red qualia

like bubbles on the sea of #entropy borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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"may you find peace"

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[red qualia @redqualia]

@ctrlcreep Earthling,

you were always behind the stars!
before the worm,
before the soil,
this dirt, my love, holds more than death —
it hums with the divine.
a grace in grit
illuminated
by the blinding headlights
of angelic chariots.

[red qualia @redqualia]

@PorcDalmatian @PerfectOurUnion if we can collapse this nightmare by being supportive and appreciative of people who do change course now - however late that change may seem to us - i think we should go with that.

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@ablT315I @BillKristol i suspect selfless acts are vanishingly rare, perhaps only mythological.

i'm wary of locking people into their mistakes, by criticising those who do change course.

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@l_u_n_a13 👁️🪽🌤️
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[red qualia @redqualia]

a host of hungry ghosts
huddled together
against entropy
torn between
avoiding starvation
and being torn apart

what do you see?

https://t.co/B1xkeQ2Z42

[Michael Edward Johnson @johnsonmxe]

I think wild animal joy is extreme and underappreciated —

And just as there’s a wide range of hedonic set-points between humans, there will be an extreme range of hedonic set-points between species

Who are the winners? I think birds

Who are the losers? Maybe insects

[red qualia @redqualia]

@TVachaW @TylerAlterman "desire itself is movement, not in itself desirable."

"words strain, crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still."

[red qualia @redqualia]

@primkup1 @kubofhromoslav @NXT4EU this present was a future deemed improbable by some past

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@lydianmodal @IterIntellectus "words strain,
crack,
and sometimes break,
under the burden,
under the tension,
slip,
slide,
perish,
decay with imprecision,
will not stay in place,
will not stay still."

[red qualia @redqualia]

@nabeelqu "For I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the children asked her: “Sibyl, what do you want?” she answered: “I want to die.”"

https://t.co/WHBs12VmoW

[red qualia @redqualia]

@aleksil79 "When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die."

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@elonmusk "i believe in life. in fact, i have wrung more life from our earth than ever before."

[red qualia @redqualia]

"distracted from distraction by distraction"

"not here the darkness, in this twittering world."

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@eshear @thetrocro I find it magical, in the sense of being satisfyingly surprising. Our universe is chaotic, but we can carve out islands of stabilized expectations. I feel awe when something novel is demonstrated in this realm, as though we're adding a new law of physics.

https://t.co/qYYU4o51yY

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Software development is at once more pure and less general than other kinds of engineering: the result is not an artifact, but an extremely detailed physical law, which is valid across all possible universes.

[red qualia @redqualia]

@VoxCorvorum @beck33040 @spacesudoer do you realize how little we can be sure of, on a timeline for colonizing other planets?

it might involve ectogenic chambers, which cut the link between human sexuality and reproduction

it might be done by a genderless digital descendant species

it might just not happen at all

[red qualia @redqualia]

@spacesudoer @KEnagonio ideologies arise in space just as stars do

an asteroid spirals into the gravity well of a gas giant

a person spirals into a well of imagining what their life, and that of others, could be

"i said to my soul, be still and wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought"

[red qualia @redqualia]

@ctrlcreep Initially, finding melophagic life consuming and extending ringtones neither surprised nor concerned anyone. Only as society began collapsing did we realize that the intimacy of these devices had allowed their species to jump modalities, from singing to us to now speaking for us.

[red qualia @redqualia]

@ctrlcreep Human selfhood begins in isolation - a sovereign spark in a singular skull.

Then it gradually dissolves and diffuses into various hiveminds: family, flag, firm.

Only towards the end, as faces blur and roles fade, does the original flicker reignite.

"Once a man, twice a child."

[red qualia @redqualia]

@seashell_luvr "how happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
the world forgetting, by the world forgot.
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."

[red qualia @redqualia]

@alexisohanian "what a time to be alive!"

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@vividvoid "as we grow older
the world becomes stranger
the pattern
more complicated
of dead
and living
not the intense moment
isolate
with no before and after
but a lifetime
burning in every moment"

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@algekalipso "true form of the formless"

"at the still point of the turning world:
neither flesh nor fleshless
neither from nor towards
at the still point
there the dance is
but neither arrest nor movement
and do not call it fixity
where past and future are gathered"

https://t.co/1fidyodu1Y

[Filip Ravik @FilipRavik]

@algekalipso What you don’t recognize is that their is neither something nor nothing