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Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us.... posted 1y ago with 28 replies meta philosophy lifestyle

Welcome to Sofie Cha

Thank you for creating this site - it's tiring having to find good discussions on twitter or 4chan without it devolving into babbling chimps hurling shit at each other & calling others Jewish. 19h ago

Thank you for creati

Bryan Johnson vs Ray Peat. Synthesis of their disagreements by Mike Johnson
https://x.com/johnsonmxe/status/1879362451067859300 posted 1mo ago with no replies lifestyle health

Bryan Johnson vs Ray

The Slice of Life Mindset
Consider a slice-of-life anime and what it chooses to romanticize. Commuting to work, preparing a meal, reading a book, drinking some tea, watching a movie. The characters are typically unambitious, the opposite of a shonen character who sacrifices everyth... posted 2mo ago with 2 replies lifestyle sovereignty

The Slice of Life Mi

Yes. I do a few different things that help turn boring moments into extraordinary ones. One is to notice and thank God for everything. The small bird perched on a branch, the sun peaking over rooftops, or a nice drive in the car. It doesn't matter how ever... 2mo ago

Yes. I do a few diff

Nintendo is a Live Organization that turns Gimmicks into Innovations.
The second installment in a series focused on live players. This one is about Nintendo as they shared a ton of information about the Switch 2 yesterday. I prefer live vidya organizations rather than dead ones. Dead ones produce cultural slop and games with... (oceanist.substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 3 replies technology lifestyle

Nintendo is a Live O

I agree, but I mean that this can only be ascertained retrospectively, which causes many to conflate the two. That is, the connotation is typically of 2, but the expression itself is indeterminate and includes 1, indeed there's no shortage of false negativ... 2mo ago

I agree, but I mean

Advice for smart, right-leaning zoomers
This post is from friend of mine whom I met at a right wing conference. He’s very intelligent and funny, I thought a lot of these tips were very good, some I hadn’t heard before. I am doing most of them pretty well and am beginning to find a path for m... (open.substack.com) posted 3mo ago with 4 replies politics lifestyle education

Advice for smart, ri

Here's a piece of advice: if you haven't already, drop everything you are doing, fly to Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia or some other hellhole, and spend a month there to take it all in. 3mo ago

Here's a piece of ad

The beach is the only place of enjoyment that the human species has discovered in nature.
I went to the beach today and wanted to write about it. I don’t have a manifesto. The beach makes me feel good.... posted 12mo ago with 4 replies philosophy lifestyle health

The beach is the onl

I have not read Lefebvre, but it sounds similar to thoughts I've had. The beach, the real one out there on the coast and not just some piece of watery sand on the local waterway, is a little slice of titanic permanently wild landscape. Civilization can't r... 12mo ago

I have not read Lefe

What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions.... posted 12mo ago with 1 reply ideology lifestyle education

What would you like

I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself:... 12mo ago

I have one son so fa

Don't Learn Value From Society. A meditation on slavecoin and abrahamic one-foot-in-one-foot out strategy.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/07/13/dont-learn-your-values-from-society/ posted 1y ago with 2 replies ideology lifestyle palladium

Don't Learn Value Fr

I've read and re-read this essay and keep returning to it. It helped explain the nefarious effect in my life of some Bay area subcultures. And I've quit a useless master's (credentialism) to pursue more Abrahamic-value courses of action. - coyotespike 1y ago

I've read and re-rea

Why I Live In San Francisco. Chris Robotham at Palladium. Making the case for being here at the politically cutting edge.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/13/why-i-live-in-san-francisco/ posted 2y ago with 4 replies politics lifestyle sanfrancisco

Why I Live In San Fr

El segundo has been very cool to see happen a bit. I call it cowboy industrial policy. Augustus and his friends are just memeing a new generation of hardware industrial ecosystem into existence. I hope it works. 1y ago

El segundo has been

Against Oriental Anti-Feminism
https://pimlicojournal.substack.com/p/against-oriental-anti-feminism posted 1y ago with 3 replies politics ideology lifestyle

Against Oriental Ant

The closest approximation to his target in the contemporary world that I can think of would be the family-owned small business in which the wife directly participates. Could be a law firm or medical practice as well as a more conventional business.... 1y ago

The closest approxim

Drugs, generally
On my sixteenth birthday, I bought five grams of mushrooms, ate them in my bedroom, tuned my Walkman to Coast to Coast AM, flew out the window, and experienced ego death. A few months later, I took LSD sent in a Christmas card by friends on IRC. I got a ti... posted 2y ago with 9 replies politics lifestyle health

Drugs, generally

Nice trips. For me, I take a hard line on drugs of all kinds. I don't believe they are ever a good idea. Drugs basically just temporarily destroy part of your physiological or psychological balance. If you're depressed, there is some physiological or circu... 1y ago

Nice trips. For me,

Hundred Rabbits' "UXN" ultra-portable personal computing stack
They made a simple VM that can be implemented in a weekend by almost anyone that can run their whole suite of personal computing, artistic, gaming, music, creative, etc apps. This is one of the coolest projects out there and it proves that computing could ... (100r.co) posted 2y ago with 15 replies technology lifestyle informatics

Hundred Rabbits' "UX

see also on the general topic of minimalist computing: Suckless... 2y ago

see also on the gene

Some thoughts on extropian/accelerationist life strategy
What is to be done with respect to acceleration and accelerationist arguments? Should you try to accelerate overall intelligence growth, or decelerate it, or do your own thing despite it, or cut off your balls and go insane, or what? People do all of these... posted 2y ago with 6 replies ideology accelerationism lifestyle

Some thoughts on ext

\> I need a way to think about accelerationist AI apocalypse in a non-millenarian way.... 2y ago

\> I need a way to t

on facing death
how should one face death? the two common/standard answers i see are to ignore death entirely, which i think is the atheistic standard, with doctors avoiding being frank about a patient's death and schools never really bringing it up, and few people thinki... posted 2y ago with 17 replies philosophy lifestyle

on facing death

I think when i was a bugman atheist I was secretly terrified of death, that was the root cause of extropianism/transhumanism/radical life extensionism... it's just fear of death.... 2y ago

I think when i was a

Don't be a fat.
posted 2y ago with 12 replies philosophy lifestyle health

Don't be a fat.

Dieting beyond what is comfortable for your digestion seems much more energetically taxing than simply increasing your activity, which actually *builds* your energy. The human body is a perfect example of a structure that becomes more, not less powerful th... 2y ago

Dieting beyond what