doesn’t die if they get cancer isn’t so much a moral imperative.
We should also dramatically realign the education system to value real learning, personal and community growth, and a culture of learning rather than just daycare (not that childcare for parents isn’t tremendously important, believe me), funding zillions of BS college admin positions, job training for corporations that are to cheap to train their own employees, and grades (as we know them. Grades have so much nonsense loaded on top of them
VP Kamala Harris gave a press conf at FEMA hq but this is how she addressed the workers right after.
This. This is why I go so hard for her. 🗳️
— Renee 🪷 (@PettyLupone)
I was trying to figure out why Los Angeles feels so different. It's not just that a lot of rich people moved out, it's that the middle class don't live there anymore. All these neighborhoods are now super expensive so it sucked families out, and with them the teenagers that…
— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn)
(1) GL on X: "Thinking all there is to do in NYC is dinner and drinks or that any social activity costs $50 is a skill issue, however it is one I am here to help with. Below is my running calendar of free things to do in the city this summer, go save money and have fun https://t.co/2ujSlubTGp" / X
— GL (@gldivittorio)
Celebrities I am begging u to stop launching beverage lines and start getting serious. Where are the railroads? The concert halls? The amassing of steel? The bribing of senators? Feels like I’m dealing with a bunch of amateurs.
— Keara Sullivan (@superkeara)
kasey on X: "#1 rule of hosting: Nothing—absolutely nothing—matters more than *who* you invite to the party (call it a party or not, you’re hosting a party). Who you invite sets the parameters of who your guests will meet, what kind of conversations they will have, and how they will feel." / X
Nothing—absolutely nothing—matters more than *who* you invite to the party (call it a party or not, you’re hosting a party). Who you invite sets the parameters of who your guests will meet, what kind of conversations they will have, and how they will feel.
— kasey (@kaseyklimes)
charlotte bancroft a.k.a. austerity measures on X: "everyday life in the united states is psychologically punishing in such a unique way. we’re in the most advanced stage of economic development relative to the rest of the world, so even though material conditions here tend to be higher than they are elsewhere" / X
— charlotte bancroft a.k.a. austerity measures (@wifekisser303)
It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise.
First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use.Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics... — The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor)
jacob on Twitter / X
this is the exact moment our coworkers found out we had been laid off while speaking in front of city council pic.twitter.com/IcsCszGe3Z— jacob (@peepaw_) March 1, 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter / X
Turns out immigrants aren’t “takers” after all - they’re givers to the US economy and essential to a sustainable future, especially if we want elder generations to age with dignity. https://t.co/iv6B6EQAdI— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 7, 2024
Devon Eriksen on Twitter / X
Thread on the role of property ownership in civilization
miri on Twitter / X
Massimo on Twitter / X
city based on hilly ground → shared floors between buildings of different heights
anton (𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊) 🏴☠️ on X: "good morning from san francisco. now that the dust has settled on the first round of the openai debacle, it’s time to start asking some questions two of the board members who voted altman out, helen toner and tasha mccauley are deeply enmeshed in ‘effective altruism’" / X
critiques and pitfalls of the effective altruism movement
The Cultural Tutor on X
thread on the harm of cold LED lights on streets versus orange lights
Dr. Lucky Tran on X
Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at $1,390 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.
That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.
kepano on X
I'm not totally against UBI conceptually, it's just that the mechanism to deliver it would most likely be a CBDC.
Those in favor of UBI should specifically advocate for negative tax rates for low income people, delivered via tax refund.
I still think the priority should be…
Alec Karakatsanis on Twitter
THREAD. Behind closed doors, a little-known bureaucrat in Los Angeles just signed one of the weirdest--and most dangerous--contracts I've seen in my career: it gives huge control over the “justice” system in Los Angeles to the consulting firm Accenture.— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) September 4, 2023
Brandon Friedman on Twitter
Thread on gun violence and fast-escalating altercations in Texas
Coby on Twitter
Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard.For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue! pic.twitter.com/kS3E4dpjGq— Coby (@Cobylefko) July 20, 2023
Paul Minot, MD on Twitter
thread on the overreliance of prescription medication in psychiatry
Bill D'Alessandro on Twitter
“Damn. This is the most unreal (and yet depressingly so real) story of unintended consequences I've ever read. "Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place?" Some excerpts... https://t.co/q1DFnfXvzl”
Dr Kate Compton on Twitter
Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, butlooktech peopleI'm not saying you are the problemI'm saying the exchange rate is in our favorand someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per yearso we should do that— Dr Kate Compton (@GalaxyKate) June 8, 2022
Jen Bartel on Twitter
Efficiency and tech advancement could be prioritized if we had a societal structure that didn’t require people to work in order to obtain access to basic resources required to stay alive such as healthcare, housing, and food. We prioritize jobs bc we lack a social safety net. https://t.co/UjqxrC1LXE— Jen Bartel (@heyjenbartel) June 21, 2023
elle on Twitter
ppl talk a lot about how hard it is to make friends as an adult, & I have thoughts on that but imo an underexplored problem space is how to move “person you vibe super well with, but have only met twice” from friendly acquaintance to bff when you’re both super busy & have lives— elle (@ellegist) May 7, 2023