Last repost: Exactly my thoughts. I've got goals in life, and college will probably make them happen if I'm successful. I'm taking quite the hard courses and so many of them I'll hardly have any time for myself instead of taking it easy. That's also why I actually come to class and lectures too.
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.
"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/
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.
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."
"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"
Twitter deserves to go away. they brought it on themselves. They were the most awesome service ever, for a long time, and they continously screwed over third party services like twitpic, as well as third party developers by breaking apps, imposing rate limits, and designing TOS in such a way as to make writing apps more difficult.
Remember when twitter was growing exponentially? Anyone with a basic knowledge of curl coould make anything post things to their twitter account? I'm sure somewhere somone came up with a toaster that would tweet when their toast was ready. Then came enforced oauth which basically killed that, as well as tons of apps like twitux. That was the beginning of the decline. And then things got worse and worse.
Now, people can even claim their tweets are copyrighted, and there's this whole thing about rt(ing) with changed text being a copyright infringement. The whole idea of twitter descended from astronomical hights into the cesspool of stupidity it has become today.
This week on Pentagonal, @ocdtrekkie & @ccolocho talk about the Equifax hack. We also talk about the Blueborne exploit and Jakes love of Animoji. Plus: Jake reviews Oreos. 😎🍑👀
I started reading "Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die" and it's everything I hoped for. Tons of stuff on Continuity of Government. The admission that Civil Defense was bullshit and citizens would be better off dead if the nukes flew. I'm maybe a quarter of the way through and it's a real page turner. If you like nukes, disaster type stuff, and secret bunkers you need to read this. Message me privately for a deal...