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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?
the internet is fucking nuts, man
i can just think, idly, while i'm writing something, "what would a local newscast from NYC in 1985 be like?"
so i just go type a few words into the search bar on youtube
and seconds later, i am watching exactly that.
a local newscast from before i was born in a place i've never lived.
what the fuck, right?
Transhumanism and Slavery Show more
Transhumanism and Slavery Show more
Perverse take against a common argument to go vegan. Pet abuse. Show more
Joke-like framing of animal abuse, capitalism, pets as objects, The Sims Show more
Spelling, frustraition. Show more
mechs made of beliefs and words 
Substitute "social construct" with "community-built-and-controlled mecha"
Thinking about it, when I joined Twitter in 2008, I don't think there were follow recommendations. Nor have I ever used them since. There were no recommendations when I joined the fediverse. Perhaps I am overestimating the usefulness of that feature for bringing new people in.
I sure hope so because it's frustrating me.
The sailors, men & women who lived in this eddy of time, were helpless. They saw the signs of sirens and covered their ears. But the curse of SV's call was too strong.
Great songs about growth, about engagement. About how long it would take to read thru the entire feed. Trumpets about user safety, fears of hostile platform dynamics.
Once calm waters now a battleground, a minefield. Thousands left unmoored by time, drifting, drowning.
Gentrification of time, because it wasn't good for brands.
But the safety of barrier of time would not last. The algorithm came for us.
Poseidon's rage crashed up our boats. Vexing sailors of the open social seas like how Scylla and Charybdis pained Odysseus.
SS shitposts - emotional poetry and confused weeping of mermaids - could no longer find solace in the comfort of the night.
Once great feeds, carefully tended like gardens, fell to depth charges of content. Nightlife choked with algae grown in the sun, smothered in "likes are now retweets".
"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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Flesh trophies, gore adjacent, joke Show more
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.
Personally, my biggest concern about the modern internet is that the whole thing is resoundingly fragile, while acting like it is indestructible. (https://boingboing.net/2016/11/11/the-internets-core-infrastru.html)
It was designed to be fault tolerant. It was designed to be censorship resistant.
In some ways, it is!
In other ways, it's a massive, ubiquitous tool of surveillance.
"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.
Name a Lego line worse than Galidor. I'll wait.