attuned to reality (state law encourages me to define this as a personal, rather than professional account.)
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Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
I shall write more soon, but I am happy to say that my new course, which is a comprehensive replacement of the old one, is done and now released to the world
it is called Applied Presence: Foundations
may the world like and benefit from it
expandingawareness.org/cours…
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
I find LLMs very helpful for scientific writing. I do the legwork of planning out what to say, track down citations, sketch out the flow, feed all of this to the LLM to generate a draft, and the output is so awful it motivates me to write it out the right way in disgust
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And *I* wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change.
So what can you do?
Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
Its telling on the algo that my rw friends feeds show them leftists celebrating, and my lw friends feeds are showing liberals denouncing it.
The bubbles will keep causing death and engagement.
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
I co-authored a post with @andrew0blevins, Choices in Feeling. The "choices" part is about different ways that we can relate to emotional reactivity. The post covers self-regulation (the mainstream approach) and Liberating Emotion (an unconventional approach) the contemporary Vajrayana practice that we teach in Evolving Ground.
eG's upcoming seven-week course “Liberating Emotions” will cover this topic in much greater depth, with scaffolding methods, guided practices, and interactive support. It begins on Tuesday, September 30, 7:00 to 8:30pm ET.
Post and course details follow:
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
🌅 Approaching Vividness: a new online course in perception, appreciation, energy, and freedom for action. Four sessions on successive Saturdays, starting in a week!
🔗Details and sign-up link in reply tweet⤵️
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
Periodic reminder, I have a coaching practice. I'm very good at it. I can help you unwind patterns, develop a meditation practice that feels like art, and gently but ruthlessly question the foundations of your unhappiness.
If we've talked & it helped you, please RT (or say how).
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
Yes. We have a major constitutional crisis.
Americans did not fight and die to protect democracy so that the richest man in the world could single-handedly dismantle agencies that protect workers, consumers & children.
Together, we can and will defeat Trump’s authoritarianism.
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
"if you had 10x the resources to allocate" is, by contrast, extremely easy to answer
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
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We *can't* be special;
we *shouldn't* be ordinary;
we *can* be noble!
A three-minute clip from my most recent Live AMA:
Podcast snippet from @_awbery_ , defining the shadow on @DeconstructingU
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
Had a fascinating talk with the ever-interesting @_awbery_ the other day about the meaning of their practice name Rin’dzin Pamo, Tantra, curiosity, new developments in the Evolving Ground community, the role of play and spontaneity in Vajrayana, a special invocation (written by them and @Meaningness), when the teacher/student relationship breaks down, transformation, how to liberate the shadow, and a whole bunch more.
Link below.
Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
Searchless Responsiveness
On Free-Feeling Desire: unlimited participation in life without fixed directionality, which is the ordinary life of trees
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Derek Van Ittersum retweeted
I feel like this may prove to be the most prescient cartoon of the 21st century.
