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My older brother @windra  is the head coach of the Indonesia national women’s flag football team (!!) 🏈🇮🇩

Sharing this to show him off - especially because he never posts, and I think these pics are way too cool not to share. PROUD SISTER 🥹🫶

https://www.instagram.com/inaflagfb?igsh=MXZkajBzcjduYWdibw==

I'm a little teapot who didn't fill out my bio

Clear opportunity for more casts about sports.

Both professional and recreational. 

Have been doing a bunch of user research recenlty and it’s the clear number one most popular non-ceypto category where people read / watch content on other social networks.

at my edge esmeralda talk, i asked the audience to close their eyes and think about someone they care about who isn't feeling well

afterwards I gave out paper and envelopes so they can write to the person they thought of

I'm repeating the same at human tech week, this time with a short printed guide too!

Inquiry

after spending a bunch of time and money over the last six months trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with me— urgent care, immunologist, naturopath, obgyn, blood panel, scratch test, pee test, poop test, ultrasound— apparently i am *just* stressed.

it is one thing to feel emotionally stable, but i am learning that your body can disagree. 

early this year an urgent care doctor suspected i was having an anaphylactic shock and stabbed me with epinephrine. i had no known allergies. when i went to an immunologist afterwards my body reacted to every single item on the allergy test— i had a hyperactive histamine situation. since then whenever things got unusually stressful (war and authoritarianism to further exacerbate) spots on my body would swell and itch. 

i am pretty level about it now; its been a minute. when people say stress could kill you, i didn’t think they meant potentially your face and throat swell up and your heart pumps on turbo trying to keep up with your dropping blood pressure to prevent a cardiac arrest. we just have a culture that feels pretty cute about stress. i was astonished that stress looked so unflattering.

i don’t know why i’m telling this story now (other than to try out the extra character count). more time spent listening to blasting music in a fetal position can be good for you. i was pretty misguided to think mental tenacity alone could see you through. you can will your way into many things but sometimes you can’t will your way out of high histamine and low cortisol.

Open fc, first 2 casts i see, algo doing some algo

Open fc, first 2 casts i see, algo doing some algo https://farcaster.xyz/resipsa/0x11e10635

i used chatgpt o3 to surface top health and science related questions asked on farcaster (this is a sampler)

with reframe science i hope to empower folks to think about these questions like a scientist would

McWay Falls — Big Sur, California 🇺🇸

july

I have beef with the idea of health trackers. And I’m trying to figure out why that’s the case recently, and I have arrived at a tentative conclusion.

There’s something subversive about health apps, because it kind of tells you how you should live your life. They’re sort of a philosophical undertone about what constitutes a healthy life to begin with. And it’s implicit in the contract of choosing to participate in all of this.

The value proposition is seemingly good initially; this is something that will help you live longer, be more healthy and be more productive and be a better person. Right? And who doesn’t want that?

Yet I think the thing that underlies all that - is an idea of gamification with the intent, that you need to be healthy, in order to be productive. And a sort subtle shaming, quantification of optimization of you at all costs. Reducing who you are into a health game that should be optimized. A slippery slope

And for what?

I miss chatting with @july , I should probably tell him that I love my smartwatch and that I think that gamification is really fine for 'child' brains like mine. You know, whatever works.

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

most random dm i’ve gotten so far

someone else had the same uber driver as me at ethdenver and found me on farcaster

Just watched The Rehearsal season 2 finale episode and that lived up to the hype omg

you give me a cave, surrounded by the rain.

Gaming

This State of Play was full of nostalgia:
Final Fantasy Tactics
Metal Gear Solid: 3
Silent Hill
Mortal Kombat
M̶a̶r̶v̶e̶l̶ ̶v̶s̶ ̶C̶a̶p̶c̶o̶m̶ Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls

ok banger is such a good hook. 

not to be too nerdy here but crazy how noice is both acquiring users and getting them to adopt new features🔥

If we can meet again many years later, we will be fine.

Thalassindra

@thalassindra