Bill @wjbeaver@qoto.org
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Just another blind guy thinking about the elephant
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@skanman I saw it a long time ago, overcomig prejudous in the English upper classes by being good at sports.
#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths
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Occationally I run into a paper that links ideas together to form new associations and opens up new levels of inquirey. As a bonus it introduces an exciting technology which I may of heard about before but never realized the usefulness. My interests are running more and more into the general theme of complexity more specifically to the information structure of complexity. I have been influenced greatly by the work of Dr Sarah Imari Walker at ASU. What does this have to do with chairs? Stay tuned, I will end this thread with a written article.
St Clair, James J. H., Zackory T. Burns, Elaine M. Bettaney, Michael B. Morrissey, Brian Otis, Thomas B. Ryder, Robert C. Fleischer, Richard James, and Christian Rutz. “Experimental Resource Pulses Influence Social-Network Dynamics and the Potential for Information Flow in Tool-Using Crows.” Nature Communications 6, no. 1 (November 3, 2015): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8197.
@skanman chariots of fire
@barefootstache learning for sure, dogs are not the greatest tool makers though, I knew a dog that would carry a rock around with him all day, I guess you could stretch that to be an artifact.
#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths
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A chair is what is called an embodied artifact, an extention of the human body. The idea of a chair is a design, a set of instructions, and a period of training and experience, partly held in human memory, partly offloaded to other storage. Animals create and use artifacts/tools also. How are the ideas of these artifacts stored by animals?
Smardzewski, Jerzy. “Antropotechnical Aspects of Furniture Design.” Drvna Industrija 60, no. 1 (2009): 73.
@admitsWrongIfProven Ah, didn't know about the name. Good name but here, not enough room in the cemetery.
@admitsWrongIfProven no milk, just dust, and scorpions
@Pat Bird Consrellations, they are searching for the Swan.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bill
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From my favorite passage of #Shakespeare - I heard Harriet Walter read it the day of Trump’s inaugural:
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, not that the elements
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But charter’d unto them? What would you think
To be us’d thus? This is the strangers’ case
And this your mountainish inhumanity.
#GodIsLove #Matthew25 #WilliamShakespeare #coloradosprings #clubq
Bill
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What happened in #ColoradoSprings at #ClubQ is a feature....NOT a bug of the GOP strategy.
They flooded the streets with guns.
Then they radicalize their cult followers.
Then they demonize minorities, women, LGBTQ+ community, especially trans kids/families & drag queens, teachers, POC, immigrants, liberals, Democrats, school boards, election workers...you name it...any and all political enemies.
Pizzagate worked. Now they have expanded.
What happened last night is a feature of their strategy...not a bug.
We need to change our strategy/rhetoric accordingly.
They aren't just "at fault" tangentially. Warning them is a waste of time.
They are inciting the violence!
They carefully cultivated it!
Bill
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Violence
#ColoradoSprings: HUGE #evangelical population, HUGE #military population, LONG history of #violence against #queer people, #abortion providers, etc. Stop saying it’s “senseless.” It’s a function of a particular place and kinds of people and easy access to instruments of mass murder.
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Just another blind guy thinking about the elephant
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