Xenofy @xenofy@schelling.pt

One thing that really struck me while watching the monkeys use BCI in the neuralink presentation is that animal uplifting is going to be enabled _purely as a result_ of testing & development of this tech. Imagine being able to put a voice box on a crow or dolphin eventually

Watch "How Space Access Infrastructure Can Defeat The Rocket Equation, ISDC2017, by Philip Swan" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/43LziW_1qk4

I am not a conservative for quite a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest is that conservatism exists in opposition to liberty.

https://www.reimaginingliberty.com/p/liberty-upsets-patternsand-conservatism

Welcome new followers. Here's an essay I wrote about how mere toleration of the diverse self-expression of others isn't enough to sustain a liberal society. We need to cultivate the capacity and desire to find joy in others' ability to author their own lives, even in ways different from what we would choose for ourselves. https://www.reimaginingliberty.com/p/ideology-of-hangups

killing kings

the elon musk spacex post and the donald trump archival documents show some cultural gap between them and me, like to me if you're putting huge amounts of effort into propping up a powerful man that's not particularly an instance of him losing

like if you're seeing that happen just let SpaceX fail on its own merits and get a job at NASA or Blue Origin or the new startup the top SpaceX executives just started after shedding Muskian deadweight #noxp

Making some #VR treehouses for my research and enjoying the view you don't get from inside the goggles✨#unity3d

I think there's a schism forming in transhumanism that, by 2030, will be obvious to everyone. It'll be similar to classic vs modern liberalism, with classic transhumanists being the grinder/diybio/body freedom maxis, and modern being the WEF/Davos/AI Safety types. They'll both agree that radical tech can improve the human condition, but the modern branch will be willing to embrace totalitarianism in order to (as they argue) prevent global catastrophe.

anyways, as is glaringly obvious: all my homies are body freedom maxis

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumataro-ito-s-illustrations-of-nudibranchs-from-the-uss-albatross-philippine-expedition-ca-1908 #histodon #art #zoology #illustration #nudibranchs

NGL when I see a mastodon post that's longer than like 500 characters most of the time my eyes just glaze over it

Are you tagged in a thread that you don't want to take part in any more?

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The official app doesn't have this yet.