⚠️ S2 on Twitter / X
See also max pain
moonflower / the iii. on X: "Vogue/Chant as the child of MCing + Breaking/B-Boy, or Vogue as a sub category of Breaking/Movement or Ballroom as the 6th Pillar of Hip Hop… all delicious and magical to think about." / X
brother stone on Twitter / X
Invented language
andrew (spring '24 classes are now open) 🌹 on X: "video games, and the people who play them, are deeply misunderstood it's difficult to clarify in a tweet, but feel free to AMA" / X
QC (10.7k/50k words) on Twitter / X
Thread about a weird feeling of Sam Altman’s ability to influence people
yatharth on X
this is already obvious to some people, but weddings are community events. they are fundamentally about a introducing a union to a community that will hopefully support them
grey 🇵🇸 on Twitter
if you aren't going to RT about what's going on in palestine, please at least share their culture to keep the memory of them alive. repeatedly they said they wanted their culture, their happiness, themselves to be remembered. so here's a thread of some tiktoks for you— grey 🇵🇸 (@fxedinthehead) October 28, 2023
Emma Fraser on X
In Barry S1, Bill Hader thought it was sweet that Barry got Sally a laptop as a gift so early in their relationship. The women in the writers room pointed out that it was too much and this is how it played in the scene. Writers’ rooms are important.
🦣S on Twitter
I love the shitpost replies in this tweet
Linus (●ᴗ●) on Twitter
Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory.Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast.This is unreal pic.twitter.com/8rig77MGuR— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) August 20, 2023
yearner herzog on X
“There is a colour in Chinese called “Qing” (青), a blue-green mixed w/ black. I never noticed it doesn’t exist in English til my mom said “Clay rooftops are Qing in Japan and red in China”. 青 has connotations of spring and youth and is contextualized by nature, instead of chroma”
Sherry on Twitter
If you don’t like small talk it means you’re not good at listening. The purpose of small talk is to test boundaries, slowly build trust, and pick up details to carefully broaden the conversation. Why should strangers offer you valuable information if you haven’t demonstrated— Sherry (@SchrodingrsBrat) August 9, 2023
Vanessa Kisuule thread on perpetual singledom
“Will probably delete this but want to post for those who feel similar because it's maddening thinking you're the only one/one of very few. I am very sad about but making peace with the fact that romantic love is sthg that eludes some of us for reasons we cannot know or control.”
I am very sad about but making peace with the fact that romantic love is sthg that eludes some of us for reasons we cannot know or control.
whilst many people go in and out of relationships on some miraculous, regular wave, some of us have that happen rarely or not at all.
It is just bad luck. And luck can ofc turn on a dime. But it can also just go on like that, reliably & laughably shitty, for years or even decades. You can make yourself sick with hope, waste time & energy with your antenna raised whilst simultaneously pretending not to care.
This anxiety has generated a multi billion dollar industry of books/events/courses/apps claiming to have an answer. Attempts are made to lace singledom with some semblance of dignity or even gravitas. But we remain a species addicted to the salvation of romantic love.
The solutions peddled by apps & self help gurus work for some. But there is another experience, another rambling path: sad, difficult, ghostly, formative & continually humbling. Undisturbed, you learn to truly hear yourself and the tide of your thoughts, for better and for worse
The term relationship STATUS speaks volumes. It's as much about ego as anything else, wanting to signal to the world that s/o has freely elected to give your their time, care & attention. In lieu of meaningful community ties, this is the last bastion of relational safety.
It pierces you like a shard of glass some days: except for cursory hugs and handshakes signalling hello & goodbye, you haven't been touched, meaningfully, for months or perhaps even years.
You smother your libido such that sex reverts back to the slightly silly and gross act it seemed like when you first heard about it as a child. Better to be mildly disgusted by it than ache for it every day.
I'm not under any delusions about partnership. Like anything, it can be anti-climatic, banal, exposing, violent. Even when its lovely & loving, life still finds other ways of sneaking in its sucker punches. I know this. But still.
We each have our story of exclusion, our own private gulf of shame. Let it grow, not shrink, your heart. Its this sense of lack, the very thing that makes you feel hideous, that builds your empathy. We each have our crosses to bear and we must do so with grace & good humour.
Please don't send me platitudes or assurances that it will happen or that I am lovable/desirable. Those things are certainly true in abstract and I know that. I want to talk honestly about the feeling without people rushing me towards a solution or soothing balm.
I never used to let myself acknowledge the weight of sadness I felt around this. I thought it was above me & the brilliant life I've built. Too basic, too pathetic! But breaking news: I am made of the same soft, jelly-ish needs as anyone. Hate that for me tbh, but there you go.
Sometimes I wish it were an organ, this longing. Then I could neatly & efficiently cut it out of my body. The world is so big, so gorgeous, replete with issues that deserve our focus. I want to stop thinking about this so I can apply my full self to anything & everything else.
hegelian vs predator (satire) on Twitter
this is a perfect example of a traumatized person using other-oriented framing as a shield/to mask pain, and a valuable lesson in strawman vs ironman readings of trauma responses + the toxicity of outrage algorithms📜 pic.twitter.com/VBD7BfEs7M— hegelian vs predator (satire) (@rachelisonline) May 29, 2023
Emily Nussbaum on Twitter
I love you Gen Z, but you are wrecking your brain by labeling everything as mid, basic, cringe, problematic or sus & it will ultimately bite you in the butt, even if you are an Aquarius— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) April 30, 2023
Ryan Broderick on Twitter
So I've been tracking emerging AI cults. Whether it's people worshipping a jailbroken AI, forming emotional or ideological bonds with them, or groups that have sprung up to build an AI to complete a specific goal.They're happening, but all of them are human-first social groups. https://t.co/tXHsf4yMIW— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 4, 2023
Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter
the smartest guy i know manages his time by doing the most important thing on his plate. that's it https://t.co/badlgQz4aA— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) April 1, 2023
Paul Fairie on Twitter
“A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Soft
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Michael Nielsen on Twitter
Douglas Adams, pithily summing up 90+% of commentary on ChatGPT: pic.twitter.com/DUYgsXCe0U— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) January 31, 2023
Nabeel on Twitter
Probs obvious, but I think lack of cheap housing in cities is the main thing to blame for most culture getting worse (contemporary novels, indie movies, music, less weird art, etc.) — mostly, the only people who can afford to make a career in this stuff have inherited wealth now.— Nabeel (@nabeelqu) December 22, 2022
Kat Tenbarge on Twitter
Libs of TikTok is a bad faith viral rage conduit. You know this. I know this. They know it. But she and her followers spin it like they have no idea what they're doing and how dangerous it is. They'll say things like "she's just reposting what other people say! How is that bad?"— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) November 28, 2022
Ethan Mollick on Twitter
My students are going through job interviews & folks are still being asked dumb brainteaser questions. Stop!🚩Google found brainteasers were in no way predictive of job performance🚩Worse: "Narcissism & sadism explained the likelihood of using brainteasers in an interview.” 1/ pic.twitter.com/ZK0zT3YMLW— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) November 28, 2022
Takhayyul on Twitter
One of the most magnificent architectural achievements of the Islamic world is the Comares Hall of the Alhambra palace in Andalusia, Spain.With a ceiling designed to evoke the Seven Heavens, it has captivated viewers for centuries.Below we walk through this mesmerising hall… pic.twitter.com/rZGlor8PyK— Takhayyul (@QuwwatTakhayyul) November 15, 2022
Tim Urban on Twitter
Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally. Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind:— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) November 4, 2022
leinah d 🐉🇭🇹 on Twitter
pic.twitter.com/gRtgFg9pr8— leinah d 🐉🇭🇹 (@eccentricleii) November 4, 2022
Praised Bey 🙏🏾🐝♒️ on Twitter
Every day, I wonder which rappers Laverne Cox is hinting towards… pic.twitter.com/62c1DFVuJe— Praised Bey 🙏🏾🐝♒️ (@Malibubarbarian) November 4, 2022
Monger on Twitter
It’s ludicrous watching it as a non American. All this potential, all these smart brains and so much anger and discourse. In 1984 everyone had 2 minutes of hate daily. Americans on Twitter is like 2 hours of hate daily 🤯— Monger (@sunnyndsardonic) October 30, 2022
bliss on Twitter
Okay they ate lol pic.twitter.com/5jdSrUoCME— bliss (@midwestbimbo) October 22, 2022
Dan Runcie on Twitter
Quinta Brunson made sure that Abbott Elementary didn’t sound like your Twitter feed.She reached a much bigger audience as a result. Here’s why. pic.twitter.com/PaclYScCNh— Dan Runcie (@RuncieDan) October 19, 2022
Benedict Evans on Twitter
The more the Internet exposes us to other points of view, the angrier we get that those other points of view exist. We are confronted with people we could have ignored, or never even heard. The opposite of the ‘filter bubble’ myth https://t.co/1Z5VRtH8Lc— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) October 13, 2022