伊凡 (emyaugustus)

that’s good… I remember learning on one Earth day that raising large animals for food creates more carbon than all vehicles combined.

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this makes a lot of sense to me because I remember people analyzing or reflecting on how even googling something changed the dynamics of what is perceived as being ‘smart’ or intelligent. Like when I was younger, I had Selective Mutism (a social anxiety disorder), except I didn’t know there was a name for it … I majored in Psychology hoping to understand it, and eventually found out the name for it when volunteering for a psychology research lab, where I had access to search an online psychology research paper database. Nowadays, kids could find out the name of it either by googling or having a chat with ChatGPT.

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sure but what is USV? you didn’t explain. Why does it seem like people just say jargon words with no explanation on decentralized social medias…

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(1/3) Last night I reread the ending of A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki. I had forgotten how the plot had been resolved… It was a complex braiding of different people’s feelings and their choices and actions. To put it simply, it involved Ruth in the present time, and Nao in a past time (but it also involved Nao’s great-grandma in a dream). The emotions hit differently this time for me. The last time I read this book was before my own grandma died. Reading the ending, where Nao’s great-grandma is dying, and how before she did, she encouraged Nao and her dad to live (生) … was suddenly way more emotional for me then the last time I read it. That time, years ago, I suppose the feeling was like, ‘yes, this makes sense. This is one of the puzzle pieces that resolves things.’ Sad, but satisfying.

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