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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(via working class history): On this day, 28 November 1919, Faye Schulman, photographer and Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland (now Belarus). In 1942, the Nazis murdered 1,850 Jews in the Lenin ghetto, leaving only Faye and 25 others alive, making Faye take and develop photos of the massacre. Covertly she made copies of the photographs for herself. She soon fled and joined the partisan resistance, serving as a fighter and nurse. While on a raid in Lenin with her unit, Faye managed to retrieve her camera equipment, and then began documenting the resistance movement, developing her photos under blankets. "I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." Faye survived the war and moved to Canada, where she lived until her death on April 24, 2021.
#originalantifa, #partisans, #antifa, #nopasaran
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@ceoln Since I've started doing AI Art, my "NFT ART" friends have stopped interacting with me. They think I'm not a "real" artist. That inspired this article I wrote: https://bolesblogs.com/2022/11/13/how-ai-art-extends-our-originality-of-imagination/
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Excited for an #introduction 👋!
📝 We are Penn NeuroKnow, a #neuroscience blog run by PhD students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group.
👩🔬 👨🔬 Our goal is to share our love of neuroscience with you all. Each post breaks down a different topic in neuroscience, ranging from general neuroscience knowledge to summaries of exciting new studies that are changing how we think about the brain.
🧠 Recent topics have included why we get the hiccups, how the octopus controls its arms, and how neuroscientists are starting to realize that what they thought was noise might not actually be so noisy.
⏰ We’ll be sharing links to our latest posts with short summaries every Tuesday when they go live. We’re looking forward to sharing our posts and engaging with the community here!
#sciComm #scienceCommunication #writing #blog #neuro #PhDStudent
@boles Yeah, pretty much any attempt to gatekeep what "real" art is, is deeply suspect. :)
We need to get past that, so we can think about all the different kinds of creation there are in the world.
I'm happy to say I haven't seen much of the vitriol, but I understand that posting art made with AI tools to some of the big art outlets on the Web can get one lots of hate.
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How about a hand for Victor Dorobantu, the actor who plays Thing on #Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ 👋
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#Solarpunk- "a literary and art movement which imagines what the future could look like if the human species were actually to succeed in solving the major challenges associated with #globalwarming, from reducing global #emissions to overcoming #capitalist economic growth as the primary motor of human society" 👇
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/what-if-we-cancel-the-apocalypse/
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In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean.
Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Webcam on the rim of Mauna Loa summit caldera shows the lava lake that started filling up few hours ago. Last #eruption at Mauna Loa was in 1984.
#USGS Mauna Loa #volcano webcams: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/webcams
Updated news on the unrest: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates
More info on Mauna Loa (USGS webdoc with many maps): https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/maunaloa/
YouTube, silly beliefs, etc.
@itssaggy
Yes! I'm both grateful to them, and sad that they have to spend useful energy on it.
And for that matter sad that people waste so much energy on rationalizing the silly stuff.
nsfw nude photography
@ArtOfCoop 😀 🧡
YouTube, silly beliefs, etc.
My brain seems to want to have sound going whenever I'm working, and for some reason music often doesn't do it, so I stream stuff that I don't really need to pay attention to.
I did like old #NCIS episodes for a while, until I realized the extent to which it's #copaganda.
So now I've been listening to lots of people responding to #FlatEarth and #MLM and #Creationist and #Apologist claims, which is relatively benign.
But now and then it does strike me pretty forcefully how much energy goes into responding to basically-ludicrous views, and how many of such views are surprisingly widespread.
Is this a price that we necessarily pay for openness and diversity of at least slightly useful views? Is the activity of responding to ludicrous views a good way to keep one's neurons young? I dunno.
It just seems like a pity sometimes.
THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DARN IT!
And there isn't an all-good being sending people to eternal torment, either.
@boles It is! I didn't start out with Leda in mind, even, but when in playing with ideas I got to a classical setting, a woman, and a swan (it was initially supposed to be formed subtly by her hair), it emerged from the collective subconscious...
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Bilateral gynandromorphism is a pretty rare occurrence where an animal is a half-male, half-female, split right down the middle. Like this common blue butterfly - male on left, female on right. Weird! But seriously wonderful…
Very excited this is going to be in my big children’s nature book for autumn 2023 which I start writing next week.
#nature #wildlife #butterfly #entomology #AmWriting #ChildrensBooks
Photo: Burkhard Hinnersmann / Wikimedia Commons
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2022 10 Bugs
Color pencil on paper
See the whole series here
http://katherinemontalto.com/invertober-2022/
#Invertober2022 #invertober
#art #illustration #drawing
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If you are familiar with the distressing myth of "Leda and the Swan" you will instantly recognize the ethereal beauty in these AI created images memorializing the moment before the disillusion.
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Good morning and happy Monday, #writer friends! I’m about to bury my face in a giant cup of coffee and then start working, gearing up for the #nanowrimo home stretch. Other than that and some #teaching, my big plans for today are to finally take down my Halloween decorations (I know, I know, don’t judge me!). What’s everyone else up to today? Anyone in the mood for a #writingsprint?
#writingcommunity #romance #fantasy #books #author #write #amwriting #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon
There are some negative things about algorithms, intrinsically. Most obviously, you're no longer making the decisions actively yourself; you're getting used to being passive and uninvolved, to having machines / other people making decisions for you. There may (or may not) be good things that more than make up for that, but in itself it's a negative that's inherent to these algorithms.
I mean... Mastodon / Fediverse is already "there". Whether or not you and your circle want to go there (here) is of course up to you. I'm glad you're here anyway! :)
If your friends are looking for a place where humans interact without there ever being any 'ugly fights', they've got a long search ahead of them I fear.
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
