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(person in 2026 discussing AI) how can a thing 'be' if it doesn't exist moment to moment (1500 year dead Indian monk who knows about the storehouse consciousness awakens from slumber, eyes glowing red)

a cool thing is googling something like "darkness retreats in europe" and getting directed to a bunch of ai slop sites that talk about retreats that don't exist. very cool world we've made here.

medium.com/@janhop/hate... A short piece on the voluntary insanity machine.

Was Dracula Bono?

Things just happen to be as they are, but we want to build them into a pattern, laid down by the structure of our language. So strong is this habit, that we tend to deny reality to what cannot be verbalized.

i'm presuming Movember is now dead given that every second lad has a moustache.

listening to that there Turnstile. "Birds" Not really my bag, but not bad. Not bad at all.

People used to get online famous by saying like, “Uhh yeah, I love making my HOT BEAN JUICE every single morning!!!” But now you have to say like, the Monopoly Man fucked my ass

i'd love to do one of those week long total darkness retreats.

consider the alternative position that time is not passing

You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve been sent that “guided meditation from a Louth man” clip.

While “the power of art can change the world” is definitely overstated, it is also, conversely, undervalued. The world, is your world, your ’reality’ and that is built on many layers of language, DNA, society, culture. Art is a powerful medium both for ideas but also seeds beyond our understanding.

We have scrubbed the world clean of magic..., the price that must be paid for attempting to control the world from the standpoint of an "I" for whom everything that can be experienced is a foreign object and a nothing-but. ― Alan Watts (in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)

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Check this guy out

If the reason for staying on X is it's critical or whatever it's where the conversations are, ok, what ever helps you sleep better but if Bluesky is irrelevant etc. and you don't like it...then log off! Literally don't open the app. There is no reason to use it! Stop complaining and touch grass.

“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

music.youtube.com/watch?v=VEsa...

Not bad

I know we see posts like this every week now and whatever but you have to drop your jaw every so often at these total freaks.

shout-out to Serbia

Zaytoon is playing latin music. Freaking my nut out.

Was thinking about this post all day bsky.app/profile/pond...

If you are adverse to hugging like I have been generally, acquiring latin American in laws opens up a whole new world of awkwardness.

the student turns thoughts into posts. the master thinks only of posts. the sage posts without thinking at all.

i have 75 agents praying to send this guy to hell, effectively cancelling out his prayers

Got that new Rovelli

When I was a child I had a loose tooth and my granny asked to look at it and she yanked it out of my head.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=nDLo...

"Remember, even if the countless buddhas in ten directions, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, tried with all their power and all their Buddha-wisdom to calculate or comprehend the merit of one person's Zazen, they could not even get close."

My powers

I would argue non alcoholic beer is the opposite of functional beer.

The League of Ireland should be disbanded

Self inflicted torture

my emergency box contains 10 cans of chickpeas, and a charged ipad with just one video file on it - the cruel tutelage of Pai Mei episode of Kill Bill.