Rafe Meager (they/them)

lmaooo took me a minute

HE LIVED IN A POKEBALL OF THE MIND

this place has it

U can do this virtually anywhere and anytime !!!!!!

oh excuse u propter malone why are you shedding tears for the ayatollah etc etc

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

it was seventh seal! only seen hour of the wolf before this.

holy shit this is incredible

TL is on fire today (good way) all my mutuals are making excellent posts 🥲🫡💝

A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“

Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist”

Me:

I love it when people explain basic LLM/AI stuff to me, it just gives me the standpoint to be an even better ally to women

hee hee

i think this is an element of the same set as 2001 a space odyssey, it's like existential horror about what human beings somewhat inevitably do to themselves in the normal course of civilisation and life

you understand me

the morose quality is what adds the flavour

yes it was The Seventh Seal and yes it somehow lives up to the hype, you'd think it wouldn't be possible, but it's such a cracking 90 minutes I almost could not tear my eyes away from the screen the entire runtime despite watching it on my shitty laptop

there is so much going on right now but i really hope the world will not demolish the chicago stock exchange trading room and i dont understand why my best friend and boyfriend/lover, the art institute of chicago, would do this

He Loved Him Madly YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic

i 100% did not understand or get the hype about miles davis until i listened to he loved him madly youtu.be/3Fc_-VZlkcM?...

that is an incredible system, well done to whoever mechanism designed that

and you know who has thought about this also -- Mr Beast, he says in his handbook you can't use absolute number of people who drop off the video because more viral videos always have more drop off (he's actually astoundingly sophisticated! and underrated as a kind of serious person imo!)

Dragon Ball Z meme: It's over 9000!!!!

When people ask me what my article's word count is

“Many audiences never read good long form journalism to the end” did a many audiences write this

A few things I've learnt from writing >4,000 word pieces:

- They tend to be more popular than my short pieces!
- They're more definitive - like reference material, not a hot take.
- Not everyone will reach the end, and that's okay.
- Write so that the people who do find it incredibly satisfying.

no paul. you posted with honour.

ha i mean that is obviously nonsensical but I think you're right, and it's related to the baffling lack of empathy people seem to have for students, children, etc

i genuinely think they have some cognitive illusion like this! because ,..,,, they think they wouldnt exist in some sense if they weren't so big and powerful????

this is indeed depressingly possible but i always wondered why they are not ashamed before us. i suppose we simply don't count as an audience.

(I'm rapidly exiting junior status but that's the bulk of my professional life so I'm speaking from that)

relatedly, it always astounds me the extent to which it seems senior or higher-up people think junior or lower-down people won't talk to each other about what they've seen.

Ohhhhh I see I see

for those of us that are slow what are they doing? (from my ignorant vantage point it looks like "trying to make bob carr sound interesting via juxtaposition" but i truly know nothing about any of this)