ordinary man
Joined July 2008
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Jun 13
i’m on the way to a little monastery in central bc for a week of silent meditation. wishing you all well and see you on the flip side
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Jun 12
i wrote quire a bit about edges, edge walkers, ravens and edge communities (as opposed to hubs). now i’m learning how vast is the world of outcasts, and how rich there creativity is. poor, witch, midwife, shaman, raven, voodoo, etc etc; they are creative source.
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Jun 11
I knew it. NYC is a leach! Ha!
This is such a cool illustration of complexity and network dynamics
A day in Manhattan, warped so that distance ≈ drive time. Drive times swell in the morning and evening rush hour, then contract in the night.
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Jun 9
real. works. because the independent self is an illusion. in the multifaceted, omnidirectional human network of relations anything that can be done, felt or imagined is right on the edge of everyone else’s consciousness and abilities. so your courage, is our dream, too. and we were always rooting for your success. spirit applauds your action, for that is its actualization.
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Jun 9
it is all fading. I’m starting to forget. i will be a bore and post more from my writing and pictures. forgive me. i don’t want to lose all the memories.
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Jun 9
changes to systems that have historically disadvantaged a population are naturally easier for that population to embrace and advocate for, whereas the beneficiaries of a stuck system have little incentive to innovate against their self-interest - field notes
Jun 6
If you say the system doesn’t work, it’s because the system doesn’t work for you, which means you’re a fuckup. Why should anyone listen to you?
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Jun 9
only after the fact does systems change seem to have made sense - field notes
Jun 9
the system only respects you after you change it.
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Jun 8
the moral void of america is tough to grow up in and explains most of the loneliness, anxiety, tech run amok and drop in marriages. trial and error, in a single lifetime, is a tough way to learn the ways of life.
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Jun 8
i’ve move to an island. to write, practice Buddhism, plant fruit trees, hike and kayak. no time like the present.
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Jun 7
i’ve learned that most of my family’s story of skill, acumen and wealth boils down to marrying great women. i wonder why they never wanted to admit that?
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Jun 7
the counter culture response to late stage capitalism is going to really rip
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Jun 7
should i bloack and unfollow, or just unfollow, people who obviously only post from AI?
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Chris Brookfield retweeted
Jun 6
Declare this the photo of the year already.
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Jun 5
wab is our man
Jun 4
Wab Kinew: I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.
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Jun 3
there’s a form of stepwise thought where this leads to that, which leads to that, too. and that, and that, too. the last step is typically the apocalypse or salvation. but i don’t trust the rhythm. life goes sideways, we all find the bridge.
i don’t trust “effective altruism” because it does not seem to have enough humility in the face of human complexity, the depths of evil and the heights of good
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May 31
Nagarjuna said phenomena are empty of inherent existence. Raymond-Robichaud proved this mathematically. The quantum world is local-realistic: what we observe is a projection of a relational noumenal ground that cannot be read back from observation alone. Sunyata is a theorem, not a metaphor.
May 30
He did indeed. I was flabbergasted by his result, which has made much existing (and continuing!) work in quantum foundations obsolete. But it has received grossly insufficient recognition from the community. They still don't know what hit them and are still ingeniously discussing non-existent things like "quantum non-locality" (and "the measurement problem") in ever greater detail.
He deserves patrons.
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