Visakan Veerasamy

been waiting 14 years for this https://t.co/N5XayuNGSw

paraswifties does this count as ur hayley taylor picture together or  https://t.co/uPFRglGato

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Named people in the world like Nelson Mandela

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Hayley Williams

Categories within Brand Verticals that narrow down the scope of Brands

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Brands, companies, advertisers and every non-person handle with the profit intent related to movies, music, television, franchises, venues, theme parks, toys, tourism, hotels

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A musician in the world, like Adele or Bob Dylan

Musician

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Alternative rock

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Rock

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Taylor Swift

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📹 Hayley Williams e Taylor Swift cantando That's What You Get em 2011 https://t.co/eChj4Vn87K

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met a couple of different friends yesterday and today for lots of good conversation and I wanna try and remember stuff that came up, so- a thread of kinda disjointed thoughts

one of the most powerful magical forces we’re all in thrall of is how mundane and inert everything appears to be. this is an illusion our minds generate to make things easier to navigate, but it also blocks us from seeing possibilities in plain sight

2. people who are looking for incremental solutions to a problem will often ignore or disregard solutions that eliminate the problem entirely (often requires upstream reconceptualization)

Brand

3. when examining my own Twitter use I realize I rely on a kinda-surprisingly small group of people to piggyback off of. those people probably might not realize how load-bearing they are for me and I oughta let them know…

also, ^this for everything

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4. a lot of things that are valuable in hindsight seem mundane in the moment. was thinking particularly about things like, keeping a covid diary. “who cares?” if you care, that’s good enough. so much of the value of these things is non-obvious, non-apparent until much later

Blogging

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5. we are still in the early days of blogging. this sounds weird to people who already talk about it all the time, but it’s true nonetheless. our human intuitions aren’t very good at dealing with decades-long cycles. it’s still a good idea to start a blog if you stick with it https://t.co/otTca8Didb

One of the greatest things about writing/podcasting/being active on the internet is that you can go almost anywhere in the world and have built in friends.

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piggybacking off of this to talk more generally about dunking: i think most dunkers dont think strategically or in terms of outcomes. i think most dunking is mostly a kneejerk re-assertion of one’s own identity + consensus-seeking with others who dislike the same thing https://t.co/91EeEYgiXB

I’d love to know what the mindset of the people dunking on jhanas is lol. What do you think is gonna happen? People are gonna stop doing em? Businesses shut down?

identity, with both its private &amp; social components, is v precious to most people. they will behave in seemingly irrational and unproductive ways to preserve it. they’ll get into ‘unnecessary’ conflicts, endure a loss of time/energy/money/peace, do free marketing for enemies…

identity, with both its private & social components, is v precious to most people. they will behave in seemingly irrational and unproductive ways to preserve it. they’ll get into ‘unnecessary’ conflicts, endure a loss of time/energy/money/peace, do free marketing for enemies…

the most critical thing in all of this imo is that people’s intuitions havent adapted to the modern media environment. dunking on something with your friends at dinner is NOT the same as dunking on something on the open internet. even people who know this will forget it when mad

Elvis Presley

Classic rock

im not saying all dunking is bad or wrong. sometimes its the right thing to do. im saying most of it is ill-considered. and this actually results in an environment that strategic/savvy actors can exploit (somewhat) to their ends https://t.co/8nzKjFuWA5

19. Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Parker, sold “I hate Elvis” pins https://t.co/Yum6NrkwzU https://t.co/8CLQaZ2Yxy

the tricky thing here is that its possible to go too far when it comes to courting dunks for profit

in my view, the important thing is not to lose sight of your actual goals. once you start modifying your positions to court dunks, you’ve gotten into the sticky wretched pit

nothing is edgier than being earnest. you dont have to go out seeking dunks. simply be the most honest version of yourself you can bear to be, and you’ll attract dunks for it from someone somewhere eventually. then smile and do it again, more cheerfully

over the years ive come to notice that there are “thresholds” at which status is contested. this seems true also for the status of ideas. there’s a phase in which a new idea must be subjected to mockery. it’s part of the test. to pass the test, its proponents must not flinch https://t.co/iSomIwQ4c3

A caricature of Johnson by James Gillray mocking him for his literary criticism; he is shown doing penance for Apollo and the Muses

IMO, if you want to ascend into legend GOAT status you have to accept that this not only comes with the territory, it's part of the actual process https://t.co/fgIwIL88Ga

on the topic of dunking on jhanas, you could kinda parse it as a test to see if the jhanabros flinch. if they start freaking out, retaliating, embarrassing themselvea, etc, jhanas can then be dismissed as unserious. if they remain unflinching, the status of jhanas rise

note i am not even commenting on the merits of jhanas or jhanabros or what the perceived status of the concept and its practitioners is or should be, and i dont have space/time to properly contextualize “these people/framings are not representative…”

im just describing my model (which i think is reasonably well-tuned, from years of observations, analysis, discussion, etc) of how these things play out. if you model this well it’ll help you gain status, be it for yourself or the ideas that matter to you

do i like that the world is like this, that people are like that? eh. there are things about it that i find kinda gross. a more enlightened public would handle all of this much more graciously, but that is not yet the public we are. but perhaps we could become it

the tragic/gross thing is that not-flinching is a skillset that can be semi-independent of a person or idea’s true merits and qualities. but people are impatient/busy/tired etc and will throw good actors under the bus for flinching and venerate bad actors for not flinching

it can be somewhat discernable if someone’s non-flinching comes from a deep well of knowledge/love/compassion etc vs a sociopathic detatchment, but tbh that can take time too

Top level entities that describe a Brands industry

Brand Vertical

Entertainment

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Entities [Entity Service]

Video Games - Entertainment

Brands, companies, advertisers and every non-person handle with the profit intent related to offline and online games such as gaming consoles, tabletop games, video game publishers

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occurs to me that of the deepest core virtues in all of this is patience, temperance. its the rushing that typically causes needless blunders in all directions. and more generally, those who are playing longer games outlast those who are not

one of the things that keeps me tweeting is i honestly love the little puzzle of trying to convey the tone of a thought via plaintext. ive done it 250,000+ times and i still find it to be a fun, interesting challenge

i really tweet first and foremost for myself, and simultaneously you could say for posterity, or if you wanna be dramatic, “for god”, for the gods, for the culture. i really dont care that much about individual people’s short-term approval or disapproval since that fluctuates…

what i *would* be interested in is hearing people’s view of my tweeting like over 5-10 year intervals. most people dont pay that much attention so even with an audience of 80,000 followers or whatever i mostly care about like maybe 200 people

the flattening of attention metrics is something that seems to trip up even the most thoughtful of people

1 follow or view from the right person is worth 10,000 casual randos, maybe 100k. this is hardly ever reflected anywhere

in practice it’s a kind of sliding scale but still

fwiw: I consider myself a student of Watts, and i’ve received similar feedback on my own stuff: my belief is that its fundamentally about enjoying yourself (while having done the reading). also he put in the hours speaking

Read * Enjoy * Speak is roughly ~(0.05)^3 or 0.000125 https://t.co/9pzl1kTIzm

Alan Watts does this thing where he's similarly entertaining and insightful to newcomers and veterans on the path. That's a rare feat and I can't seem to reverse engineer how he does it.

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Ikkyū

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people dont grok the volume, i think https://t.co/yJrNTCwBFd

Podcasts & radio

Alan Watts’ volunteer radio broadcasts are probably a substantial part of how he solved for distribution. He was basically a podcaster in the 50s https://t.co/GKLNe44aJ4

part of the way he enjoyed himself was he was very mischievious and cheeky, which i think kept his material always fresh and surprising. he was a spiritual comedian always eager to poke fun at himself, subvert himself, and not take anything too seriously. sensitive to context https://t.co/ImcZhB0yYd

thats the thing that a lot of lecturer types seem to struggle with; past a certain point they’re doing stale half-hearted reruns. here i would quote Chesterton: Watts, at least while lecturing, had a child’s abounding vitality, in spirit fierce and free https://t.co/YZjDWpwhHD

@meekaale @Malcolm_Ocean @LordChisholm “perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony”- GK Chesterton https://t.co/NqHg38r0lE

closing with a thread of quotes: https://t.co/yJqHlPMh8u

Alan Watts really changed my life when I was inhibitingly depressed around 2014/2015. Life just seemed so bleak - even with a job I liked and a wife I loved, existence seemed like a jail sentence. Alan helped me see that it was funny, in a hearty and nourishing way https://t.co/QazobK21GF

a fun lil mini-microcelebrity moment I had at a meetup a couple of weeks ago: most people didn’t know me so I got to have nice warm pleasant conversation with friendly strangers. then a couple of people who did know me asked to take selfies with me and it was so funny to witness-

the people I had just been having nice polite conversation with sorta widen their eyes and ask “are you… famous?” the vibe shifted! they became even more open and warm to me (which they already were!)

nice eg to point at while noting that not all years of experience are the same. some people have the same year of experience 10 times and are less competent than someone who was actually learning for 3 https://t.co/JHcbeP5ZAP

Bro has 30 years of experience at 5 years old https://t.co/n1BWIBaAsD

non aesthetic things

^ me with guitar tbh. I’ve been noodling around since I was a kid and I’ve absolutely witnessed people who picked it up during the pandemic and surpassed my skills since. Good for them!

just addin my lil spin on this https://t.co/47XtAXdNa1 https://t.co/aGePmabz3P

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The Fourth Way

oh i realize some of yall might not have seen the original:

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this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐 https://t.co/7uu4B9YhpH

i just got accepted into a private facebook group that's like uh... "magick memes" and i know some of yall are gonna absolutely enjoy the shit out of these https://t.co/Y45oIRJUuy

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what are some Internet shibboleths, that u could use to convey (90s?) Internet-savvy, thatd draw a blank from someone who isn’t? text or visuals

kids these days probably don’t know what http:// is? geocities? I’m struggling to articulate what I’m looking for…

oh like

this guy is a good example, you either know him or you don’t 

But im lookin for something less proprietary ig https://t.co/P6eFm75acF

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Beauty, Cosmetic & Personal Care Business

Top level interests and hobbies groupings, like Food or Travel

Interests and Hobbies Vertical

Beauty

A grouping of interests and hobbies entities, like Novelty Food or Destinations

Interests and Hobbies Category

Body art

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Tattoos

couple of other bonzi-adjacent choices but they’re all corpo. I’d love these on t-shirts but it’s a little tacky to tattoo them ykwim. I’m looking for something less corpo. Maybe like a feature or accordance rather than a logo https://t.co/a50JJqV7pX

ah man this genre of gif was iconic!!

im still hoping to find something else that hits in a sorta surprising way… https://t.co/QYSpNBkulq https://t.co/PdRw0vdgU8

Jon Mumm

asl? and &lt;marquee&gt; and l33tspeak are some of my favorites so far though still a little on the quirky silly side. hoping for something sorta classy might be asking for too much but ima keep looking lol

asl? and <marquee> and l33tspeak are some of my favorites so far though still a little on the quirky silly side. hoping for something sorta classy might be asking for too much but ima keep looking lol

Visual arts

Printmaking

Pixel art

oh here’s a thought I like the idea of: Tim Berners-Lee’s diagram! It’s a little on the complicated side… wonder if anyone would recognise it if it were remade into an icon without text, like if you reduced it to pixel art or an engraving on a small sheet of metal https://t.co/UTJGJH3OpZ

“Vague but exciting...” Tim Berners-Lee’s supervisor, on his proposal for thre World Wide Web https://t.co/o0lePLoED5

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Travel & Transportation Business

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Travel Actions

the cover design of the voyager golden record looks so fucking sick. i wish i knew how to embroider shit so i can have it on the back of my jacket https://t.co/8BSVuveMZ3

mika⁉️

not directly relevant but I just got reminded of these guys https://t.co/Jg26BmqRen

random trivia: "The earliest yet discovered @ is found in a Bulgarian translation of a Greek chronicle written by Constantinos Manasses in 1345. Held today in the Vatican Apostolic Library, it features the @ symbol in place of the capital letter alpha "Α" as an initial in the word Amen; however, the reason behind it being used in this context is still unknown."

random trivia: "The earliest yet discovered @ is found in a Bulgarian translation of a Greek chronicle written by Constantinos Manasses in 1345. Held today in the Vatican Apostolic Library, it features the @ symbol in place of the capital letter alpha "Α" as an initial in the… https://t.co/0sf2WBK5kf https://t.co/v1RjN0dq2p

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