Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️

@bruces this is pretty cool. I love the abstraction

@bruces It turns up...

(Just now noticed the set decorator hung it upside down.)

@bruces you can read more about Étienne Leopold Trouvelot’s wonderful images in the first section of https://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/art-of-the-spheres … to see the complete set of works, search OML collections for “trouvelot” !

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Bronze them

@bruces the probability of Butlerian Jihad just increased ten fold

@bruces i blame Eno

@bruces you’ve confused Percy with Clyde .
Clyde did work for Percy

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In Cosmos, Carl Sagan remarked on Percival Lowell's mapping of Martian canals, and belief that they were made by intelligent design, that it makes him wonder "which side of the telescope the intelligence was on."

@bruces not that big a surprise

@bruces 👀 @futurebird

@bruces @substitute

@bruces recipes, hopefully.

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Please Bruce…let it be the original greek versions of the Coptic Gnostic Texts i love the most

@bruces would be incredibly cool if they had some of the old Greatest Hits mentioned by Suetonius and Livy

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* Beats political and financial news any day

@bruces Vanishing in Germany too. It is a traditional craft now, less experts than for reed roofs.

@bruces when I moved to Vancouver in the early part of the century, it had lots of amazing neon signs. Five years later they were gone and the city much poorer for it

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Out: Neon Lights.
In: Xenon Lights.

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Always fascinating watching masters of any craft at work.
Sorry to see neon going away. More spirited than LED.

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If you haven't been, the Neon Museum in Warsaw is amazing. The displays, but also the history and their ongoing conservation efforts.

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Any good chemist can cook from this

@bruces Greg Bear was aces at doing this, causality collapse being the Acme of ends, betting out excessive quantum observation .

@bruces score!

@bruces ya know, all dem celebrities on here are using assistants because they don’t care

@bruces @roadskater

What an Odd thing to ask you. Like you’d be dumb enough to fall into the TVC15

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“Butlerian Jihad Now!” Has become a popular slogan

@bruces I think sabotage is a good tactic fighting a military invasion, where exactly do you think this applies in Europe today?

@bruces oouu! Alt history idea.
ChatGPG and LLMs but in a history where the Nazis won WWII.

Would it destroy them by…?

@bruces The Luddites were cool. They didn’t object to technological change, they objected to being screwed over by it. Captain Lud was right, as Butler will be.

@bruces Why do so many AI-generated images illustrating space travel or "progress" feature an archaic Space Shuttle?

@bruces I believe the only acceptable response to this is "Fork off".

@bruces Those digital upload people are unrealistically confident that their consciousnesses will be backed up and restored religiously and not left to rot like an old film reel.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

@bruces Word!

@bruces maybe the solution is to just sell those B ark people a blockchain enabled dongle with a Wifi antenna, an AI generated booklet on how to drill this in their skull and a cyanide fork acceleration pill.

@bruces motherforkers!

@bruces it’s also woefully and to be expected from AI unoriginal sci-fi.

@bruces I call bullshit. Fork 4 is actually Fork 1 and has been happening for a while now. It’s also the only one that actually matters.

@bruces Having thought about it, I think I'd rather spoon.

Of course, this also raises the worrying possibility that humanity might spork, and I don't think anyone's ready for that.

@bruces the earth people hanging out on .. earth ..1 ? or did we decide to make twin earths ? either way i wanna sit outside in nature with a bottle of wine ..

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Maybe they got one thing accidentally right though. Everyone on Earth is living in the Arctic because thanks to the pursuit of this farcical techno-dystopia the rest of the planet is uninhabitable.

@bruces I guess it’s just another instance of “fork around, find out”.
On a more serious note, none of these suggested "forks" are actually biologically incompatible, so it seems more like a lifestyle choice, albeit at a larger scale. Since most of the choices fall straight in line with financial capabilities (you can’t have a nice simulation of you running if you’re broke), new options will only widen the social gap some more.

@bruces I don't agree between choosing between valuing terrestrial life and space exploration.
Imhi, both are interlinked

As in, instead of mining and destroying our planet, we should find asteroids with the necessary materials and get those

If we worked towards doing stuff in space, instead of inside our planet, we could surely have both

P.S. Before the "is expensive" crowd comes in, that's because we currently don't calculate the ecological impact in the expenses.We throw that to the future

@bruces maybe you need to reissue Schizmatrix

@bruces this would be a great time to discover paratime technologies and watch humanity Spork

@bruces We are so forked

@bruces source https://metatrends.substack.com/p/humanity-is-about-to-fork

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I have a better use case for forking. It may or may not involve a fork and Sam Altmann's face.

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Eh, fork Sam Altman

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@wordshaper

@bruces remote control cancer?

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The first paper that is cited describes caffeine-inducible gene switches, which I personnaly would prefer.

@bruces Tell me if I'm missing something: This is a description of a new way to deterministically control gene expression, for the purposes of medical research, from the external stimulus of electromagnetic fields, by which I am guessing they mean somewhat longer wavelengths than UV, infrared, which have been used for this for years. It's a little weird the abstract says "EMF" given that UV/IR are already EMFs, but otherwise it isn't looking too tin-foil-hatty to my inexperienced eyes.

@bruces not sure if you came across this report yet.
https://www.uploadvr.com/researchers-induce-smells-with-ultrasound/

@bruces This is why I carry Shungite and wear Tourmaline pendant.

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Ah, But Bruce:
Think of the impact on Drone Culture

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goddammit, I have to say it

He's been looking everywhere for a good guac recipe

@bruces and the kitchen god wept.

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Now with more Mayo and Poi

@bruces E. E. "Doc" Smith says "Hello!" from 1921...

@bruces okay, now i have to reread Fred Hoyle's _The Black Cloud_. (1957)

@bruces it’s now the Genre of Science Fantasy: a genre taken over by Tech Bros