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I stood in the middle of the living room holding a hose and I thought: I have owned vacuums my entire adult life and I have never once used a vacuum. This is an essay about entropy, I think.

I’ve been working on a framework that treats 'reality' not as a metaphysical constant, but as a coordination problem. The core argument is that shared noetic certainty—what we collectively take for granted—acts as a physical constraint on systems, from biological responses (the placebo effect) to social stability. It draws on Wittgenstein and Husserl to argue that when we cannot agree on the basic phenomenology of an event (due to deepfakes or epistemic fracture), the 'laws ofreality' themselves degrade. Felt like y'all might enjoy it.

I don't think the issue is whether or not people are more or less rational now than in previous era. The issue, from my view, is that people are just as irrational as they've always been, but the consensus facts of reality are suddenly up for debate.

There's a new marketplace of facts supplementing the marketplace of ideas and the combined effect is catastrophic.

When I refer to post-truth or transpostmodernism or whatever, I'm not talking about people who have arrived at different conclusions based on the same facts -- I'm talking about people who have based their conclusions on opposing, contradictory facts.

Burned out hard af this year around September. My wife loves WFH. I hate it. I wound up quitting my job at the start of November and taking a couple months off before starting the new gig. I think that time off helped. I'm still eager to get back into the office.

As others have mentioned, having a dedicated office space really does help. A plant on the desk is nice. There's soem light at the end of the tunnel, thankfully.. I think I can whiteknuckle my way through the end.

I fully agree with you. When it comes to technical problems, I find the conscious mind is useful for absorbing the facts of the matter, but the subconscious seems to do most of the heavy lifting. It does the heavy lifting better when it's given space to work.

& thank you. It's far from a dream job but it will buy some time.

It likely is.

I need to start doing more running. I do have ADD but the medications fuck with my heart, which means my life is difficult all the time. Sigh. The meds work so well... it really sucks being unable to use them (including the atypical ones)

I used to go for a run at lunch. Then my co-worker started complaining about how I was leaving my desk to get exercise. I'm still with that company but I hope for not much longer.

i'm so fucking depressed the last few days. i've applied for a lot of different jobs. I have a 'final' interview today with a job that I don't really want, but it's an avenue out of the toxic situation that I'm finding myself in and if I take it, I'll be able to do a couple weeks of vacation time between jobs that I badly need.

I've got so much going wrong right now I'm just feeling beat the fuck up.

Incidentally I have found that I am more productive when I have a hangover because all the boring shit I have to do becomes more challenging and thus more interesting.

I don't drink very much these days.

incidentally, the rainbow gathering web site still uses FRAMES

https://www.welcomehome.org/

and this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

/shrug. i can think of any number of totally hypothetical reasons why demonstrating incompetence would be a strategic or tactical win.

- now your enemy is complacent, secure in the knowledge that you are super super dumb

- now your enemy is on the lookout for dog and cat listening devices rather than the 5th generation bird listening devices

- now your enemy is indeed paranoid about any stupid animal roaming about and has to meet in enclosed spaces

- you, knowing that experimenting on cute cats is unethical, seek to terminate the practice by devising an experiment that fails so embarrassingly as to never be tried again

etc

I am also puzzled about the intersection of people savvy enough to own bitcoin and dumb enough to think musk is gonna give them free money.

bullshit. this measure is twitter deferring the arbitration of truth to actual authoritative sources:

"People on Twitter, including candidates for office, may not claim an election win before it is authoritatively called"

I wouldn't straight up call this 'awful,' but I do agree that probability should be expressed by the color of the end slots.

I was a bored 13 year old in the mid-90s who had spent too much time reading old issues of Phrack and C programming manuals. Linux represented a big, mysterious system and I had nothing but time. I got a job working at Erol's Internet when I was 14 and met some other (older) nerds there who were willing to let me tag along to 2600 meetings (and occasionally, raves) in Arlington and DC. I was active on bbs.l0pht.com and english.gh0st.net, and the folks I met on those boards genuinely helped point me in the right direction.

Eventually my interests shifted and I finally misspent my youth in my early 20s. Pushing 40 now and Linux and programming doesn't feel all that mysterious or exploratory or new any more, but it pays the bills. I wish I could recapture that feeling of rebellion, revolution, or of doing something new. I know though that it's just me who has changed.

> Later found out that phrase has some religious meaning.

Yeah just the Hebrew name of God is all

A bit soured on being a team lead here.

Things to ask:

- Will I be responsible for my the results my team delivers?

- And if so, what tools are available to me that are not available to me in a regular dev role?

This is to say: Will I be a manager? Can I hire, fire, and discipline? Can I delegate and assign tasks?

...

I have been in the situation -- twice now -- in which I was ostensibly the team lead, but had none of those abilities. Leading by example is the absolute base-level tool in your toolbox. If you are responsible for your team's delivery, ensure you have the consummate authority to drive them.

funny though, the future may indeed read like elon musk fan fiction.

It's easy to miss the point of any analogy if you try hard enough.

Okay so

Movement through space (in any direction) is movement against time.

Is positive kinetic energy the direction opposite time?

My question -- and I am not being glib -- is there something to the idea that we can "raise our vibration" and would doing so decrease our speed through time?

Beats me. I can speculate a bit:

Perhaps professionals would be less likely to remove casings because they do not expect to ever go to trial, or know that the gun they used can not be connected to them (because perhaps it was issued to them for this job), are not local to the area or do not intend to remain in the US after the job.

Only 100 casings were found, which does not strike me as very much... Basically just three people dumping a mag each + a smidge extra.

It is interesting that the article mentions only finding 7.62x39. This kinda says non-NATO to me, or at least the shooters want us to think "ruskies!"

I'm just saying that I'm now looking. I am not fired.

It's funny -- as a young adult I thought that "time is an illusion, mannnnn" was such bullshit.

As I get older and have this longer relationship with time, the more I realize there's something to it. How long ago was it that I was in my twenties? Or in high school? I can't really say. Anything further away than a few months all feels the same to me. Other, fairly new things, feel like they have always been there with me.

My experience of time has become much stranger.

My boss told me I should be working ten hour days. I told him life was too short and went on a vacation. I'm looking for different jobs now.

Yeah, I don't know how to change a diaper.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Yeah... I just can't agree with the premise of this article

I've spent sizable chunks of my life in DC, NYC, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Barcelona, and Bangkok. These cities all feel wildly different to me.

Well that'll usually be installed by the factory between the engine and passenger compartment.

No. Things are fucked in the US, and made worse by people dining-in at restaurants as if their actions didn't have consequences.

I mostly associate them with the early internet, thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Barry_in_Cyberspace

How long have you been a teaching high school?