Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

The human species has been distinguished from other lifeforms as the aesthetic hominids (homo aestheticus), combinatorial hominids (homo combinans), grammatical hominids (homo grammaticus), imitative hominids (homo imitans), questioning hominids (homo investigans), talking and even chattering hominids (homo loquens / loquax), playful hominids (homo ludens), storytelling hominids (homo narrans), picture-making hominids (homo pictor), and meaning-making hominids (homo poetica).

"God comes to us, not out of the sublime machinations of an unseeable and eternal universe, but out of the confused, unfinished histories of persons we know by name and sight and touch." ~ Carse

people are adorable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Coding_Classification

[some people] "think that the proposition that truth and justice are the greatest powers in the world is metaphorical. Well I, for my part, hold it to be true. No doubt truth has to have its defenders to uphold it. but truth creates its defenders and gives them strength."

CS Peirce to William James found in RB Perry's *Thought and Character of William James* II.424

People don't rise to the level of their systems, they rise to the level of their sleeping arrangements

I literally invented plagiarism.

One of the unforseen consequences of hyper-specialization / Taylorization is that there are fewer and fewer peers, and as such there are fewer and fewer opportunities to exercise compassion toward someone whose problems in working life resemble one's own. I think that the practice of compassion to peers is an important and under-recognized element of self-compassion and self-forgiveness.

The query "Chicago is the capital of" turns up some interesting answers:
- segregation
- Black America
- improv comedy
- unfettered aspiration
- cool
- the midwestern United States
- the Polish diaspora

I haven't been there since I was 25, but I feel confident in saying that whatever it is that Chicago is a capital of, that's my homeland.

Jeans are on the way out in the US. The denim industry is holding on solely due to boomers and Xers. Few are mentioning this!

I'll believe that US Americans are ready for communal lifestyles when they start making love love love songs about family bonds rather than individual romances.

Nothing is more depressing than talking to US Americans about what they imagine a return to communal life would look like. Lots of Type 1 fun and ego-syntonic ideas, IE "everybody will do things with me that aesthetically please me."
Like... go talk to people who live in actually communal societies. It's very often Type 2 and ego-dystonic, like "shuffle around in the cold rain while you and your cousin do X because your uncle says so," or "host a distant relative in your home for a long time."

Interesting stuff developing with graphene-supplemented bioink for 3d-printed medical implant applications. There are lots of structural benefits for an implantable meshwork, and it can also be used to diffusely distribute certain drugs.

Just once I'd like to see a good dramatization of Nixon. Nixon was terrorized by his father, who beat him and abused him as a child. The anxiety consumed Nixon. It became impossible for him to ever rest comfortably under any authority for the rest of his life. He felt he *had to* maneuver constantly just to escape further abuse. Thus the most terrifying moment of his life was the Checkers Speech, when he was rejected by his father AND nearly rejected by the leader of the free world.

"(Latin, Providentia; Greek, pronoia)."

Every time I see an accepted Latin gloss on a Greek term I feel like I'm watching a car crash.

Btwn Proclus and the Renaissancers I should have added Pseudo-Dionysus the Aereopagite

There are 183 worlds in a triangle

DIY Doppelganger: simply act out your most reprehensible tendencies and blame it all on a different person who happens to look the same as you. Does this sound too awkward or uncomfortable? Simply blame it on your doppelganger!

You can and must trust computers NOW