inquiry

(Anyone else familiar with a dealer saying that in the beginning of a Luscious Jackson song?)

> Facebook to begin alerting folks who interacted with > COVID misinformation

<rolls eyes>

Misinformation according to whom?

If Facebook really wanted to so something magnanimous, it would advise its users to close their accounts and truly live again....

> I just feel stuck.

Feel the im-mediate i.e. not masked by word/description mediated “re-ality” re-presentation – deep joy of raw – i.e. uncharacterised – primordial attention!

An instant of re-alizing mind to be simply an opaque overlay of ignore-ance (of the underlying ineffability) will do the trick.

> A coworker already spoiled the plot/story for the new > Netflix show The Messiah. I'll still watch it, but I > would have preferred to not have known any details about > the story.

That's a halfway decent metaphor for what science has done for the magic trick also known as life.

<image of magical balloon deflating in the knowledge of how it works>

> Watching a video on YT in 2020 is basically impossible > since #CV19 started. Everybody is trying to become > a “creator” and if they are feeling lazy, they > just monetize the fuck out of everything they have on > their channel already. Ads in the middle of a video are > atrocious. I am sitting there trying to enjoy a video > for entertainment value and then an ad comes on and ruins > everything and I immediately click away. > > Why would anyone put up with this shit???

Well? Do you really have to?

Enjoy the blissful purity of no ads in either the composing or the reading of posts, here!

> A blog full of reflective musings in poetry about > “learning how to be a person.”

Oooh, nice tip. “Here I write words & dread what others think” is my kind of an opening.

I'm kind of amazed I didn't stumble on it just following along read.write.as fairly regularly.

Or maybe I did, but particular installment didn't resonate at the time?

Resonance is the key. But we're talking lotsa factors.

Take a craps table, for example. There's no predicting, because there are no real patterns in dice outcomes (plenty of imagined patterns, though, let me tell ya..). Winning is “simply” a matter of arriving at the table at a time when how you're going to bet happens to align – i.e. resonate – with dice outcomes.

And then, of course, leaving before said resonance evaporates (along with one's chips...).