newly-minted therapist (psychodynamic). writer. recovering journalist. ex academic. prodigal poster.
St. John's, NL
Joined May 2011
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i'm in @TorontoStar today summing up the short, strange premiership of Newfoundland and Labrador's latest aspiring saviour thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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Now that woke is back, I just want everyone who abruptly started using the r-word again 2 years ago to know I remember who you are and it will always define you in my mind
probably a direct line from buying twitter to turn it into a nazi propaganda engine, its collapse as a mass social media hub for current affairs, and the delusional belief in total culture war victory by reactionaries that had them malfoid-posting into the electoral abyss. cool
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it’s totally fine to lib out if the people who literally want you to die feel like they’re getting spit in the face for a bit
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I like how this implies that St Johns is so infamously evil it needs no introduction
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Malcolm on the diff between real ppl and literary characters, and how psychoanalysis undoes the fictional structures we've built around our lives. been thinking about this in relation to YCSE which demonstrate how hard it is to see a person without turning them into a character.
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Nathan Fielder between 2022-2025 was learning how to fly a commercial airplane, made an entire scripted drama series, and did a vertigo with Elizabeth Holmes and her husband I really ain’t doing shit with my life
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"University researchers built a satellite that tracks people from low Earth orbit and dispatches a 5 kg payload to within .1 meter of their position, traveling at Mach 25 to anywhere on Earth in under 5 minutes. They suggest it could be used to deliver greeting cards."
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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feels like there's kind of an elephant in the room with this map but I can't quite put my finger on it
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not to take anything away from daniel but there are people who have spent their entire adult lives in this field and received no institutional recognition whatsoever
I’m writing a book. It’s called Goonworld. It’s not about gooning. Or it is, metaphorically. But mostly it’s about post-COVID culture writ large—the range of, let’s say, unusual online forms/tendencies that have emerged this decade and that have in various ways altered the texture of contemporary reality. Sort of a travelogue. A journey to the heart of slop etc. Out via FSG eventually!
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im not a deleuzian but you do have to hand it to him: when he cooks he cooks on an unbelievable level
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nightmare world and an end result of the cult of the neurotransmitter. bug men who understand their moods, desires, and relationships as chemical states to be managed.
Palmer Luckey reveals the startup he'd build today: oxytocin doping to end divorce
"I would try to end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping for marriage counseling."
"We understand mammal pair bonding pretty well. There's a lot of people who want to stay together. Most of the people who don't want to stay together should stay together, especially for their kids."
"And we can, if people think SSRIs are fine, which they're not, but if they were, then oxytocin doping to stay together is definitely fine."
"It's the mammal pair bonding chemical. There's things you can do to increase the uptake, and it's very well understood. Also, totally unregulated, which is great. Unregulated spaces are a lot easier to do. You can go buy a kilogram of oxytocin on Sigma Aldrich Chemical Supply right now, and if you do that, maybe you won't die alone."
"It's pure biology. It's used for women who don't bond with their kids, and now for women who don't bond with their husbands. It's also used for kids with various neurological issues, some kids with autism who struggle with pair bonding."
"The cool thing is it's a self-reinforcing loop. We understand that very well. Unlike most drugs, it doesn't form a chemical dependency. It actually unburdens you from a chemical dependency."