Michael Kazarnowicz

I spent 20+ years on the hedonic treadmill, only to realize it doesn't lead anywhere. Now I'm a metamodern hippe living in the far north with my husband @Nightwolf and our two dogs. My passion project right now is a contemporary urban space opera called "The Psychonaut Chronicles". See pinned threads for more about me and where I live. I alt-text images and expect the same from you.

#scifi #videogames #storytelling #consciousness #metaphysics #popculture #psychedelics #cosmology

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2024-08-25 15:30:05

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@npub1vyl…p6v0
Yes, they are available as Youtube video with subtitles. Here's the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRF8jTF74c

2024-08-25 12:39:43

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In the end, I think that science will have to adapt a taoist stance on the existence of god:
The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things.
Science could still keep describing reality, but no matter how advanced a civilization gets it will be a perpetual beginning of the picture and never the end.

2024-08-14 14:28:59

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@npub17wu…q66w Thank you! I was worried that I would be labeled an imposter seeking attention, and I'm so glad that I was wrong in that. The community here has been welcoming and generous with resources.

2024-08-14 08:05:58

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@npub1e2u…gz5y yeah, I didn't think it would be this freeing, but suddenly so many odd pieces in my past make sense. It’s calming to understand my own idiosyncrasies.

2024-08-14 07:59:17

I've had a realization over the summer: I might not be as much an introvert as having mild autism. I did a test and scored borderline.
Over the years, I've heard from people that I display traits of autism. I shrugged it off because I have never had issues with interpreting other people's emotional states.
Reading up on it, I realized that some (many?) autistic individuals have hyper-empathy, which really fits me. I don't even like being evil to NPCs in video games.
Huh.
#autism

2024-08-12 07:45:21

If you want some grade A trolling, visit stilllovethetruckthough.com
(It leads to r/CyberStuck, the parody subreddit about L Ron Musk’s CyberTruck. It is almost twice the size of r/CyberTruck which is for owners and fans.
In both communities you’ll find people posting about issues plaguing this under-engineered, overpriced piece of Musk. The phrase “still love the truck though” is common among owners posting about the issues they encounter which led to the nickname “CuckTruck”)

2024-08-09 07:12:54

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@npub1npt…v4qx ifall någon missar det så är den där manipulerad.

2024-08-06 10:34:39

Mango Unchained received a CuckTruck from the guy who sniffed a chair after Andrew Tate sat in it.
I understand now why South Park stopped doing political satire.

2024-08-06 10:28:09

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@npub178k…tu9e I love this! I love watching your art evolve. This is different in a great way.

2024-08-06 07:56:57

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@npub178k…tu9e stunning and beautiful!

2024-07-29 12:16:21

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@npub1tux…sm8x 😂 missade den!

2024-07-29 07:43:14

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I mean, if your profession requires that you're part of a platform where Nazism is not only allowed, but cheered on and *whitelisted* for certain alt-right usesrs, where trans people are threatened with genocide but "cis" is a slur, and whose owner is a fascist, then you're working for a fascist enabling organization - kind of like working for BASF while the Nazis were in power.

2024-07-29 07:34:33

Before Twitter was turned into Xitter by L Ron Musk, I had a list of about 100 accounts of people I recpected.
Seeing those that are active today made me lose respect for each and every one of them. Especially journalists at left-oriented publications such as ETC - I cannot think of any word but "whore" when I see their content.
They obviously have invested in getting a following and will continue supporting Apartheid Clyde because they gain from it.
Forking grifters.

2024-07-29 07:15:56

Names for Elmo Cuck's Cybertrucks that I've learned this weekend:
WankPanzer
WankerTanker
Cyberstuck
Incel Camino
It almost has as many names as Apartheid Clyde.

2024-07-27 19:31:47

One thing that I'm sure about with my upcoming series: it will take turns that the reader does not expect.
I'm sure of this because now that I'm marinating books two and three, the story has taken unexpected turns for me.
It kind of involves killing God. As in the Abrahamic God. Quite literally in the story, and figuratively in a criticism of priesthood.
I mean, I call the series “The Psychonaut Chronicles" so what did I expect?
1/2
#WritingCommunity #amWritingSF #consciousness

2024-07-27 15:25:33

An aptonym for the PR, advertising, and marketing industry is “The Gaslighting Industry”.
That's literally the job of PR consultants today: to gaslight the general public/audience.
(Feel free to attempt to change my mind!)
#PR #marketing #advertising

2024-07-05 20:59:41

The house we now live in has been owned by three generations of the same family, and the basement was clearly not really utilized by the youngest generation. Most of the stuff down there belonged to the parents.
Today I finally got around to really cleaning it out. It'll be a trailer load to the recycling center on Monday, and we've saved what can be used.
I never realized how much mundane stuff left behind reveals about the various owners and their relationships.

2024-06-29 15:55:44

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I realize that this interruption, after having restarted the mental processes that put words to whatever has been brewing inside me this past week, was timely (and magic in and by itself, it's like a story that is begging to be told).
Maybe this is where I dust off my Medium blog, because this rabbit hole starts with episode 3 of Midnight Gospel, takes a detour over (epi)genetic memory, and asks the question at which point a statistical anomaly becomes magic.

2024-06-21 16:04:37

It's hard to find your own relationship to death in a society that does everything to avoid the topic of our own mortality.
Something happened with my mind when I faced my fear of dying. I used to think of dying as some sort of non-existence: a mind suspended in darkness without any external stimuli. It disappeared in the moment someone pointed out the absurdity in that belief.
We cannot function without beliefs – there is no un-eating the apple …
1/x
#death #consciousness #philosophy

2024-06-18 18:25:57

If you are interested in exactly how improbable a universe such as ours is (1 in 10^239) and why that isn't an argument for a multiverse, you should read this:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-improbable-existence-is-no-evidence-for-a-multiverse/
#cosmology #multiverse #scifi

2024-06-11 12:53:26

TIL that "balls to the wall" and “balls out" do not from anatomy or sports, but from piloting and engineering.
“Balls to the wall” was when you pushed the (typically three) levers that regulated engine power on airplanes all the way in, or "to the wall”.
"Balls out” comes from centrifugal governors on steam engines. When they are out, you are at maximum speed. I know that it's considered vulgar, and that must be because of the connection to (human) testicles, right?
#Language #idioms #slang

2024-06-11 12:12:50

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@npub1juj…gd95 it looks awesome and I'm going to try this. Thanks for the tip!

2024-06-11 12:07:53

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@npub178k…tu9e I love how you place with space through angles here. Really nice!

2024-06-11 12:06:59

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@npub1juj…gd95 if water was poured out and nobody was close enough to hear it, did it have any temperature?

2024-06-11 12:03:10

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@npub1juj…gd95 I need to order more of the ones we get here. They're delicious, and if you add tofu to the sauerkraut and gojuchang you have a complete meal. It's one of the few processed foods I eat on occasion.

2024-05-24 11:09:54

A few days ago I read a quote I can't get out of my mind:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
This is Project 2025 in a nutshell.

2024-05-08 13:08:01

This is the coolest thing I've seen so far this year: what flying into a black hole would look like.
NASA has created this simulation on their super computer and it is a hauntingly beautiful and completely mind-blowing sight.
If you want more once you've seen the visual with explanation below, check out their 360 video of it. That in VR would be a ride you could charge for.
https://youtu.be/chhcwk4-esM?si=bz60Fm9O1LxvsDzV

2024-04-26 15:34:32

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@npub185y…wcuq casual racism is one thing I totally see being her thing. Comedians that turn bullies seem to have this as a feature.

2024-04-26 14:28:55

Ellen DeGeneres: “I got kicked out of show business”.
No, sweetie, you were cancelled because you are a horrible person to anyone you deem below you, while stroking the egos of anyone you consider above you.
You bullied people on your show, both guests and coworkers.
You were cancelled because people saw the real you and realized that you're a petty, unkind, and a sociopath who posed as a good person.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89zy07x40no

2024-04-26 10:58:23

TIL that there is a word for when rich people procreate with close relatives.
No, it's not “inbreeding”. That's for animals and plebs.
When aristocrats do it, it's “consanguinity”.

2024-04-23 08:05:24

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I am also convinced that a lot of the suffering animals and humans (like babies) have endured in the hands of trained doctors can be traced back to Descartes:
The conclusion of “I think, therefore I am" in mainstream practice has been “I think, therefore I can feel pain”.
It's preposterous, really.

2024-04-23 07:54:41

"I think, therefore I am" has aged like milk, and I think this makes Descartes overrated as a philosopher (this being his first principla and all).
As late as last Friday, a group of academics in relevant fields, signed “The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness", which says pretty much the same thing as the Cambridge declaration from 2012: consciousness is likely possessed my most, if not all, animals.
"I feel, therefore I am" is a statement that would have aged like wine.

2024-04-23 07:33:30

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@npub1juj…gd95 that would be a horrifying twist, now that we've moved to a place with winter six months of the year.

2024-04-22 14:50:05

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@npub1juj…gd95 I am, thank you! It turned out not to be allergies, but a cold that put me in bed for a few days.

2024-04-16 13:22:03

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@npub1tux…sm8x det har nog varit som vanligt (dvs hyfsat blåsigt). Jag vet att Östersund, och stora delar av Västerbotten haft risk för höga alpollenhalter. Det här är den rimligaste förklaringen.

2024-04-16 11:25:54

I have no idea what's going on, but today I woke up with eyes and nose gushing as if to challenge Cardi B to write a sequel to WAP. My eyes are puffy, I'm sneezing like crazy and nose is stuffed.
I suspect allergies, but to WHAT? We still have snow, and nothing has started to sprout yet.
Also: allergy medicine barely helps.

2024-04-16 08:29:42

How is Melania OfDonald, you ask?
[…] a friend of Melania’s said she “is leading her own life, and still feels happy being at Mar-a-Lago, surrounded by people who love her and who never talk about reality, or bad things about her husband.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-a-no-show-at-first-day-of-hush-money-trial
I too would want to escape reality if I had married Mango Mussolini.

2024-04-16 07:00:15

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@npub1juj…gd95 the font of what? (:

2024-04-15 09:27:01

A Swedish idiom that is hard to translate is "finns det hjärterum, finns det stjärterum”
Literally translated: “exists heart space, exists butt space”
the meaning is: “If you have room in your heart for a person, you'll make physical room for that person too”
#DoesNotTranslate #Swedish

2024-04-15 08:17:08

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@npub1dtr…alrs att Webhallen tyvärr blivit ett riktigt skitföretag (vilket också bekräftas av att läsa deras recensioner från senare år).

2024-04-13 13:42:56

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@npub1juj…gd95 it looks like a really interesting book. I'm really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it, if you care to share them.

2024-04-11 06:04:12

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@npub1juj…gd95 this was something I thought about too, but I haven't watched past season 3. Did it get worse?

2024-04-09 18:49:24

Jag älskar att det finns en namninsamling för att få Kinberg Batra sparkad. Hennes beteende är ju galet, och urholkar tilltron till demokratin. Vänskapskorruption så öppet måste få konsekvenser.
Om du tycker att Kinberg Batra ska avgå/bli sparkad, så ska du också skriva under här:
https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/sparka-batra
Du kan också sprida budskapet. Jag tänker att om de skulle nå en 10 000 underskrifter så skulle det bli nyheter, och så är bollen i rullning.
#svenskpolitik

2024-04-09 13:14:16

If you have any doubts that Israel is involved in war crimes, read this report from 972 Magazine (written by Jewish and Palestinian journalists) about ‘Lavender’, the AI that makes kill decisions for the IDF.
One thing is clear and that is that they accept collateral damage of women and children.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

2024-04-09 09:00:47

Fun fact that gets depressing the more you think about itt: you can check the dates for past solar eclipses by looking at the Google trends for "my eyes hurt"
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=My%20Eyes%20Hurt&hl=en

2024-04-08 07:20:49

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@npub1juj…gd95 a lot could be said about Halo, but I think that the casting was great, especially Halsey/McElhone.

2024-04-07 14:32:03

If you're in the mood for dystopian sci-fi that is too close to reality for comfort, I recommend “The Implications of a MADCOM World – Three scenarios for the future”.
It was written in 2017, and covers the coming ten years (so <2027). It's interesting to compare to reality, 70% into their predictions.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep03728.5
#scifi #WritingCommunity

2024-03-27 17:58:20

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@npub1v06…vf4w thanks, I’ll check it out!

2024-03-27 17:56:44

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This time it also made me wonder if photons hit the retina in a wave or particle pattern. I wonder if this is even possible to find out.
Hold my beer, I’m jumping down this rabbit hole.

2024-03-27 17:50:53

Sometimes, I’m struck with wonder at things I normally take for granted. Like seeing.
Photons hit flesh which transforms them to electric signals. These signals travel to the brain, which then constructs a mental image of the rich, immersive reality we see. Isn’t that insane?
The light doesn’t reach your brain - so it has literally never experienced light other than through the proxy of electric signals from the eyes, in a language only the two understand, evolved over millennia.

2024-03-27 13:48:27

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@npub1hd3…rn7w verkligen. Det är regression till förmån för de rika och otroligt oroande.

2024-03-27 13:31:44

U.S. maternal death rates almost doubled between 2014 and 2021. Black women are disproportionately harmed by this: black individuals are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related deaths than white individuals.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/u-s-maternal-death-rate-increasing-at-an-alarming-rate/

2024-03-25 10:28:44

@npub1llr…vvmp found one of your posts on Reddit (: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1bmxb96/tesla_owners_privacy/

2024-03-24 13:56:16

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@npub1juj…gd95 I did, thank you!
I also have some thoughts. There's something that irks me about the black hole metaphor. I think it's the lack of acknowledgment that 'the singularity' is also an event that (some, perhaps many?) people in the AI fields believe will happen. Also the allusion to the 'black holes are cosmic vacuums' factoid in the title.
I don't think that I would disagree with mr. Nosta if we talked, but I would make his points in a slightly different way.

2024-03-20 07:54:04

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@npub1juj…gd95 Ayo Edebiri is an amazing actress. She was half the reason I made it through season 1 of The Bear.

2024-03-19 09:34:23

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@npub16q2…e7ya If you're looking for recommendations, Taste.io has a decent engine/database that can also be combined with another persons' profile to get matches for both of you.
@npub1pvf…093g

2024-03-19 08:59:04

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@npub1juj…gd95 haha! Snow White was exactly the story I thought about first. I feel like pop culture for kids and young adults in the 80s and 90s was simplified and infantilizing.
@npub1wfd…68tj

2024-03-19 07:52:16

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@npub1s2a…edn4
Jag har två kommentarer: Svenskt Näringsliv och DI är forking shirtballs. Vi vet alla vad som händer på 90-talet och det tog nästan livet av svensk välfärd.
Också: SN är bara en arm till Tidelaget. Jag jobbade på en PR-firma som jobbade mycket med SN och SN och de blå partierna jobbade mycket ihop på kampanjer där Facebooksidor med neutralt klingande namn förmedlade propaganda förklätt till nyheter. Det här var efter Cambridge Analytica och strategin var kopierad från CA.

2024-03-19 07:46:16

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@npub1wfd…68tj I'm a bit too young for pop culture from the 50s, but wasn't the “woman has to get in trouble so that a man can save her" trope strong all the way into the 1990s in pretty much all pop culture?
@npub1juj…gd95

2024-03-18 20:00:40

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@npub1dtr…alrs att det finns en stad mellan Holland och Belgien där landsgränsen går rakt igenom hus och lägenheter ibland. Fascinerande sex minuter: https://youtu.be/pezx5H775JQ

2024-03-18 18:17:00

L Ron Musk (my current favorite internet nickname for Apartheid Clyde) has now come out as a GOP supporter. He has met with Cheetolini, so I assume there's some dealing going on there: both are enormous narcissists, surrounded by yes-men, hooked on drugs, and with a grasp of science that is tenuous if you average the two of them, both with a savior complex …
Donnie D’oh might not have gotten money, but he must've offered something valuable to earn Space Karen’s public support.

2024-03-18 09:25:33

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have released suggestions for Sweden to improve human rights in areas where Sweden is lacking.
One of the areas: laws regarding drug use. They are recommending Sweden to decriminalize (as per evidence from other countries) because, you know, we have the highest mortality in overdoses in the EU (and the most repressive drug laws by far).
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=E%2FC.12%2FSWE%2FCO%2F7&Lang=en
#sweden #UN

2024-03-17 13:25:20

If you want to know how deep the rot of generative AI has reached in academia, search Google Scholar for papers unrelated to LLMs (-ChatGPT -LLM) that contain common LLM-generated phrases like “certainly, here is” or “As an AI language model” or “I’m very sorry but”
ᔥ Erik Hoel’s phenomenal newsletter: https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/lit-mag-guernica-implodes-llms-beat

2024-03-13 14:01:42

Someone just called string theory "the fanfic of physics" because content is constantly added, but it's not canon (and probably won't be because decades in its still not anywhere close to being a viable theory).
Using the term like this does have a point.

2024-03-13 13:42:24

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@npub1mwa…44uy I'm very happy that non-materialist explanations of the universe are being taken seriously again. Materialism has failed time and time again in explaining mind and consciousness without relying on magic thinking (aka "emergence") and special treatment of humans.
I am fairly sure that Copernicus is rotating in his grave considering we replaced geocentrism with human-centrism in our scientific model of the universe (in the end, they're the same thing)
@npub1k5r…zvzp

2024-03-04 21:57:33

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Well, at least I cannot feel shame anymore. The second hand shame for everyone involved in this cultural hate crime against gays has emptied by shame glands forever.
The fact that people make fun of Twilight but like this is the worst kind of well-meaning homophobia.

2024-03-04 21:48:36

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Oh no. @npub1eup…0ytp is in it. Oscar Wilde would cry blood.

2024-03-04 21:47:04

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@npub19vs…yu7p yes. And an utter waste of two hours of your life.
Based on a book by a person who must hate gays (assuming it’s an adult, because I could forgive a precocious twelve year old without internet access who wrote this).
Seriously, it’s on par with a straight man making pornos about lesbians.

2024-03-04 21:41:54

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And Rachel Maddow is a traitor to gays for participating in this.

2024-03-04 21:24:52

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The fact that it has such high scores on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB is a slap in the face to queer cinema.
Oscar Wilde would give up on humanity if he knew that this epitome of milquetoast voyeurism into gay men’s lives would be popular in 2024. It’s written by a person who cannot have met a gay man in their life, or at least has never even asked a gay person what sex is like.
The Twilight saga is Nobel prize material in comparison. Fork whoever wrote this libidolessword vomit.

2024-03-04 21:18:22

As a gay man, I am offended by “Red White and Royal Blue”. It’s no better than a straight man writing a love story between lesbians, when he’s really acting out his teenage fantasies about what he thinks lesbians are like.
I am also saddened by Uma Thurman participating in this utter shite. It’s the worst kind of exoticism of gay men. If the author was twelve year old it would be understandable, but that an adult wrote this is forking insulting to decency.

2024-03-04 16:12:54

Which stage of capitalism is this?
https://cdn.masto.host/unstraightclub/media_attachments/files/112/038/298/806/021/944/original/6f32f87f2e6d5752.jpeg

2024-03-04 10:33:26

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@npub1juj…gd95 I haven't had that kind of nightmare since I was a kid, and even then it was mild. I remember once, when I dreamt that our (pretty big) apartment building was hollowed out and full with xenomorphs from Alien, and it didn't faze me at all.
Adulthood brought with it other nightmares: not being on time and not being prepared. I'd rather meet Freddy Kreuger than have one of those dreams again (they fortunately stopped almost completely when I quit teaching group fitness classes).

2024-02-29 10:08:44

When civilization collapses because of climate destabilization, I will pay soda bottle caps/metal scrap/whatever currency the remainders of humanity decide on, to watch gladiator games between people who profited off destabilizing the climate.
Like Darren Woods, CEO of Exxon Corp https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4494543-exxon-ceo-blames-public-for-failure-to-fix-climate-change/
I would love to see him fight for his life with a plastic spork against the CEO of BP. The only rule is: last man standing wins the chance to live another day.

2024-02-28 08:31:54

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@npub1pvf…093g oh my god, the second hand embarrassment I feel watching this video 🙈🫣

2024-02-24 09:36:29

OMG!
I just found out that the human Dalmatian video in “Community” (you know, the one where Dean Pelton says “this better not awaken anything in me”) is a real video by a performing arts group:
https://youtu.be/qsDrgPIPHVg
(Watch it at your own risk, it might awaken something in you!)
#Community #SixSeasonsAndAMovie

2024-02-21 08:06:53

I just learned that Yammer, under Microsoft's ownership, is now called “Viva Engage”
This means that I cannot make fun of the name Xitter anymore, because "Viva Engage" is so boring and pretentious that Bono is taking notes.
The person who came up with this name deserves to be ridiculed for eternity in Heck (it's like a light version of hell for people who didn't really commit sins, but whose actions still prohibit them from getting into heaven)

2024-02-20 11:54:46

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@npub1a3l…j74v I agree that there is a large proportion of eternally embarrassed billionaires that act as bootlickers and voting base, but I think the problem goes deeper than that in the US.
The Democrats are just as responsible. It's a bipartisan organization that keeps any third party out, and the Democrats have a billionaire problem too (just look at the 2020 election, Bloomberg as a dem candidate?!)
The average American has no recourse, as has been shown in several studies.

2024-02-20 11:51:51

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@npub1sqw…7ew9 nej, jag misstänker att det bara var megalomani, en tanke att man skulle sätta priset på kartan på en gigantisk marknad.
Han som var ordförande vägrar ju svara på frågor och har avgått, så det är väl inte omöjligt att han var mutad av CCP.

2024-02-20 08:41:30

The top 1% in the USA now have more money than the entire middle class.
This will end really well!
(for the billionaires, that is - the average American is forked three ways to Sunday)

2024-02-17 10:08:39

If you have a Hugo Award, it now also comes with an “Approved by the CCP” rubber stamp.
If you make a list that has been washed from people who can upset the CCP, you are milquetoast at best and a useful idiot [for the CCP] at worst.
I feel bad for last year’s winners who did not ask for this, but will forever by associated with the corruption of the awards.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/science-fiction-authors-excluded-hugo-awards-china-rcna139134
#WritingCommunity #HugoAwards

2024-02-15 08:17:07

This time, an entire mischief of mice moved in during the last cold spell (with temperatures below -30°C/-22°F).
Yesterday, I did my daily round of the traps. Behind the couch was a gruesome scene with what I thought was a bunch of dog hair and dust, but it turns out to be a mouse who had died in the trap. The mouse’s friends had not only managed to remove it from the trap, they had also gnawed parts of it down to the bone.
It's more Jigsaw than Disney at this point.

2024-02-13 10:49:41

A few times a year (when we have cold spells) mice move into our house.
I wouldn't mind them if it wasn't so unsanitary with all the mouse poop along the paths they're running.
I hate killing them, but putting them outside in this cold is a slow and probably terrifying death. We bought well-made traps that instantly break their necks. It makes me sad every time one of the traps snap, but at least it's a very quick death.
#LivingInTheNorth

2024-02-13 08:29:49

I find it harder to take scientific journals and news outlets (and scientists) seriously about consciousness.
Today, I'm reading an article about birds having a neocortex that we've missed for years. The writer in Scientific American seems very excited, he even adds: "The new work even suggests that certain birds demonstrate some degree of consciousness.”
Scientific American has really gone down the drain, hasn't it?

2024-02-10 11:00:45

I just watched congressman Ro Khanna grill a counsel from Johnson & Johnson about their lawsuit against the US government.
J&J have leukemia medicine that they charge $160,000 per year for in the US. In the UK the price is 1/7th for the same medicine.
That lawyer for J&J is pure santorum in a meat-suit. How can you wake up and feel that this is a live well lived, screwing sick people for greed.
People aren’t born evil, but many become evil as adults.

2024-02-09 18:31:06

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I'm in a long marination period, Some would say writer's block (because I want to write) but this story emerges like an intricate structure at the bottom of a draining pool: you need to give the water time to drain before you can fully see the intricacies of it and start describing what you see.
One thing that surprised me a lot when I recently came to a point where I saw the full picture: that fantastic Gaimanesque idea is at the heart of it.
Creativity and the subconscious are amazing.
5/5

2024-02-09 18:29:29

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Don’t get me wrong, I get ideas for stories every now and then, and some of these are really good. But when I get one of these ideas, I ask “could it play out in my universe?” and if not, I let it go.
A lot of the subplots in the books come from such ideas. And the others are surprisingly easy to let go. All but one that I had maybe four years back, inspired by @npub1ds3…4msx's craft. I didn't have to write it down, the premise is so good that it stuck. Too bad it was incompatible.
4/5

2024-02-09 18:28:46

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The paradigm shift I'm betting on (that consciousness drives biology) could have consequences such as: consciousness becomes a hard physics field, subfields emerge based rom hybrids of previously unrelated fields (e.g. behavioral psychology and particle physics).
Also: if it is a fundamental force, it can be manipulated, but the technology for it will likely be biological.
This is just a small part of the world building! So you see why I have no capacity for more universes.
3/5

2024-02-09 18:23:52

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We're on the verge of strange physics; a fundamental shift of our view of the universe. The cosmological standard model is incorrect when it comes to dark energy, but we have yet to find an alternative. The universe may be inhomogenous. And the standard model of physics may need adjustment (I won't bore you with details but it's about the decay of the Higgs boson). We have no scientific understanding of the mind or consciousness to speak of.
This is where fact and fiction touch.
2/5
#space

2024-02-09 18:22:43

I have a hard time understanding how writers manage to write several universes at the same time.
I have no room for any other project, because literally everything in the news and zeitgeist can be related to my universe and the world building.
Writing the books, I am having the same experience that I hope a reader will have: a loosening of the rigid wall we put up between fiction and reality.
Or maybe “fiction and potential future” is more apt.
1/5
#WritingCommunity #scifi

2024-02-08 18:25:07

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@npub1mmf…eknq
The loss of biodiversity is so important, yet news today talk mostly of the weather. I am terrified about whole ecosystems collapsing once a critical mass of diversity is lost.
Look at the microbes in our gut, when we eat processed junk food, diversity decreases and it has consequences on our health.
I guess this analogy makes humans the bad kind of microbes to have in your biome, and I can’t really argue that we’re not.
@npub1dtr…alrs

2024-02-08 10:38:45

Google seems to have bricked a lot of Google Wifi units overnight.
Our mesh network had not internet connection this morning. I started troubleshooting. Ended up factory resetting the units. Turns out that you cannot create a new network because of a problem with Google (same problem that made our network lose WAN connection).
It’s a good excuse to return these, and de-Google my home. I’m throwing out Google Home while I'm at it.
I was furios with Google, but now I feel weirdly liberated.

2024-02-07 08:11:43

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@npub1dtr…alrs att det finns typ tjugo kilo ko (biomassa på ~420 miljoner ton) för varje kilo vilt däggdjur på jorden (biomassa på ~20 miljoner ton) .
När jag läste det så förstod jag plötsligt varför just djuruppfödning för mat är den enskilt största bidragaren till klimatdestabilisering.
(Det är också ett argument för att människan av framtida rymdvarelser som forskar på jordens historia kommer bli klassad som en cancer-liknande parasit som helt enkelt växte tills det inte fanns mat kvar)

2024-02-06 10:45:57

One thing that struck me about this meta-modern, post-truth era is that all the crazy feelings-over-facts arguments from politicians (pretty much all conservatives regardless of country), influencers, lobbyists, and the general population is not a temporary hickup.
Things will never be as un-crazy as they are today, it will only get worse.
I'm not sure how we move on to the next era, but it helps to not expect things to "go back to normal”. What we're experiencing today is the new normal.

2024-02-02 14:52:08

I just read the truest comment about the internet:
“The internet has allowed the village idiots to unionize and it’s the fuckin worst”
It really is.

2024-02-02 09:32:14

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@npub178k…tu9e ooh! I love this, it’s like an abstract jellyfish!

2024-01-29 18:47:41

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@npub1dtr…alrs jag har länge tänkt att med farten vi bryter rekord i, så är läget mer brådskande än allmänheten och politikerna - t o m de miljöinriktade – är medvetna om.
Det är väl bara att skaffa ett lager dryck och sätta sig och betrakta den långsamma undergången. För jag kan inte tänka mig att något som gör skillnad görs i tid.

2024-01-29 08:19:14

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@npub1juj…gd95 I love mochi, but never had butter mochi cake. It is now on my bucket list.

2024-01-28 18:48:08

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@npub1ywy…cksd her poem "Before the Big Bang” is phenomenal
For anyone that hasn't seen it, you're in for a treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXZqjCk7wWE
@npub14ev…p7rv

2024-01-28 18:41:25

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@npub129h…y2hs hopefully, in ten years, we’ll have integrated what Edsger W Dijkstra said about sentience and computers already back in the 60s (IIRC): "The question about whether a computer can think is as relevant as the question whether a submarine can swim"
@npub14ev…p7rv