Joe Cecil

Paranoia

A quote from Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism: This is the attitude of paranoia: if you look too closely, you will find something fearful. True if not new? I don't know why I'm reading this. The first half was somewhat helpful. The second half has been just

a birdie

i have no idea what to do with this thing why do i even have this why did i make this what was the point a modern-day rss reader? a conduit for conversation? both? bad habits say rss reader. conversation could be fun, and sounds like an excessive amount of

resisting impressiveness

resist impressiveness. what is a need to impress anyway except underconfidence? i've thought about impressiveness before. i noted then: remember the meme — people talk about iq, gpa when they have nothing better to talk about. i was talking about bragging about academic achievements. however, an insidious thought comes:

Turtles

I appreciate the commitment to the imagery. Each frame almost makes sense on its own, except for all the ways it doesn't with everything else. It's the human nut, the kazoo cowboys, the dentures, the turtle man, the baby, just everything. Watch and enjoy. I wonder

"Populations" are nebulous

The basic statistics material that I've encountered frequently refers to a notion of sample versus population statistics. The idea is that there is some "true" parameter, that is hypothetically defined as "like what we have for this sample, but if you could do that for

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