I used to only listen to the two most famous albums by the flaming lips

soft bulletin and Yoshimi

Recently I made a playlist of other songs from other albums - they are quite good - check out This Here Giraffe and Talkinโ€™ โ€™Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)

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For a very long time I have wondered how on earth haircuts can stimulate hair growth / shaving can cause hair to grow in thicker. It has been one of my life’s most enduring mysteries, causing me confusion again and again.

Today I learned: it doesn’t. It’s all been a lie. I was confused because people were lying to me.

My mother lied.
My sister lied.
My grandfather lied.
My wife lied.

Only ChatGPT told the truth.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67e0ba26-e7cc-800a-8780-da5889ef7552

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Itโ€™s a wonderful thing to be researching abstractions. Iโ€™ve always said I most enjoy thinking about things which are very abstract. What better abstraction to research than that of abstractions themselves!

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I am very happy to say I have been awarded the Roche & Gomez Student Research Fellowship to support my research this summer. I hope to show that the award was deserved by creating something of real value.

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Today I lost my LessWrong newbie plant ๐ŸŽ‰

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The special Richtext Facets Bluesky uses are cool in theory but a pain to work with

Actually I just hate them

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I really recommend you read this transcript from an interview with Nick Land, Iโ€™ve been thinking about it a lot

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I spent a long time today fixing up my microblog and figuring out how to post to it and bluesky at the same time. Eventually Iโ€™ll add functionality to crosspost to fedi as well.

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My grandma wanted frozen strawberries. The small bag was too small and the big bag was too big. So she didnโ€™t get any

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Today I baked my phone.

I was cleaning the oven and using the phone as a flashlight. I put it in the top of the oven with the flashlight pointing down so I didnโ€™t have to hold the light (the oven doesnโ€™t have any light of its own).

Then I left it there, and turned on the oven to heat up some lasagna.

I noticed a weird smell but guessed it was the soap from cleaning the oven.

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