Matt Arnold @matt@penguicon.social

"Vee are nihilists! Vee beleef in nahsink, Lebowski!"

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "190-Proof Nihilism vs Lite Nihilism" Nihilism says nothing means anything—but no one actually believes that. Lite nihilism weakens the claim, to make it plausible.
https://fluidity.libsyn.com/190-proof-nihilism-vs-lite-nihilism
https://meaningness.com/nihilism-hardcore-vs-lite https://meaningness.com/190-proof-nihilism ...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Nihilism" Nihilism is the wrong idea that nothing is meaningful, based on the accurate realization that there is no external, eternal source of meaning. https://meaningness.com/nihilism ... https://fluidity.libsyn.com/nihilism

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Rumcakes and Rainbows" The author has moved the chapter of the book we'll read in today's episode. The chapter now belongs earlier in the book than where we are. It belongs between episode 16, "Meaningfulness", and episode 17, "Eternalism". So, I'm going to back up and read this chapter now, out of order. Meaning cannot be either objective or subjective. But meaning does exist: as interaction. https://meaningness.com/objective-subj ... https://fluidity.libsyn.com/rumcakes-and-rainbows

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Developing ethical, social, & cognitive competence"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence

Taking a break from narrating Meaningness to read an important foundational essay by the author of Meaningness, David Chapman. An overview of the work of psychologist Robert Kegan, a scholar of adult cognitive development. This essay has become very useful for how I see the situations of my own life, & I'm excited to finally share it with you.

https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Accomplishing And Exiting Eternalism"
https://fluidity.libsyn.com/accomplishing-and-exiting-eternalism

'Accomplishing eternalism would would mean knowing the meaning of everything, and acting accordingly. This is impossible, because there are no fixed meanings. https://meaningness.com/accomplishing-eternalism

Learning skills for escaping the grip of eternalism—the delusion that everything is meaningful. https://meaningness.com/after-eternalism

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Eternalist Systems" Systems such as religions and political ideologies reinforce eternalism. They dispel doubt by denying nebulosity. ... https://fluidity.libsyn.com/eternalist-systems

@pluralistic What do you think of these five US House Big Tech antitrust bills?

"Platform Anti-Monopoly Act"

"Ending Platform Monopolies Act"

"Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act of 2021. A.K.A. ACCESS Act of 2021."

"Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021"

"Platform Competition and Opportunity Act"

https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/congress-is-going-to-throw-the-kitchen

Back on the laser cutter again after an extended pandemic absence. This new laser cutter is an enormous improvement on the last one!

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Eternalism Is Harmful" Eternalism -- belief in fixed meanings -- makes promises it can't keep. It makes us do stupid, crazy, evil things. And we still love it and keep going back for more. ... https://fluidity.libsyn.com/eternalism-is-harmful

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Eternalism As The Only Salvation From Nihilism" This episode contains the final page of "The Appeal Of Eternalism". Eternalism's final promise is to keep nihilism at bay. There is a better alternative to both! ... https://fluidity.libsyn.com/eternalism-as-the-only-salvation-from-nihilism

"She flew to him and took him in her **ARMS**."

This is almost as funny as the optical character recognition which thought the "rm" in "arms" was "nu".

I'll leave it to you to fill in the "rm" -> "nu" replacement in these passages from Jane Austen novels:

""When she spotted me, she flung her **ARMS* high in the air and kept them up until she reached me. 'Matisse. Oh boy!' she said. She grabbed my *ARMS** and positioned my body in the direction of the east gallery and we started walking."

"The user may look into the ball, concentrate on any place or object, and cause the iwizard of the place or object to appear."

Writers. Editors. Only you can prevent a dawizard. In 1994, an editor performed a find-and-replace on a 16-page section of the D&D Supplement Encyclopedia Magica, to replace all instances of "mage" with "wizard".

"The tower can absorb 200 points of dawizard before collapsing. Dawizard sustained is cumulative, and the fortress cannot be repaired (although a wish restores 10 points of dawizard sustained)."