Deaf dad, designer-philosopher, returning golfer. https://teapaw.org/t.co/7jyX18ftyP // https://teapaw.org/t.co/emtFE96S4Z
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New on Narrata: THE BOUNDARY IS THE SELF — fourth and final in the sequence. We are not minds inside bodies looking out at a world. We are a moving boundary condition: memory as residue, perception as stress at the edge. narrata.io/the-boundary-is-t…
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it’s actually insane to think how when elon was 31 he made $180 million from the sale of PayPal and he could have just bought a private island and spent the rest of his life in peace, without having to work another day
instead he sacrificed basically everything trying to build the future. failed multiple times, almost went completely broke, but he kept going, spending the last 20 years building reusable rockets, electric cars, global satellite internet, AI, brain interfaces. basically the whole infrastructure for the future of civilization
just to end up in a world where people are publicly calling for his execution, and getting applauded for it
you don’t even have to like him to realize how completely fucking backwards the world has become
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Diese BMW M5 Werbung ist über 25 Jahre alt und bis heute legendär.
Im Internet wird sie immer wieder als „verboten“ bezeichnet. Dabei lief sie tatsächlich im Fernsehen.
Ich finde, solche Werbespots hatten einfach mehr Charakter als vieles, was die Autoindustrie heute produziert.
Oder seht ihr das anders?
Eighteen boxes on the card.
Only one of them is real right now.
A short field note about score, attention, and the shot that actually exists.
From Winter Rules.
#quietgolf #winterrules #golf #golfshorts #fieldconditions
Started a small YouTube project called Winter Rules.
Golf, walking, weather, camera tests, wind noise, and the occasional decent shot...
youtube.com/watch?v=TqGS41uP…
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Everything is just a sum of oscillations.
The Fourier Series proves that even the most complex silhouettes—a heart, an astroid, or a lemniscate—are just hidden harmonies waiting to be extrapolated.
Geometry is just math’s way of keeping beat.
Credit:mathswithmuza
Object Remarks: Mirror, Kettle and Fridge NFC tag in use, returning a remark on screen. etsy.com/shop/objectremarks/
Put together a small side idea using spare NFC tags. Add one to an everyday object, tap with your phone, and it returns a remark in its own tone. objectremarks.co.uk
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I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.
— Albert Einstein
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The neurodivergent version of “making it” is waking up without dread, doing work your brain actually likes, and having at least one person in the world you don’t have to explain yourself to.
This sits very close to what I’ve been trying to articulate in recent articles: the self not as hidden occupant, but as a maintained moving boundary.
“… a veil, something that is shared between the observed and the observer, but it is not the observed or the observer. We need a physics of observation. You could glorify that and say a physics of sentience. And that’s the role of the Markov blanket.”
youtube.com/watch?v=kbs2ozkX…
New on Narrata: THE MOVING EDGE
A bridge-object following four recent essays on black boxes, selfhood, mediation, and ontological limits.
Not a hidden interior, but a moving edge: awareness, memory, relation, suffering, dissolution.
narrata.io/the-moving-edge-n…
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“What truly exists is consciousness. That’s the only thing I am directly acquainted with. I don’t know about atoms, galaxies, and neurons; all of that is inferred. The only thing I know is seeing, hearing, feeling.” Christof Koch
bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p…
Built a hidden ‘boundary string’ sound visualiser tool for SUBSTRATE.HOST. This is output from GAVAGAI, one of the tracks from BLACK BOX LITURGY. Online at substrate.host/boundary-stri…
Interesting conversation — close to the core intuition behind GMB: consciousness may be there from the outset, suffering may be part of the cost of becoming, and latent potential becomes actual in participation.
This is an unmissable conversation. It may be my favourite of the series so far.
Renowned philosopher and psychiatrist @dr_mcgilchrist delves into consciousness, brains and spirituality (as well as opening up about his recent embrace of Christian faith) in a conversation with influential neuroscientist @anilkseth.
▶️ Watch or 🎧 Listen to our latest episode of Uncommon Ground 👉 justinbrierley.com/uncommon-…
SILT-12 / ANHYDRA — first iteration.
A possible next Host for SUBSTRATE.HOST: tardigrade-inspired, hardy, slightly alien, less “character” than specimen. I want it to feel sealed, soft, archival, and strangely durable. ∅
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Surface response rendered in glyphic drift.
No disclosure.
No interior transfer.
Only correlate behaviour at the edge of contact.
HOST remains closed.
Trace remains public.
substrate.host ∅