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🔊 A fascinating article on how whales and dolphins now yell in order to be heard over ship traffic:

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Long-finned pilot whales navigating busy shipping routes are having to yell when communicating with other members of the pod… However, this was only noticeable for two types of calls: high-frequency and short-pulsed calls. Dolphins appear unable to increase their volume when producing low-frequency and two-component calls, which, according to the researchers, are the most important for locating other pod members after a dive. Essentially, they were already shouting as loudly as they could.

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🎬 One of the many perks of living in the most gorgeous corner of Brooklyn is how many movies choose to film here. Kit Harrington of Game of Thrones fame sighted today on set!

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💐 Today’s flowers go to:

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🃏 Recently, a friend of mine who has been single for a long time showed up to a party dressed as a USPS worker. I said, ‘What’s with the costume?’

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She said, ‘What do you mean? Everyone keeps telling me that I should be appealing to the mail gaze.'

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📹 Feeling famous because I made a cameo in my dear friends’ latest Youtube video: 24 Hours with a 1 Week Old Newborn in NYC.

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As you can see, they are the sweetest people and make such genuine content. Do yourself a favor and join the other 50k+ subscribers who enjoy their videos weekly!

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✈️ Spirit Airlines has officially bit the dust, which is a great reason to revisit the recurring Daily Show gag where Trevor Noah would frequently roast their service.

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“Spirit Airlines—we shut down the day we opened.” 🤣

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🧠 Having gone through a relatively strong Jungian phase in 2015-2016, I am astounded at how much of that school I find very disagreeable now. The exception, however, is the concept of “shadow work”— which remains absolutely invaluable.

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🎵 Some classic recs:

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Is Outstanding is one of best songs ever? Essay on Tom’s Diner soon.

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💬 My final quote from Kierkegaard—a thought-provoking parable and a personal favorite which I believe helps unlock a main theme of his philosophy:

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“Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the seventh heaven. All the gods sat there in assembly. By special grace I was accorded the favour of a wish. ‘Will you,’ said Mercury,’ have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the prettiest girl, or any of the many splendors we have in our chest of knick-knacks? So choose, but just one thing!’ For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed myself to the gods as follows: ‘Esteemed...

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💬 Kierkegaard on the beautiful partnership between calling and correction, in Purity of Heart Is To Will One Thing:

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A Providence watches over each man’s wandering through life. It provides him with two guides. The one calls him forward. The other calls him back. They are, however, not in opposition to each other, these two guides, nor do they leave the wanderer standing there in doubt. Rather the two are in eternal understanding with each other. For the one beckons forward to the Good, the other calls man back from evil. Of these two, the call of remorse is perhaps the best.

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💬 Kierkegaard on the joys of living in a city and the delight of being attentive to strangers, from his journals:

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“Precisely for this reason is life in the city so entertaining to him who knows how to find in human beings a delight which is more enduring and yields bigger returns than getting a thousand men to acclaim one for half an hour. Any person, if he had an open eye, may lead a life rich in enjoyment, merely by paying attention to others; and he who has his own work to do would do well to take heed not to be too much imprisoned by it.

But how pitiful to miss what costs nothing: no entrance...

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@isaacgreene Haha! The Diapsalmata is probbaly my favorite section of the book. It is what I tell myself (but know is not the case) that the various fragments of thoughts in my Notes app looks like. 🤣

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💬 Kierkegaard on the anxiety that accompanies riches, the pitfalls of wealth, and the assurance of Providence in Christian Discourses:

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Why, naturally, the bird teaches us the surest way to avoid the anxiety of riches and abundance. Namely, not to lay up riches and abundance—bearing in mind that one is a traveller. And in the second place, it teaches us to be ignorant of the fact that one has abundance—bearing in mind that one is a traveller. For, like that simple wise man of ancient times, the bird imparts to us instruction in ignorance [by the way it lives]…

How then does the bird live? Well, it is...

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💬 Kierkegaard on character, virtue, and knowledge in Works of Love:

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The measure of a person is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions?

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💬 Kierkegaard on character, virtue, and knowledge in Works of Love:

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The measure of a person is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions?

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💬 Kierkegaard on hypocrisy, deception, and trusting others (a personal favorite of mine) from Works of Love:

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“But he who gets busy tracking down hypocrites, whether he succeeds or not, should be certain that this also is not hypocrisy, for such investigations are hardly the fruits of love. He, on the other hand, whose life really bears its own fruit will, without wishing it and without trying, unmask or even shame every hypocrite who comes near him; but one who loves will perhaps not even be conscious of this.”

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@ablerism Ahh, that’s one I have not read. Will add to my list; curious to know your thoughts when you get around to it. Princeton Press published a bio on SK’s almost-wife, Regine, some time ago and it provided a very unique perspective. Lots of love letters and poetry I had never seen from him.

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💬 As a Mexican-American man, Cinco De Mayo is already a special day; but it also happens to be the birthday of my highly esteemed Soren Kierkeegard. I hesitate to promise a full Kierkegaardian blog post, but I will be posting intermittent quotes throughout the day:

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Aren’t people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don’t have; they have freedom of thought, but they demand freedom of speech. — From Either/Or

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@pragmatist also, I see that you’re new to micro.blog! Welcome! Really is a wonderful platform—great community and philosophy. Youll like it here im sure.

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@pragmatist Yup, that totally tracks with the data and makes so much sense. That being said, definitely makes to difficult for discoverability! Tough time to be a “new writer” without institutional clout.

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📖 NBER’s latest on the effect of LLMs in publishing:

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🔥 I am endlessly intrigued by the mythology surrounding the ancient greek figure Hermes. Today I learned today about St. Elmo’s Fire, alternatively called “Hermes Fire”: a blue or violet glow caused by corona discharge on pointed objects like ship masts, airplane wings, or spires during storms. It makes...

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🕵️ This Financial Times piece (gift link) about a cab driver who started the first spy store and espionage empire is borderline unbelievable. This man’s life was an actual movie:

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Inspired by 007, Jamil invented an “olive-in-a-martini transmitter” that eavesdropped on cocktail conversations (the antenna was the toothpick). Like Bond’s “Q”, he hid cameras in cigarette packets and microphones in sugar cubes… an electronic hanky that turned a woman’s voice into a man’s, a wristwatch that squirted tear gas, and bulletproof underwear.

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The ’60s were just a different time, I guess? Please do read.

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@JohnBrady Just watched this recently also. The scene where they are walking home on opposite sides of the street is utter perfection.

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💬 Okay, okay—one more banger from Mcluhan (from the same essay):

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The need of our time is for the means of measuring sensory thresholds and of discovering exactly what changes occur in these thresholds as a result of the advent of any particular technology. With such knowledge in hand it would be possible to program a reasonable and orderly future for any human community. Such knowledge would be the equivalent of a thermostatic control for room temperatures. It would seem only reasonable to extend such controls to ail the sensory thresholds of our being. We have no reason to be grateful to those who...

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💬 From Mcluhan, in his essay on The Relationship Between Environment and Anti-Environment (1965) :

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The content of any system or organization naturally consists of the preceeding system or organization, and in that degree acts as a control on the new environment. It is useful to notice all of the arts and sciences as acting in the role of anti-environments that enable us to perceive the environment. In a business civilization we have long considered liberal study as providing necessary means of orientation and perception. When the arts and sciences themselves become environments under conditions of...

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💬 A great tidbit from the current read, Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde:

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One of Picasso‘s favorite assignments for a young artist was to have him or her try to draw a perfect circle. It can’t be done; everyone draws a circle with some particular distortion, and that distorted circle is your circle, an insight into your style. “Try to make the circle as best you can. And since nobody before you has made a perfect circle, you can be sure that your circle will be completely your own. Only then will you have a chance to be original.” The deviations from the ideal give an insight into the style,...

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🎵 New Kehlani album is really good. A few skips, but still an instant purchase for me. Some favorite tracks for those wanting to listen:

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RnB is on the up and up, y’all, and just in time.

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💾 This blog post from Discourse.org on why they are staying open source in the age of AI is really good:

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Biological immune systems work because they’re exposed to threats. They encounter pathogens and build memory. An immune system that’s never been challenged will collapse at the first real infection. Open-source codebases work the same way - vulnerabilities that get found and patched make the software harder to attack. Security researchers who read the code add layers of defense, and public audits build institutional knowledge about where the weak points are and how to shore them up.

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@JohnPhilpin 🤣 Bravo, this made me literally laugh out loud.

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@isaacgreene Congrats, Isaac. I love to see this. May you become even more and more established there!

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@devilgate @johnphilpin I also have not heard of, nor can I find anything, regarding bitumous. However, I agree that it sounds exceptionally legitimate. 😂 I came across “bituminous” in class last night, while reviewing some earnings reports for Big Oil. Apparently _subbituminous _is also a thing.

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✏️ New Word Learned:

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Bituminous: a dull black, intermediate-rank coal

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@gregmoore Yes, great example. I read his stuff and ask myself “why am I not doing stuff like this more? This is what I actually enjoy.”

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@isaacgreene 🤣 hahaha. Yeah, the old people go for “dearie,” “hun,” “sport,” or ocassionally “tiger.” Big dog tends to be, at least, sub fifty years old. 🙃

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@thebigbabooski

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@bradleyandroos | Apologies if my photos spam anyone’s timeline. I will try to space out my releases, but want the shots configured in a way on my photos page and weekly digest that posting individually seems to work best for!

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@ablerism That’s exactly right. A dance-musical interpretation of the album was on Broadway for a brief time. Such joyful weeping it caused…

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@void2259 original work or did you find this somewhere? It’s excellent. So visually appealing.

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@jinscho Agree with you wholeheartedly here. But why is this the first time I’ve heard the phrase ‘ridicule as praxis’? I really like that.

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@isaacgreene Had a chance to listen. Sonically they are so distant, but there is such a great spiritual quality to both. Despite its “chaos,” 3rd Construction seems so genius that the sweetness of In A Landscape didn’t entirely surprise me. Both are great experiences. Thnx again for putting me on. 😊

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@ablerism I most certainly was not familiar—and this seems right up my alley. Many thanks for putting it on my radar; would never pass up a rec from you!

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@JohnBrady This is so, so funny to me. Lol A+ joke!

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@isaacgreene 🫡 I will definitely give it a shot. I did notice,and was intrigued by, the way that so many Fluxus artists came from a music/composition background, as opposed to purely visual. No doubt is a huge factor in their singularity. Thanks for putting me on game!

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@isaacgreene my man! Cage’s name has popped up repeatedly and I haven’t dug in yet. Now I know where to start, thank you!

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And yes— what characters! So much life and creativity. Cant wait to learn more.

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@gregmoore Oh, I am so glad you enjoy it too. Stunning work deserves to be appreciated.

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@isaacgreene Oof— thats a compelling recommendation. Adding it to my must-reads now! Thanks!

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@bkryer Ah, you know, you are not the first person to tell me so. Gotta make it a priority now! Good shout!

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@ablerism Awesome to have you here, @pauldefazio! You’re going to love it. The water is warm. 🙂

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@isaacgreene Thanks for putting this on my radar. I enjoyed your response a lot and agree. Real respect for the librarian’s contribution tho, even if I think he is off. You can’t quote Walter Ong and then ignore his entire schtick… You definitely inspired me to write my own thoughts on this soon.

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