May 2011
13 posts
“While healthy people expect the future to be slightly better than it ends up being, people with severe depression tend to be pessimistically biased: they expect things to be worse than they end up being. People with mild depression are relatively accurate when predicting future events. They see the world as it is. In other words, in the absence of a neural mechanism that generates unrealistic optimism, it is possible all humans would be mildly depressed.”
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I guess I should be sad because this basically confirms I am mildly depressed, but really I’m stoked because it means my worldview is totally right!
Hey guys →
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Jason Kottke tweeted the idea (originating with Cory Arcangel) of searching Twitter for “working on my novel”. The funny thing is, this search will now just return retweets of Kottke’s tweet. So let’s explore some other aspirational/self-searching Twitter-cliches here, away from Twitter.
It’s like being an anthropologist except you hate everything you find!
- athiest (note the spelling)
- collage (ditto)
- “I’m not racist but”
- “Fuck you dad”
Everything Merlin is saying about the news, times a thousand.
No, wait, times a BILLION.
Okay, you’re right, that’s a little ridiculous. Times a thousand it is.
Megan Amram: Vote For Me →
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I believe in using guns as bullets in a larger gun.
AMRAM 2012
I believe in free markets, supply and demand, the wisdom of the market, and small government.
Also, the price of gas is too high, and the president should do something about it.
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via cleversimon)
