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not quite here yet but rapidly approaching
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RT @jd_pressman
A better model is that those aspects of humanism and civil rights which benefit unrestrained capital are selected to be implemented, while those which impede it are delayed or memory holed. twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1
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if your mentions was a physical place people had to visit to interact with you what would it look like?
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RT @MATTxDUNNELS
if your mentions was a physical place people had to visit to interact with you what would it look like? i think mine would be a lemonade stand but i ain’t really selling shit. i’m just sitting at a folding table by myself.
twitter.com/MATTxDUNNELS/statu

wordcel and rotator are but two sides of the same coin

words are fuzzy manifolds in conceptual space and hence can be rotated
shapes can be represented as constructions of logical statements

there is a wordcel in the rotator and a rotator in the wordcel

the Tao-roon macroon

this ideological attractor is a dangerous tendency among the spiritually nihilistic, those who live by fear instead of hope; too many of the brilliant people I know are stuck in this developmental dead end; this degrowth mindset is the seed of the antispiral
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RT @deepfates
I have some friends who are future oriented and into space, AI, etc. but they've bought into the academic/activist left worldview and it clearly causes them a great…
twitter.com/deepfates/status/1

And That's Good
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RT @cabel
I don’t know why, but this reply has really stuck with me. “web3 is promising because I once wasn’t allowed to squat on 1,200 twitter usernames that I planned to flip for profit”. It’s just… so revealing
twitter.com/cabel/status/14715

memes are ephemeral physically-embedded informational patterns we often acquire inadvertently from propaganda engines and can spread to others through speech acts; this does not differ in any real significant way, besides being easier to see. in fact, these are much less virile.
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RT @JoshuaPotash
Imprinting ads on people. Unbelievably dystopian
twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/statu

practicality aside, SFCs are fun toys to play with, simple algorithms to drop in anywhere you need a way to define a total ordering on an otherwise-unordered space

they're also quite pretty & a great doodling technique; I've filled many a notebook like so

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RT @pee_zombie
while originally botanical in nature, these L-systems can be repurposed for general generative purposes, as the rules are quite flexible

this one here is a simple …
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a space-filling curve (SFC) is a mathematical object defining a specific way of visiting ~every point in a space; typically fractals w/ a tunable variable called the fractal dimension (FD, or roughness/granularity) which determines the resolution w/ which the space is traversed

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this is esp. apparent when the exploited resource is in 2D space; the patterns of outward fractal expansion, density varying w/ resource desirability

the topology of the emergent network can be predicted from a combination of terrain, resource distribution, starting position

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RT @qorprate
i was terrified, because i saw that he had said something true, and yet i knew i could not repeat it
twitter.com/qorprate/status/14

hyperreality entails the reification of abstractions, which themselves are recursive simulacra, removed from the L0 concept thru an iterative process of self-reference

this state is brought about & accelerated by the growth requirements of corporations, which require a frontier
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RT @UndeniablyAlex
Yankee Candle's Stages of Abstraction

Level 1: The scent represents a physical object where the object's aroma is one of its distinc…
twitter.com/UndeniablyAlex/sta

this exchange is fascinating bc neither side cares about abstract principles; the left about decency or precaution, the right about liberty or the role of morality. they're engaged in a purely political battle, seeking to use the legal system to advocate for object-level goals
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RT @realJohnDouglas
Yes. You have founded us. The secret is out.
twitter.com/realJohnDouglas/st

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RT @pee_zombie
a phenomenological interpretation would suggest that during an intentionally-triggered dissociative trance state she reified the Allah egregore as a tulpa, attempted to forcibly terminate it & was mildly traumatized by her inability to do so. don't fuck around w tulpas, kids. twitter.com/tszzl/status/14285
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