i think the phenomenon of "brainrot" stems entirely from short form video. don't remember hearing this term before scrolling video. prior to it, even the most "online" people, all the way back to my earliest internet use, had no concept like this. has nothing in common with text

weekly lab update: 1. new post on subscriber feeds: i am mapping out the entire summa theologica. my notebooks look like a prop in a film about a schizophrenic recluse 2. advent bazaar mode is wrapping up. you can still order books and get them by christmas - see thread below https://hell.twtr.plus/media/59ee9d88807060a54bbf6a01b5235d1df3e592dc752a2ff35b1a1367868b1e42.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8f66f011ab6f486043559dbc8c09d2155266fd0a811f183bc7d6855a054fc7d7.file

ancients painted stone sculptures because people knew the sculptures were stone. what else would they be? the paint was a further flex. today, painting stone seems incomprehensible because we want to flex that it's really stone. we see the paint as hiding the truth. they didn't. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0a05bc1955883d2803621fef06d4d26e2e4ac43bf768e6dbc0780e48453866fb.file

someone told me “enya lives in a castle with a bunch of cats” and i thought they were joking https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4c3484b80f0343ef22e5dbb25ef6e85b0382c10262376d93221fa65594293228.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a9a82fc8a42e97d9ab87ac66c741d87744831b74c5e05d64bebfb489da8492fa.file

we have 2 year olds pretending to be philosophical abstraction characters from 1860s poetry and you’re blackpilling https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f1774d43dc837f10184e413cd0643b8a99c09a29ad7ae954eb837328cda0678a.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c1424d8102b0a76bf4f2de307e12c61970580632d646799e05950cb7032d720c.file

had a music prodigy friend. he’d learn complex piano works, people would politely clap, impressed. another kid learned to play popular music - when he did it, people went nuts. this frustrated my friend endlessly. this is kind of an artistic litmus test, what conclusions you draw

testimonial (very cool, thanks): https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8b62ad85c0b1be711835bad822037a73f6a6606dd307c47a37b57d258500abf8.file