Notes

“look at the precipice with awe and rejoice in the proximity”

北风和太阳想知道自己做错了什么要在正文里被 Helvetica 两端对齐关闭 hyphen 排版成这鬼样

my recent litany against escalation: i might as well shut up

买东西两件五折四件四折 拿了三件营业员问要不要凑单但不想拿了 后面排队的 somehow 大发慈悲递过来一件说 拿了五件借你一件 我下辈子都想不出来这种玩法

三点五十醒了，刷完了 feed，写了会东西，把 gpt 聊到了 quota，游了泳骑了车，吃了两顿，高兴了一会也自闭了一会，现在开始想今天怎么还没过完，或者今天已经过完了

就是说 Geist Mono 这个斜体蛮可爱的

https://aeon.co/essays/the-sovereign-individual-and-the-paradox-of-the-digital-age

也不知道老中为什么这么执着于把谢谢合作翻译成 thank you for your cooperation 在谢谢合作的语境里谢谢的如果不是合作难道还能是不合作吗

Repost:

下了个轨迹没仔细看只扫到说最后会经过墓地我想经过就经过吧不忌讳这个结果最后发现是从占了一整面山坡的墓地中间穿过 我就像？一边默念对不起打扰了一边灰头土脸走下去最后发现到了八年前打工住的地方当时每天路过就是没有往上坡瞅一眼 我就像？？

gpt-5 may be a flop in terms of intelligence but it does have apparently fixed sycophancy; a dozen messages into the chat there were already a handful of responses that made me like okay that’s straightforward/inhospitable (which was a plus thou)

Batch Downloading and Transcribing Podcast Episodes hsu.cy/2025/08/poddl

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-heart-of-hearts

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as i’m counting the 4th (5th?) sleep pattern in 1.5 yr i’ve come to reconcile with that it’s the kind of thing that is more an emergence than a prescription; that it can neither fail me nor i it; and that as long as i wake up tmrw i will not thinking much about the swings, up or down (mutatis mutandis same for other issues)

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/08/your-face-tomorrow-michael-clune-ai-facial-recognition/

hi chatgpt help refill my bloody benefit-of-doubt dispenser with all-purpose flour

funny that since ~sophomore year there has always been a pair of swimming earbuds in my shopping cart that i’ve never checked out. at first i couldn’t afford one and the selection was narrow. now i can and there are plenty, but i’ve come to paying exactly for the mandatory void of input (and the resulting whim) in the pool and hesitate to trade it for 1h of podcasts (which i can’t easily skip forward underwater if one turns out to be boring) or music (which i can and do sing in my head anyway)

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/10/21/martin-heidegger-at-eighty/

Retrievals 出 S2 了 听一半脑壳疼系列+1 http://t.cn/A6kqsrJc