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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 12:47:30 JST simsa03 In a different version of the future, John Brunner in the Shockwave Rider recounted how when people screamed into the Hearing Aid, everyone was assured that at least some real person, invisible, hidden, anonymous, was in fact listening. In our way of how the future came to be, we scream into the Hearing Aid called Social Media and never know if there is anybody out there at all. Brunner's apocalypse was far more humane than the reality we all face these days.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 13:46:09 JST simsa03 I used to live in this head-space, this area where I hear myself think and chase my thoughts, although most of the time it was the ideas and thoughts that chased me, rarely one at a time but usually at least three or more, all branching out into different realms, underworlds, and heavenly skies. Now I seem to have broken through (or grown beyond) this space, and I feel a relief that I no longer need to have a thought or that a thought needs to accompany me. In fact, the necessity of being me has disappeared, and I could go to sleep, it feels, and wake up as an elk or a spilled puddle of water, and all that would happen would be a great laughter coming from that place that is me, myself, and all the beings singing in their own voices. I was a tree, then I became a forest, only to laugh about the funny riddle whether it's the branches and leaves of my crowns that are moving in the wind or whether, quite the oppposite, it's my branches and leaves that by moving make up the wind. And anyway, even this thought becomes a fading grin on the water's surface, as the wind never stops – only to go somewhere else. (And it reminds me that it was St. Augustine in the 4th centrury CE who invented the self as a person's inner space by reifying memoria and molding it to become the place where the soul could meet its God: inward, then upward, as the movement was meant to proceed.) In fact, I'm not even a forest but a flock of birds – all the voices of all the beings that chatter simultaneously while one takes a lead, for a while, then to be superseded by another. Watch flock of birds and their movements, every one a voice of some ancestor or lover or child-to-be... They fly around, and in so flying they create a centre around which they swirl. The centre, recognizable by being circled around, is empty, made up by the voices that are the birds flying as flock. It is this laughter at the centre of the movement that is me and you and whoever happens to become the centre of the dreams, and thoughts, and ideas tumbling across each other. Inner Outer? Yada yada. No need for such distinction left.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 10:47:29 JST tinydoctor The freest people don't suffer from free will. They have free won't.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 02:57:02 JST tinydoctor We no longer build our own fortresses *against* God, against the inrush of the real, we let the fraud of the machine within the machines prechew the walls for us, like termites defending the mound.
Damn, I'm cranky this morning. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 05:38:01 JST tinydoctor Vague versus complex. The root of vague is Latin, vagus, roaming, wandering, to stray (see vagary, vagrant). The root meaning of complex is from complecti, to entwine around, twist, fold... Is better to be vague, be a wandering vagrant, or be twisted, infolded around oneself, complex. Are vague and complex siblings, conjoined twins, each the other's sine qua non? Each the other's left hand? Mano sinestra? #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten #vague #complexity
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 22:10:54 JST tinydoctor I'm feeling rather biblical today. Feeling Old Testament, to be specific. Maybe it's the weather. The OT is full of whining and bluster. "The zeal of thine house has eaten me up," whines the Psalmist. " Hast thou entered into the treasury of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasury of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?" blusters God to Job.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 04:24:27 JST tinydoctor As Karl Sigmund points out in The Waltz of Reason, sometimes it is better not to be “encumbered by intuition.” #reading #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 00:01:41 JST tinydoctor Quote of the Day: "Only bad actors show you emotion." Martin Landau
It occurs that this rule, if you accept it, applies in the ethical (not to say moral) and political realms as well as in theater.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 14:24:38 JST simsa03 In the 1970s onwards there had been a lot of thinking about "appropriate" technology, a technology according to the "human measure", gentle, considerate, etc. (It's the genalogy of E.F. Schumacher, Gary Snyder, Wendel Berry, Ivan Illich, Gregory Bateson, Ernest Callenbach, Vine Deloria Jr., Theodore Roszak, Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog culture, Vandana Shiva, Stephanie Mills etc..)
Pretty much all concepts of technology developed in these times and circles identified a "gentle" or approriate" technology with a localized, villiage-sized technology. That is, in order for things to be "soulful" or "soul preserving", they had to be very local and very simple. The idea, mostlöy, seems to have been that only a technology that is "small" can avoid to control or coerce a human being or a group of humans, whereas scaled technology were always imbued with hierarcghy, control, alienation.
I think that such concepts of technology not only restrict us in what may be count as permissible technology, but it also restricts us in what we can responsibly deal with: If it's too big, we cannot have it. Which pretty much leaves the main questions unanswered: How, e.g., to run a nuclear power plant, the layers of infrastructures of a society, the complex trade and political relations?
So I'd suggest a slightly different approach that leaves aside the presupposition that scale impacts humaneness.
In Greek mythology there had been two Gods of time: Chronos and Kairos. The first an emblem of our chronological order of time, the second an emblen of the right, the appropriate, the critical moment. An awareness of these aspects is something technology (or its pursuit) should encompass or rely on. A sense for the right measure that is not grounded in some awareness of or subjection to practical constraints and material necessities, but in the awareness of the right, the appropriate, the critical moment... for action, for choosing a path, for planning a goal, for being open to process (that is human- and not machine-centred...).
This approach could be called "kairo-tic technology".
It would be a technology that keeps in mind a sensitivity for the right, appropriate, even critical moments and circumstances. (That it also plays on associations of chaos and erotics gives rise to further smiles.)
Does this correspond to what you had in mind?
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 22:53:30 JST tinydoctor I suspect the human ability to believe impossible stuff against evidence is a hard wired (i.e. genetically determined adaption), an inherited survival trait. Like all survival traits bequeathed to us by natural selection, it doesn't necessarily promote the survival of individuals. Some people lack the gene; a resevoir against the possibilility that belief becomes unsurvivable.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 02:22:45 JST simsa03 You freak out the wrong way.
You do hope the wrong way.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 03:26:26 JST tinydoctor I find fragments are more tantalizing and evocative than an entire work. Many #ruins look better bleached and broken than they did when new and whole. To me. I think this is why #reconstructions and #restorations are so often unsatisfactory even if absolutely accurate. Restoration robs the ruin of its power to conjure the ages it has withstood, to ensorcell our imaginations as we walk among the the scarred reliefs and tumbled stones. Rock of ages, cleft for me. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 22:32:56 JST tinydoctor In the cloud. The fog of data. Data dementia. Inasmuch as we live our lives online, we are lost in the global brain fog. In this our digital collective, the symptoms of long AI syndrome are already evident. Data dementia. Oh, I already said that... #longAIsyndrome #globalbrainfog #AI #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:50:45 JST tinydoctor AI = Machine generated content laundering. We're all crypto coins now. #AI #contentlaundering #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 01:32:25 JST tinydoctor Unlike Bokonon, Dr. Omed prefers to leave God out of his religion, but I ain't gonna throw the baby out with the holy water. "We may try to discern "the limits of karass and the nature of the work God Almighty has had it do ... but such investigations are bound to be incomplete." But when we contemplate "how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is," we must whisper with Bokonon, "Busy, busy, busy." "
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 09:36:39 JST simsa03 Megalomania is not narcissistic lust for power, control, and adoration. It's the identification of one's (former) personal deprivation with a perceived or alleged suffering and destitution of something bigger, e.g., a state or nation. Hitler is an example, Putin too.
By this identification the megalomaniac doesn't act because of his individual needs and wishes but because he see the state, the nation, suffer for the very same reasons he *once* did. Take Putin's crucial experiences:
His family endured hunger after the war; as a slight boy he was beaten up in the backyards of St. Petersburg; his encounter with the rat in the staircase of the appartment building his family once lived in.
He learnt that in order not to suffer you need to be cunning, brutal, and always to fight back. Respect is deserved, is needed, and can be earned. Substitute the nation of Russia in the 20th century for Putin's life story and it becomes apparent what makes him tick:
It's not him that (!) is conquering the world, it is him that (!) *in the name and for the benefit of Russia* excercises the lessons he once learnt.
Because Russia must be free of starvation (cf. his preposterous economic news in his end of the year speeches), free of indignity (respected by the U.S., that is), and "great again". Similiar lines can be found in the fusion of Hitler's life story with his perception of Germany after WW I.
In fusing both (!) stories of destitution, "fate" becomes the main category and driver: the fate of the man becomes the fate of the nation, and vice versa. It is not the man but the higher power that acts through him to right the wrongs and reinstate the place both (!) deserve.
This acting as a puppet through a larger puppeteer *who himself is in need* explains why people like Hitler or Putin don't feel remorse or pity towards their compartiots who suffer endlessly by their actions and orders. It explains why those men not only put aside any consideration of the consequences of their actions but why they keep acting until the very end – either the destruction of the higher "person" (puppeteer, state, nation) or the man. It explains why they don't fear death and why they won't stop.
It also explains why in the case of Putin there is no contradiction between running an imperialist country (Russia) and acting as (not "like"!) Capo dei capi of a mafia organisation which the state has become. And this not in the sense of a "mafia state" in which criminal activities infiltrate and increasingly undermine a still functiong state (like Hungary under Orbán).
Russia is not such an infiltrated state but a mafia organisation *posing* as a nation state, using the economic and legal means of a nation state in the service of the mafia enterprises. Which is why in Russia of today there are mafia-style hierarchies and infightings, power struggles, a sense of permanent insecurity and inability to gain safer grounds.
It is because man and nation identify in the "fate" that a person like Putin can act as if he were a statesman struggling with obstacles while at the same time being heavily invested in criminal activities of personal enrichment and lawish rewards for his dependants and underlings. You can have both side by side. (One probably doesn't need to, as examples of Stalin, Ceaușescu, Mao Zedong seem to show.)
In fact, personal enrichment due to a sense of earlier deprivation and the conviction that material means will prevent such situations from appearing again, can act as motivation to try to achieve something similiar for the state or the nation.
But most important: In the understanding of "fate" as a non-coincidental coming-together of personal and supra-personal "needs", a man like Putin may think of himself as acting out of responsibility and care, and that his sacrifice consists eactly in becoming the tool for the higher power, the puppet of an invisible, timeless, and real puppeteer: the nation, Mother Russia, the boundless Russian civilisation, the Russkiy Mir.
For these reasons this war will most probably not end with negotiations nor with Russia's defeat on the battlefield. It will end at the earliest with the death of Putin *and* with no-one to step in to continue the "task": To be and to act like a willful and decisive puppet of a wounded puppeteer seeking reprieve and salvation.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 07:55:13 JST tinydoctor Old and busted: The Attention Economy. The new hotness: The Anxiety Economy. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 12:56:06 JST simsa03 Given the developments in my country I feel pretty isolated in my opinions. (As in many parts of the social web.) Still people think that duck and cover will get them through the next 24 months, that there won't be a massive land warfare over Europe, that "we" can get around hefty and speedy armament and preparations for the war that comes (while at the same time correcting the follies of the energy transition that puts pressure on our industries). Still people think that offering Putin some land that isn't theirs will make the threat go away. This will be a major European war and its incomprehensiveness is only in part explained by our perplexity that this time it's somebody else who simply decided to kick a whole continent into the abyss. That is, our helplessness results only in part from our incomprehension how somebody else whom we cannot control could act that way. That we're on the receiving end. But instead of facing this predicament we still think that looking away will make the threat go away, that closing our eyes will make us invisible. This war will not go away. And we're not prepared for it. Worse: We don't want to prepare. I don't just feel helpless because of the actions of a Capo di tutti i capi of a mafia organisation that poses as a nation state. I feel helpless because the citizens of my country like to fight and argue over irrelevant stuff, politicians don't order the weapons industry to produce in overdrive, heads of the armed forces don't insist on urgent recruitment and training, and obviously, politicians confine themselves to token politics instead of supporting Ukraine with all they've got. Again, like in the early days of the war in February 2022, I feel how the graves open up again and the memories of the trenches of Verdun, of the encirclement battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Berlin return like lilac scent in a summer’s garden. We're already beyond those last glorious and joyous flares of a bright future (which in fact have only been the first muzzle flashs of the approaching canons and rockets). We don't seem to see that combat already reached our streets. Or we misinterpret the combat that we see. Because we don't look. Because we don't grieve.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:08:25 JST simsa03 Not that I'm in any sense knowledgable in that field, but the whole discussion on AI that we had throughut the year 2023 baffles me. As if AI were something totally new. But I don't think it's wrong or overstated to say that every game engine is a form or variant of AI, and that means we live with AI at least since the beginning of the video game era. If we only retrict ourselves to the time when video games started to become a mass cultural phenomenon, then we talk at least of the period since 3d-graphics progamming entered the game genre. Which would be 1982 (with the game "Wayout") and seriously starting in 1990.
So if we indeed already live with AI in form of entertainment-enhancing technology for 33 years, the hoopla about ChatGPT and other AI systems becomes rather unintelligible or: banal. The main reason it creates such excitement today – like it did in the lift-off of video games 33 years ago – is that it enables a breakthrough in experience on the level of the individual person.
Like 33 years ago individual people ("gamers") could immerse in sensory interactions on their own (as well as in groups), the same seems to happen today: Everyone can have ChatGPT and other AI systems write something for you or make an animation for you (text-to-video). The "societal" implications, the implications for economies, technology, and capitalism at large, are minor in comparison to what "AI as experience" creates in the individual person. But again: Nothing (totally) new here, just more of the same stuff.
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 23:02:13 JST tinydoctor Random thought: AI is intelligent in the same way the steam powered looms the Luddites broke were skilled, and are deployed to the same purpose. To reduce intelligence to economy, skill to rote algorithms, and humans to second string automatons. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten #AI #luddites