Tara Strahl
@tarastrahl
Words and wonders ✨
So many great toys in this thread
On that same trip, he spent the remainder of the flight playing with this magnetic rocket ship, and my (at the time 1yo) loved it too. The magnets are strong enough that they lock into place pretty easily so there’s minimal dropping of pieces amzn.to/40krYeI
My house caught on fire when I was like 12 on vacation and I remember my dad getting the call, listening, hanging up then telling me and fam and saying “i guess we better enjoy the rest of this vacation!” Incredible power move, massive impact on my life. Still grateful
Not disagreeing, shit is hard but I always think of that tweet that was like there’s a world of a difference between people who grew up with parents who just handled things vs parents who treated every inconvenience as a tragedy because it rewired my brain 💀
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
"Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.'"
Astar arkensea! (Journey to outer space in Old English)
“Space” is from French. You should call it “the Arkensea,” from Old English ercnan- ‘pure, holy, majestic’ + sǣ ‘sea’.
The unique piece Sylphide by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Tsisaryk is located in Lviv
Each mind is a suppressed singularity
I love this letter because it’s the only piece of writing I’ve seen that acknowledges being oneself is a constant battle against the environment.
Hi readers! ⚙️🤖👾
I'm constantly irritated that I don't have time to read the torrent of cool papers coming faster and faster from amazing people in relevant fields. Other scientists have the same issue and have no time to read most of my lengthy conceptual papers either. So whom are we writing…
The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 7: The Problem-Solving Animal, part 3 The combinatorial vastness of possibility space means that solutions are out there. The power of intelligence to navigate it means that we can find them: newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-problem-…
Just had a poem accepted into Ninth Heaven!
Calling all creatives, thinkers & muses: submissions are now open for Ninth Heaven's Blue Winter issue-Suffering, Wilderness & Eternity (due 1 August 2025).