google meta-n-grams site that shows you a chart of how often people have queried google ngrams for a particular phrase, over time
March 2020
Retweeted @KarenFlemingPhD
PSA for non-science folks: Wonder why everyone is emphasizing hand washing? Sounds banal, but soap really IS an amazin…
Replying to @visakanv
@visakanv Wait you were following me in 2015???
Replying to @joyurge
@gmws82 Idk man @QiaochuYuan and I use them super liberally, as like "I've read this tweet and I'm glad you exist and wrote it". See also this tweet, which actually I know you've seen because you ♥'d it.
@tangled_zans @mattgoldenberg Mmm Complice is not really oriented towards schedules. Not in the sense of like "this hour, this. next hour, that." More fluid. But very oriented towards "what's most important for me to do today?" click this 👇 for thoughts on calendars & life.
@tangled_zans @mattgoldenberg @SarahAMcManus Mmm, not directly. I had read Focusing at the time I made Complice though. I'm curious what connection you're seeing!
@backus I also do this!
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i've been coasting on twitter for awhile so time to get serious again: let's talk a bit about the psychology of coronaviru…
@Aboundlessworld @visakanv I vaguely remember interacting with you a long time ago though Bud, unlike Visa 😛
Replying to @s_r_constantin
@s_r_constantin I have been deeply pondering questions like this for awhile and ended up pressing "just see results" because the first two amounts are amounts that I *have* & don't know what to do with... and I don't really expect that to change with more.
@s_r_constantin Might rephrase: for what amount of new $ would you know exactly how you want to spend HALF of it? (or 20%) I have lots of people & projects I'd throw money at if I had more spare money, but if I got $100,000, I wouldn't immediately do that with all of it.
Retweeted @into_the_brush
I live in Seattle, I have all symptoms of COVID-19 and have a history of chronic bronchitis. Since I work in a physic…
@nosilverv I like how you included the parenthetical that the second girl was already pregnant 🤣
Me too 👇 (has definitely affected my orientation to the covid thing, but I'm not sure how)
Retweeted @Twitter
take care of each other
@QiaochuYuan make a thread of these
Retweeted @yashkaf
I'm getting annoyed by posts of the form [X prevention measure] won't help you avoid COVID-19 if you don't also do [Y costlier…
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
Important wisdom from the ER doc who handled the Vegas shooting: when you run out of ventilators, you can match 2 patient…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
found on facebook, bless
@WilliamAEden We need this kind of thinking and we need a way to get these ideas in front of the people who can put them into action!
We need this kind of thinking and we need a way to get these ideas in front of the people who can put them into action! In this thread, let's think together about how to organize flow of useful info like this beyond just retweeting & spreading.
@WilliamAEden Thread in which to think about organizing information like this
Thread · A running collection of delightful animal clips · 1 of 35 tweets
win-win
Retweeted @JeffLadish
If you're not mad about the lack of COVID-19 testing in the United States, you're not paying attention.
@JeffLadish I'm Canadian and *I'm* mad.
@tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw Yesss! I've been ideating on what a sane conversation app might look like and it seems to me like the metaphor of "channels" is weird & limiting in almost exactly the same way the notes metaphor of files & folders is weird & limiting. Thoughts so far: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
Retweeted @tangjeff0
Discord/Slack but the channels emerge bottom-up @RoamResearch style. Thoughts @Conaw ?
Retweeted @webdevMason
Humans 🤷♀️ don't 🤷♀️ grok 🤷♀️ exponential 🤷♀️ growth 🤷♀️ patterns
Retweeted @bucketofkets
O_O
@bucketofkets @webdevMason Yeah the main thing that's had me concerned for the last week or two is this yellow line doubling every 3-4 days—& increasingly fast. But at the time I started to be concerned most people were seeing a line that looked nearly flat because (A) shown linear & (B) dwarfed by China
@bucketofkets @webdevMason btw @bucketofkets where is that chart you're using coming from?
@tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw The main things Roam is missing atm to be able to do this are: - notifications - the ability to have blocks that are clearly timestamped, single-authored, and not naturally editable-later, so that they represent a particular utterance (even if later "updated")
@tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw Oh and this second thing would be super valuable to have for external quotations as well—if I copy a book in, then page-link a phrase it in, then rename the page, I don't want the original quote to be edited! & visual distinction, even when blockref'd elsewhere, "not my words"
@tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw Anyway, there are a few other key pieces, and exactly what's needed depends on whether we're talking a chat layer built on top of a Roam API, or making modifications to core-Roam to directly support these kinds of use-cases. I imagine we'll see a mix of both.
@mechanicalmonk1 Snarky answer: I don't want to talk with the people who are already on Discord. Which wouldn't be a problem but Discord apparently doesn't support being offline on one server while online on another. Dealbreaker; I often need to be unreachable by everyone but a particular team.
@mechanicalmonk1 Yes, this is a core piece, but I think this is not simply a matter of UI & functionality but beginning from inadequate design metaphors. "channel" instead of "conversation" being an example
@metamitya @knovigator Does it have notifications? Like can you get someone's attention within the app, if you need to?
@ebenwert @RoamResearch This conversation continues over here:
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Hey Silicon Valley—let’s go twitter.com/RyutaroUchiyam…
@metamitya @knovigator @Mention Can you get someone's attention who's out walking around on their phone? Or do they have to have it open? This is far from the only blocker, but it's one reason why we're not just eg using Roam instead of slack already—there's a need for live-attention-sculpting.
@maxkriegers @tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw Whoa holy shit this is amazing. Let's keep in touch & jam about this. Btw if you haven't read graphic book Unflattening by @nsousanis then make an account on read.gift right now and I'll send you a copy. Bits of it are centrally relevant to this whole thing.
Retweeted @maxkriegers
Was thinking about how situated cognition relates to the Pixies song "Where Is My Mind?" So I made a fan music video htt…
@maxkriegers @tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw Also @gmws82 check this out! Very relevant to your thesis & related topics
Retweeted @yashkaf
Coming out may not be a big deal to you, but it's very useful in letting others know what the atmosphere is. So I'd like to of…
@nosilverv @krrishd Cloned repo, added extension, went to page, changed username, hit enter, nothing visibly happened, console said "username changed to Malcolm_Ocean". Right-click menu still said "undefined". Oh, then changed then back now it works! I'm using Brave (probably not relevant)
@Conaw One reason "don't start sth until you finish sth" is borked is highlighted by cybernetics. The principle of increasing pressure to finish seems 👍, but ppl don't realize this will also create pressure to never start anything unless you're already certain you want to finish it😬
@Conaw Relatedly, this blog post of mine which actually encourages people to Focus On Starting Books rather than finishing them. The key is to be reading stuff & thinking about it. Pick up whatever excites you.
@Conaw And I would say that ideally, make the pressure to finish/publish be in the territory. Could be hungry substack subscribers waiting to devour whatever you hit send on. Could be Someone Wrong On The Internet who inspires you to finally write up a rant😂👇
Retweeted @Conaw
Please do not poison your souls like this. twitter.com/fortelabs/stat…
@Conaw It also means it's just literally impossible to write up anything intertwingled, if you treat each piece as something that needs to be "finished" before another can "start".
@nosilverv Not faster than my current method, which is: - ctrl+t / ctrl+n - twm / twq / twv / twf (from me / QC / visa / "people I'm following") - query - enter (had the delight of searching twm twm to find this:)
Thread · Searching tweets from people you follow as a threading workflow
Hey twitter-searchers / meta-threaders (@visakanv @conaw @QiaochuYuan) One cool new thing I've been playing with recently is when I'm threading & want something to QT on a topic, searching for tweets from "people I follow".
This workflow is very different from searching for some specific tweet I remember seeing/writing. It's led to some fun serendipity, where I discover in the course of articulating something that one of my friends had a related thought awhile ago!
Like eg this 👇 which I vaguely recall seeing but I shrugged at it the time because I hadn't deeply appreciated Carse then.
So this kind of process naturally resurfaces things at exactly the sort of moment I'm ready to really appreciate them! This tweet 👇 I recalled just now from yesterday, & found using `twf not ready` (which the reply says)
As indicated in QT above, I have a custom quicksearch for "search tweets from people I'm following" so I can do it as one thought. To create, go to chrome://settings/searchEngines or whereever and use this url: twitter .com/search?q=%s&pf=on (space inserted to avoid linkify)
In a sane #TwitterReplacement, first of all this sort of resurfacing would happen naturally while composing, without needing to manually trigger. Various ways to do this; even non-clever ones are awesome, though I'm sure clever algos could make it better (or awful)
Secondly, there would be more categories than "tweets ever from people I'm now following". I would love: - tweets I've liked - tweets I've retweeted - tweets I've ever seen ever - tweets I've replied to (& for each, an option to sort by eg like-time, not just tweet-time)
@nosilverv & @krrishd are working on some stuff in this space. Not that much to see yet but it's early stages and I'm still excited that things are happening 😊
Retweeted @Plinz
Still not testing twitter.com/matthewstoller…
@Evolving_Ego Most ppl, on an emotional level, want to do meaningful work more than they want to eat & be housed while feeling like a burden on society. So UBI becomes a way to free peoples' energy from boring jobs, fear, etc, giving space for exploration & creativity.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@Evolving_Ego Most ppl, on an emotional level, want to do meaningful work more than they want to eat & be housed while f…
@ExtremelySunnYK @kruasan1 @visakanv @maskoficarus And I have an excuse to post this photo I took (in a bookstore; I don't own this copy) of this new edition of Dune. Fucking gorgeous use of color, and not just incidental colors but profoundly relevant & meaningful colors.
@Raffi_RC totally random: I vaguely recall a song from my childhood that went something like "who put the hip in the hippopotamus? who put the al in the alligator?" I know we had at least one Raffi album, so I'm wondering: was that one of your songs? 🙏 (no luck on google)
"gently" is part of "urgently" don't forget
Retweeted @ben_r_hoffman
Broke: Don't worry about COVID 19, everything is under control. Woke: Wash your hands, don't touch your face. Bespoke: C…
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
CDC contractor tasked with screening for COVID-19 at LAX... has contracted COVID-19 -worked 2/14-2/21 -detected 0 cases i…
On Coronavirus and Uncertainty by @vaughn_tan ift.tt/2x6iDMS
went to covid.com on a whim is this the end of a 40-year streak? ...honestly probably not; the name covid isn't really catching on.
@natural_hazard @TheOrangeAlt @danlistensto @maybegray I am the sort of person who would do this sort of thing but currently don't feel enough resonance & joy with any playlist management software to want to spend the time it would take to do this sort of thing.
I want a zero-gravity cuddle-blob where nobody's limbs get squashed. I've spent a few minutes thinking about how I would design a space for this, and I think it would involve having a few big soft ribbony things crisscrossing the middle of the space to glom onto.
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks Upper Limit Problems: ppl only willing to let life get so good (fear of success) Existential Kink by @carolynelliott_ same as ^ "...but secretly, you *like* it" 😉 Perceptual Control Theory books raw 🧠 stuff re cybernetics of internal conflict t.co/34o4Dr916x
@TheOrangeAlt @QiaochuYuan Not gonna right/wrong... they are distinct views & there's a choice & you're a complex system not a complicated one etc... ...and in my experience and many others' (eg GCI coaches) ultimately the limit is self-sabotage.
@TheOrangeAlt @QiaochuYuan The limit *has* to be internal conflict, because to the extent you're not conflicted about your problems, you're just already doing the sanest thing within your means to solve them. Which you could then call "self-improvement", if you needed to distinguish it from eg learning Go
@olimay yes yes spurious etymologies are an art form tho
@jdunck @tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw Like tweets. They can be embedded in other tweets later but the original tweet never changes, and this is part of the magic. (This seems so obvious to me that I wonder if I may not have understood your unclarity.)
@tangjeff0 @maxkriegers @RoamResearch @Conaw Mmmm yeah but add twitter to the mashup and consider manually curated QT-based threads that remix past tweets. And then consider other things like viewing a stream of all messages that match a query, in chrono order, & being able to collect & summarize the convo on that topic.
@tangjeff0 @maxkriegers @RoamResearch @Conaw Also again, the idea of "channel" is an awful metaphor. idk where it even came from (unlike the "file/folder" one). Real conversations don't happen in channels, they happen in emergent flowing contexts with whoever-shows-up, and then they end & the energy disperses. cc @KHPavle
Retweeted @nosilverv
Ok, same idea, different application, this time visually:
@Ouroborus11 @nosilverv The canonical one is someone sitting on a meditation cushion striving to become enlightened. Zen folk are fond of saying things like this 👇, pointing at how "not doing" isn't about whether a video of you looks like a still, but about something subtler.
Pretty straightforward & clear thread that explains what it says it explains on the tin. If you want a much longer source on this, check out Iain McGilchrist's work, such as his book The Master and His Emissary (link: amzn.to/39quJyU)
@nosilverv @QiaochuYuan @m_ashcroft @visakanv @xuenay
@krrishd @nosilverv umm... I think I tried both a tab that had already been open, then a new tab that I'd opened after setting the username, and both didn't work. but not certain 🤷♀️
Thread · Meta-thread of threads on McGilchrist's brain hemispheres · 1 of 38 tweets
@nosilverv doesn't explicitly talk about brain hemispheres here, but what he's saying is a very clear explanation of how the left hemisphere can't solve enlightenment the way it ordinarily solves problems.
@TheOrangeAlt See also this thread by @nosilverv, which resonates really closely with what you're pointing at here on lots of levels, including its own resonances with hemisphere stuff.
Playful & srs: obligatory parentheticals for coronavirus stats. Anytime someone says "confirmed cases", append "(undetected cases may be 10-100× higher)" "First local spread" → "(THAT WE KNOW OF)" People talk about confirmed number as if it maps to the actual number.
@LuMo71 @yaneerbaryam The yellow line on this log chart has been doubling every 3-4 days. That's 4× in a week, 10× in 12 days. And that's just confirmed cases—the dead people in Seattle died before being counted in this yellow line afaik.
@QiaochuYuan Canada confirmed a case of someone who got sick in Iran before Iran did, and then Toronto epidemiologists predicted that Iran was FUBAR based on the odds of that having happened. Source: this thorough article: macleans.ca/society/health…
@QiaochuYuan Found the actual paper where they estimated 18,300 cases (95% confidence interval 3800-53,500) in Iran (this was Feb 24) Shout out to @AshTuite and the other researchers. People trying to spread news: follow people who are doing projections like this. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
I made a guideline for myself: no coronavirus news after 10pm I'm instituting intermittent fasting for my information diet after I realized that reading scary stuff at night was causing stress & panic but not actually useful thinking & action.
If I'm not gonna act tonight, nothing gained by reading it tonight. Better to have my attention elsewhere in the hours before I sleep. (for reference, I typically go to bed between 1am and 4am)
This mostly means avoiding my twitter feed altogether after 10pm, which... honestly isn't a bad idea either. I think I usually have higher-quality interactions on twitter earlier in the day.
@QiaochuYuan Had seen the first but not the second. Will read, but not tonight! 👇
Retweeted @tomcritchlow
Riffing on how @vgr's elder blogging might take shape. Trend: linear spaces --> free form spaces E.g. Powerpoint -> Fig…
idea: a map of places in the world where closeness is determined by how often someone is in both of those places in a single month could do on various scales but probably makes sense to consider each city a sort of point, then make a graph-network based on flights, commutes, etc
(Pretty sure this map wouldn't be possible to make in low-D euclidean space, because eg there would probably be dozens of places that are not close except thru hub A, but trying to put them all near hub A would make them closer to each other in space than they actually are...)
But it could be projected onto a simple 2D node-edge graph, and that would be okay I guess...? Though I don't think it would quite capture the insight that someone in rural Oroville (northeast WA) is probably much further from Seattle (in this sense) than someone in Toronto 😬
I'm not reading #TweetsAboutThisTrend news after 10pm but I can still subtweet the topic with clever ideas for visualizing things 😉
Retweeted @Outflanked
@sohumb I wish people would stop getting bogged down in metadiscussion about #tweetsaboutthistrend and just stay on topic
random #COVID thought, about timelines: confirmed cases outside China: 20k doubling time: ~3 days doubles until 8B: ~19 19*3 = 57 days by late April, this thing will have slowed down*, one way or another *in exponential terms. could still be 100M new cases in 1 day
@_exoconnor Totally, early morning best spent doing deep work before you've taken in any other info. So that leaves either afternoon or early eve, depending on various other factors. My favorite morning workflow: blog.complice.co/post/121559734…
Retweeted @Aryeh___
“The physical world is diaphanous. It’s like music. When you play music, it simply disappears. There’s nothing left. And, for…
Retweeted @eriktorenberg
What's a company that, in your opinion, will become the next Craigslist in a sense that it will be unbundled & many bill…
Retweeted @diviacaroline
Tag yourself! I’m “the blue pill scenario can’t happen unless we flatten the curve so stay home regardless of the true…
@nibrasibn Huh. Somehow I'd heard this name a few times before and written them off... possibly I literally just judged the name? Anyway, they seem to be a legit pareto improvement over slack, plus they're open-source and have friendly pricing for not-corporation groups. Top contender.
@GwendolynHuot @opinionsonline
@opinionsonline @tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw mm, zulip seems better than anything else I've seen so far, though still mostly an incremental improvement on slack!
@opinionsonline @tangjeff0 @RoamResearch @Conaw To be clear, this message of yours was what prompted me to look at zulip finally!
@Meaningness If I suddenly found myself on a trolley platform with perfect knowledge of trolleys and a weird choice to make, my attention would be on trying to understand the context of how the fuck I got there, not on the ethics of the weird choice.
@Meaningness A friend once read out a story about a weird double-bind (you're a nurse; terminally-ill kid says "I'm not gonna get better, am I?", & you can be fired if you level w her) that ended with "what do you do?" Me: "my response-ability is to not end up in that situation."
Retweeted @Meaningness
🚃 Trolley problems appeal to people who like solving puzzles. Ethics is not sudoku. That way of thinking reliably leads t…
Thread · Designing databases for uncertain and relative dates
@whimful Cool challenge! Seems like actually 3 questions: 1. how to store in db in a way that allows machine-sorting of which events came before others 2. how to represent an individual date to users in ways that feel accurate (including uncertainty) 3. how to relate 1 & 2
@whimful If you only needed 2, you could just use arbitrary strings ("the first full moon after the frost" ✓) If you only needed 1, you could just use fake timestamps, maybe with an additional "confidence interval" or "range" or something. So in some sense the challenge is the bothness
@whimful One other interesting thing, given the context here, is that you may end up with instances where you know more about the relative dates of some events than the absolute dates. Eg age ordering of siblings, & maybe roughly the age difference... but not know which decade born in.
@whimful An approach: Store 1 & 2 completely separately. When the user enters a string for 2, calculate a guess for 1, & display & confirm it, maybe next to some related events. So they say "B born fall 1906" & it shows that as a range next to "hot summer of 1906" & "C died winter 1907"
@whimful Another piece of approach: You might discover that for some dates the time-of-year is known more precisely than which year it is. That's true of how my memory works sometimes, and also makes sense—seasons are more different from each other than one year from the next.
@whimful So a single "range" might be inadequate. You might need the db to actually store separately - "time of year" - "year" (year might be a wide range, even if the time of year is precisely winter solstice) "D was born on the darkest day, 3 generations ago"
@whimful I actually think that this kind of design thinking is something that's missing from many modern apps too! It's relevant to human memory, even if data has exact date. I'd love to be able to search `keyword + timeOfYear:{May,June,July}` in photos, email, tweets, &+
@whimful Or "show me all photos I took between 9am and noon in the last year" (maybe I vaguely recalling that the photo I'm looking for was taken in the morning) Or "show me tweets about rhizomes from days I also tweeted about self-reference"
@tlbtlbtlb @Meaningness Haha I hadn't even thought of that 😂 Clearly the important Q of trolley situation is how the fuck you ended up there. Either: - you were unethically teleported into the situation - an actual trolley-worker is in a system that needs to be redesigned to prevent such situations
@tlbtlbtlb @Meaningness I'm realizing that saying that the choice the trolley-worker makes is the relevant question is the same structural confusion as blaming "human error" when people make mistakes that are predictable given the interfaces they are provided. Wild case study:
@RichDecibels I love real-world design puzzles like this! Appreciate you amplifying 😊 Here's what I wrote (multiple tweets; this is just framing)
@tlbtlbtlb @Meaningness For anyone reading this and wanting to understand this kind of thinking better, the field you're looking for is Systems Thinking. Have recently really been digging Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline on the topic: (systems thinking is that discipline)
Why New Economics Needs a New Invisible Hand by @David_S_Wilson Read here: evonomics.com/the-new-invisi… Features this beautiful quote:
@tlbtlbtlb @Meaningness Also this article, particularly the quoted bit, articulates this perspective shift really well:
Also check out this excellent conversation that rederives the same perspective starting from considering the classic utilitarian trolley problem thought experiment:
@whimful You might also appreciate this amazing short story, which is grappling with related questions. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang web.archive.org/web/2016071516…
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
Call your reps: -prepare extra ICU capacity, ventilators and oxygen, and train/rehire skilled personnel -get a workflow g…
Retweeted @ciphergoth
In a sane world there would be already be a wartime-scale program to build and distribute oxygen concentrators or some simi…
Replying to @magghu
@magghu @dkazand Hmm... I read the stoic chart above as either... - assuming you can carve reality up into "the part that's under your control" & "the part that isn't" (clearly denies nebulosity) - suggesting that you simply *try* controlling it and uh... find out if you can?
@nibrasibn Ahh, bollocks. Slack at least does what it does very smoothly, and *some* amount of reliability is table stakes. Does the bugginess... - cause data loss (eg of drafts) - cause people to miss being notified of key messages?
@magghu @dkazand As far as I can tell, the second thing *can* work, in principle, as long as you can continue to hold things really lightly. But I think there's still for most people a key difference between "try to control & be chill if it doesn't work" & "explore & find out what happens"
Replying to @magghu
@magghu Up a level of abstraction from @QiaochuYuan's "crying a lot" answer, is that you need to find some way to access the underlying emotional schemas that are generating "not good enough" & the burnout strategy, so your system can reorganize to do something saner instead.
@magghu @QiaochuYuan There are a wide variety of methods for doing this "therapeutic reconsolidation process", from therapies (EMDR, Hakomi, Coherence Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy,.) to personal practices (Bio-Emotive, Focusing,.) #SobSquad promotes 😭-based ones, but find what works for you!
@magghu @QiaochuYuan For a high-level framework on how this sort of thing works, check out this book summary of Unlocking the Emotional Brain 🔓😍🧠👇 This book + {implementing it with Bio-Emotive} has transformed my sense of what sort of development is possible for humans. lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
Replying to @datarade
@datarade (I realize the 2h window is up, but if you want to do another one, here's mine 🙃) complice.co
@takecarecactus There's a general phenomenon here: trying to *not* do something often makes it harder not to do. Works better to actually intentionally do something *else* instead. eg if I say "don't think of a pink elephant" the way to succeed is to immediately get absorbed in something else
@takecarecactus I've heard stories (possibly apocryphal) of people on long deserted roads hitting a single tree or post next to the road, because "don't hit the tree, don't hit the tree" fixates their attention on the tree and so they steer towards it. Contrast with "stay on the road".
@takecarecactus One perspective is that you have some unconscious emotional schema you can't see clearly, based on which outcome Z is utterly necessary. This case study from Unlocking the Emotional Brain has an excellent and surprising example of this exact dynamic 🤯 facebook.com/Xuenay/posts/1…
@cortexfutura Oh. Yeah, this sort of thing is totally possible, and I could absolutely imagine myself getting into it, as I love jamming on design for systems of all kinds. There's something about exposing people to a certain quality of thinking-together...
@cortexfutura #GameB podcasts like - @dthorson Emerge - @tim_adalin @voiceclub_ - @cognazor & @JaredJanes Both/And do live jamming, but usually the content they're jamming about is itself about culture, context, conversation. But I think we could live-jam about more technical topics too!
@cortexfutura Omg this video is delightful. So much sincerity and so much talent. (Watch til the end)
@cortexfutura And like, two different *kinds* of sincerity among the two vocalists. Beautiful illustration of that.
@cortexfutura Something something 1940s-50s sincerity and something something 1980s-90s sincerity.
Retweeted @cortexfutura
As I'm watching recordings of intimate musical events, like an MTV Unplugged thing, is there something like that for codi…
@tlbtlbtlb @Meaningness In that form, yeah. Though there's still a question of what to do if a pedestrian jumps in front of the car too close to safely break. Swerving has one set of risks, staying course another. There's still no contextless answer, but factors have to be weighted *somehow*.
@cortexfutura @dthorson @tim_adalin @voiceclub_ @cognazor @JaredJanes I think that this resonates deeply with the "work with the garage door open" aesthetic. Screenshot below is from @andy_matuschak notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_no… Tweet below is @eriktorenberg:
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@cortexfutura @dthorson @tim_adalin @voiceclub_ @cognazor @JaredJanes I think that this resonates deeply with the "work…
@fortelabs I googled `Circle app` and mostly found a Disney parental controls thing. Unworkable branding imo. Finally added `purpose community platform` and the results were ambiguous but I think you're talking about circle.so? Anyway, how's the app?
@Meaningness @11kilobytes From Yudkowsky's 12 virtues of rationality: > What is true of one apple may not be true of another apple; thus more can be said about a single apple than about all the apples in the world. Seems there's both rationalist & meta-rat ways of relating to this kind of abstraction?
Retweeted @patrissimo
If you favor taxing billionaires more, that means you want to transfer resources from @BillGates, who is revolutionizing ph…
Retweeted @ezraklein
In 2015, Bill Gates told me a deadly flu-like pandemic spreading under globalized conditions was the most predictable disast…
Retweeted @Meaningness
💉 I got a routine vaccination yesterday. It took 25 minutes: the technician typing stuff from paper forms I filled out int…
@Meaningness You might find a breath of fresh air reading this article about an incredibly sane emergency-department head doctor who saved hundreds of lives during the Vegas Shooting by... doing a bunch of reasonable things. Inspiration for the present situation. epmonthly.com/article/not-he…
@Meaningness Honestly if I were @CDCgov I would offer to hire Dr. Kevin Menes to help strategize about efforts on all scales. It would be an offer, not a demand, because I would trust Menes to know whether he thought he'd be more helpful there or still at his own hospital.
@Meaningness @CDCgov One high-leverage thing might be to have someone full-time watching, documenting, & sharing globally whatever Menes does as his hospital fills up with Coronavirus patients. (Won't be long—Vegas is a pretty big hub... first couple presumptive cases showed up yesterday.)
@Meaningness Yes, that part is directly relevant to our current situation, as @WilliamAEden pointed out a few days ago.
@Meaningness @WilliamAEden I've since happened upon a WHO nCov PDF "Operational Support & Logistics — Disease Commodity Package" Basically "this is what hospitals need to treat #COVID". It lists a flow splitter for the oxygen concentrator but NOT for the ventilator. PDF: who.int/docs/default-s…
@Meaningness @WilliamAEden Based on my limited knowledge of how ventilators work (seems they involve both in- & out-breaths) it seems possible to me that this idea may put patients at additional risk in an infectious disease context, particularly if there are multiple strains.
@diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan @liminal_warmth At-home Oxygen Concentrators are still available on Amazon Canada for ~$400-600CAD (and I think I may have seen more becoming available as some get ordered). No more instashipping it seems. We ordered this one a couple of days ago. Idk how useful it'll be amazon.ca/gp/product/B08…
@diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan @liminal_warmth Re ventilators* it seems: - can't get them at home - wouldn't know how to use if you did - $$$$ - would also need antibiotics &+ at that point * = devices to help ppl breathe at all, I think vs oxygen concentrator just improves the quality of air when lungs partially full
@diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan @liminal_warmth I'm NOT an expert and NOT super confident in anything I'm saying here, tbc. Almost used the term "respirator" in the previous tweet, which apparently sometimes *is* another term for "ventilator", but in this case can be confused with filtration masks, which make breathing harder
@PeterBorah @Meaningness @WilliamAEden That's encouraging! Though I still would be inclined to think there's a cost of exchanging viral material between two #COVID patients, and it's worth: - quantifying that cost - determining if y-splitters on ventilators (like Menes used after Vegas shooting) would cause viral xch
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Playful & srs: obligatory parentheticals for coronavirus stats. Anytime someone says "confirmed cases", append "(undete…
Retweeted @diviacaroline
A more whimsical coronavirus thought: If only we had uplifted even a single friendly species by now they could work dur…
@collinofzion @Integralartist1 @dthorson I have danced with him a lil bit! Also he studied with Ido Portal's group for a bit and I really enjoyed watching him move in those sorts of ways.
@dthorson 🙏! The 2→3 example was beautiful. Btw: was wondering if your silent retreat will include out-loud Bio-Emotive NEDERing... I feel like I would benefit from speaking during such an intentional form, but curious to know how you're holding it!
Retweeted @dthorson
🎙 New episode of Emerge with Robert Kegan. My favorite parts: - Exploring typical misunderstandings of his developmental…
@jgreenhall first thing that comes to mind: could be a tipping point for democracies, particularly in USA but also elsewhere
@IllegibleLenny @diviacaroline ...related, I guess... twitter.com/jamesheathers/…
Replying to @magghu
@magghu @QiaochuYuan If it keeps coming back, that means whatever you were doing was probably counteractive on some lvl (eg CBT) Or it comes back because some deeper schema needs it When you really *get* it, it's often like "Ohhh, of *course* I've been needing to X. But that doesn't make sense now"
@magghu @QiaochuYuan Totally different flavor of technique, btw: Existential Kink It frames all of the things that you're doing that you think you hate as being things you secretly get off on, and invites you to dive into the feeling of enjoyment. Have only nibbled it but seems really powerful.
@magghu @QiaochuYuan Here's the Existential Kink book, which just came out: amazon.ca/Existential-Ki…
@TheOrangeAlt @carolynelliott_ Yeah! Lmk if you read any of these and what you get out of them 🧡
@amelapay @patrissimo Avoiding reading (coronavirus) news before bed has been helping me a lot, to regulate my attention. If I find a link at night I just save it for tomorrow. This signals to my system that this is urgent on the day-timescale but not the minute-timescale.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@amelapay @patrissimo Avoiding reading (coronavirus) news before bed has been helping me a lot, to regulate my attention…
Thread · How long viruses last on surfaces and antimicrobial copper · 3 of 4 tweets
Finding this article helpful for understanding how long viruses persist on various surfaces. They don't remain infectious as long as they're there. Seems part of the reason to disinfect hard surfaces is that they live over 10× longer there than on skin. pbs.org/newshour/scien…
Another thing you can do with oft-touched hard surfaces like doorknobs & fridge handles is cover them in copper tape, on which viruses die really quickly. Hospitals that do this have major decreases in infections. amazon.com/s?k=copper+foi…
Here's a scientific paper about antimicrobial copper: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… (it talks about reduction in logs/hour, but idk if this is base-2 or base-10. Guessing base-10.) And here's a more general article: theconversation.com/copper-is-grea…
Retweeted @diviacaroline
Who does it look like the live players are so far? medium.com/@samo.burja/li… twitter.com/wolftivy/statu…
@olimay I have adopted your #COVID name emoji
Thread · How long viruses last on surfaces and antimicrobial copper · 1 of 4 tweets
Also a few things I have read hint at the idea that the copper needs to be cleaned regularly in order to maintain these properties. Perhaps otherwise regularly touched surfaces get coated with a layer of skin oils & dust. Important to keep in mind! copperalloystewardship.com/introduction-t…
@Aella_Girl I think I basically agree, in a sense that's something like "extend the basic choice-making capacity of a person to multi-person units." Anything one person can choose to do, two can choose to do. So this isn't making any commentary on what actions are okay at all.
@Aella_Girl My other take is that it's moot because there are basically no fully informed humans, humans of sound mind, or adult humans, let alone people who are all three. 🙃
@no_man_fathomed @diviacaroline You can smooth down the edges quite soft by rubbing it with something hard & round. My current go-to object for this task is a sharpie. Works really really well.
@diviacaroline My first answer is just "China & South Korea". Singapore too, though maybe a lot of their success is from better prep & infra, not adapting. @visakanv, curious about your take! (Read article above for defn of "live player") Not sure who else on a large scale level.
@diviacaroline On smaller scales, @AshTuite comes to mind, who saw pretty far ahead into Iran's situation, though it seems that info wasn't able to convince anyone in time to do much useful. Not even sure if there's a specific thing the info should have prompted.
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot The main thing present for me is the contrast between those emotions (which say "DO SOMETHING!") and the reality that nobody in politics actually has a coherent plan that would be remotely adequate to address climate stuff. This creates the dissonance for me.
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth This DIY COVID hacks site has a page on how to make your own ventilator (device that helps people breathe, doesn't affect oxygen levels). Haven't explore if good (or hard to make!) but likely better than nothing! CC @diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan @olimay notion.so/Ventilators-38…
@RichDecibels @collinofzion @maybegray @yashkaf @ssica3003 @QiaochuYuan @default_friend I'm currently making a very not-sick spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
not only can we be calm and playful in the face of a mini-apocalypse, it's good for our immune health! IME the immune bene…
Retweeted @Aryeh___
@QiaochuYuan @GeniesLoki @goblinodds @maladrift *baby takes first steps* dude, bipedalism has been around FOREVER, u just go…
@Aryeh___ @QiaochuYuan @GeniesLoki @goblinodds @maladrift Yeah, my vibe is like "I came up with this. I may not have been the first, the second, or anything like that, but it's still something I discovered/created!"
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
i'm not sure why this angers me so much honestly it's like they're making a mockery out of the entire concept of communic…
@QiaochuYuan I'm tempted to block each one when I encounter them on other peoples' threads, & I can't tell if this is a good idea. Downsides..? - they'll never learn from me (lol fat chance 😂) - I'll get a distorted glasses about what twitter's like (I thiiiink there are too many for this)
@QiaochuYuan I know my feed's just my feed, it's more like... ...I don't want to become literally blind to the existence of the poverty*-stricken areas of this global community. Though as I said, I've concluded there are way too many for that to happen. *poverty of meaning, connection, etc
@diviacaroline @BonbonFork @visakanv Oh, fascinating! That's still pretty recent stuff, and they seem to be pulling off the plan at scale, so I still call them a live player 🥇 (By contrast, Canada's doing better than USA in part due to a few bills passed in like 2005 after SARS, but nothing brilliant now afaict)
@QiaochuYuan Hearing about doctors in China working 10h straight without food or bathroom, due to insufficient PPE (you have to throw out a hazmat suit once you break the seal it seems) Now I'm like "is it possible that that stress actually made them more vulnerable than less gear!?!?"
Retweeted @tferriss
This is amazing. Does anyone know who the original creator is? P.S. For those who don’t ... zpr.io/tFN7y https://…
Anyone attempting to use Rule 34 + modus tollens to argue that coronavirus isn't real... you're out of luck. vice.com/en_us/article/…
@diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan The Quarantine Act, 2005 (text of law: laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/q-1.1…) Maybe it was just the one. I assumed other stuff happened around the same time. Source: macleans.ca/society/health…
@diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan Also a researcher in Montréal, who, incidentally, is the brother of the guy who was Canadian Prime Minster during SARS, was inspired to work on broad-spectrum antivirals. If I had a billion dollars, 5M would be funding him ASAP to develop it for #COVID19 macleans.ca/news/canada/a-…
If you were to suggest something a billionaire might do right now to help flatten the coronavirus curve, what would it be? Serious question—what vital projects are just $-limited?
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
Lessons from other coronaviruses: 1) high seasonality (+) 2) fading immunity (-) 3) vaccines may not be possible (-)…
Retweeted @jayrosen_nyu
Big newsrooms may need to take political reporters – and editors on the political desk – "entirely out of the loop" on th…
Went to see what the us prez was tweeting about #COVID... ...and... ...honestly you can't make this shit up.
Does soap without SLS also kill viruses? (eg Dr Bronner's Monist Soap or other castille soaps) Tried googling—results irrelevant.
@andy_matuschak Hmm, I feel like I'd have a good answer but 🤔. Haven't had an external schedule in years so days of the week mostly feel pretty arbitrary. But I do a weekly review, & at times my "how's your email?" Q has meant that I basically check email once/week & zero-inbox then.
@diviacaroline Israel...!
Replying to @VectorOfBasis
@BonbonFork @diviacaroline @visakanv Based on what I've tasted, my sense of how much collective intelligence is possible this century between humans is like 10-100× the gap between the livest and deadest government responses today. I'm just talking with better social tech & existing info-tech, not neuralink or w/e.
@BonbonFork @diviacaroline @visakanv But "live player" is relative—to two things: - the speed of the other players - the speed of the events in the environment If, as measured against the spread of the virus, some players seem to be moving and some standing still, the moving ones are the live ones.
@BonbonFork @diviacaroline @visakanv idk if this is in line with how @SamoBurja uses the phrases—lmk either way!—but it seems to be the way to get the most practical use out of them in any given situation! It also means there could be a game (on this scale or smaller-scale) where all players are alive, or dead.
@kristijan_ivanc @nibrasibn @m_ashcroft @nosilverv
@OneBigOh @diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan I'm in Canada and I'm tweeting about it, but mostly from a global-systems lens that happens to be situated in Canada so more aware of what's happening here. Haven't yet found someone covering the Canadian angle, but haven't specifically looked. Lmk if you find good sources!
@WilliamAEden Meanwhile I found myself thinking... sure seems like a good year to have a head of state that isn't in their 70s... 🤔😬 (which the US I guess now has no contenders for)
Retweeted @cognazor
The perennial Q: can anti-rivalrous "GameB" dynamics be found through changing structural incentives, or through personal tra…
@diviacaroline Hmmm. Hm hm hm.
Retweeted @man_integrated
I don't know who needs to hear this, but panic buying is a feedback loop. Shortage of supply 🔄 Fear of lack of supply…
@diviacaroline @QiaochuYuan @chaoticjoyful
Replying to @magghu
@magghu @vasey_ Mmm guessing that's related to Hanzi being one of the main holders of the metamodern flag, and being very opinionated about the importance of postmodernism. > If you have a general disliking of all things postmodern, guess what, you cannot be metamodern. metamoderna.org/5-things-that-…
@magghu @vasey_ My take is that this is true inasmuch as modernism, postmodernism, and metamodernism are understood as political theories. But he says: Faustian -> Postfaustian -> Modern -> Postmodern You don't have to grok Postfaustianism to be well-adjusted to modernist society.
@magghu @vasey_ So inasmuch as metamodernism requires grokking postmodernism, it's still postpostmodernism, not true <whatever the actual next stage would want to call itself> The actual next stage won't be defined by its relation to modernism. Curious for @cognazor & @jdj_writes's takes on 👆
Retweeted @balajis
The decentralized response: 23andMe for coronavirus. If you fear you're infected, swab nose and send sample back for analysis…
Here's what Bill Gates is actually doing! Or, one thing he's doing: at-home test kits for coronavirus.
Retweeted @RyenKrusinga
@Malcolm_Ocean Doesn't necessarily need a billionaire, but perhaps an officially sanctioned coronavirus self-reporting an…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
If you were to suggest something a billionaire might do right now to help flatten the coronavirus curve, what would it b…
Retweeted @Yascha_Mounk
In the past, social distancing has had a huge impact on death tolls. Just look at the difference between St. Louis, whi…
Replying to @GregDember
@GregDember @magghu @vasey_ @cognazor Appreciating this regular reminder. The main other source I've read is this one by @SethAbramson. What else would you recommend? huffpost.com/entry/what-is-…
Retweeted @jeremyphoward
As data scientists, we (with @math_rachel) have done our best to look at the data around covid-19, and what it means to…
Retweeted @jeremyphoward
I've seen many people claim that concerns about covid-19 are overblown, because the death rate in S Korea is "only" 0.7%…
Was curious about what effect Italy's quarantine would have on listed flights... ...just went on Google Flights, and it showed listings from NYC to Milan & elsewhere in Italy. Also lots of flights out of Milan. ...very few places with flights from Tehran though.
Retweeted @webdevMason
If there is *any* lesson we should be gathering from the global COVID-19 data, it's that you simply will not overshoot wit…
@ESYudkowsky pareto frontiers
Retweeted @labisbeticah
Or flu t.co/Pp0ARkxrOe
@paulg I can usually remember that Daily Mail is a tabloid, but I keep forgetting which news orgs are which, let alone are prone to making up shit, so inspired by this tweet I've made a userstyle that puts a banner at the top of certain sites. "Gell-Mann Amnesia Blocker"
@paulg Interested in suggestions for other sites that might seem broadly trustworthy but aren't. Maybe this is just all news though? As you say, better to learn from
@paulg Here's the userstyle code if anyone wants to try it out: gist.github.com/malcolmocean/f…
Retweeted @soonaorlater
Keep coming back to @rivatez's point: how strong your immune system is, monitoring your gut health, looking after your di…
@chujo9 @GQ802 @Brooklynwatch @jasonvanschoor Mmm, I appreciate what you're pointing at here, & wanting to distinguish "worth" & "cost". All lives worth the same. Fundamental. No question there. Some cost way more to save. This means saving the most equal-worth lives involves using limited resources on the best chances 😥
@jasonvanschoor For people who also found "above 65 or younger" confusing, I'm pretty sure this is what he meant: "Patients {above 65} or {younger with comorbities} are not even assessed by ITU"
@AdeleDeweyLopez @peymano Adele, post a third reply to the thread (ie a reply to the "image is from" tweet) so that the retraction is visible without people having to click (only you can do this, as thread owner)
Interestingly, no flights from Tehran to anywhere in Canada* but still flying to lots of US cities (sadly not really surprising). *see lack of prices in this screenshot from google flights:
Replying to @magghu
@magghu @jdj_writes @vasey_ @cognazor Hmm, my response to what you're saying here is half "yes! things aren't perfectly mappable" & half "mmm don't forget that some things do actually work better than others though". In this sense, there is progress, both in tech & stages of consciousness. (both have externalities)
Retweeted @SamoBurja
Paul Kagame runs a tight ship! Functional institutions piloted by live players can respond flexibly to circumstances. https:…
Replying to @GregDember
@GregDember @magghu @vasey_ @cognazor @SethAbramson Always!
How easy would it be for you to get hold of 2m (6') of either floss or thread?
(this is for designing maximally-accessible instructions for a DIY *actually*-stop-touching-your-face system that @gmws82 and I are working on)
@WilliamAEden I found myself initially feeling sort of personally relieved, then realized that that band of weather patterns will slide north into much of Canada over the next few months. Hm.
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
This is still a strong hypothesis! But that chart omits known community transmission in many other areas. I consider cur…
Retweeted @ssica3003
Hello new attendees of the meaning crisis, come in, there’s plenty of space for you at the back. I’m here today to tell you…
@kory_kilpatrick @tiktok_us I had similar thoughts... ...then a zoomer weighed in:
Retweeted @warmbott
I don't understand lightweight huggers. Either PACK IT IN or shake a hand, bro
@SamoBurja For people reading this tweet 👆 there's discussion about live players happening over here 👇
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@FioraAeterna possibly best one yet (definitely has the best photo so far)
@AdeleDeweyLopez @peymano yup, looks good!
@diviacaroline Israel is now quarantining all people on entry (including citizens). Looks like they maybe only wanted to restrict from high risk areas but USA pressured them to make it more general. This may result in lives saved, though the reasoning seems 🤨🧐🙄
@diviacaroline Misleading that that tweet I just quoted is calling it a "ban" though, which it's not. Though people are choosing not to travel as a response, ofc.
Retweeted @gohkokhan
@MaxCRoser @DiegoKuonen A visualisation is worth a thousand words on why we should take COVID19 seriously. Have a look at my…
Retweeted @anne_theriault
North Americans: *hoarding toilet paper, vociferously debating the merits of hand sanitizer* France: FOR THE LAST TIME…
@ssica3003 Article that talks about this at a high level, and makes some interesting points about systemic structure. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Retweeted @TomBossert
2/ Conclusions: The coronavirus is coming to you. It’s coming at an exponential speed. It’s a matter of days - 2 weeks.…
Retweeted @tferriss
This is excellent >> "Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now" buff.ly/2wJU1cI If you're wondering how many positives Washi…
Retweeted @TomBossert
I urge everyone in the public health community to read this article and be bold and confident when briefing their leadershi…
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@FioraAeterna > Gobert [...] proceeded to touch every microphone on the stage, seemingly sending a message about his fearlessness in regards to the disease. It is unknown just how many people came into contact with those microphones after him. cbssports.com/nba/news/rudy-… twitter.com/NewCuIture/sta…
@amyhoy wowwwww they color the whole chart red or green based on whether the net change from start-end is finished I'm not certain this is bad design (might even be good?) but somehow it scans to me as misleading.
@tferriss Challenge number 3: social distancing!
@Jamil_Madanat I've thought of weird shit like this but unfortunately a decent fraction of young people also need to be hospitalized so I'm pretty sure the math doesn't really work out. (You could do the math if you wanted!) Even if it did, it would take multiple weeks—time we don't have.
@axiomaticdoubts There's some related data in this excellent piece. Doesn't quite answer your question but it may answer related questions you're working with.
@startuployalist Would enjoy being with any subset of @Conaw, @gmws82, @nosilverv, @KHPavle, @andy_matuschak (& probably others) jamming on paradigm & prototypes for thinking-&-communicating technology.
Retweeted @bellabee13
Schools close, Tom Hanks, trouble in the big banks, no vaccine, quarantine, no more toilet paper seen. Travel ban, Weinste…
Retweeted @threat_update
@jgreenhall @antonjw @jim_rutt @leashless @themarcusnewton @GwendolynHuot @nickredmark This is the closest thing to that that I've seen, though it's simulating different degrees of social distancing, which affects R not R0.
Retweeted @startuployalist
If you had to be quarantined with any four Twitter mutuals, who would they be and why?
Retweeted @SamoBurja
I'm itching to write an article on institutional failure of the US as revealed by #COVID19. Who would like to publish it?
@OneBigOh @Jamil_Madanat I don't have a specific source; it's an impression I've got from reading various things, mostly: - death rates still 1/500 for young people... if we assume 5 need hospital for every 1 death, that's 1% - patient 1 in italy was healthy 38yo marathoner
@abbywenwu @balajis Aha! Yeah, I'd seen this and was trying to remember about it coepi.org
@nosilverv @Conaw recently realized that he was categorically doomed from YC's perspective. I suspect that default framings of what you're up to (~#TwitterReplacement) might go similarly, so you need a new frame.
Retweeted @DrEricDing
My sobering assessment last night on @ABC News of where we are relative to Italy and what we need to do to not get there. B…
If I think we're in full agreement, and you think we're not... you're right. (old heuristic I developed that I don't take as seriously anymore but still find interesting & sometimes useful. important to note that the disagreement might just be one of phrasing, not meaning)
@ssica3003 @snowded @shrinetothevine @nosilverv @WisdomRebel I'm also very interested in knowing what these 5 schools are!
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't youtube.com/watch?v=g5qO4U…
This 👆 is one of my favorite paradoxes. First-level interpretation is that "the ones who say there isn't" are simply wrong.
But there's a deeper level, which is like: are you going to choose to orient to whatever's happening as a war? Or as something else? What meaning are you making of what's happening? What's possible, based on that meaning?
Then if you consider someone who is aligned with a non-war meaning, but is saying, "There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't" (probably including Leonard Cohen) They're saying "BOTH either/or AND both/and":
Retweeted @Mikeggibbs
An important, and yes, emotional and human message from BC's Health Officer. #COVIDー19
Retweeted @joyurge
#COVID19 Tip: Stay home. But if you must travel… I avoided accidentally touching my face ALL DAY on a ✈️ just by tethering my…
Thread · Facepalm tethers: a hack to stop touching your face
Can't stop touching your face? This hack makes it easy: Use thread or floss (thin so breaks in a fall) to tether your hands to your belt loops, so they can't easily reach your face. We call them #FacepalmTethers For detailed instructions, read below, or donttouchyourface.guide
People are saying #DontTouchYourFace This behavior is in fact really powerful to prevent the spread of #COVID19 but the reality is that basically nobody can simply *perform* this behavior on command, so it's not useful advice! (& mostly stressful)
It's important, paradoxically, to stay relaxed & playful, rather than stressed and panicked. Both the cone of shame & #FacepalmTethers are kind of funny—and that's a bonus, not a drawback!
But the cone of shame is impractical for many reasons that don't need to be elaborated on. Hence the need for something else! My friend George had a flight to take, and he came up with this solution (I came up with the name!) twitter.com/joyurge/status…
@joyurge: "This a solution I designed to make it easy to avoid touching my face while on a flight this week. I successfully avoided touching my face unintentionally, the whole trip. (I did touch it three times, each after applying hand sanitizer.)"
With the right length, you can maintain a workable range of motion, and when you take your hands out to be able to reach further, there’s nothing to carry or put away—the loops hang right next to your pockets, conveniently located for re-looping your hands when you’re ready.
Even if you prefer a length where you can still (e.g.) bend down your head to adjust your glasses, it still has the powerful effect of making you aware every time you reach for your face. (There's also a webcam system that can do this at your desk 😂)
#FacepalmTethers Step 1: Get some thread or floss If not sure where to find some, ask around your house or pick some up at a nearby convenience store. (Important: to stay safe while walking, ensure it's thin enough to break if you fall & need your hands to catch yourself)
#FacepalmTethers Step 2: Cut the thread Cut the thread to roughly the length of 3 times wrapped around your hand (you might want shorter; might start with this and try tying it a couple times to get the right length).
#FacepalmTethers Step 3: Tie one end around your front belt loop. (Any secure knot will do here. For one that’s easy to untie later, look up Manger Hitch knot)
#FacepalmTethers Step 4: Tie a slip knot at the other end Leave a few inches of slack between the knot and the end of the thread.
#FacepalmTethers Step 5: Slide the knot towards your pants to make the little loop bigger, and insert your wrist through the loop!
Now when you pull your hand towards your face, loop will tighten (if not already), & stop your hand from touching your face! Experiment w lengths to find balance of blocked-access-to-face and functional-range-of-motion that feels workable by just untying & moving the slip-knot.
Repeat steps 2-5 for the other side, and you've got yourself a pair of #FacepalmTethers Now you have a way to make it easy not to touch your face. 😊➖👐
Spread the word about #FacepalmTethers as a simple hack to make no-face-touching easy! Anybody who is still working or taking public transit in an infected city (most of the US) can benefit from this device, which is virtually free and won’t sell out like masks or gloves.
If you know someone taking a plane trip, or who's in one of the above categories, send this to them directly—or even make them a pair yourself if you're in close contact with them (housemates etc). If not, just retweet this thread to make it A Thing™
And again, here's a link to the guide, which is currently not a website but just a google doc at this url. Which is conveniently printable if you want to have your class of students make them or something! donttouchyourface.guide
Replying to @joyurge
@joyurge @QiaochuYuan Here's a whole thread about this:
@joyurge @QiaochuYuan And here's where in the above thread the actual instructions start:
Gonna encourage people I've seen tweeting about #COVID19 to retweet the above. Low-cost distributed design solutions are key for scaling, as @leashless knows with hexayurts @DanielleFong @magghu @diviacaroline @WilliamAEden @tferriss @jonst0kes @NAChristakis @Mikeggibbs @amyhoy
@ESYudkowsky I think some people are mostly wanting to make this 👇 take and not sure how to articulate it:
Retweeted @openletterbot
🖋 Support @amyhoy by signing “Urge Congress to pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act” and I’ll deliver a copy…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Can't stop touching your face? This hack makes it easy: Use thread or floss (thin so breaks in a fall) to tether your…
Retweeted @HelenBranswell
We're going to see more of this, people. Good to see a leader taking the need to self-isolate seriously. https://t.co/…
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The difference, propping up the Market for like 30 minutes will have NONE of the positive effects on the economy that re…
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Hey, investigative journalists, why aren’t you taking a camera and going into hospitals and ERs right now? You KNOW the…
@cwodtke I recommend standing desks, which can be made out of all sorts of materials. Check out this thread to see mine made of - books - boxes - ironing board - &+
Retweeted @commandodev
If you're doing this under time pressure and don't have systems and processes in place, I can help. HMU! …
Retweeted @kfury
The invisible hand of the market is touching its face.
> UK & US govt won't implement social distancing until the numbers are high enough; which they will make sure is never. This is an awful self-reinforcing loop. But ofc it can't be never—eventually full hospitals won't lie. That just may be really late 😔 t.co/Dt3LOIquy7
Replying to @SophiaKogan1
@SophiaKogan1 @ShawnteJamesMD This is the best me & @joyurge have figured out 👇 #FacepalmTethers (Tagging also @annewellpepper @kristatee @Montalvo501 @RPMAstronomy)
@Jess_Riedel Not sure if your perspective on this has already shifted in the last few days, but in any case I highly recommend reading this: There's a 2-week lag on "doing nothing". Wuhan was closed when it had only about 1000 confirmed cases total, & almost no deaths
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth what will happen with food? both memetic trends, as well as global production, supply, etc
Really great thread on *specifically why* the US response has been so slow. Beyond "incompetence" or "denial" or "partisanship". Not that those aren't involved, but they don't explain the mechanism nor why it went exactly as it did vs some other incompetent response. @SamoBurja
Retweeted @Evolving_Ego
I'm not under-reacting OR over-reacting. I'm under-reacting AND over-reacting.
Retweeted @TheAnnaGat
I want to permanently repurpose the phrase "cancel culture" for schools and large gatherings during pandemics.
@Plinz This article seems to me to be the best resource for communicating this to people (both to mayors and to citizens to get them to send them to their mayors)
Retweeted @DoctorYasmin
Hearing a lot of blanket praise for China’s "fast" and "massive" quarantines. Bear in mind: 1. Many epidemiologists advi…
@Meta_Aesthetic I keep seeing "people don't care" and... I don't buy it. People are asking "should I change my own behavior?" and motivated-reasoningly concluding "no" without it ever occurring to them that their behavior would spiken the curve and thus lead to more old people dying.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@Meta_Aesthetic I keep seeing "people don't care" and... I don't buy it. People are asking "should I change my own beha…
Replying to @magghu
@magghu @Conaw & @gmws82 & @andy_matuschak might have ideas!
@Meta_Aesthetic I think they're just thinking "X% of old people are going to die" as if it's a sunk cost. And then the emotional disconnect is this:
@Jamil_Madanat @OneBigOh This Italian doctor is saying that ICU risk rises around age 30... Sort of vaguely suggests your wacky idea above might look like kids staying overnight at a bunch of schools with healthy 20yo teachers... all infected & not going home to parents? 🤨
@Jess_Riedel Estimates in the article are that multiple regions in the USA have thousands of cases that (if tests were available) could be testing positive. This means that a few days ago was the equivalent to the moment Hubei locked down, but similar quarantine still not happening in USA.
@Jess_Riedel The article goes on to note that each passing day is another 40% increase in infections, so by the time any remotely similar scale measures occur in the USA (if ever) it will likely be 10× Hubei scale (this takes about 2 weeks). 3k have died in Hubei, despite extra hospitals
Retweeted @diviacaroline
If you have to be out and about, could be worth trying this!
@maybegray @QiaochuYuan it's not even a tradeoff, fortunately!
@nosilverv @Conaw Neither is Conor from my perspective, but indeed the site does say "a note-taking tool" so there's that.
@sors_tertia @llawmot Exactly. I assume the need for regular cleaning is to keep the copper from getting coated in a layer of skin oil, dust, etc
@mindmeanings Wow, that's... nuts. What a bet to be making. Are they planning to keep that up for weeks/months??
@OneBigOh Oh interesting! Though this search isn't restricted by "direct" or not. It's "will any airlines that google is aware of sell me a 'ticket' that gets me from Iran to Canada?" (even if multiple flights on different partnered airlines)
Replying to @FireEyes66
@FireEyes66 @robertskmiles @gmws82 10 internet points to you!
@Jess_Riedel That's just one region. 60k deaths in USA only takes 2 regions getting 10× worse than Hubei before lockdown (& lockdowns may also cause people to flee to other regions) And that's without accounting for the hugely nonlinear increase in fatality rate w/ infection rate (see Italy)
@Jess_Riedel Simpler summary: If you're saying "the US [won't] do nothing as thousands die in real time" This article says "by the time 1k have died, 800k are infected" (at a low 1% death rate + 3 doublings in the average time it takes to die) Once 800k infected, not enough hospital beds.
@Jess_Riedel Like technically there could *maybe* be spare beds for 15%×800k if distribution matched infection distribution, but it won't. Once not enough hospital beds, death rate 📈. This is what's happening in Italy. & there probably won't be actions US can take at 800k to stop there
@Jess_Riedel Global increase in confirmed cases is more like doubling every 4 days, which is 20% growth/day... the 40% in the article I guess is from some nonlinear dynamic in steady state things? Not sure. As for bets... what odds? Tho I don't really want to feel like I'm rooting for ☠️
@Jess_Riedel I really think you're not running some numbers correctly though. > "if half the population gets COVID in 2020, then of order a million will die." 160M people × 15% = 24M who would need intensive care, of which 1-2M-worth might be available. Sounds like tens of millions to me.
@Jess_Riedel The main cases I'm making here aren't about a specific outcome scenario (which depends hugely on events I don't have a good sense of) but about specific steps of your reasoning. This was another:
Replying to @qchurious
@qchurious you also stopped flirting as much
"Wait *AT HOME* & hope." #StayAtHome #StayTheFuckHome #SocialDistancing #SocialDistancingNow #COVID19
Retweeted @briantylercohen
Holy shit. Katie Porter holds the CDC Director's feet to the fire and gets him to commit to FREE TESTING for coronavir…
Retweeted @amdar1ing
Lots of science-y folks are posting this graph. But if there is one thing I have learned from being on the internet, it is t…
Reading my PM's simple "staying focused on you", I started crying 😢😭 I feel spoken-to and cared-about ♥️ Whatever happens, we're in this together.
@Connoropolous @peternlimberg Oh man Connor you & I talked about having a call soon! Seems like there could be a whole nother level on which to talk now. We've been doing lots of deep sensemaking @ LSA and there could be an interesting conversation to have here.
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@peternlimberg @dthorson @pwang @cognazor @jim_rutt @RichDecibels @fullydavid @euvieivanova @ssica3003 @JaredJanes @collinofzion @AE_Robbert @buster Seems to me that @utotranslucence & @NECSI & @YaneerBarYam may want to be part of this conversation! NECSI has made endcoronavirus.org, currently seeking to coordinate tons of local groups to take strategic action on many levels.
Retweeted @solarpunk_girl
Written last night. I need you to read this and decide about Coronavirus. Data, information, and tonality in an argumen…
@WilliamAEden @AdeleDeweyLopez @diviacaroline Updating my twitter display name from Malcolm 👏🧼🔄→ flatten the 🦠☣️🤧 curve! 🇨🇦🌏 to Malcolm ☣️cean - stay home! 🇨🇦🌎
@DRMacIver Whole great thread discussing this over here:
Thread on sincere #COVID design solutions (will add as I find more) I say sincere in the sense that I'm not going to include parodies, although you may laugh reading this thread. Sincere and silly are compatible :) I 💜 Design. come @ me with suggestions
Tape your elbow so you #DontTouchYourFace (this guy made an account on twitter just to share this idea!)
@joyurge used #FacepalmTethers to avoid touching his face: twitter.com/joyurge/status…
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
Joscha makes a compelling case that #FlattenTheCurve is dangerously misleading. To not overwhelm our current capacity, y…
Have you tried turning it off & then on again?
@WilliamAEden @the_aiju @diviacaroline @AdeleDeweyLopez
@diviacaroline @the_aiju @AdeleDeweyLopez @WilliamAEden I agree with all of you! Glad Joscha wrote this Agree w @the_aiju re gateway - I personally felt motivated into action by having a verb to pursue: "flatten" Kinda always thought flatten = "buy time for vaccine" Also "why stop at 1.5 when you could get R way below 1 instead?"
Retweeted @bethsawin
I know there is a lot going on that is very urgent and immediate. I know losses and needless tragedies are happening. AND…
Replying to @peternlimberg
@peternlimberg @Connoropolous We're orienting to this as not what we'd expected for this year, but that we expected eventually. No deep surprise. Stocking up on food, supplements, figuring out how to strategically implement social distancing. Down to talk w you Peter, whether or not as part of Connor convo!
@Hyoubal @Conaw @girishsastry ...do you ever use your screen at night? Our eyes adjust magnificently, and it's much more relaxing to have light-on-dark or red-on-dark text at night. Source: my own subjective experience & my own ux flavor preferences, which you can't argue with. Not making medical claims.
@Jess_Riedel I'm with you on this in general, though it seems to me to be different in situations where we're trying to make decisions that influence the outcomes. There we need to consider counterfactuals and steps of reasoning as part of reasoning about other agents.
@noampomsky looking at the US response to #COVID my first thought is to encourage them not to move at all (The Canadian response is far from perfect but it seems *better*)
@Jess_Riedel I'm noticing I'm finding this thread stressful & aversive in some way. I think it's partly that I want my attention on doing what can be done to affect current leverage points, to *avoid these scenarios happening in the first place* & this feels like a distraction from that.
@Jess_Riedel It's probably partly also other stuff, including perhaps stuff in my shadow. Not claiming moral high ground here. I have a lot of respect for you & your thinking in general, Jess. Take care 🙏
Retweeted @ssica3003
Coronavirus thread. Content warning: 50/50 chance this will help vs harm. If you are comforted by sideways philosophical arg…
This blog post from a few months ago relevant to present #COVID19 situation. Unfortunately it doesn't have an easy answer. I still think it does excellent work exploring the question!
Retweeted @badcryptobitch
For you Americans that think your Northern neighbors have a better hold on the situation, I can tell we don't. I was j…
@darameja @stewartbrand @beka_valentine @ncasenmare thehill.com/changing-ameri…
@ncasenmare Nice! Most important interactive aspect imo is stuff that people can control: social distancing. Simple version is something like X% of people stop interacting with others. Could also add one for large gatherings, but that probably adds too much complexity.
Retweeted @WilliamAEden
I’m starting to see economic consensus across the political spectrum that the answer is to: 1) socialize the costs of pa…
Retweeted @DellAnnaLuca
Pandemics grow the size they need to be acknowledged, and then 100x after that. (thread) 1/N
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
An excellent demo, with ingredients available in any kitchen! Alt version: put a coin in the tray before adding pepper,…
Retweeted @webdevMason
All these pent up, crazy smart type A moms and dads are about to give their kids more education in the next 6 weeks than t…
@Aella_Girl Had to count 'em out, but got to 41 with probably a few unremembered nights to spare. I assume I can count the night I slept on the roof of @Conaw's van 🙃
.@JustinTrudeau @CPHO_Canada I sure hope you're using 2005 Quarantine Act for people coming in from O'Hare. #Covid19Canada #Covid19Ontario
Anosognosia: peculiar phenomenon of complete inability to conceive that you might have a problem. In its extreme forms, it's rare & usually follows strokes. In mild forms, it's... everywhere. & this quote from @HankGreen suggests an interesting strategy for #COVID19 🤔
Halfway thru this 6min video he notes that while patients overestimate their abilities, ignoring to absurd lengths paralysis of their own limbs, "some be more realistic when asked about someone else in their condition" youtube.com/watch?v=Wt0q1x…
Now, consider current #COVID19 denial. That research on anosognosia, to the extent it applies here, would imply that charts like these might land even better if framed: "What should Italy have done 11 days ago?" ↳ [ANSWER] ↳ "Do that today"
Retweeted @celinehalioua
We need volunteers to help assemble COVID-19 testing kits starting tomorrow in SF. email team@curativeinc.com if you can…
Advice to anyone tryna panic-help (sometimes me) Accept that at this point a lot of ppl are gonna die & have shitty experiences from this, no matter what you, or we, do. Even if somehow everyone became perfectly sane tmro, it'd still be too late to totally prevent calamity.
And then, from a place of accepting the reality of that: what can I do? ❓ 👁️👁️
Also I invented a word a couple of years ago that you might find helpful for this whole acceptance thing: HWA. It stands for "here we are", and it's about acknowledging the reality of the here as it arrives. +N new cases: hwa How can we build on this?
Retweeted @balajis
There are at least two separate timelines for new drugs. 1) Time to determine efficacy: does it work? 2) Time to manufacture…
@DellAnnaLuca @threadreaderapp unroll I want to print this for my house.
Retweeted @DellAnnaLuca
GETTING HOME ISOLATION RIGHT 1/ In China, a huge chunk of cases came from infections between family members. How to avo…
@DellAnnaLuca @threadreaderapp Here's a printable copy of this, very lightly edited. Fits nicely on 2 pages. Tagging @utotranslucence, @JeffLadish docs.google.com/document/d/1gF…
@TheOrangeAlt That sound approximately right. McGilchrist has a paper talking about the role of each hemisphere in religious & spiritual experience, and he notes that bliss likely involves the LHem learning to subdue certain grasping patterns in it. Coordinating with RH is separate?
@TheOrangeAlt This is the paper: Engaging Iain McGilchrist: Ascetical practice, brain lateralization, and philosophy of mind (includes comments & critiques by other authors) Definitely don't look it up for free on scihub. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Retweeted @yaneerbaryam
People are worried about economic impacts of locking and shutting things down. Half way measures will be very expensive b…
Retweeted @_awbery_
Covid-19 reactions confirm to me that being meta is more about understanding what, when, where and how to apply object level…
Retweeted @hankgreen
How long do I have to scroll before I feel better?
Retweeted @DFisman
Some model estimates. Here's a figure. This is for a population with Ontario's pop structure. The red line represents ICU c…
Retweeted @ishaberry2
Put another way, an analogy: Pops rushing to stores at the same time (vs staggering visits) resulting in food/TP running o…
@vgr Same as it did last year. Fourth photo in this first tweet:
Retweeted @kvasinka
Experts recommend keeping your daily rituals even while working from home.
Replying to @ryn__x
@context_ing @_awbery_ @mriramos me buying 5kg chocolate (& a few other things) a couple weeks ago this was as much because I haven't seen my favorite cheap+tasty bars in stock at my usual stores lately & I'm worried they might disappear altogether so wanted a couple months' supply
Retweeted @webdevMason
It was incredibly wise for the bay area to lockdown sooner rather than later **and coordinate the lockdown across multiple…
@natural_hazard I think in lots of cases it's a both/and. Idk if I can think of any of my own strivings that don't have at least a little fear/trauma involved, but in some cases it's pretty minimal. Eg my relationship to music for instance. Mostly there I'm motivated by meaning, ecstasy & play
Retweeted @nick_kapur
Wouldn't it make sense to just suspend all billing, all rent payments, all interest payments, and all loan payments, and al…
@visakanv Here's a video I took a few months ago while testing a selfie stick. This is the sort of core-books bookshelf at @Liminal_Agency. We have ~6000 curated books here, and this is the cream of the crop (except ofc ones that aren't on there bc someone's reading them 😝)
Retweeted @mlipsitch
Repeating my plea to media: PLEASE stop saying "there are now X number of cases in the US" and start saying "as of today X c…
> “If it could easily exist as an aerosol, we would be seeing much greater levels of transmission,” said epidemiologist Michael LeVasseur I've been reasoning thusly for weeks: what we're seeing on a macro-scale doesn't match aerosol My rationalist training still comes in handy!
Retweeted @vgr
Here’s an idea... pay high risk/exposure people a risk premium like soldiers get combat pay in a war zone. Fed can % match their p…
@WilliamAEden @diviacaroline @SamoBurja I had the impression a lot of work on SARS stuff, including vaccines, was abandoned due to a lack of patients to test it on. (From 1 or 2 things I read in the last few weeks; I forget source)
Retweeted @MikeMcDonald89
As someone who is quite anti-UBI under normal circumstances I think more than washing your hands, more than social dist…
@vgr You might like Marco Polo, which is a great async video-messaging app. UI kinda like snapchat before it got bloated, and ofc not ephemeral. You can even speed up the videos people send you! marcopolo.me
Retweeted @VittorioZinetti
@normonics "Simple vademecum: it took 2 weeks for COVID19 to send to ICU the same number of people that common flu tak…
Retweeted @jameswjesso
Canada announces it will exclusively import COVID-19 from US - @CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau thebeaverton.com/2020/03/canada…
@jameswjesso @CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau It's part of the trade deal.
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Officials make final appeal to students to stay away from Ezra Avenue on eve of #StPatricksDay2020: …
Retweeted @dremilyanhalt
I’m not sure who needs to hear this but... 🙇🏽 unclench the muscles in your face and shoulders 💨 take a few conscious br…
TL;DR = banks & landlords tend to have more reserves & lower operating expenses than most other businesses, so put off rent & mortgage payments for a few months. Interesting proposal! (rather than encouraging other businesses to take on debt to pay employees) #CovidCanada
@fortelabs I keep my second monitor above my laptop, so when I really wanna make eye contact with someone I make the video big but drag it so it straddles both screens with their eyes just below the webcam.
Retweeted @jessitron
Humans: you can tell me what to do, but not how, I’ll choose. Computers: you can’t tell me what to do, only how, in excrucia…
Retweeted @callumflack
If we relate to the world through metaphor, then the predominant lens, at least on Twitter, is machine metaphors. Going…
I was wondering about this just a few hours ago and am glad to come across someone stating this explicitly!
@WilliamAEden 👋 Nice to see you two! It's been awhile. 😊 Appreciating your perspective on the SF / USA situation, and the experience of listening to you think together.
Once there's been enough pressure to get lockdown/quarantine/etc everywhere that needs it (most of the USA, at least) the next question for most people is gonna be... ...what do you want to do with your one wild & precious life? t.co/jzxYgS8CRf
@Aryeh___ hand sani?
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Banning the working class from working during a pandemic but not banning the rentier class from extracting rents has done mor…
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the relationship between partisanship and google searches for "hand sanitizer" is tapering now that Trump and Republicans…
Retweeted @KevinSimler
OUTBREAK — 🆕 interactive essay Explore travel restrictions and social distancing. Learn how #FlatteningTheCurve reduces f…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
I don't even care if this is real, I've been laughing for like 5 minutes twitter.com/nwilliams030/s…
Retweeted @yaneerbaryam
The team at endcoronavirus.org is interested to learn what is going on around the world. Please answer 5 y/n questio…
Working from home on WFH Cafe (pt3) pscp.tv/w/cUDanTF4TlFh…
I'm working on some improvements to the complice.co coworking rooms, given that so many more people are working from home now. Come do pomodoros 🍅✅ with me at complice.co/room/workfromh…
I'm working on some improvements to the complice.co coworking rooms, given that so many more people are working from home now. Come do pomodoros 🍅✅ with me at complice.co/room/workfromh… pscp.tv/Malcolm_Ocean/…
@DanielleFong Accidentally ended that one early, here's the new one:
This livestream 👆 is intentionally not very interesting, but you can come cowork with me in this room 👇 complice.co/room/workfromh…
Did some experiments this morning with livestreaming myself working, with the thing I was working on being an improvement to a system for video-presence (no audio) while working at home. I'm finished for now, but you can still come cowork in this room: complice.co/room/astraking
@cpopell Yeah I also find this very hard to imagine. I'm like "ah yeah, with a second 24h per day, I would do X, and with a third I'd do Y... if I had 3 more I'd start CompanyZ"
@collinofzion @QiaochuYuan Definitely time.
Retweeted @generativist
[My (non-expert) understanding of the game.] While waiting for a vaccine, we must, 1. Keep infections low enough so as…
Retweeted @humsys
The @humsys response to #COVID19. Please get in touch if you can help!
@diviacaroline Another live player spotted: @BillGates He did a coronavirus AMA today, and seems to be modeling the situation quite well and pointing $100M of his money at things bottlenecked on money. reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment…
nausea is like fear but for when the thing you're afraid of is inside you
@jondubin Vomiting is fleeing, in this metaphor. Straight up. This morning, 15mins after taking 50mg zinc & 400mg quercetin on an empty stomach, I got nauseated & promptly threw it up. Noticed: - impressed by my body's ability to remove stuff - typical feeling of "peace" after vomiting
@jondubin Realized that the peace actually felt kind of like a kind of safety, which is when I made the connection to fear. All this implies a resonance between: - inhibiting vomiting when you need to (eg in Aya ceremony) - inhibiting fleeing when externally unsafe Both maybe traumatic?
Retweeted @Reuters
Tesla's Musk offers to make ventilators amid shortage in coronavirus battle reuters.com/article/us-hea…
Retweeted @WajahatAli
Millenials, this is for you. Please read. "New C.D.C. data showed that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hos…
@danlistensto @jondubin Oh neat! So in this case, using this metaphor, the nausea was like... fear of facing the medicine (which is now inside you!) rather than being fear of <the thing the medicine was intended to cure>, per se.
@abbywenwu @jondubin Seems like it. I've just gone into strong isolation and had been in a crowded grocery store just before, so I figured I'd take more than a sustainable amount of zinc for a couple of days. But apparently my body didn't want that on an empty stomach!
Retweeted @mormo_music
Twitter will suppress "Denial of expert guidance". Ignoring that guidance from different experts is contradictory. Affirmi…
@cortexfutura WebRTC, so there isn't really a backend (except for @Xirsys for TURN servers) Chat & other stuff handled via websockets, on NodeJS.
Retweeted @endCOVID19
IMPORTANT THREAD 1/ Why are we now working to #crushthecurve, NOT #flattenthecurve? Aggressive Local Lockdowns Immediat…
@Aryeh___ @Aella_Girl On a note I'm going to claim is related, I think it's well overdue time to bring crop tops for men back. I made this one by chopping the sleeves & bottom off a conference t-shirt.
Retweeted @TheRealDoctorT
“I think it’s all hype. Young people are gonna be okay. It’s the flu, it’s gonna pass like every year. It’s Spring b…
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@FioraAeterna @SarahAMcManus @dispirateparts *waves hands around confusedly*
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Talking with @Malcolm_Ocean about Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Malcolm: "Oh! So it's as if the body contains a…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Trying to wrap my head around coronavirus disease mechanisms like
Replying to @brownian19
@brownian19 People talk about lots of silliness during the pomodoro breaks. If someone else wants to make a cohangout room they're welcome to do it; it's mostly not my thing.
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If you're looking for another very effective nonprofit to donate to, I recommend mRelief. They help people get government benefi…
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This is definitely the biggest historical moment since WWII, potentially bigger than the World Wars and the Great Depress…
@noampomsky Sandwich of: - peanut butter - jam (usually strawberry) - cheese - green olives It's bizarre and surprising and trippy. And actually tasty.
@WilliamAEden @Meaningness: > I write this during 2016 American presidential election campaign, which portends a huge political realignment. The 2 countercultures of the 60s-80s created stable party coalitions that persisted for decades. This year, they are breaking up. meaningness.com/political-left…
Retweeted @RichDecibels
The trick with social distancing is to pick your quaranteam early and then be in constant full body contact with them whi…
Retweeted @nosilverv
Greco-Roman statues were colourful but lost their color to time. Renaissance sculptors wanting to 'mimic the masters' built…
@calebwatney Dovetails with this:
Replying to @magghu
@magghu @SarahAMcManus @h_shriya @DrSicchia @DFisman @peternlimberg I've been gradually curating a #CovidCanada list. Not more specific than "Canadians saying useful stuff about covid" Currently @HotaSusy @DFisman @BogochIsaac @badcryptobitch @swsmith72 @ishaberry2 @CPHO_Canada @maureentaylor31 @AshTuite @Mikeggibbs 👇 twitter.com/i/lists/123744…
Retweeted @GretchenAMcC
I only regret that I am not teaching intro phonetics so I could make them watch this cursèd video twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/stat…
I think my twitter followers are mostly pretty concerned by now, so I made a point of sharing this on my facebook.
When I see "The Hammer and the Dance" all I can think of is "U Can't Touch This" ...which... > When you touch your nose and then open door knob, the next people to open the door and touch their nose get infected. ...is oddly appropriate! @tomaspueyo medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co…
@startuployalist Huh, what's the source of this? I love the kairos & chronos model, though I sort of associated kairos with hunter gatherer societies a lot as well.
Who else has got a quaranteam? 🙌
Replying to @magghu
@magghu Yeah this is one of the present paradoxes. How to act to keep yourself safe without shifting your attention to danger. Need to somehow orient to the whole thing as an opportunity
@magghu See also this nuanced & epic interview: youtube.com/watch?v=D48Yv_…
Who's orienting to the covid situation as a profound opportunity for deep systems change? 🌎🕸️🌍🕸️🌏 Aware of @jgreenhall @DanielleFong @RobbSmith @RichDecibels... who else? Link below to people & articles & videos 👇
I dig this interview with @jgreenhall about all of the intertwingled global systems. Has a really tight analogy between: • civilizational addiction to naive growth & efficiency • addiction to methamphetamines "inject stimulus 💉 into economy" 🧐 youtube.com/watch?v=D48Yv_…
@magghu Have now made a top-level thread about this:
memetic contact tracing
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts classic rumi style (dyk he founded the school of sufiism known as whirling dervishes?? just learned this a few weeks ago)
@GeniesLoki I find multi-account super annoying because I keep getting into the wrong account and then accidentally fav'ing or RT'ing or nearly-replying. I use Brave(/Chrome)'s multiple browser profiles, one per twitter account. Like incognito but no need to log in every time.
@GretchenAMcC Yeah, this is an unusual time where everybody's context is LOUDLY the same on some level, for an extended period of time.
@nwilliams030 Wheaten Terrier! Had one as a kid ❣️🐶 They are bouncy af. Be prepared to keep food away from the edge of your counter unless you figure out how to train her.
Retweeted @DavidLat
Folks, this #CoronavirusOutbreak is no joke. I’ll give you occasional updates, tweeting from “Above the Hospital Bed,” about…
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts SAVAGE.
Earlier today was seeing people tweet about #WhenThisIsAllOver, and this evening was reflecting about the increased sense of meaning in everyday acts from the covid situation. I think #WhenThisIsAllOver there will be new meaning crisis work to do.
@nwilliams030 Whaaaaat looks so much like a wheaten. Though I guess the shape more like an adult wheaten, whereas the dark snout more characteristic of a young wheaten, so there's that.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Who's orienting to the covid situation as a profound opportunity for deep systems change? 🌎🕸️🌍🕸️🌏 Aware of @jgreenhall…
Alternatively, we can use this situation to bootstrap new cultures & infrastructure globally that support a way of living that is ongoingly meaningful for everybody. 👇 #DontGoBackToNormal
@RobbSmith I'm definitely interested in the more-to-say-on-this!
Retweeted @skepticalsports
This is very good. Set fatality rate at 2% and most standard scenarios end up with ~2% to 4% of the population dead. B…
I kind of want to have a podcast but without: - audio editing - promotion - any expectations that there will ever be a next episode
Retweeted @AllOfTapenade
even as the world might end still post #TweetsAboutThisTrend watch the social contract bend under #TweetsAboutThisTrend…
Holy shit this is a brilliant idea. Even if it can't be executed for some reason (and it seems like maybe it could!) it's absolutely the kind of ideating that we need right now.
@ssica3003 Amen to that.
Retweeted @yaneerbaryam
The medical system, and the people who will not be able to breathe, are in a descent into hell. Helping is important, loc…
Retweeted @peppercoyote
I took the lyrics that @daniAWESOME wrote, tweaked them slightly, and recorded this. Realized that my voice is prosecuta…
Retweeted @DellAnnaLuca
What are the *leading* indicators to know how well a lockdown is working? Number of cases (passively discovered because…
Retweeted @wolftivy
How do we manufacture a productive state of constant crisis, where what must be done is absolutely clear, and everyone spring…
"crisis" is not the word for this & I'll also question the idea that "what must be done is absolutely clear" at the moment. what must be ACHIEVED is absolutely clear and we are iterating on strategies and *THAT* can be true ongoingly, without crisis.
@DanielleFong @5or0oQxlcuLocLE Anticipating this problem, I tried soliciting ideas here, though at the "billionare" scale not the "millionaire" scale.
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
QC's 2020 guide to studying from home during the coronavirus pandemic 1. burn the school down and free yourselves https:/…
Replying to @peternlimberg
@peternlimberg @RichDecibels And here's a kind of... electronic... rock... something? I've loved this song for a decade ❤️🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=fo2XLH…
Replying to @FireEyes66
@FireEyes66 yeah but most of them *intend* to do all of these things
@DanielleFong @edelwax @jgreenhall @RobbSmith @RichDecibels @humsys Dunno how big of a check you're cutting, but I've got 5800€ sitting in my transferwise, that I could get to Joe pretty quickly I think. Then I'm in Canada, and it might be easier to get cash to me.
Retweeted @RichDecibels
@csageland @utotranslucence @Malcolm_Ocean @jgreenhall @DanielleFong @RobbSmith notknowingness is a core competency for t…
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@yashkaf @Aella_Girl Mine are a kind of washer-shape, where my locus is at the present time and sort of facing the rest of the ring. Future is counterclockwise, past is clockwise. If I go 540° clockwise, then I'm at Sept'18. Sort of like a flattened spiral. @PeterBorah
@yashkaf @Aella_Girl @PeterBorah Whole thing is horizontal, to be clear, like if you were looking at a washer placed on a table, present-closest Also "present time" is relative. Like I could imagine the end of 2020 and looking back on nowish, and then Dec would be closest & nowish would be ~300° around the left
Retweeted @AnanyaS1190
This. GIF. Is. Everything. pic.twitter.com/AJTRxvzKfH
Retweeted @MaryRobinette
I think we've got the order of words wrong. It's not social distancing, it's distance socializing.
Retweeted @Meaningness
Uncovering the emotional motivations behind the logically mistaken arguments that nothing is really meaningful. https://t.…
@Meaningness @Radical_Curious Sentence completion exercise could be interesting here. Can find all sorts of unconscious stuff by saying out loud something like "if meaning were real, then...." [whatever spills out] Repeat until surprise, tears, or redundant answers.
@kennyrowe @collinofzion Oh man I'm so in for this. I was also thinking last night "what would it be like to have a livestreamed DJ set with remote live dancers?" Perfect tech for this would require anyone streaming dancing to actually receive the music a couple secs early, to overcome latency.
Retweeted @davidgraeber
THE FUTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. That's ok. It was a really bad future. Now let's come up with a different future. (cr…
@WilliamAEden Yep, corporations are not moral patients. If Particular Airline goes bankrupt, another airline can emerge that will buy its old planes & hire its old staff. Nothing has been lost—except a fragile organizational structure. (Okay, webs of relationships; those DO matter. Still.)
@Aella_Girl In doing a bunch of BioEmotive emotional processing I've come to call these "pseudomemories" Even knowing about false memories etc there's still a strong sense in which if I say "I have a memory of something" then I am claiming that it in fact happened.
@Aella_Girl Since we're talking about trauma & dreams, might as well link in this tweet, which highlights need for 3rd distinction: An event that really happened (eg partner said thing that triggered you) but where your meaning was mostly from some other older thing.
Retweeted @Aryeh___
Woah The evolution of Katsushika Hokusai's 'Great Wave off Kanagawa' 1. When he was 44 - 1803 2. When he was 46 - 1805 3. Wh…
@Aryeh___ He really nails the fractalness of the crest in the third. Basically a dragon curve. Aha! And someone else has spotted this:
Retweeted @cognazor
Broke: denial about the severity of our situation Woke: taking full precautionary measures and adopting war time mentality…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
🚨🚨 LOSS OF SMELL? 🚨🚨 Emerging update on anosmia (loss of sense of smell) as potential early warning / only symptom of m…
@the_aiju @nosilverv This one, specifically.
@yashkaf @Aella_Girl @PeterBorah I queer the episodic/diachronic binary. idk, it makes very little sense to me. I've had a pretty strong sense of discontinuity with former selves (sounds episodic) but my memory seems to function in a more diachronic way? Plus a dozen other diffs.
@The_Lagrangian @WilliamAEden "competed away all profits" seems to contradict NNT and others talking about stock buybacks. But yeah. Monopoly could have weird fx on industry, hm...
Retweeted @amyhoy
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; i…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth I wrote a reflection along a similar line... it doesn't have answers but you may find it meaningful to read 💕
@chiaracokieng You might enjoy my rant about the importance of having goals even though the future is unpredictable:
@JimmyRis @GRITCULT only problem is now it looks like measles
Thread · Twitter trends and layers of meta-commentary
I'm impressed with Twitter Trends, in a particular way. (I usually have them hidden but reenabled them for #COVID) I'm impressed by their capacity for meta-commentary. #Hantavirus probably started trending w ppl freaking out, but now the top tweets are "guys this isn't news"
I've seen this countless times with many trends—by the time I see the trend, it's actually #TweetsAboutThisTrend instead. ie tweets that are participating in the commentary about the trendingness itself.
Now, I suspect that in some cases this probably ends up burying the object-level news to an unhelpful degree. C'est la vie. It's still the polar opposite of clicking a news headline and reading the whole article before *maybe* seeing it debunked in the comments.
Can we do better? What if @Twitter organized its trending tweets by sentiment & level of meta? (could train a classifier for that) Would ~untangle current paradox of "if you think X shouldn't be trending on object level, have to tweet "nvm X" but that boosts trendingness of X"
Mmm. I'm enjoying finding my way back into making meta-meta-commentary about #TwitterReplacement etc etc. Have been a bit stuck in the Global Events groove as far as twitter's been concerned. twitter.com/robinsloan/sta…
On a note that's so tangentially related it might as well be unrelated, check out this epic live electronic performance by @DeLongMusic youtube.com/watch?v=wnzEKy…
@RoamResearch @Meaningness @MimeticValue @QiaochuYuan Mmm good tag but it's mostly other resources so far. Ironically, easier to pull in a raw linear epub than to import the nonlinearity that is meaningness.com Could be done though. A nerd with some scripts could write a meaningness→roam converter in ~4-8h maybe?
@webdevMason Finding myself with the snarky response: "shut down all news outlets. they are not an essential service" My actual perspective... hm. Probably not implementable. No opinion pieces? No reporting on weird-ass behavior of individuals at all? Hm. 🤨
I continue to enjoy & value @BonnittaRoy's distinction between a "We" and an "Us": - the former is a subject, an agent, a team that can do things - the latter is an object that is acted upon source: Emerge: A Source Code Analysis of Collective Action 💞 anchor.fm/emerge/episode…
Thread · Recorded group conversations and holding both live and later listeners
Mmmm, just finished listening to this & enjoyed it. Feeling part of this convospace with all of you gentlemen. This thread = some highlights & thoughts, with some vague segues but not one coherent train of thought. @voiceclub_ @peternlimberg @collinofzion @JaredJanes @cognazor
I loved at the beginning how Tim opened by saying something like "first and foremost, this conversation is among those of us who are having it; sharing it with the internet comes after, and we can all decide what makes sense there"
Reminds me of 2h19m40 in this convo: Making Sense of Sensemaking: Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal, Jordan Hall youtu.be/8Es_WTEgZHE?t=… They're talking about the problems with broadcast media... on YouTube, and @jgreenhall untangles the attendant paradox.
Speaking of paradoxes, back in the original podcast on VoiceCraft, there's a remark about the conversation being therapeutic, in contrast with being more tactical. Based on my experience, it seems that both-at-once is very very possible. Tho starting separate may help bootstrap.
Which reminds me of when, at the Bio-Emotive retreat at @MonasticAcademy last summer, I proposed a convo intended to be both {business meeting} & {we-space} simultaneously & some people thought that was weird. All business meetings need to be we-spaces!
I noticed when I listened to BothAnd+Emerge mashup podcast awhile ago, I couldn't remember whether Jared or Jason had the deeper voice (it's Jason) and so found it hard to know who was talking. This time, I intentionally paid really close attention during intros, & did okay!
Going back to the thing at the top... this is an example of where it might've been helpful to be more conscious that there were other people listening, who may be less familiar with who's who in this 5-person convo. Then eg saying each other's names more: "Yeah, Collin, I agree"
At @liminal_agency, we record all of our convos, & there's been a learn process re how to simultaneously be very present with the people who are live as well as those who may be listening later. eg saying "you" in 3+ person convo is ambiguous to recording listeners (just audio)
Towards the end, there's some reflection on the need for a word other than "IRL" or "meatspace" to point at the space of social interaction that isn't mediated by information technology (arguably includes letter-writing) @byudkowsky proposes "bodyspace" agentyduck.blogspot.com/2016/08/bodysp…
@diviacaroline Yeah, the only way this would be possible is if rates of asymptomatic infection were way higher than we've been appreciating. I have been updating over the last ~2 days to "that's true actually but not to the extent required for half of UK to be infected already"
@TheOrangeAlt @QiaochuYuan Haaaaaaavve you read McGilchrist? 🧠 Probably not actually a good answer, because it's more about the neurology of both-and than it is about actually performing synthesis. But on reflection, it seems to have helped me somewhat with this so 🤷♀️ twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
@TheOrangeAlt @QiaochuYuan There's also just like... practicing doing it. Practice saying "what if A, and also B" Article about harmfulness of But: namelessvirtue.com/2015/08/19/but… Also Edward de Bono on "po" is relevant here:
@TheOrangeAlt @QiaochuYuan What's specifically relevant here is how it illustrates how the LHemisphere can only really hold A & B at once if it has a way to reconcile them Whereas RHem just... doesn't need to do this?! 🤯 It's like "oh yeah, A. also B. also it seems A & B are incompatible. hm, seems so."
@diviacaroline This is the first data that made my jaw drop. Comparison of SKorea & Italy shows how many 20-somethings test positive but you wouldn't know in Italy because they aren't getting tested. Would love if this had denominators (how many of each age tested) newshub.co.nz/home/world/202…
@diviacaroline Haven't looked into it in depth but some relevant stuff coming out of Iceland over the last few days as they've started randomly sampling their asymptomatic population. However: false positives potentially very common. Again, haven't looked in depth! cleantechnica.com/2020/03/21/ice…
@PoemsWeBurned @cognazor @MonasticAcademy Hmm I don't have enough context of what your background is to know what to usefully say here. If you're not familiar with the term "we-space" or can't imagine what that would be in general, then exploring that is probably the leverage point. Otherwise... can you clarify the Q?
Retweeted @balajis
Vox is sending about 0 million masks to the front lines of the coronavirus crisis That sounds terrible until you remember tha…
My first 5 jobs + 5 tags - newspaper delivery - scooping blueberries - web design - busboy ("help wanted" but kept not giving me shifts) - thrift store (amazing job. best stuff never hits the floor) @Conaw @joyurge @Aryeh___ @QiaochuYuan @Timber_22
@KHPavle @liminal_warmth @warmbott @ThaliaAlethier @caeochoa Had a paper route like @liminal_warmth
Retweeted @diviacaroline
If you want an emotionally intelligent man currently leveling up in monk who knows he wants to get married and have kids…
@mmay3r "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." — (allegedly) Thomas Jefferson
@KHPavle @liminal_warmth @warmbott @ThaliaAlethier @caeochoa Wild blueberries, which are tiny and like 5-10× more flavorful (& less sour) than high bush / cultivated blueberries, are too tiny to be worth picking by hand. Fortunately there's a comb/rake/scoop/dustpan device for getting 100s off plant in one motion. Backbreaking work though
> To prevent the virus from spreading, experts recommend frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. It's... it's been a weird time. I knew what they meant but half of my brain parsed this as experts recommending frequent coughing to prevent spreading. #LojbanWhen
Retweeted @EpsilonTheory
Please read, RT. From the dept head of a major hospital in a major American city that is NOT in NY, CA or WA. "The num…
@PoemsWeBurned @cognazor @MonasticAcademy Hm, it's hard to point at without referencing someone's experience... I'm seeing your bio mentions music. If you know the feeling of a bunch of musicians all sync'd up, in the pocket together, jamming, flowing... It's that, but for conversation / general thinking-together
@Aella_Girl @QiaochuYuan @collinofzion @sashachapin @webdevMason @literalbanana @mesolude @KirkegaardEmil @adarnjensen @Scientific_Bird
maybe the interesting times we cursed our enemies to live in are the times we were living in along the way
@DanielleFong @eigenrobot @AlyhaChan @ResonantPyre nobody's perfect 🙃
@QiaochuYuan Baked cookies today tho, so
@QiaochuYuan Could also be related to that thing you shared with me awhile back that's like 5 love languages but for sex? uhhh erotic blueprint I think it's called. Probably that isn't central, but seemed worth mentioning.
Retweeted @nosilverv
Why. Must. Everything. Look. The. Same
@collinofzion @dispirateparts Whoa! What's this from?
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts @collinofzion Do I want to see the full clip, with context? (I don't really follow any shows)
Retweeted @drethelin
Is there a phrase like "revealed preferences" but like, describing signs that show that official story someone gives is not…
@natural_hazard @mlegls @ChasingMyself @aaronzlewis @nosilverv @mattgoldenberg uhhh @meditationstuff
@PoemsWeBurned @cognazor @MonasticAcademy Yeah, with the caveat that most people's scale for how good conversation can get stops at like ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ or ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ whereas in my experience it's possible to go up to at least ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (numbers super arbitrary but this is a log scale to be clear)
@PoemsWeBurned @cognazor @MonasticAcademy it's a qualitative thing not all music-making achieves ecstatic flow either but when it does damn 🤩
@TheOrangeAlt @RoamResearch @natural_hazard this has been one of the top feature requests for months, and @Conaw et al are aware of it but the design for it is complex. iirc they're soliciting suggestions somewhere for how to implement it effectively
@the_aiju @visakanv @QiaochuYuan What is the reference of the graphics to? Like the faces on each side? Somehow I missed that meme (though they look vaguely familiar)
loonie printer go brr?
(seems conceivable to me that US & Canada economies are linked in such a way that it would be weird to have these numbers far out of sync between the two. like some sort of arbitrage thing would happen. idk.)
@visakanv @visakanv_jpeg @rmbalt Haha I mean I could have done that with the Complice team page lol. Wouldn't be surprised if I considered it years ago, honestly.
Great thread about shifting from an exhaustiveness-based attention-management system (eg GTD) to an aliveness/purpose-based one. If you want a system that naturally does this for your tasks, check out complice.co t.co/uAxOUYegkg
@nosilverv was reading more of Carse's Finite & Infinite Games this morning, and it continued stoking my appetite for a game theory that can make sense of win-win games. Moreover: for gameplay between those playing win-win games & those playing win-lose games.
@nosilverv Also if you haven't read that book, it seems like something you might - enjoy immensely - find valuable as your design your #TwitterReplacement MMORPG ch3 "I am the Genius of Myself" dovetails beautifully with this thread of yours:
@jondubin Dude you can't just not tag @m_ashcroft 😛
Canada: where you get an emergency alert on your phone, then 3 minutes later get another one in French. (Contents of alert ~= "travellers outside country required by law to self-isolate for 14 days" #covid19Canada)
Retweeted @SteveStuWill
WTF: If you think "brainstorm," that's what you'll hear; if you think "green needle," you'll hear that instead. 😮😮😮 https…
Tag yourself; I'm Colourist of artificial fish.
@RoamResearch @Elodes12 @liminal_warmth Yeah, here's my roamblog (I also have intertwingled.blog set up to redirect to it; would love to have proper domain-linking but I understand that's far from top priority for the roam team) roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @RoamResearch @Elodes12 If you go to the secretinvite url here, it lets you make another DB:
@Elodes12 @RoamResearch @liminal_warmth I have a custom userstyle for mine... @Conaw said he might add a "custom db-wide CSS" feature for this at some point. If you want my roamblog to look like this, you can install this userstyle: gist.github.com/malcolmocean/0…
@nosilverv yeah, the style seems like the sort of thing that would be offputting to some people but it reads like poetry to me hmm I think it's weird because it's written with a kind of precision that makes it seem as if for the left hemisphere, which it sorta is yet ALSO it's poetry
@TheOrangeAlt I've started blocking a lot more following this exchange
@TheOrangeAlt That's mostly re strangers though, ones who are miles away from even knowing what it would mean to work through something in good faith. For someone I feel a sense of personal connection with, etc, I'd be inclined to try working it out.
Retweeted @TectonixGEO
Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing? Through a partnership with @xmodesocial, we analyzed…
@Elodes12 @RoamResearch @liminal_warmth @Conaw Yeah currently just stylus; 100% agreed that this matters. Currently thing is mostly a demo.
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @Elodes12 @RoamResearch @Conaw Yeah Stylus. Sooner or later @Conaw will hit us up with custom db-wide CSS but for now that's what we got.
@TheOrangeAlt what's the difference? I kinda wish twitter chat felt more like twitter...
@nibrasibn At a high level: Complice doesn't have an ever-growing backlog. Instead of organizing piles of "tasks", there's: - I'm intending to do this *today* - things I [did/didn't] do on [day] - things I intended to do yesterday And each of these is oriented towards long-term goals
@nibrasibn For things you put on your intentions list in the last few days but didn't do, there's a system for grabbing those for today, but: - it gets increasingly frictiony the more you intend to do it and don't - ignore for a few days & they drift into archive blog.complice.co/post/149127901…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@nibrasibn At a high level: Complice doesn't have an ever-growing backlog. Instead of organizing piles of "tasks", the…
@Elodes12 @liminal_warmth @RoamResearch @Conaw I have some other feature requests over in my roamblog thread (this 👇 is partway down the thread; above this is talking about why it's awesome already)
@nibrasibn So each day, you start fresh with the question: What do I want to do towards my goals today?
Retweeted @utotranslucence
'Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.'…
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth @Elodes12 @RoamResearch @Conaw Oh yeah totally. I have no doubt this sort of thing is coming, based on my conversations with Conor at various points in his design process.
@Morphenius @QiaochuYuan @JudeoThought @visakanv Cool to see you poking around here on Twitter. Welcome! Here's a thread I wrote last year introducing Qiaochu... lots has evolved & changed since then and this is also a weird time rn anyway because half of everything is about covid.
Replying to @magghu
@magghu Hmmm I think mostly only a concern for places that you *and* others touch a lot. Or phone, inasmuch as you might touch something while out of the house, then touch your phone, then wash your hands, then touch your phone again. But unless you share your laptop with someone...
Replying to @liminal_warmth
@liminal_warmth YES! I actually suggested to @Conaw that he do it, last year, and he wrote some sort of script for it and imported thousands of @vgr's tweets into some roam, as a demo. idk if that script would work for the current version of roam, or how hard it would be to make available...
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@liminal_warmth @stubborncurias I want to get better at this skill. I have way more ideas than time.
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@liminal_warmth Not that I'm aware of. Hit up the Roam slack and ask there. Join link: roamresearch.slack.com/join/shared_in…
@TheOrangeAlt I wrote an article called "What kinds of distractions are good for your productivity?" which is pointing at a different distinction, that's also relevant "centering distractions" vs "divergent distractions" blog.complice.co/post/891377149…
@rmbalt Of songs that offhand I know are 7th? Pretty sure Testing 1,2,3 by Barenaked Ladies on Everything2Everyone is 7th. *checks* yup. I'm sure there's another song I like more than that, that's also 7th, but this one is good so let's roll with that. youtube.com/watch?v=-lJz8x…
@rmbalt On a related note, I vaguely remember in 2012 making General Disregard the 9th song on my album, from some sense that the best songs on an album are often 9th. I don't know what that was based on 😂🙃🤔🧐 maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/album/the-mind…
@rmbalt When I look at some of my favorite albums from 2010-2012, none of them so far have my favorite song in position 9. Although ooh, Jason Mraz's Love Is a Four Letter Word has 93 Million Miles as the 7th song. I probably love that more than Testing 1,2,3
@vgr design, questions, meta
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@context_ing @cortexfutura @dthorson @tim_adalin @voiceclub_ @cognazor @JaredJanes @andy_matuschak @eriktorenberg @aaronzlewis @context_ing reads Playboy for the Marshall McLuhan interviews
Retweeted @TheRealDoctorT
Our difficulty in comprehending exponential growth leads to two errors of underestimation. 1) We underestimate the rap…
Replying to @QasimRashid
@QasimRashid If you think through the incentives, you may find that what you're saying here has the opposite effect from what you're hoping. slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/aga…
Replying to @magghu
@magghu Yeah, though touching a lot of copper can turn your skin kinda green, and isn't super good for you more generally. I think better to track when fingers are clean & only use computer when they are?
@dailectic @liminal_warmth Yeah, one could also say "take the crazy perspective seriously but don't believe it" and that might end up meaning the same thing...
@katebaumli See this convo 👇 about "avoidance-driven distraction" vs "curiosity-driven distraction" Sometimes time spent not being productive is *also* not relaxing, enjoyable, or rejuvenating. This is sort of the contrapositive of what you're saying twitter.com/TheOrangeAlt/s…
@EmmaJP9_ I wrote a thread about this!
@QiaochuYuan @HunterBergsma @tasshinfogleman holy shit yeah I am gonna be so curious what his response is also if there's covid19 at MAPLE it might be safest for him to stay in the cabin for a bit longer 😲
@keithwalkiewicz Based on my conversations with people, this seems like an instance where people have been deliberately trying to iterate towards whatever memes would be maximally virulent & true/valid/useful, and then adopt the same one. This is... uhh... rare.
@AnneCregan @jasoncrawford @SamoBurja As a Canadian, 2001 barely registered at all. I was a kid, but still. Didn't affect most Canadians' lives, let alone Europeans, etc. 2020 has: - direct impacts on citizens everywhere - indirect impacts on " " - vital *decisions* for " " - ongoing unfolding, not single event
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@AnneCregan @jasoncrawford @SamoBurja As a Canadian, 2001 barely registered at all. I was a kid, but still. Didn't affec…
Retweeted @EricRWeinstein
I‘m interested in *directly* & *consciously* contradicting twitter’s terms of service prohibiting disagreeing w/ health…
@Plinz A couple books that are jumping off points: - Polystate by @ZachWeiner - The Support Economy by @ShoshanaZuboff & James Maxmin
Replying to @magghu
@magghu Huh, I haven't looked into it in depth, I just remember a bunch of rationalist friends seeming concerned. So I guess if some studies are saying it may be good for you then I'm gonna update back to "idfk man"
@dailectic @QiaochuYuan @liminal_warmth @Meaningness Yeah man over the past weeks I have been coming to find washing my hands to be a sacred & quietly ecstatic ritual.
@diviacaroline 😂 watch this video (sound on) reddit.com/r/funny/commen…
@GeePawHill @marick Mmmm I also really appreciated this, and I think I watched it in part because of your comment GPH 🙏
there's something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear it's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real or it's real but it ain't exactly there
Thread · Mapping a 20-button gaming mouse for a Linux workflow · 9 of 11 tweets
Working to get this sort of gaming-mouse extra-button workflow thing set up on Linux (Ubuntu) Currently using - Logitech G600 (20 btns!!) - libratbag for device deets - piper to map keys - compizconfig for mapping key-combos to commands Will post 🎉&🙃&🙄&😖&🤷♀️ in this thread.
I loved Visa's idea of having a screenshot button, *especially* for select-area screenshot, since on linux that's usually a two-handed keyboard shortcut then you need the mouse again. Unfortch, piper doesn't seem to be able to convey the key combo... ctrl+shift get ignored here
However! That's just a temporary hurdle. I found that gnome-screenshot is the command, & specifically I want gnome-screenshot -c -a (c=clipboard, a=area) So CompizConfig Settings Manager→Commands, and I can pipe that mouse btn at that cmd using random hotkey intermediary
Soliciting suggestions from @visakanv and others at this point for other things I might want to do with one mouse button—I have lots! 😆
I like the add-bookmark close-tab combo idea. I know I need a close-tab btn. But I don't think I want to use my browser bookmarks for this... would rather pipe these to @RoamResearch via API. Hmm... could imagine a browser ext that does this really elegantly, w title, date, etc
Also realizing I could add ↑→↓← to 4 of these btns, and then many of the window-management hotkeys I use could be done without my hand leaving the mouse. ctrl+super+💠 = position 🖼️ on monitors ctrl+alt+💠 = switch workspaces ctrl+alt+shift+💠 = move 🖼️ between workspaces
On reflection I think this is prolly not actually worth it, bc often I want to do a whole bunch of these in a row, and then having my fingers on the arrow keys is faster than bomping my thumb around. & my proprioception is already good enough to jump from mouse to hit those keys
WAIT! 😯 Turns out I already use my thumb for this! (Always gaps in "how you {think you} work") This is uniquely possible w my Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard. Not just the absence of numpad—the angledness allows me to easily reach all of these keys with my thumb from the mouse.
This then furthermore suggests that I could be getting more out of the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys that run vertically along the right edge of the keyboard. Hmmmmmmm
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But if you sweep COVID-19 under the rug it stays under the rug for like ... maybe 2 or 3 days! Then the bill comes due.…
@m_ashcroft @RoamResearch I have some half-written pieces on my roamblog that connect brain hemisphere stuff to various other things. Looking forward to intertwingling our findings. "Hemisphere Dharma": roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo… General interlinkings: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…
@m_ashcroft @RoamResearch Re left hemisphere as bully:
@shrinetothevine @ChasingMyself I don't have an opinion on this but I have a link to someone who had an opinion on this a week ago: (click through for discussion & links to papers) twitter.com/FioraAeterna/s…
@GeniesLoki ...we still have no idea what's genetically coded in human beings while culture is traumatizing them in ways (that differ with their genes).
@GeniesLoki Mmm true. I was mostly thinking about kids, like pre-puberty, where that's less relevant.
@GeniesLoki 🤷♀️ I'm pretty bearish on schools altogether
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@jonnym1ller @buster @metalearn It wasn't until I was reading McGilchrist's book that I fully realized what a paradox *i…
@alexeyguzey Ha! A couple days ago, I just read a letter I wrote in 2007 to my 2008 self, and that was a fascinating experience that gives me appetite to do this too. Here are some prompts I recently created for a very similar exercise from the complice.co Goal-Crafting Intensive
@alexeyguzey Unfortunately I am not able to make this call, it emerges. But perhaps I'll do this later anyway.
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Stay indoors, avoid crowds & maintain a sensible & simple diet. #CoronavirusAdvice twitter.com/OnlyOneTeeta/s…
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@SarahTaber_bww @lizaledwards Who knew that in the help to fight COVID-19, one of the professional opinions is to stop and…
I have discovered an amazon search query that returns: - mushroom powder - thermostats - cables & sensors & wire connectors - testosterone boosters - guitar straps - batteries - bike handlebar tape - furnace blower - 256MB RAM - dog training rewards - bhutan car stickers
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friends, remember to practice safe Slack usage during self-quarantine - thus:
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My dream @RoamResearch browser extension once API exists: When typing, double brackets allow me to search Roam pages.…
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Is this a dumb lockdown business idea? Ice cream trucks, but for fresh produce/dairy/meat. They drive around neighborhoods…
@WilliamAEden See also this dark tiktok video: twitter.com/VeggiePapi/sta…
@makoConstruct Haha no I think somehow CompizConfig exists as a plugin for whatever the default window manager is, that adds a bunch of cool features. But I used to use CompizWM, flame fx and all, back in like 2006. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Jeanvaljean689 @jonnym1ller @SarahAMcManus Yup, good points here re "net permissive". Though that doesn't remotely contradict this tweet here. Point is each side is less telling each other "do this" and more "don't do this" even when "this" is "avoid doing something" Still seems meaningful to me.
@orpheaskk @katebaumli @alexeyguzey Oh yeah! & now, finally, the Complice coworking rooms support having long breaks 😃 I'll make one at some point that syncs up with Guzey's system. Or you can make one—go to complice.co/createroom (once you have an account; without an account it'll just make a settingsless room)
@visakanv My life has enormous time dilation usually... factor of 2-3. Either it's been accelerating or its not something a human brain can adjust to. Subjective sense of "meaningful events per day" or something. This has sometimes been like 2-3 but other times like 4-5
@visakanv It's not due to boredom or sadness, then or now. Due to intense learning & novel meaningful events.
most underrated emoji? my pick: 🧐
"Giant schools built on the model of early twentieth century factories can be gutted, remodelled, and reborn, metaphorically and literally, to create the meta-industrial one-room schoolhouses of the future—21st century temples of learning." @QiaochuYuan ift.tt/2V3NMsX
"Sutric Buddhism sounds very... self-defeating"
@rmbalt Track 10 "Priorities" has a totally real sax solo! —non-sarcastically totally real. This is actually odd, since 🎺 I have spent many 100s of hours playing real trumpet 🎷 yet <10h playing sax, almost all of which were developing & recording that solo maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/track/prioriti…