As the fig roll of destiny reaches automated cold caller of eternity I find that it is time for a medicinal crisp sandwich.
Nobody can stop me.

In today's hothouse world we are all debris covered glaciers. Slowly shrinking under increasing pressure, while carrying a ton of rubbish with us into a pale future.

[philosophical tangent which came up while walking near Monte Bianco's ice flows with a friend in an early summer heat wave]

Humans won't be replaced because AI will start giving accurate answers ALL the time.

Humans will be replaced when AI learns to ask questions.

Humanity's biggest achievement isn't the ability to find answers. Humanity's biggest achievement is the ability to ask the right questions.

If a #dog’s love is a manifesto and a #cat’s affection is a haiku, what does that make a #crow that brings you shiny trinkets?

I don't think math is the language of the universe. I think it's another sense, like sight and hearing, a method for perceiving things outside of ourselves and expanding our inner model of the world.

#status #ontology #musing #deepmind Is re-structuring my directories the late middle aged equivalent of 'tidying my sock drawer'. #denial #avoidence #psychotherapy Asking for a friend obviously

Imagine if #Sartre and #Camus had discovered Atomic Habits OR the Eighth Habit of Highly Effective People

Would “Being and Nothingness” be a productivity manual?

From: @sarahf
https://mastodon.social/@sarahf/114421509266730502

Sometimes, when someone expresses pain, It's good to simply acknowledge what they said, show our attention and empathy, then quietly remain in active listening.

This is a simple helpful act.

Caring about others, listening to what they are going through, ties us together as a community, builds our strength, is a weapon we can use in our struggle.

The Tower & The Star

One must accept death in order to truly live.

The concept of a relationship as having expectations, as having any rules, as bonds, must dissolve in order for your partner to have real agency.

Each partner must accept that the relationship is over before it can begin.

Each person is a solar system surrounding the brilliant star of their divine spark, they can not be contained.

If you shine bright enough, you won't have to worry about your loved ones leaving.

In this essay I will...

Why are all McDonald’s millennial grey now tho? What happened to red and yellow?

I am facing an ethical conundrum, which as an ethicist, is uncomfortable. I’m generally pretty good at discerning what is “right”, but also, at core, I am a chaotic paladin with a traumatic backstory, and less than forgiving of certain things than others might be.
All of the people I would generally turn to in cases of ethical discomfort are either involved or know the people involved, and for various reasons, secrecy has become paramount for many of them.
All of which to say, morals are hard, and sometimes following them may mean losing friends. I don’t like this timeline, and would very much like to be placed in the happy space socialist timeline please.

The song Lightning Crashes by LIVE was before its time.

A 90’s treasure, that one.

I thought I never see the day. I saw someone defending an American health insurance company and free them of all wrong doing while calling the recent assassin a, "whiney rich boy who was upset he didn't get his way."

Fuck man, some people have really lost the plot I feel like.

Thinking about the period I was involved in a fledgling Timebank. Kinda failed as the council stopped funding the voluntary group. Almost an attempt to manufacture community in the wake of viscious austerity cuts. #Musing #RandomThoughts #TimeBanking
https://timebanking.org/
https://timebankingscotland.org.uk/

I was thinking about how much tabletop RPG gaming I have on tap at any given moment and wanted to jot down why it is that I don't think I've wasted my life. And why I have every setting idea ever made at my fingertips.

https://grimtokens.garden/Thoughts/Every+Setting%2C+Every+System%2C+Its+On+Tap+Here

I tried AI for the first time, and was able to make specialized porn ALARMINGLY fast.

https://write.as/jasonpettus/i-tried-ai-for-the-first-time-and-was-able-to-make-specialized-porn-alarmingly

I tell myself, every morning, when I wake to find my dog curled beside me, snoring, and loud, that I must write something; prove, if only to myself, I still exist.
Summer was long, and difficult, but I took well to counselling, and am so resolute to continue that though my funded sessions were but ten, I am now paying.
We talk about the future, and a land where I am free. That land seems so close, until I leave the office.
Maybe it only lives in there.
As do I.

Today I read a (blog) post by a trans person. I don't know them, that link just crossed my timeline (not for a nice reason, though), so I, being a curious person, started reading it.

It had, at least for me, a lot of anger and hate - anger and hate towards cis people, most likely cis het people.

I couldn't really finish reading the post because if someone has been poisoning their soul with that much anger and hate, I can't imagine learning anything from that person - at least anything worthwhile.

What I got out of the post though is that this person experienced a lot of hate themselves - from the mentioned cis het people. And that's why they developed all this hate in themselves.

I know how many of my siblings experience exclusion, discrimination, hate - outright *phobia.

And we are not alone in this - every minority experiences this exclusion, discrimination, hate and *phobia.

But responding to that with the same feelings, same attitude - doesn't this make us same as "them"? Shouldn't we respond back with love?

I am not saying to offer the other cheek. No, I am saying that, at least in the LGBTQIA+ community, our message, our one message, should be one of love, respect, kindness and decency.

Let them hate us, let them be angry at us - but let's not respond back with hate or anger. I know it hurts, it hurts like a thousand cuts, but that is not the right way - that is not the way of love.

"When they go 'Hate', we go even more 'Love'" - please...

(Ok, this doesn't exclude cutting off people who are assholes, you can cut someone off and still love them - because they are a human being)

And if you think I am naïve, well, then, yeah, I am - but "From Naïveté with Love!"