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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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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.
Solidarity Economy: Building an Economy for People & Planet https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/solidarity-economy-building-economy-people-planet
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.
My viewpoint on these things comes from a place of gentle encouragement
I want us to stop bickering with each other and put that energy into diverse approaches and contributions to improve decentralized, non-corporate social media
The neurotransmitter hit from "winning" against each other is a cheap drug
Centralized services and corporate
actors still control the conversation, and your data, and this fight is with them
realization: a sizeable chunk of my anxiety and distaste for javascript is attenuated when i'm targeting a version of node.js that i control
and not a smattering of ever-shifting mutually incompatible browser implementations
created by billion dollar corporations jockeying on the necks of their users to whack each other with capitalism sticks
โIf you want to make a safe place to create... you have to start by making the most vulnerable people safe first. So you have to take the people who have been most marginalized, most pushed away from conventional tech and say โyou are going to be at the center of this, youโre going to be the first people we reach out to, to say does this work for you? Does this meet your needs?โโ
โAnil Dash on CodeNewbie podcast
https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/from-tech-blogger-to-fog-creek-ceo
I won't be poem-ing
today, no time
for rhyme, no time
for quilting lies
into verse, for
spinning ideas
in reverse, and
to make matters
worse, I've gone
and done it anyway:
such is the
writer's curse.
again on social-media and content 'curation', responsibility, accountability Show more
A poem, in other words, is an artifact whose value is a strong function of the prevailing mass consciousness. Under some conditions, it might easily travel and find its audience. Under worst-case conditions, it might cause the poet to be executed for heresy because the first person to hear it reports it to an inquisitor.
Now consider the question: what does it take for a poem to be optimally valued in a cultural market?
There is no guarantee that your neighbors would make a good audience. The meaning of a poem is also a much more uncertain thing. An entire psychological stack of attitudes, morals, ideology, sense of history, and sense of cultural context, determine what a reader might get out of a poem. The reception of a poem is also highly sensitive to educational preparation. Literacy, mastery of the language, quality of any translation, all matter.
Studies on bear shit. Show more
Studies on bear shit. Show more