ultimape 🐜💩 ❌ @ultimape@mastodon.social

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I am a walking-talking infohazard and am probably dangerous to your wellbeing. I vacillates between curiosity/playfulness, but even IRL I have trouble with signaling intent.

Subverting the way we model the world can break walls we build to protect ourselves. Breaking my own walls is how I overcome my own fears.

This may enhance triggers in those who have differing fear/disgust responses.

Knowing your emotional limits is not a weakness.

I won't be mad if you unfollow.

Things I've been absolutely fascinated with: #governance and #governancestructures, #socialnetworks, #gametheory, #incentive systems and mechanism / #gamedesign, #decentralized anything, organizational #rituals, #advertising theory, #information #networks, #psychology, #sociobiology, #complexsystems theory, #emergence, #swarmcognition, #groupformation and #autopoiesis, risk reward processing, and the nature of #homeostasis in living systems.

Basically I wanna put sentient robotic ants on mars.

I'm a computer obsessed autistic nerd w/ executive function disorder. I am effectively agoraphobic. I'm so fucked with anxiety/depression/sensory issues that I can't even manage to get on disability.

I'm living on a donation of $100 a month, and by grace of some girl I met on the internet.

I spend most of my time reading science pubs in quest to fix myself, hundreds a day. I have an operating model of disease that lets me make predictions that end up panning out months+years later.

What do?

"If my job is to put ideas into your mind... what ideas am I putting there?

So I quit."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV4RG5Y8G2s <3

"until 1984, when the commission removed them. The commission said then that the marketplace would determine what programming was best for children. [...]
Along with the deregulation came many other changes in children's television. Toy manufacturers, for example, became heavily involved in children's programming, developing shows based on toys that, in some cases, broadcasters were enticed to schedule in exchange for a part of the profit on toy sales."
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/us/reagan-vetoes-bill-putting-limits-on-tv-programming-for-children.html

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So I learned today that people were using literal human ballsacks as tobacco storage.

I know that a lot of medieval Jester's would use inflated Pig bladders as a sort of balloon they would Bop people with on the end of a stick. I even made my own in grade school.

So if we put canibis in a scrotum trophy for storage and whack people with it... Is that wacky tobaccy?

Sorry for whacking off about a bad pun.

Actually you can at me about Legos as a signaling good, but I'm probably going to talk about using parts of human biology as a symbolic trophy.

Legos as social signaling good.
Don't at me.

"When asked about the worst LEGO themes of all time, many afols will bring up Jack Stone. I think that this is because they have forced themselves to forget that Galidor ever existed."
http://bricknerd.com/home/seriously-huge-investment-in-galidor-1-2017

Is this Kink shaming? I'm not quite sure.

Haters gonna hate.
But the replicators gonna replicate.
https://youtu.be/GxCo5PcVAOc

in 2014 I rhymed.
"argumentum ab auctoritate"
with "accelerate".

I don't think i'll ever top that.
https://www.deviantart.com/ultimape/art/Untitled-494589036

I wonder what I was musing about at the time.

Tired: Something something vegans giving other people their poop to do diy FMT.

Wired: Scientist feeding bear poop to mice.

Inspired: Wondering how the scientists get bear poop.

"we showed that the seasonal metabolic phenotype of the bears could be partially transferred to germ-free mice by colonization with a bear microbiota. For example, mice colonized with a winter bear microbiota trended toward slightly higher serum levels of cholesteryl esters (Table S2) and triglycerides (Figure 3G) compared with mice that were colonized with summer microbiota"

Wow so it actually works, at least a little bit, and in mice.