ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
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5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...
Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.
Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".
Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".
Me, "All Reality" (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KH-ZR3A8va_QVaVVP5EWb3SIUUJF2o0g65hOV3pVspA/)
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".
Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?
"Principia Discordia" of course.
Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.
And lots more!!
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An #introduction:
Bachelor's degree in #Philosophy from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.
#Zen #Buddhist #Pantheist #atheist
#Radical (for the US) #politics, in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.
Master's in #compsci from Pace, 1985ish; professional #coder for like 40 years, mostly for #IBM and now for #google (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the #systems side. #cpp and anything else really, they're just languages. :)
Greatly enjoy #writing, and I've done a number of #nanowrimo novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with #gpt3.
I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using #midjourney and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!
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Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet
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Get ICE the fuck out of Los Angeles. Them, alongside the National Guard, coming here to disrupt our city to cause bedlam and chaos in an attempt to rip people from their homes and lives is a disgrace
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A new class of materials that passively harvests #water from the air.
Because science.
From a project funded by the US National Science Foundation.
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'Crazy, unreliable leadership': Democrats condemn Trump's national guard deployment to LA - video
#TrumpNationalGuard #EnemyWithin #CaliforniaNewsom #TeargasPepperBalls #MaxineWaters
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Trump's birthday parade next week is genuinely a very good opportunity to point at the artillery rolling down PA Avenue and say "that's why health care expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy"
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Bush-appointed judge torches Trump with 27 exclamation points -- and a gumbo recipe -- in ruling against an executive order
#JudgeRulingAgainstTrump #ExclamationPoints27 #TrumpExecutiveOrder #BushAppointedJudge #WaveOfLegalActions
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Thing about donating Bibles to a homeless shelter is - we already have them. Shelters get Bibles all the time. Once in a while, somebody picks one up. If you want to donate something that will help, check the shelter website. They might have a list of stuff they need. Socks and hygiene items are always useful.
If you *really* want to help the homeless, destroy capitalism.
Even an empty cup is right twice a day.
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I just wrote a rather lengthy thread attempting to alert folks to the strange yet dangerous opinion handed down today by one of the federal district courts hearing habeas petition efforts from Venezuelans detained per Trump’s Alien Enemies Act. Because I inadvertently broke the thread a couple of times, here’s a roadmap through it. It begins at https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114480615081835914. 1/
Flourless Chocolate Cake!
https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/flourless-chocolate-cake/
which is really more like brownies or something, eh?
I posted about this weird #dream I had. I know you are fascinated!
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The Washington Post has defined 1900 scientists as "several."
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MAGA Influencer Sells Her Tesla, Says Elon Musk Isn't Her Paying Enough Child Support
#NotPayingEnough #InfluencerVoice #PoliticalStatement #ChildSupport #ElonMusk
Honestly I just want to sit comfily at home playing Satisfactory.
Like, I need to get back to a center and load up on materials, then go back out and finish up my first real Caterium building, then decide whether to run a railroad line to it, and...
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I wanted to make a 16-page zine from a single sheet of paper, and I couldn't find an online template I liked. So, I made this tool to parse text and handle page placement. I hope folks use it to make their own! https://colarusso.github.io/mini-zine/
A bit of Buddhist inside-baseball, perhaps.
https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/the-heart-and-sandokai/
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The Fascism Expert at Yale Who's Fleeing America
#AcademicFreedom #FascismWarning #JasonStanley #YaleProfessor #TrumpAmerica
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america
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Tesla Takedown Protests Peacefully Sweep Nation!
#AutomotiveIndustryNews #DomWasThere #TeslaProtests #NationwideProtests #PeacefulProtest
https://www.wonkette.com/p/tesla-takedown-protests-peacefully
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
