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deep center down below what we think we are—lives a legacy beast older than the hills that dreams of the true womb, the primal hundred million years of salt swimming—what other story does it need—it can't learn—can't learn that nothing is outside anymore—sure as fuck can't learn that it's become god

smell is the fakest, way more than sound ❝ the vasculature [in snake infrared pits] rapidly cools the receptors to their thermo-neutral state after being heated by thermal radiation from a stimulus… w/o this, the receptor would present the animal w/ afterimages even after the stimulus was removed ❞

deep center down below what we think we are—lives a legacy beast older than the hills that dreams of the true womb, the primal hundred million years of salt swimming—what other story does it need—it can't learn—can't learn that nothing is outside anymore—sure as fuck can't learn that it's become god

our question then is "who made green" as in "did some sea creature find a green crayon from the future, and tint the phototrophs in its field of view?" did early-mind harmonics suggest the palette we all now experience as visual reality? did ALIENS give them the crayon? bsky.app/profile/drow...

the list is so much longer than this, the panic is disgraceful

"when you make war on the global firehose of falsehoods, you are making war on my business plan" bsky.app/profile/mrsb...

how far can you fly? can you fly to orbit? can you fly to the library? well, the trunk only holds 5 seconds of propellant, so—oh go ahead—take a WILD GUESS how long the two stunt 'flights' last but hype is real—and i'm a shooting star, leaping thru the sky, like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity

ha—as if you COULD stop me now, i'm actually very happy 'eggplant attack' or whatever that cajun math band is called broke thru cuz i really hadn't dug into fusion prog metal suchness—and learning the technical modal deets of the hotel california guitaring felt dull— www.youtube.com/live/8EcjZdS...

"i remember when laptops cost a nickel" is an example of the 'money illusion' bias i was surprised to find—buying a new gizmo—that the previous "much cheaper" gizmo i bought was actually—adjusted for inflation—the same price obv all but plutocrats have cost-of-living & income distribution problems

exploring the 5¢ laptops uphill in the snow etc, we see that the 1991 basic mac laptop was 4.7× the price of current model for—no joke—1000× less oomph the original did have advantages, like a trackball, and not fitting in your pocket, and that its display was too slow to subliminally brainwash you

weekend double feature: SEVERED AT BIRTH? the blade / dao (1995), on guard! / le bossu (1997).

how i arrived on bluesky

when amazon bought imdb in 1998 i was agitating against media consolidation—what a punch in the gut shoulda known, the original name of that great public passion project was 'rec.arts.movies movie database' do you remember when 'they' started requiring experts to build proprietary knowledge bases?

an article about state-of-art of computer-aided-everything gut-punched me again from writer's perspective the principal-agent problem is that human staff of an organization need to be compelled to follow the org's plan (however unethical, however venal) OH why does 'fuck you money' have to win NOW

time to scrub the latin blather from the language one phrase at a time starting with 'puberty' which we shall translate directly into THE GROINING

i do know how phrases like 'delayed groining' or 'groining blocker' probably sound to you right now

i went to a cooking class the chef showed us how to omelet cut veggies, grated cheese, broke EGGS so good they sizzled "your turn! see that diner across the street? order an omelet to go" mine was not the best but i was really proud of it chef said next week we'll learn how to bomb a hospital