How to Avoid Magic: Mantras for Muggles 1. "it's just a coincidence" - this spell will ward off any magic that might be happening around you if you don't see it, it isn't there

When you make a stack of irregular objects like fieldstones or firewood, an interesting thing happens: if you take your time with each piece, you'll find they all get used, always a perfect place for every single one. This is a good metaphor for community. I am *not* saying that

Privacy by design. Keys stay offline in the hardware wallet. Decentralized messaging and photo storage all on one device, and ZK that lets you prove validity without revealing data. This is the future of mobile devices. The Gen 2 Coral devices will bring in intentional but

tfw an insect outbuilds me on my own construction site

As usual, Ruskin said it beautifully 150 years ago, and since then we've only doubled down on the thing he told us not to do: https://t.co/GxpEBdWXeK

I never worked construction for money (started out coding, lately building my own house), but I'd say it's not so much the manual aspect of manual labor that sucks as the fact that it's been completely severed from the mental aspect. Creatively solving construction problems can

Better Living Through Chemistry mindset treats being alive/dead as a binary, when in fact it's a spectrum. A substance that gradually turns you into a shuffling, demented zombie over decades might be "generally recognized as safe," because it only makes you partly dead. Its

@OriginalWD40 what's the deal with the scent?

What using Airia AI feels like...

WD-40 is not sold or marketed as a cologne but

dead/alive is not a binary it's a spectrum subtle gradations of vitality are everywhere once you start looking for them

you can worry about anything if you put your mind to it

much-needed update to the EU flag

When they took science from the curious mystics and turned it into a faith-based religion, they reinvented apologetics and named it "skepticism"

There's nothing inherently isolating about rural places, nor anything inherently connective about urban places. You can be isolated in the city and connected in the country. But city people moving to the country will need to adopt a rural mindset to thrive there. What's the

@yoltartar Truly good tweets (x posts) leave you curious and not conclusive

most modern non-fiction gives me the ick bc it's a string of factoids that are superficially novel but told from a standard-issue factory-farmed worldview it's hyperpalatable, it works by smashing that AHA! button, but this secondhand insight is cheap and flimsy and eventually

Trying to understand the gut microbiome with gene sequencing is like trying to understand the Amazon rainforest after it's gone through a wood chipper. All things have structures in space and time which can't be inferred from their composition: soil, water, light, food, mind, all

Arguably the main contribution of Ptolemaic astronomy was to develop the tools, measurements, and calculation methods to identify the "anomalies" that it didn't predict well, and maybe the goal of every scientific theory should be not to "explain" but to expose its own flaws.

You've heard of p-hacking but there's an even deeper pitfall which we could call "model-hacking" in which we try out mathematical models and twiddle their parameters until they fit observations. For example, consider the surface tension of water, a vital property of our world

wild that we can build someone a 2000 sqft house with all the creature comforts and it's still so intolerable that they spend most of their time living in a 0.2 sqft rectangle of glass

hm, then i thought it's unlike a wire bc it doesn't complete a circuit, but it does! imagine you're the battery: the chemical process inside you is fully reversible, so from the inside, being discharged and recharged would feel like going forward and backward thru a time circuit

a battery is a type of wire that extends through time