I love that a Japanese sesshin is also an English session (but not vice versa) and the etymologies are completely unrelated

lmao, I got back some medical test results that are so bad my doctor has to check in with the doctor who created the test to see if it's a data issue or a legitimate result

I grapple with enjoying so much transhumanist cyberpunk that views the body as something for your “consciousness” to “transcend”, while holding a deep-seated belief that anything you might reasonably call “human consciousness” is inseparable from myofascia and physical nerves and gut bacteria

'Swas@sbeen.myatproto.social · 23h ago

"Human consciousness is not incidentally but constitutively organic" is a great line. And I believe at some point a history will be written of how "machine learning" opposed, became, then opposed again "artificial intelligence".

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

Nobody can agree on what severity scales mean for ME/CFS (I typically consider myself moderate but am severe on this thread’s scale), but I need to emphasize that even “mild” ME/CFS is more hellish a disease than most people will experience in their life

It's ME(Jaime)@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today, Aug 8, is #SevereMEDay. Today we discuss severe-presenting #MECFS and remember people with severe ME. #MECFS is an infection-associated chronic illness, which means it is often, but not always, kicked off by an infection. ~Half of #LongCOVID cases at 6 mo meet the dx criteria for ME/CFS. 🧵

Yes YES The tiger is out

Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 3d ago

What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan.

This is a really neat design! …and also helps reveal what a killer deal the AirFanta 3Pro is for $165 vs ~$130 for a similar product made out of metal and not needing you to manually cut craft foam. amzn.to/4wPGF82

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3d ago

Clean Air Cville has just released a step-by-step PC Fan Air Purifier build guide with a complete supply list and photos: www.cleanaircville.org/buildguide This design uses silent PC fans so is great for classrooms & places a totally silent air filter is needed: www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/co...

Any definition that shards on spending habits and not “are you required to sell your labor to put food on the table” is functionally propaganda for the upper class

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4d ago

What, to you, is the difference between upper middle class and upper class? (US edition, but please don’t revert to silly US “middle income is middle class” assumptions)

half of all programming flow is state machines. the other half is ad-hoc, badly implemented state machines

The altered states of consciousness that Buddhism calls ”the jhanas” are some of the most meaningful experiences I’ve had, but man, a VC-funded startup running retreats with “facilitators” who are neither lineage-holders nor mental health pros seems irresponsible as shit. youtu.be/GC6KiEqj8eE?...

Can You Learn Jhana in a Week? - Stephen Zerfas of Jhourney

YouTube video by Sit-Heads Meditation Club

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I appreciate my doctor, he's extremely capable, which makes it all the funnier and more frustrating that he's mostly like "yeah, I think you're completely right, it does suck shit this prescription med you no longer need is making your life hell and yet there isn't an easy way to get you off of it"

Kamaitachi no Yoru is simply one of the most important Japanese games in history, period. In the historical trajectory of novel games, if Otogirisou, Chunsoft's previous gane, is Pac-Land, this is Super Mario Brothers. It is that foundational in the storytelling and design paradigms it codified.

1564 Studio@1564studio.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm trembling while writing this: Kamaitachi no yoru—not the PC remake, not the iOS port, but the actual original SFC version—has been translated at last by ButThouMust, who graciously brought us an English patch for Otogirisou in the past. This is HISTORICAL.

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

It is hard to describe how quickly things have fallen for me from “I may be housebound and reliant on others for care, but I am truly at peace” to “every day is a living hell”. I still have optimism I’ll get through this, but holy shit things have never been this bad.

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Hey, today is the 1-year anniversary of doing a thing I thought was not particularly consequential at the time but will probably turn out to be the single most important thing in my entire life Things are *real* tough right now, but I'm beyond grateful for the last year, as weird as it's been.

you don’t think bakers are wizards? then explain why they use caster sugar

Very tired of having to explain to dear old friends "I would love nothing more than to catch up, but even one-on-one phone calls are too much exertion for me, we have to just text". Truly fuck this disease.

I'm reading Keith Johnstone's "Impro" for the first time since high school, and I'm struck how much it abuts contemplative practice. It's a book about consciously influencing how we perceive reality and poking at altered states of consciousness, just through play instead of seated meditation

Chinese oracle bone script and bronze script are so good, what do you mean some guy 3000 years ago was like "we need a word for poop, I'm gonna draw a guy pooping"

When a moderator in a discord where bullshit drama has been destroying your mental health DMs you as you're preparing to leave the server to be like "you've been so helpful and calm, have you ever considered joining the mod team?" and you just laugh uncontrollably.

Free idea: browser extension that donates $5 to charity every time you click a “show message by a user you’ve ignored/blocked” link

I was not familiar with Tilopa’s six nails, this is lovely

By far the funniest thing about zhan zhuang / standing meditation is that like half the time I get 2-3 minutes in and start farting. This is, per several-millennia-old tradition, normal and common! It’s turbid qi being expelled, and a positive sign you’re experiencing qi flow! But also, lmao

french if it had a compiler

Starting to feel like that guy who developed a pain index scale for intentionally getting stung by painful insects but for “what are the nuances of the different ways you can feel your mitochondria failing to produce energy”

Psst, if you didn’t play this when it was Netflix-exclusive, it’s by the Downwell dev and slaps.

Devolver Digital@devolverdigital.com · 3w ago

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do you think the person who coded the ally AI behaviors on Final Fantasy XV describes themselves as a “prompto engineer”