Oooh The Convergance Of The Movement And The Super Fragile Doll Is Going In A Really Cool Direction!

Kegworth

Rather than reading my book pile I’m rendering it!

getting deeper into tikz this time because of Trying To Make Stuff Reusable and really feeling the weight of the user manual being over 1300 pages long

Karen Barad’s agential realism?

the primary ontological units are not "things" but phenomena - dynamic topological reconfigurings/entanglements/relationalities/(re)ar­ticulations of the world. And the primary semantic units are not "words" but material-discursive practices through which (ontic and semantic) boundaries are constituted. This dynamism is agency. Agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfigurings ofthe world. The universe is agential intra-activity in its becoming. - Meeting the Universe Halfway

I’m struggling with it! The parts I’m familiar with (undergrad physics, contemporary scientific funding) are deployed… unartfully? But to ends (agental realism , and a theory of scientific ethics that’s very freeing) that I find comforting, so

Exceptional quotes throughout as well; this experimental apparatus familiar to anyone with ug physics has been modified with the critical element - a sulphurous cheap cigar that “developed” the silver ions like a photo, by accident! THe results relevance to understanding of physics is acausal; we have a understanding now where that this is the discovery of electron spin, but this is the result of many iterations of the measurement and reaction and discursive practice loop

Also, brain is computer is silly. Are there any ways they could be substituted for each other? As that’s the only definition given to X is Y in CS; given a apparatus is it possible to distinguish a X or Y; if no, same thing relative to the apparatus (+discursive practice in which apparatus is embedded)

"the brain is a computer that receives, interprets, and predicts "sense data" (whatever that is) and then calculates appropriate thoughts, actions, and responses" 🙄🙄🙄

yeah and a river is a computer that receives and interprets "indirect upstream data", manipulates that data using whorls and eddies, and then calculates the appropriate outgoing flow pattern.

your nutsack and cock are a cOmPuTeR that receive and interpret what i like to call "indirect mastubation data", and manipulates that data to calculate and return the appropriate "cum response".

the brain is only a computer in so far as any physical system is a computer. and it's a fucking stupid compsci major ass way of looking at the world that makes very little sense

spent the evening updating my photography CMS to support tagging, and now i've dumped a bunch more of my photographs there. better tagging than i've literally ever done on tumblr.

i wish i could put my portrait work on there but i have no releases for anybody i've ever photographed, and i doubt they'd want to be on there anyway.

The Manticore, 2

from Enemy004

with regards to entities discovered in Enemy001, and Enemy003

Ghost*Fruits//Enemy

2021&2

Why on earth would you like herpesviruses? Don’t they cause STDs?

Herpes simplex virus 2 does indeed cause a sexually transmitted disease, but there are several other herpesviruses that infect humans, many of which are not sexually transmitted. Coldsores, chicken pox and glandular fever...

Is this a medical institutions see the mission as avoiding harm rather than helping thing?

Like, you may feel that by taking x medication you would change your experince in y,z ways that you prefer - but you can never just say „a cpap machine would improve my sleep“ it has to be „with sleep apnea I’m at risk of xyz further negative effects“ and let the MD‘s join their own dots.

Autistic people as a community have really fought well against person-first language and the implications it brings and I feel really sorry for people with ADHD who as a community don't seem to have followed the same road at all

CHERI is to Iron Dome as

Stuxnet is to CBRN as

Palantir is to the TLA’s

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