Omnipedia #9: Millennial lefties, bio

2023-01-21 17:03| 来源: 网络整理| 查看: 265

“Millennial lefties, bio-war absurdities, creativity frees you, in the style of Jack Kirby” prompt to Stable Diffusion

More starry points in the digital firmament for you…all over the place (as we ontologically are). Spigot open!

Go Millennials, you beautiful cohort!

Moonhaven - just cancelled after one series, apparently - looks like the SF ideas-chiller to replace your Station Eleven fix. Will it appear in the UK this year? Weirdly, the terra-formed “moon haven” looks like a giant nicotine patch.

Pat Kane @thoughtland#Moonhaven looks right on the nose 12:19 AM ∙ Jan 7, 2023

Here’s one of my neuroscientific heroes, Antonio Damasio, even more eloquent than usual, quoted in Maria Popova’s Marginalian post on his 2021 book, Feeling And Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

The human experience of pain and suffering has been responsible for extraordinary creativity, focused and obsessive, responsible for inventing all kinds of instruments capable of countering the negative feelings that initiated the creative cycle…Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.

Now speaking of puppets… I found the Andrew Tate moment to be a meeting of cultural currents (though it also looks like the necessary arrest of a sex criminal):

Pat Kane @thoughtlandNo wonder people like this flourish. He uses “The Matrix” to put a name to popular cynicism about top-down authorities, then channels that into get-rich schemes based on alternative platforms. With the angry inferno of a tumbling patriarchy behind it. As political as it gets Twitter avatar for @Cobratate

Andrew Tate @CobratateWe teach you how to escape the work consume die cycle. Over 200,000 students learning the secrets to wealth creation in real time. They will leave you behind, unless you join them. ESCAPE THE MATRIX. Take the red pill here: https://t.co/P0AAPg5JIC https://t.co/jNqWdc9Byt2:41 PM ∙ Dec 30, 202227Likes6Retweets

I’m haunted by x-risk, what can I tell ya (two encounters with Daniel Schmachtenberger in one year, 2022, is enough to settle one’s features into this emoticon 😳). Our ability to weaponise in-group/out-group responses can, if you consider bio-war, end up in a near comical zone of destructiveness:

Tracey Follows @traceyfutures“A state/non-state actor wishing to use biowarfare might not be interested in directly killing human populations. Instead they may target agriculture or animal husbandry, leading to starvation, heavy economic losses, or dependence on a provider country” orfonline.org/research/reeva…9:11 AM ∙ Jan 6, 20239Likes6Retweets

Somewhat cheerier:

Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani“Indie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail year”. An age of digital immersion has created an extraordinary desire for IRL spaces and tactile products…like books. Good things are possible.

theguardian.comIndie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail yearLockdowns were good news for book trade as people read more and sought out bookshops when they reopened5:27 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023179Likes19Retweets

Jason Hickel is my most reliable and robust left-green climate scientist. You should retain this thread - click below

Jason Hickel @jasonhickelHere's a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2022, on capitalism, imperialism, degrowth and decolonization. It's all open-access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵9:46 AM ∙ Jan 7, 20234,672Likes1,660Retweets

Now that’s a CV:

Pat Kane @thoughtlandNever mind “1960 Private Studies with John Coltrane” Twitter avatar for @jazyjef

jeff @jazyjefDon Cherry submitted a CV for a job at Dartmouth University that was decorated with flowers & included the line “1964 Private Studies with Thelonious Monk” https://t.co/nnbpLLuBiz7:48 AM ∙ Jan 4, 20234Likes1Retweet

Getting faster as we head for the wall. Or the take-off point. (That ‘first 70 years’ is what keeps me interested in the deep evolutionary tug of our simian/mammalian heritage - those drives, constructive and destructive, pleasurable and painful, which flavour and propel our “rational” lives.)

Pat Kane @thoughtlandVery useful device—3 million years of humanity, measured out as a 75 year lifespan. We’re accelerating towards something… 🧱wall or🌌🪐 Ht @jamiewheal dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/12/the-si…

8:54 PM ∙ Jan 6, 20237Likes2Retweets

BTW, you really should support this (I’m a co-initiator of The Alternative Global). Once the planetary boundaries are part of your macro-economy, and the AIs allow humans to escape routine work and express what cannot be repeated, you’ll need to figure out what to do with your idiosyncratic human self, for the rest of your meaningful days. AG is exploring the ways - support strongly (and here’s link to the full video):

The Alternative Global @AlterGlobal21Here's our New Year/2023 appeal for support. It's a visitation (and message) delivered by three avatars from Planet A - the future appearing right under your feet! Go here (thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternati…) to see more, AND to donate. You know there is *always* an alternative 12:50 PM ∙ Jan 3, 20233Likes1Retweet

We lament the dearly departed Vivienne Westwood, who I once hooked up with Edward Snowden for a liberatory conversation online, and who certainly had her head screwed on about the salience (and subversion) of Scottish Independence:

JackElphinstone. @ElphinstoneJackWise words from the iconic & revolutionary figure Vivienne Westwood pre Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. She had a crystal ball didn’t she. Uncanny. Rip lass #VivienneWestwood 10:16 PM ∙ Dec 29, 20223,464Likes1,326Retweets

And finally: it’s Alasdair’s world, we are but sketches in his corners…

Kieran Hurley @kieran_hurleyThe great Alasdair Gray supposedly said that there are only three real jobs. A doctor, fighting disease; a teacher, fighting ignorance; and a socialist, fighting poverty.

9:58 AM ∙ Jan 10, 2023172Likes56Retweets

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