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UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

Once I thought to myself "there ought to be someone who's figured out how to be *more* creative before" and decided to google search it.Turns out creativity & output may be 'tied to the hip' to "scientific management" theories -> speed/accuracy tradeoff.https://t.co/OweJ6N1o5G https://t.co/YpVfrVaMbR

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8/31/2019

UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

like the story about the queen who bathed herseslf in the blood for virgins to stay young, I bathe myself in the memetic filth of estranged geniuses and hope some of it might rub off.https://t.co/GtdOOB6cs4

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

I'm not as smart as I seem.Just an illusion: I surround myself with people with interesting ideas.I'm channeling them into something else. https://t.co/ZFEuDftPCs

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8/31/2019

UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Network Celebrity, in my memex?https://t.co/INfWVB1jprThe historical narratives of innovation are flawed.https://t.co/BZYaVNJo9V

UltimApe@ultimape• about 7 years ago

Once you start looking at it in terms of cybernetics and information theory, Kuhn's ideas seem antiquated. If anything Girard and Durkheim seem to have been closer to the idea of discovery and invention of ideas than Kuhn.

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8/31/2019

UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Collecting the memes together. Making ideas have sex. Watering the garden of ideas. Seeing what seeds take hold.https://t.co/ydOUDcVhxw

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"Each person’s self is spread out among many people, simulated in all their brains at varying levels of granularity"https://t.co/58tWRuAhlP https://t.co/7JZCfcGu8j

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8/31/2019

UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

What is a memex, that a computer could be?What is an engram, and is it a self similar representation of me?https://t.co/hC0p0cdea5https://t.co/ElkuwdsQvz

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

I store my mental patterns outside itself.Like an ant. I embody my state in the world.Talking to my self..."from:zefrank complex node"

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8/31/2019

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Oh no: creativity! comic.https://t.co/BZb3RUBRim

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

All my ideas are shit.https://t.co/g8hyDeCdKV

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5/14/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

When did we stop calling them 'grimoires' and start calling them 'memexes'?https://t.co/h2eEWPNGTr

UltimApe@ultimape• over 6 years ago

When did we stop calling them "mind maps" and start calling them "mind palaces"?https://t.co/GkdkhcUdeZ

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7/21/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Why not call it a kingdom where our muses lives?Reinforcing my own personal Palisade using stone.Building a castle on sand, because my mind floats... you see.https://t.co/K4kMfN23I3

UltimApe@ultimape• over 6 years ago

Mind vomit is just so much easier to remember over "memory palace" https://t.co/2oZdCoSBJT

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7/21/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Hymn?https://t.co/PQStD0fKSq

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

When did we stop calling them poets and start saying 'lyricists'?When did we stop calling them map makers and start saying 'dancers'?https://t.co/19UB6XACJA

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7/21/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I'm a hymnialistI'm a hymnialistAll glory to the little owlhttps://t.co/b8aitINkmF

UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

I'm a liminalistI'm a liminalistI'll take a piece-of-shit meme & lower the semantic frame, motherfuckah;𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝟏𝟖 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐡;𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤, 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘩

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7/21/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Zeus and Metis sitting in a treeache oh oh tee eye en geeFirst comes love.Then comes vorage.Then comes baby* clad in fully armored carapace,Sucking her thumb,Causing him headaches,Bursting from the skull, holding the Aegis!https://t.co/HUyZxp0T7j

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7/21/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

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metaphysician, seal thyself.https://t.co/fRwFVfyim2https://t.co/VwIn1ea8VX

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Am now wondering if Medical Grimoire are more likely written in Arabic, Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, Greek, Latin or Hebrew.https://t.co/6zWZULjPrW

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7/21/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"On such a tranquil night as this,She woke Endymion with a kiss, When, sleeping in the grove, He dreamed not of her love."https://t.co/w6Ca6wrHHHhttps://t.co/9Mip9SNica https://t.co/SnZd6pIxSo

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

"The second-century AD orator Aelius Aristides attempted to derive natural symbols from the etymological roots of Athena's names to be aether, air, earth, and moon."https://t.co/5lLeek5sdYhttps://t.co/pJClkXP2NT

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7/22/2020