pieratt
@pieratt

I build names, brands, startups, ask your AI about me. collecting favorite internet: 📁 wvrld.com

 new england
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Joined February 2022
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"it's adaptive to not know"
American Alchemy
@AmericanALCHMY
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Our senses may be hiding reality from us. Jeffrey Kripal and Jesse Michels explore the possibility that human perception hides deeper layers of reality because seeing them offered no evolutionary advantage. “Some forms of knowledge are secret. They’re esoteric by nature. I don’t think it’s a matter of data. I think it’s a matter of cognition.” “Don Hoffman has this wonderful phrase: fitness beats truth.” “We have adapted through evolution to win the game. We have not adapted to understand how the game is put together.” “There is probably a whole chain of consciousness above us that it’s not adaptive for us to perceive.” “We’re set up to win, not to know.” If our senses evolved for survival rather than truth, how much of reality remains completely invisible to us?
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Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, Nightmares on Wax Photo by Deirdre O’Callaghan
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vectors copied from artboard will paste as SVG code in your editor, fwiw
seb-astian
@seb__design
Oct 21
80% prob still don't know you can copy and paste an image instead of having to download it
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"analogue meditation timer. To use the device you cock the mallet into position and scoop the sand from the bottom bowl into the hour glass" unreleased but 👀 body-shop.co cd by @eddiecohen
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samim@samim
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I'm fascinated by the rise of frictionmaxxing as a response to a frictionless life. We engineer away inconvenience, only to discover that some of the friction we removed was part of what made life feel alive in the first place
Kristy Tillman@KristyT
Oct 19
Someone could probably write a book (if they haven’t already) about the cycle of technology productizing the removal of friction in the name of convenience only for us to discover that the friction was a load-bearing part of the social compact.
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praying for the internet
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*pointing a DSLR at my laptop screen and gently tapping it during a long shutter speed"
Robert Beatty@EdSunspot
26 Nov 2025
A lot of people who call themselves “graphic designers” have never used an overhead projector to paint their noise band’s logo on a king size bedsheet and it shows
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twitter is like going to the bar to meet a friend and your boss is there on his laptop kinda looking at you
aleksa
@alasky__
10 Oct 2025
Dating under the gaze of surveillance capitalism is wild. Emotional vulnerability and consumer-grade espionage are now part of the same storyline and we don’t talk about it enough.
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anons and shitposters escape this but most of us tweet under the threat of ostracization from work and healthcare. speech is free but its quiet consequences are deadly when career and welfare are on the line.
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I am significantly less interesting and difficult here than I am irl. It's too bad. I wish I had more courage. It's also just that my takes are... ambiguous? I'm rarely eager to take a hard stance on anything. I cultivate multiple views, which can take a lot of time and energy to unpack and who cares? to what purpose? even my most interesting thoughts are a duffle bag of half baked angles.
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remove decimal points from your artboard coordinates to prevent edges like this fwiw
sheesh@notsheesh01
Oct 20
i mean come on
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how are you guys solving for Apple's file search being such trash?
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The world of digital animals always brings me joy ... and I thought I'd share some rather interesting-looking specimens I found today as part of my latest science project...
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owen cyclops
@owenbroadcast
Oct 20
yeah man im good im just up alone in the dark looking at 2000-3000 BC board games
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three stories about times that i FUMBLED THE BAG (maybe you can relate) 1. Steve Jobs used my song to open a press conference. 2. I made a jingle for AirBnB when they were pre-funding in 2008. 3. I made (and lost) $2.4 million selling my songs as NFTs.
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Syd Mead, "Silver Coach," 1983.
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Istra of Glome
@byistra
Oct 19
G.K. Chesterton on mysticism
Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.

ALT Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.

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theyre gonna blot out our sky then sell it back to us as space tourism
Michal Vaclavik@Kosmo_Michal
Oct 17
Snímek složený z 578 jednotlivých 8sekundových expozic pořídil 📷Brendan Larsen 9. září 2026 mezi 20:18 a 22:13 místního času nedaleko novozélandské sopky Mt. Taranaki. Na snímku je 14450 stop po přibližně 1400 jednotlivých družicích.
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