Made some lovely fungal friends on today's serene walk through the woods
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Holographic reality theory is fascinating, but like simulation theory or the multiverse, it just shifts the goalpost one abstraction down the infinite stack of turtles. Ask: "What are holograms made of?" In the end, all we can say is Neti Neti—Sanskrit for "not this, not that."
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Don Marquis
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"Medical science has made such enormous progress in recent decades that there are practically no healthy people left." - Aldous Huxley
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Eating gamma radiation for breakfast: Some fungal species appear to be able to use strong radiation as an energy source for growth.
Could the fungi be using the extremely high-energy gamma radiation as an energy source in the same way that plants use sunlight?
The key to it all seemed to be melanin – the ubiquitous group of pigments found in many types of eukaryote that protect against UV radiation
Many fungal fossils show evidence of melanisation, especially in periods of high radiation when many animal and plant species died out
Could you replace them with plants or fungi that use melanin instead of chlorophyll?
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'The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves' - Ada Lovelace, 1843
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also: government-funded audiobook of Finnegan's Wake narrated by Patrick Horgan in 1985 – to what MK Ultra / mind-control / consciousness-torturing effects? we'll never know
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What percentage of new books on Amazon are largely AI-generated but likely not disclosed as such? Have we hit the 50% mark yet?
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Signal test: If a media piece, message, person, or group gets major attention (positive or negative) on commercial networks (online or offline), it's likely COINTELPRO.
