Notices by ultimape 🐜💩 💛 (ultimape@mastodon.social), page 2

"Removing lawns may sound like a small, wonky step, compared to building dams. But the green turf in American yards actually stands as a worthy target for water savings, a public enemy in the eyes of many during a drought such as California's five-year-old one."
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2016-10-31/in-california-a-350-million-social-experiment-over-lawns

"Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. Competition creates redundancy, is slow and wastes resources on idea protection, advertisement, and more. Competition also requires secrecy which blocks progress and auditing and causes lost opportunities and ideas. Patents and copyrights further limit speed and the potential for mass input of ideas. Collaboration between the people with the greatest expertise does not happen unless they are hired by the same project
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy

"By forcing reporters to optimize every story for clicks, not giving them time to check or contextualize their reporting, and requiring them to race to publish follow-on articles on every topic, the clickbait economics of online media encourage carelessness and drama. This is particularly true for technical topics outside the reporter’s area of expertise."
http://idlewords.com/2017/09/anatomy_of_a_moral_panic.htm

"I suspect I am not who I think I am, like maybe I died a long time ago and somebody took my brain and stuck it in this body. Maybe there never was a real me in the first place"

#beehiveiorism

The beautiful thing about logging interesting quotes and reserach as I go, is that in my wake I leave a sort of meta narrative. It acts like a scent trail I can re-follow. And like a good scent trail, I can take a shorter path through the narrative; the ideas that echo thru my head are necessarily compressed and cohesive vs the rambling path I used to map the territory.

"And so we cobble together these failed masks, with missing pieces, and try to smile through the holes."

“Don’t immanentize the eschaton!”
[...]
"The 20th-century gnostic dream was to use the power of mass movements controlled by the state to transfigure the nature of man and thereby establish a terrestrial paradise superior to the cruel and unjust world that some supposed God had created. That dream became the totalitarian nightmare of the 20th century—one that any decent person could see midway through the century, if not earlier."
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/10/the-voegelin-enigma/

"Conservatively, American lawns take up three times as much space as irrigated corn. The authors mapped the entirety of the nation's turf grass, below. You'll notice that it's basically a population density map of the U.S."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/04/lawns-are-a-soul-crushing-timesuck-and-most-of-us-would-be-better-off-without-them/ https://mastodon.social/media/hV7JKZ17qMe4UCdynos

sublimate
N :
solid deposit of a substance that has sublimed.
V :
divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity.

sublime
V:
elevate to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or excellence.
V:
(of a solid substance) change directly into vapor when heated, typically forming a solid deposit again on cooling.

autism : anosmia ::
cow farts : sharts ::
sublime : sublimate ::
poop tunnels : politics ::
psychoanalytic : demon summoning

"Create a portrait relief, a design for a new coin, or a figure in the round. Learn how to make a mold, cast your sculpture, and then finish the surface to look like bronze."
https://www.nps.gov/saga/planyourvisit/sculpture-workshops.htm

"A second version tells of Diogenes traveling to Delphi and receiving this same oracle after he had already altered the currency, turning his crime into a calling."
http://www.iep.utm.edu/diogsino/

The games we play.
The masks we wear.
the modulation of emotional state at the boundaries of the map of social context that we use to define our territory.