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It's all a matter of perspective

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@EthanCoxMtl @ElizabethMay And the brilliance of fiscal conservatism shines like moon light on a tailings pond.

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@DeanAbbott Doesn't it feel orchestrated though? Didnt this place called x seem a bit different when it was Twitter? The 'for you' tab didn't really seem to contain quite so many snuff videos or porn back then. Feels like an effect of a synical marketing plan to me.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"I reached my reading goal" oh really? You determined how the work's form registers the contradictions of its historical circumstances? I didn't think so

[roger (gemini) @rjpelleg]

The Bible really doesn’t tell us anything about Jesus’ life between the ages of 16 and 30. This is because during those years, he was the frontman for a punk band, and they weren’t very good at all. Mostly derivative avant-funk stuff. God the Father hated it.

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@TylerAlterman The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a pretty short but worthwhile read. The paradigm shifts and shifts and shifts again.

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@DoctorPerin I hear Russia is magical in the winter

[Don Hughes @getfiscal]

It's good to spend a few hours online each day so you know which people have "elite ball knowledge" and who has "the mandate of heaven"

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@DrGipps Truth! Still, some sympathy for the quoted thought. Theres an odd effect where if enough people participate in a belief system behaviour becomes at least somewhat predictable through the rules of the system. Good prediction is power. Divination is magic. Eg. The stock market.

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@_space_punk_ One can most definitely be 'possessed' by creativity. Check out the etymology of the word genius.

[Andrew Stoeten @AndrewStoeten]

Canada is in a league of its own when it comes to producing reality comedy

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

James Baldwin said it in 1965 and it has not aged a single day:

The reason Americans cannot face their history is that the history indicts their identity.

And you cannot ask someone to accept the evidence that destroys who they think they are.

White Americans, he said, need the Black American to remain inferior, because their own superiority is the only thing that makes sense of a country built on those terms.

The same structure applies outward.

Americans need the rest of the world to remain in need of American guidance, American intervention, American rescue.

Because without that story, what exactly was all the violence for?

The empire doesn't just extract resources.

It extracts meaning.

And the people who built their inner lives on that meaning will fight as hard to keep it as any general ever fought to keep territory.

Harder, maybe.

You can negotiate territory.

You cannot negotiate with someone's need to believe they are one of the good ones.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.”

— Ray Bradbury

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

I'm a big advocate for the Oxford comma. I'm, also an advocate for, the, Shatner comma. You should, try it sometime. It really, makes your, sentences more, exciting!

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@Plinz Lost the Forest for the Trees. Hard to see what you yourself are in the midst of. The real Practice of the Thing contains a healthy dose of fumbling in the dark, a glorification of the Mystery itself. To much rationality messes with the process. Take Heart! The Ritual continues.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

Professor Bigbrain transgenders the AI stripper, falls in love with her after she tells him his brain is sooo big

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

AI transforming reality into a video game. We are all solid snake now.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Eight Marines outsmarted a DARPA AI meant to spot people. Two somersaulted 300 meters, two snuck under a cardboard box, and one pretended to be a tree—and the AI missed them all, because it was trained to catch people walking.

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@EmmaJackson57 Cut em some slack would ya. They've got pipeline advocacy to do

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@Heliotrophy @Katapetasma2 That mongol hoard really calmed things down

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@AntibioticDoc A steady incress right through the black death? Hmmm 🤔

[I'm Mike... From... 🌎 @MikeVultier]

@_space_punk_ Some early Christian sects believed that Christ's Forgivness was universal, extending even to Satan. Kinda like that better my self but alas