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Jon Mei - Lorem Ipsum (2023)

[mote @modsias]

## 02 · Everything That Holds Information Folds

**Everything that needs to hold more of itself creases against the dark.**

A flat sheet of luminous material hangs in blackness, and then it folds — once, slowly, deliberately. The crease throws a shadow; an inside opens where there was none. Watch, and the same fold turns up everywhere: two metres of thread packed into a nucleus, a cortex buckling inside a skull, smooth beginnings collapsing into the filaments of the cosmic web, two plates pressed together by an emptiness that was never empty. One gesture, wearing a different scale each time it returns. A surface, straining to hold more than a flat thing can, does the only thing it can. It folds.

**Thesis —** Information does not live in volumes; it lives on surfaces, on boundaries. From that single fact a consequence follows without appeal to purpose or design: any system that must hold more of itself has one option, which is to make more surface inside a fixed space, and the universal way to do that is to fold. The chromosome, the brain, the galaxy web, and the restless vacuum are therefore not four separate structures that happen to rhyme, but one operation photographed at four scales — the fold that both stores and, in the same act, generates an interior.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

The Devils Arrows, Yorkshire.

Nobody knows who made them or why.

They are the second largest pre-historic monoliths in Britain.

They are part of a larger network of pre-historic structures spanning 12km

And yet nobody comes here to document them properly!

(Until now)

[Marlon Pruz @MarlonPruz]

Turning trash to treasure NYC

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[mote @modsias]

@isjuustadream The fool listens for god and hears nothing, the wise listen and hear silence

[ideahazard💹🧲 @1d34h4z4rd]

The elites designed prediction markets and grid-mining systems to detect psychic abilities before they fully develop so that they can genocide those who possess them.

[Marlon Pruz @MarlonPruz]

GM

[Marlon Pruz @MarlonPruz]

My name is Marlon Pruz. Im a Miami based muralist and illustrator and ive been fortunate to create works for some of the top brands in the world like Design Miami and Off wht, as well as donating art for community projects. A thread on some of my past works and activations.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Spain’s players refused to celebrate with Trump after the U.S. president attempted to insert himself into the middle of their victory photo. He was politely pushed aside.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.

We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.

I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.

And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.

And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.

The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.

I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.

[Damien Echols @damienechols]

We are where heaven and earth already meet. Human beings are the union of opposites. Our feet stand on the earth while our awareness reaches toward the infinite. The Great Work isn’t about escaping the body to find the divine. It’s about allowing the divine to become fully embodied THROUGH the body.

This is why physical training is so important. The body never lies. It doesn’t care what books you’ve read or what spiritual experiences you’ve had. It only reflects what you’ve practiced. Every repetition with the sword, every lift, every step, every breath is an opportunity to unite consciousness with matter. That’s the true marriage of heaven and earth….not somewhere beyond this world, but here, within our own flesh and bones.

[mote @modsias]

01 The Readout and the Inward Sky

A radio dish turns all night across an empty sky, listening for anyone — until the camera swings around and looks out from inside the dish, back at the one who's watching. The one thing every instrument fails to detect is the awareness doing the looking. The silence isn't out there; the observer and the observed are one fold, and the sky was a mirror the whole time.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

How to Confront a Fascist?

Bertrand Russell’s powerful and dignified refusal to debate Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain’s most prominent fascist leader.

…

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letters and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,
Bertrand Russell

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Evil is what happens when stupid people follow liars, defend cruelty, reject reality, and convince themselves they’re the righteous ones.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

American Sovereignty: United We Stand, Divided We Fall

To break free of the shekels (deliberate spelling) that bind our lawmakers to a foreign agenda, we must learn to put Country Over Party Politics.

“If there is one thing the Zionist Lobby fears more than Free Palestine, it is America 1st. Because while Free Palestine challenges the legitimacy of the Zionist project, America 1st challenges the legitimacy of the projects very lifeline, the Zionist Lobby.”

Whether you are on the left and highly disturbed by our government’s support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians or you are on the right and outraged by our government prioritizing Israel over the homeland, we are battling against the same foreign entity. To be successful, we must unite and support initiatives that reinstate American sovereignty and our policies reflecting the will of the people.

So whether it is:

- the Idaho GOP voting to reject a resolution to support Israel, or
- Bernie Sanders introducing resolutions to ban weapons to Israel, or
- Thomas Massie & Ro Khanna introducing an amendment to strip section 219 from the NDAA, or
- the United Auto Workers (UAW) union voting to amend their constitution to prohibit union investments in Israel bonds, or
- Trump making a peace deal to end Israel’s war with Iran,

we must put party politics aside and support the efforts.

Anything short of uniting means we’re continuing to stab ourselves in the chest while crying online.

[Irlandarra @irlandarra2019]

Oxford Union debate: 'Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine'

On Thursday, The Oxford Union, the world's most prestigious debating society, hosted a debate with the motion: "Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine".

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

Just start NOTICING
how every single moment is PERFECT.

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

Tao Te Ching

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israel has bombed Lebanon over 100 times in 24 hours.