computer filter out and block all mentions of heated rivalry

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tech bros all having a normal one

The only thing in my life that doesn’t feel fake, forced and inauthentic is being a mom.

“After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. The middling level has no terrors, no anxieties. They huddle together, indulging in the illusion of warmth. If you’re alone with nothing, and certainly not yourself. And how content they are with that state of affairs!”

Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

Someone I know keeps trying to push AI on me. Not for art, but for solutions to problems or for brainstorming. It’s annoying as hell but I just realized why it pisses me off so much:

AI is statistically averaged mediocrity.

If the LLM is finding the most likely words to follow another set of words (in this case, what we’d call “a question”), then it’s looking for the most common solution - the mode. Not the middle solution (median) or the compilation and smoothing of all the data (mean) but the most repeated thing out there.

So, yeah, I don’t want to use the great common knowledge machine because it’s riddled with advertising “info” and old wives tales and urban legends and the manosphere. Chewing gum doesn’t stay in your body for seven years, a watermelon won’t grow from a seed in your stomach, you won’t die of cramps swimming directly after eating, and AI LLM can fuck right off as a search engine answer machine.

The Standard is a Slow Path. Your SSR 125 runs. It gets you there. Good…

The Standard is a Slow Path.
Your SSR 125 runs. It gets you there. Good enough, right? Most accept “good enough.” They ride the well-worn path, comfortable in its predictability.
But what if “good enough” is just a polite word for “mediocre”? What if the very definition of “standard” keeps us from discovering what’s truly possible?
Imagine a craftsperson, satisfied with a dull saw. It cuts,…

The Standard is a Slow Path. Your SSR 125 runs. It gets you there. Good…

MTO5: The Invisible Cage Most people operate under invisible…

MTO5: The Invisible Cage
Most people operate under invisible rules. You call it “standard practice.” I call it “MTO5” – Minimum Tolerance for Ordinary. It’s the silent agreement to be just good enough.
You’re not aiming for greatness; you’re just trying to hit that hidden MTO5 threshold. Barely meeting expectations. This isn’t ambition. It’s a race to mediocrity.
Think of a builder. MTO5…

MTO5: The Invisible Cage Most people operate under invisible…

Mediocrity/ Mediacrity

Mediocrity/ Mediacrity

Are one and the same. O It steals our dreams

And sells them back to us with all the good

Stuff removed! I’d rather not watch dud

Shows on TV. For me, YouTube is king

Unlike much mainstream crap, it truly sings.

TV in Britain appears out of date,

To anyone sane, with at least, half a brain.

Lyrics

So you wanna hang out with me tonight?
Well, you’re cool, but I’m right, so
I’ll set the dial to “no fights”
And as we leave the club
And the sun is coming up, you ask
“Have I failed to entertain?”
I say “no man, it’s ok” ‘cause

I already knew
That when I’m with you
Mediocrity rules, man
Mediocrity rules

Life is but a compromise and
I can see it in your eyes (that)
Nothing scares you like a real idea
But no man, it’s ok
You didn’t waste my day 'cause

I already knew
That when I’m with you
Mediocrity rules, man
Mediocrity rules

Yabba dabba dabba doo, man
Yabba dabba dabba dude
Yabba dabba dabba doo, man
Yabba dabba dabba dude
Yabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-doo

Song Meaning

“Mediocrity Rules” by Le Tigre is a song that criticises complacency and a lack of new ideas, expressed through a narrative of a relationship compromise and a dismissive attitude toward intellectual or creative ambition. The lyrics suggest that some people are afraid of “a real idea” and are content with the status quo. The song uses this theme to satirise a form of boredom and apathy, contrasting it with the band’s own political and artistic drive. 

• Critique of apathy: The song is a feminist anthem of “boredom” that critiques those who are intellectually uninspired and avoid taking a stance. The lyrics suggest a frustrating sense of compromise and a lack of excitement in a relationship where the other person is complacent.
• “Nothing scares you like a real idea”: This central line highlights the core message—that individuals who embrace mediocrity are genuinely fearful of genuine, new, or challenging ideas.
• Feminist context: Within the context of Le Tigre’s work, the song also serves as a broader commentary on the ways in which women’s voices can be dismissed or suppressed, particularly within the culture of the time.
• Contrasting with the band’s work: The song’s theme is similar to “Gone B4 Yr Home,” another track from the EP, but “Mediocrity Rules” is considered the musical high point of the EP, according to Pitchfork.
• The “Yabba dabba doo” outro: The tongue-in-cheek, repetitive “Yabba dabba doo” at the end serves as a dismissive and sarcastic commentary on the mediocrity it’s critiquing, as noted by Genius and NME. 

Two Things Art School Has Taught Me

1. I suck at drawing and will probably be mediocre at best by the end of my time here

2. How to be woke

“If the world is condemned to mediocrity, if heroes are no more than statues and mythical figures and if adventure is for madmen then let us condemn ourselves to glory, let us become myth and let us be madmen, for the herd is already too numerous.”

–Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.”

José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses Chapter 1, The Crowd Phenomenon

In earlier eras, the ordinary individual might accept limitations, deferring to skill, knowledge, or artistry. Ortega’s modern “mass man,” however, insists that his mediocrity is not only legitimate but sovereign. He claims the right to his unrefined opinions, his unexamined instincts, and his half-baked judgments, and then demands that these be treated as equal to cultivated thought.

It’s an eerily precise description of our own moment, where the democratization of voice, via social media and the flattening of expertise, often transforms into the tyranny of loudness. The insistence that one’s opinion, however uninformed, must be treated as equally valid is precisely the “revolt” Ortega feared.

My Rebel Philosophy of Mediocrity

Most people are chasing “success” without ever asking who defined it, why those definitions matter, or whether they even make sense for their own lives. I don’t want to live like that.

I accept mediocrity or rather, what the world calls mediocrity. To me, mediocrity isn’t failure, it’s comfort. It’s peace. It’s a safe zone where I don’t need to constantly break myself to fit into someone else’s idea of greatness.

Why should I worship a definition of “good things” that was built by society? Why should I leave my comfort zone just because some cliché says “all good things happen there”? Maybe my good things are already here. Maybe contentment, simplicity, and staying grounded are the real treasures.

If the world calls me mediocre because I refuse to run its endless race, so be it. I’ll embrace that label. Because if happiness, satisfaction, and inner peace are what I live with, then by my standards, I am already successful.

After all, the majority of people on this planet aren’t billionaires, celebrities, or history-changers. They are ordinary, “average” people. And if mediocrity is where the majority stand, then mediocrity isn’t a weakness, it’s the truth of human life. And the majority always wins.

I am proud to be a successful mediocre.

M stands for Mediocrity

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are the streets saying AA will refund me and pay for my rental car too because in that case maybe something can be arranged 😭😭😭😭😭

Overarching

I challenge myself first.

This puts pressure on others.

Undesired pressure that is usually mistaken: when it is all motivation and passion for what is yet to happen when you endure mediocrity.

Am I guilty for all that?

Ambitious overachiever or chronic igniter?

At first that pressure is overwhelming and intensifies failure. But then you get to a point that you make a deal with yourself and…

Overarching

ako ang hari ng sablay 😂

Discipline is required for so many things, yet most people rather the consistency of their mediocrity.

They want you on your back so it’s easier for them, not you. Remember that