| Age | 54 |
| Pronouns | he/him |
Does anybody in the SF Bay Area want a huge collection of shorts and underwear. These fit jeans size 33, between American M and L, also Chinese 180 (a number of the items are sourced from Ali Express). I was going to do something of a photography project (and have some individual product shots) but never got around to it. And now I'm moving to Australia.
If I don't get a response here, I'll just put them on Craigslist.
Another favorite pair, with somewhat similar styling but a much shinier, more satin-like fabric, is the pair below. These are: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808687963539.html
Links are non-affiliate (though I've actually considered starting a blog and seeing how much that could make), and photos are after a laundry cycle or two.
I haven't been posting here much, a lot has been going on.
A tiny thing. I bought a package of undies through AliExpress, and it had been marked as delivered even though I never got them. I started filing a refund request, then clicked through the "proof of delivery," and realized they had been left at an apartment building 4 blocks from here. I went and got them. The undies are very nice, I might post a pic.
It's such a small thing, but good things feel meaningful these days even so.
here, and is unfamiliar territory for me to be open about.
In any case, thanks for listening
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our government systems are exactly the high-IQ performers of "intelligence" that Bryan was warning us not to overvalue. It worries me greatly.
But I'm not renouncing my connection to intelligence. Inside me is still that kid who can do Fourier transforms in his head and knows the hex codes for ASCII, and I still love using my mind to create things and teach others. But I do my best to balance that with being an empathetic, spiritual person. And also sexual, which is why I'm posting this 6/n
and skill. I think that's a major factor in what went wrong with Sam Bankman-Fried. There are a lot of things you can say about him, but he absolutely nailed the performance of the type of intelligence that's valued in Silicon Valley. And yes, I believe that particular brand is intimately tied to whiteness, it's not available to a brown or black person.
I see a similar dynamic with the fascist takeover of our federal government. From what I can see, the young people sent in to compromise 5/n
I really loved Byran Cantrill's talk "Coming of Age," https://redmonk.com/videos/coming-of-age-bryan-cantrill-monktoberfest-2022/ as it goes into a lot of detail about the fetishization of intelligence, especially in the computer industry, and the problems with that. I've now gathered a lot of experience doing Quaker ministry and similar things, and value that part of my experience just as much if not more so than the purely intellectual.
In this domain, a lot of "intelligence" is performance. Something to create the illusion of competence 4/n
Once upon a time, an investor proposed a “college replacement” by gathering up 18 year olds in order to give them money in exchange for future earnings. It was not a particularly thought through take, but it spurred this talk, which is a particularly thought through take. And heart-felt. And poignant. Transcript All right, thank
motivation and simply being *able* to spend huge amounts of time and energy on something. I'm incredibly fortunate in that regard, it's been true for me my whole life, and I now have a dream job, where I can do research and also a bit of (informal) teaching and mentoring.
I do think there's *some* natural inherent trait (what the intelligence fetishists try to quantify as IQ), but it's secondary. I'm also learning that the concept of IQ is intimately tied up with eugenics and racism. 3/n
I think my parents wanted to protect their innocent kid from the big bad outside world. Little did they know! But possibly that's for another day).
Fast forward to today, I don't go around projecting being gifted — you're hearing my "inside voice" here, it's unusual for me to talk about this part of my experience. But using my intellect deeply is still a very core part of what I do and who I am.
Over time, I've come to see that getting good at intellectual pursuits is largely a function of 2/n