linking rot for me

natural-born widderslainte ; worm, bird, triangle ; de la de la de la mort ; astaxanthan like a rising sun

[meteorasmayyetfall]

She's Jharan: a psychotic, an adult.

The tags are variably-legible: #bodyby holds people in many states (drawn, disassembled, flushed), #microthedas has textposts, #caustic's where slurs are, #spectocular goes on aesthetic posts, #selfsaid's for originals, #piping's for brain noise, #flashinglights is for epileptic-fit-inducing media, and #putpaces is about fighting, for example. This post's tagged with the regularly-used. The theme and such are all broken, and will be fixed at some point (though the intended viewing experience is via the app). Most posts are queued.

Some of the tags contain things you would not like to see, probably. I'm opposed to this in principle, but the tags are there to be blocked.

Ideally it'd go without saying, but I don't endorse everything said by anyone I reblog.

[meteorasmayyetfall]

economics provides its own critique: if it really modelled revealed preferences in a useful way, economists would be more powerful. their policies would get implemented. not because the policies were better, but because 'being an economist' also meant immediate moment-by-moment accurate estimation of consumer behaviour, which knowledgebase you would expect to see generalise to general interpersonal execution skill.

people live moment by moment: a description of human preference that doesn't derive from a stream of consciousness (model of such) is abstracting out the feature that makes it what it is. It's much alike to the progress of orbit descriptions requiring more accurate descriptions of reality. You can have a fewer-dimensioned abstraction, but that it's so predictable with so few is why it's not a good abstraction outside of very broad questions. Like, if there were no constraints, it would just spiral chaotically, but that actions are rankable by desirability in a way that differs by the environment causes convergence over exact particulars while never converging fully. Am I just stating the obvious? I feel like everyone knows this, really, but they don't hang it together this way.

[youzicha]

Happy moon landing day!

[meteorasmayyetfall]

'too delicate a constitution for math' takes on a different meaning when you consider how the saunalike sensation of then-contemporary math instruction might affect someone sensitive to such, I figure.

[collapsedsquid]

The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

[meteorasmayyetfall]

Part of why I'm as I am: I often find myself wondering whether I'm the least autistic of my first-degree relatives. They're all dramatically more dependent on routine and normality for their psychological health, and they're less good at predicting people. I have 'why are you giving me the output when the prompt is the valuable part' as a conversational complaint: if someone's struggling for a word, I can usually provide it (90%), and if I know someone I'll often complete their sentence should they pause to consider what to say, which behaviour often has people respond with "that's exactly what I mean" (70%, more variable). Relatedly, I read about active listening in a parenting book owned by my parents somewhere around 7 (I remember being pleased to read 'a bright 11yo could maybe barely read this book', and I started reading said books because my parents would talk about parenting a sibling who'd recently become toddler-disobedient, and I wanted to be able to participate: I adopted active listening as my default conversational approach, and I'm good enough at regenerating a person's output that no-one noticed that I'd drift into thinking about something else midway through their speech, even if this happened reliably: I saw my ADD-specialist psychiatrist for five years before she considered whether I would benefit from stimulants [she was on the 'patients without a regular psychiatrist who present to hospital' list the place I went had {I wasn't held but was taken to be evaluated}: that she specialises in ADD was pure happenstance]).

[meteorasmayyetfall]

read the post about the gay chad/sraight chad curve with chuds in the middle ty it was relevant. was inadvertently reminded of that one substack article ughhh oh my god fuck about there being three genders with 1st class citizens, 2nd class citizens, and faggot-subaltern undesirable class.

I'm glad it was worth reading! I don't know that I've seen the Substack post: do you recall what it was called, or another way to reference? The website is a pain on my current computer (it's probably going to stop turning on soon, as it's old and was cheap), and the app similarly so (also, it continues to amaze me that 'chronological feed' isn't something they offer: assuming they want people who aren't drifting thoughtlessly to use it, only being able to sort by 'bad algorithm' or 'less bad algorithm' is bad for that. They seem to be trading off time-on-device for attractiveness to customers who might make it a more attractive platform, as I imagine the modal person who can write a top-tier Substack has better taste than their algorithm provides).

[meteorasmayyetfall]

(this is probably solvable via RSS, but that's inconvenience enough to filter heavily)

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

hey.. two people were asking about you… so i gave them your address and phone number… their names were Skeletal Warrior and Skeletal Ice Mage

[meteorasmayyetfall]

climbing through a cline it's true

[qqchurch]

[meteorasmayyetfall]

read the post about the gay chad/sraight chad curve with chuds in the middle ty it was relevant. was inadvertently reminded of that one substack article ughhh oh my god fuck about there being three genders with 1st class citizens, 2nd class citizens, and faggot-subaltern undesirable class.

I'm glad it was worth reading! I don't know that I've seen the Substack post: do you recall what it was called, or another way to reference? The website is a pain on my current computer (it's probably going to stop turning on soon, as it's old and was cheap), and the app similarly so (also, it continues to amaze me that 'chronological feed' isn't something they offer: assuming they want people who aren't drifting thoughtlessly to use it, only being able to sort by 'bad algorithm' or 'less bad algorithm' is bad for that. They seem to be trading off time-on-device for attractiveness to customers who might make it a more attractive platform, as I imagine the modal person who can write a top-tier Substack has better taste than their algorithm provides).

[meteorasmayyetfall]

The Commodification Slopocline: Or, MythBusters Portends Disaster

[meteorasmayyetfall]

One-run draft SOC: the discovery channel at one point had content distinct from many others, preferred to them by a subset of the audience for TV. MythBusters was a step towards broad entertainment and away from the particular thing they were doing before. This gained the channel a wider audience and more money, so they kept taking steps like that until they became a commodity cable channel with nothing making it worth checking beyond fondness for a particular show, like all the rest. In becoming more popular, they moved from having a niche to becoming a commodity. This then meant there was no barrier to losing their viewers to better competition in the commodityslop market.

This is a general feature of being popular in a niche and gaining more by becoming less niche: each step increases audience size and decreases distinctiveness. The Slopocline is the point at which the brand capital is depleted enough for whatever niche audience to abandon the thing.

I imagined a similar thing as a magic in a fantasy setting: becoming 1% more slaughterraptor via ritual might make someone more dangerous, but repeating the process means you'll eventually just be one, and then the standard countermoves will work against you reliably.

(Related to "Commoditize Your Complement" & "The Trust Thermocline")

[present-prophetic]

what a shameful feeling it is to be so profoundly broken around someone infinitely wholesome in the same exact places. what a shameful feeling it is, to do the job of explaining to the clueless, explaining something so atomic to your own existence you can barely distinguish the do from the be, and to be met with this. friendly incomprehension. genuine desire to understand one such as yourself, the wretched thing, the abomination.

[pmamtraveller]

9th century female torso

[argumate]

dunno if “SpaceXAI” is ever gonna sound normal

[meteorasmayyetfall]

I have wondered whether bizarre celebrity baby names are actually an op that people usually fall for (in the same way 'Musk is so bad at posting' gets his posts rebroadcasted everywhere, so people can congratulate themselves on how they're superior to and giving attention to someone who is so clearly 'bad at posting').

Celebrities have the shared experience of not having privacy or anonymity in public, and I imagine they'd want their children to avoid that as they grow up. So, they give their children bizarre legal names, which are then promoted heavily by the paparazzi. Then, the children go by their more normal middle names, or a standard name that's kind of like the bizarre one, and people in public don't go 'that's the child of x celebrity' because the name isn't the widely-publicized one.

@youzicha

[meteorasmayyetfall]

I've mentioned before that I've known several people with Dissociative Identity Disorder or thereabouts. I don't think any of the diagnoses in this area are so meaningful, so it seems worthwhile to describe these people in more detail. One person mentioned it was a feature of theirs, but it didn't have the characteristics as usually described: in their own words, it was more that they could sometimes slip into a persistent state of being where their experience was entirely separate from their sense of agency, and they were a pure observer of the things they were doing, in a fairly standard dissociative way.

The other, she never described herself as having DID (or made any psychiatric self-description, though she would mention various traumatic life events such that it'd be surprising were she not durably affected) and it's a conclusion I came to after knowing her for a while (and talking to other friends of hers). The person she was wasn't persistent over different contexts, and her memory of things didn't propagate between them: for example, the 'her of ages 14-17' didn't share memory with the her of ages before and after, and if something happened that triggered the memories of that time, that self would emerge, without memories of the recent past (aside from those experiences of that self which had been formed through more recent emergences). The experience of knowing her involved having an awareness of what'd trigger the emergence of the other selves and avoiding such if possible, because it was usually an unpleasant time for all involved (like the panic response she had driving her car and discovering someone she didn't recognise in the passenger seat: that was a time).

Neither had been through any kind of psychotherapy about it in particular (to my knowledge, for the first, and I'm certain for the second).

I don't have a great sense of what was actually going on in the second case, though I have wondered if part of it was that she was an intermittent perfect liar as a result. She'd totally lack resistance or anxiety in some situations, because she had no memory of the thing-to-lie-about: the self-of-a-time active was perfectly innocent. She wasn't a great liar otherwise, and the difference was pretty stark.

[meteorasmayyetfall]

THEY CALL