The Tek-Gnostics' Monastery & Temple of High Strangeness (and its fun blog)
"In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time." - Robert Anton Wilson #fnord
According to Jain epistemology, "knowledge is the essence of the soul. This knowledge is masked by the karmic particles. As the soul obtains knowledge through various means, it does not generate anything new. It only shreds off the knowledge-obscuring karmic particles. According to Jainism, consciousness is a primary attribute of Jīva (soul) and this consciousness manifests itself as darsana (perception) and jnana (knowledge)." (wikipedia)
Further Links:
Truth, Power, Knowledge - Ink drawing by Daniel Lauand (2011) (via)
Related: “Proposal for a Monument to Logical Fallacies” & The Quantization of Reality Fallacy
Fungus provides powerful medicine in fighting honey bee viruses Mycelium extract reduces viruses in honey bees (Washington State University) (via)
"A mushroom extract fed to honey bees greatly reduces virus levels, according to a new paper. In field trials, colonies fed mycelium extract showed a 79-fold reduction in deformed wing virus and a 45,000-fold reduction in Lake Sinai virus compared to control colonies. The hope is that the results of this research will help dwindling honey bee colonies fight viruses that are known to play a role in colony collapse disorder."
From Fake news to Junk News. The data politics of online virality - by Tommaso Venturini.
Part of the book "Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights" - by Didier Bigo (site) et.al (2019)
Didier Bigo on Security, Surveillance and Democracy
Fog of Information - by tekgnostics
“In this day and age... we are faced with a Fog of Information that is as distracting and detrimental as the fog of war.” - from “Bread & Circuses”
"Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision-makers have fairly limited cognitive processing capacity. Consequently, when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision quality will occur."
"It's not a matter what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true" - Henry Kissinger
#Politics #SE #InfoSec #Bots #Culture #KM #Internet #Military #RTM
Talk by Jeremy Lent on "Cultural Mindfulness" - at the Stanford University "Contemplation By Design Summit" 2018.
#Comment: Mr.Lent's talk contains interesting notions, but overall its way to heavy on "we are so very progressive, post-dualist, post-materialist, post-post, woke people" virtue signaling touchy-feely boilerplate bla - indicative of current anglo eco culture. For my taste, he could shrink the talk to 15min and include a healthy does of high weirdness and comedy.
Book: Dreaming The Future: How Our Dreams Prove Psychic Ability Is Real, And Why It Matters - by Bruce Siegel (discussion). Reminiscent of the classic An Experiment with Time - by J.W.Dunne (1927) (full text)
“Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.” — Zhuangzi
Paintings by Christian Rex van Minnen (via)
“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” - Confucius
“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants”
- from Homage to an Exile by Albert Camus, 1955
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, 1942
How America Tortures - Report by Mark Denbeaux et.al (Seton Hall Uni, School of Law)
Integrating psychology principles to design a multi-sensory cognitive and performative challenge - by Alexandra Yagilowich
On Designing Interactive Performative Space with Responsive Computational System - by Qiuyan Da
Constructing Liveliness: The Experience of Nature Embodiment in Kinetic Architecture - by Dalia Todary-Michael
"I don't trust people to genetically 'design' their child because I see what they do with character creation in games." - Thoughts on Eugenics from a thread on Reddit (2016)
via the wonderfully curios Technology and Society 2. #Biotech #ALife #Ethics #Design
Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929 – 2002) was a prominent American geophysicist and environmental scientist, operating near the US political power centers of the time. A man of many interests, he was notably an central figure of early #ClimateChange research, in lockstep with weather modification and geoengineering research.
Assorted related links:
Notes on Pattern formation in Nature and other peculiar ideas - by Jaap Bax
Corporate Evolution and the Chaos Advantage - By Phyllis Kirk