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?

Why is there another version of "transhumanism" that seems to imply that the nature of that framing is to perpetuate slavery?

The whole point of my interest in the subject is as a means to minimize or outright abolish one of the fundamental drivings forces behind slavery: the removal of the beast-of-burden way of life.

Replacing horses with electric cars, replacing cars with remote VR arrangements. etc.

I'm missing something. What am I missing?

My brand of anti-slavery transhumanism in nutshell:

1) Sustainable robotic pets

2) To be able to generate my own nourishment via photosynthesis.

& yet...

> "You are a slave, legally owned by another human being. But you are happy slave. Your master treats you well and as luck would have it, what he wants you to do, lines up with what you prefer to do. Consequently, he never interferes with your choices. You live in harmony with one another."
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2017/07/slaves-to-machine-understanding-paradox.html

Me: We treat some animals as pets, and others as food. Where we draw the line seems arbitrary and cruel. Would you eat your dog?

Also me: Oh dear god, we treat our pets like slaves and tools, even breeding them to fit our demands. Dogs built as emotional labor slaves, lap warmers, hunting companions, social companions.

Tired: buying The Sims to torture people.
http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/nostalgia/articles/these-elaborate-the-sims-torture-chambers-will-awaken-your-inner-psycho

Wired: buying The Sims to torture dogs.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krishrach/people-should-never-have-been-allowed-to-build-pets-on-sims

Technological doll houses where we learn to treat other living beings as disposable pawns and ownable objects.

Years of muscle memory protects from issues of your, you're, youir. Or there, their, and they're.

It feels like Voice-to-text is trolling me by highlighting internal difficulties:
1) Choosing the correct option under conditions of risk leading to fatigue.
2) Amplifying glitches associated with dependence on phonetic language (to combat dysgraphia).
3) Resistant to correction by some form of issue seemingly dyslexic in nature.

Why word does choice the feel like risk a?

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"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.