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Tools for Thought:Thomas Edison's Laboratory Desk Henry O. Studley's ToolboxSome random bridge that Bill Hamilton decided to carve math into.Lukasa boardsTotem PolesWorry StonesFidget CubesDanceDiceCasting LotsTarot CardsSticks https://t.co/Okxm8hLtGm
Dance is good. I like dance. I can't dance.https://t.co/nPGihCnJl0
Sticks are weird. Hard to imagine civilization without access to sticks of some sort.https://t.co/CU2tnbkgn8
I used to mix my blood with some charcoal and write on stones I found by the river, or birch bark.I was taught some fucked up things as a child.https://t.co/93fnnVc0Sh
I think it's interesting that publications from 1917 have DOI numbers now.https://t.co/g7olfAjBf4
I've used Org-mode (released 2003)Agilix Gobinder (released 2005)OneNote (released 2012)I wanna use TempleOS like Wolfram Notebooks.Human+Tool Computational substraits tho.https://t.co/KocDYZzjre
I am writing ideas into your head as you write your ideas into mine.https://t.co/dzBaVgWFgC
Patterns of information are everywhere, ape encoded cryptically.https://t.co/3PLc5Tw2eb
Creating new words is hard. Every word I speak is a new word. As each mind I use is a new mind.You are never stepping in the same river twice.Your mind flows like a river, constantly evolving.As a idea change your brain, your brain changes the idea.https://t.co/OE21ogDo2B
Do you know what was once competition to index cards?Stone ('slate') Tablets and Chalk.Clay and sticks.Sewing patterns of flesh using twine and leather.Fancy basket weaving techniques.Literally just laying different shaped sticks on the ground.https://t.co/bGL4cjoX7c
I found a rain forest tribe that uses a bunch of weirdly balanced leave tied together to communicate passively.Using sticks is really common actually.Some might call them pencils.https://t.co/3kGazgrE9K
You can communicate quite a lot with a brick, depending on how you use it.You can throw it thru a window, build an shrine, or embed 'moon type' in it with a stamp fashion out of a stick.https://t.co/H4jyXOz2di
Some of our communications with bricks are entire buildings.I don't think it's as much of a metaphor as people think when a building is said to be "making a statement".In the bible, there was talk about building a big middle finger to god.https://t.co/FIwaY2nPn0
Someone found a stone that suggests that middle finger was based on a real structure.https://t.co/v4UZ6ONkQh
"19th-century American inventor Thomas Edison also focused some of his creative energy on writing instruments. He developed an electric pen, an early example of a copy machine."https://t.co/nbcGvTBxMF
Thomas Edison Invented mechanical tattooing machine to embed ink on paper, called it an electric pen.https://t.co/VfXUZVvJwsSomeone realized you could use it on flesh, and modern tattooing ensued. https://t.co/YwrZ0pd0RV
Killing an animal with a sharp pointy stick. Carving off a layer of flesh using a sharp stick. Tanning this hide with the shavings of a a big stick. Tattoo'ing ink made from burnt sticks onto the leather using a bundle of sharp sticks. Attach it to a tall stick. Call it a flag.
Sticks are weird.Hard to imagine civilization without access to sticks of some sort. https://t.co/p6PtX9ZZgF
Tired: Rectangle VisionWired: Sticks all the way down.https://t.co/VqxSrc2uY0
I want to have a self-refilling robotic ink stick.https://t.co/nwcyV9SNSq
Ya'll got any of them automated mathematical sticks used to track debt?https://t.co/cj2UCTGUCE
Tally stick based contracts can be construed as ways to secure trust dynamics of debt. https://t.co/MhRgsIDRm7Romans may have used wax, "tabula rasa" referencing erasing logs of debt(?) & "mensarii" were responsible for testing and distributing currency.https://t.co/EJo1wJKBHu
Me: "I want you to love me so much I gotta beat you off with a stick.... not like that!🤭"GF: "Wasn't that in Tales of the Otori? a wooden dildo given to the captive girl used to create a contract between the leaders? 😇"Me: "What era was that set? 🤔"https://t.co/JPf0imwvme https://t.co/sWMMEW9HxW
Fucking sticks, amirite?https://t.co/TLEf6sb59nFascinating how early usage of sticks-as-sex-aid was to reinforce societal norms around when was the appropriate time to procreate and sync up with seasonal rhythms. https://t.co/KDZ11UbWIM
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."https://t.co/qhAPspqBtY
Khakkharas are cool.Big powerful magical sticks. https://t.co/Y3282PoqEphttps://t.co/M3rnDCVvnH https://t.co/zXt5fyJ8gS
Tired: The pen is mightier than the swordWired: Conquering the world with a sharpened metal stick.Inspired: Teaching allegories about sorcery and manipulation magicks using a funny game of Poohsticks.https://t.co/FhxomWx7nf
Uniform Stick making device made out of sticks.https://t.co/aUhogrx8E2
Good summary of modern "tools for thought" zeitgiest.https://t.co/2ygFKGPFzm
I am also influenced by that space of ideas.https://t.co/ceXM69ABGP
Though I am not familiar with the actual cannon, most of my learnings are indirect. I prefer to find what influenced Alan Kay's thinking than think of him as a hero.https://t.co/CNhKGlOZ7C
"if we succeed in making an intergalactic network (internet) then our main problem will be learning to communicate with aliens, [J.C.R. Licklider] meant this in the biggest possible way and I don't have time to really explain it, it's really interesting."https://t.co/RZDaS5cCTq
"Cultures without writing are referred to as ‘non-literate’, but their identity should not be associated with what they don’t do, but rather with what they do from necessity when there is no writing to record their knowledge." https://t.co/469SD6ZjVF
"Human memory emerges from the way our neurons interact; the memory of the ant colony, if we can comprehend such a thing, emerges from the way its inhabitants interact."https://t.co/3iiaMc3UMT
"A thesis is presented that the basic operational principle of the brain is to process each input in relation to thecontext in which it occurs—in space and time."The brain is a context machine.https://t.co/76poM8vvrI
Licking operant conditioning's taint."Our work questions the dominant view that equates value with reward, showing how a change in goals triggers a reorganization of the neural representation of value, enabling flexible behavior."https://t.co/licj47ww4m
"Together, our findings demonstrate that place cell remapping allows an animal to simultaneously identify its physical location and optimally estimate the identity of the environment."https://t.co/J0QjKyEIXZ
Encoding information in art and architecture. Passing it on to the next generation to keep the ideas warm.https://t.co/eX4u8yqbi0
I found a DIY Dildo video that goes into details.https://t.co/hmzLoF1qq3Thinking about attaching it to a drone now.Thanks.https://t.co/jZRrOb16cS
Drawing funny maths about imaginary numbers with a stick, while Circuit Bending BMO to do a jam sesh with some friends.https://t.co/NarG554X8WIs this a tool for thought? https://t.co/0oIQIsulv2
Playing with toys in unintended ways."Circuit bending is the creative (and often experimental) process of taking apart old, battery-powered toys and synthesizers and fiddling around with the inner components to have them make unintended and new sounds."https://t.co/vtQmrE3O7m
A wooden rolling pin with meme dioramas carved in them would be a fun stick to beat dead horses with.https://t.co/tgrvuN1GVe
I was ranting about paleontologists misgendering extinct giant plausibly lesbian bears in a nsfw discord channel tonight.Now I'm wondering if they jousted.https://t.co/Llhpxl10qdhttps://t.co/iiuPbNrsyK
1) yes they have baculum. You can buy replicas online.2) the boars can also sometimes have spikey bits on their phallus3) you have to clean the males sometimes 🤮4) this makes them shreik like when you pet them5) this video is not safe for workhttps://t.co/GA6w1tRLHg
"studied a collection of penis bones from an extinct species of bear in Spain.Compared with today's bears, this ancient creature, named Indarctos arctoides, had a surprisingly large penis bone that suggests it had infrequent but long-lasting sex sessions"https://t.co/YQvQSK2RV5
"*Interesting: Some believe that the “rib” in the biblical creation story is a mistranslation of a biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum, and it was the bone removed from Adam to create woman explaining its absence in humans but presence in other primates"https://t.co/UdF26O9mtU
Sticks made out of bear boners, lol."Sexual Symbol or Domestic Tool? The Use of Bear Bacula - an Assessment of the Archaeological and Ethnological Record"https://t.co/A6KKu6z17r
"Noteworthy is their ubiquitous significance in protecting women against infertility. As with tools,this might be related to their assumed property of giving the owner the power and strength to ease potency." Oh that's familiar. https://t.co/PqqslHoPzT
"One pound of polar bear liver — a fist-sized chunk and barely a meal — can contain 9 million units of vitamin A." https://t.co/9BcQKfcyR0Whoa https://t.co/NuBeLFRmEH
"Equally bad is trichinosis, a parasitic disease contracted by eating the raw or undercooked [...] Symptoms can include fever, muscle pain and fatigue, as well as inflammation of the heart muscle, lungs or brain, which have led to a few deaths."Familiarhttps://t.co/BvQzak8Bo5
I'm sure... the liver's production of bile has nothing to do with fertility rituals involving the penis bone of an animal associated with fertility across cultures.https://t.co/uK96FjKVxl
Funny looking ink pen is able to eject ink in places.https://t.co/ZPQGcZ438s
What happens if you fix your bile function and restore missing vitamin A in the liver?https://t.co/OMA7c6OkC4
Did you know that copper and vitamin A are related?Its fascinating to think that dysfunctional Vitamin A metabolism leads to NAFLD.https://t.co/6khjzaRhScIn my western society that shuns organ meats?Well, I never!https://t.co/jxoGLPh9BQ
@Grimhood I find it interesting that Wilson's disease manifests with copper often being a result of a liver function problem. https://t.co/gx1aHqw6J0It's often a misdiagnosed as NAFLDhttps://t.co/eFRKWdToav and the connections with obesity/insulin/liver function fascinate me. https://t.co/vNucQy37Eq
Man, those disparate & disconnected societies all honing in on the same fertility ritual must have all had the same delusion or something. Surely there's no medical association with bear bile and fertility? They just worshiped bear dick bones because of Freud or something. Right?
What is going on here?"We demonstrate that fertility is an important factor in fatty liver damage of NAFLD with insulin resistance, suggesting that estrogen may exacerbate nonalcoholic steatohepatitis."https://t.co/vast9T8pKB
I can rant about ancient bear penises in a NSFW discord and suddenly I'm back on my bullshit.Thinking about how many of my GF's symptoms circle around smooth muscle tissue.https://t.co/kiTZceIMRF
What if I told you that all of this research is promulgated on a hypothesis that I can cure my girlfriend's type 2 diabetes thru diet by using various terpenes to bias her microbiome... and all this about dicks is proxy research to hormone-microbe ties.https://t.co/zZ9obc2BGY
I'm over here playing with my tools for thought, and suddenly an idea just ejaculates all over the keyboard. I'm sorry.https://t.co/Q3fV8RZu6W
But unlike paleontologist and anthropologists and many doctors, I actually listen to women. We deduced it may just be her mensural cycle."The effects of the menstrual cycle on respiratory symptoms in the general population have not been well studied."https://t.co/AlkFC2ZTv2
Figured out that the same chemicals that drive expulsion from the uterus also probably trigger sympathetic muscle contractions in other areas with a high level of smooth muscle (like the bladder).https://t.co/lHoK5QAzxb
Still makes me worried tho, because the same mental model also predicts a mechanism for heart disease risk.https://t.co/EfIOMBQEGx
There's a really gross pun here about anointing people with a magic wand.https://t.co/wipp3bWWgO
Grab your wand and shake it like you mean it.https://t.co/pX9qahEMgP
Something something dickwater.https://t.co/4YjQpitoTb
Sufficiently advanced metaphor and euphemistic puns are indistinguishable from Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.https://t.co/6PwgVTf4K4
@visakanv I think he translated the Sumerian word for 'water of life wrong". Imagine how much more progress he could have made had he not been using gallons of horse urine and instead used semen or beer. I can' even tell if he fermented the urine to get ammonia.
Why am I thinking about water of life? The idea was on the tip-of-my-tongue."The vitamin A content of human spermatozoa is much lower than that reported for rabbit spermatozoa but approximately equal to that of bull spermatozoa."https://t.co/yPtaDPUoNLhttps://t.co/q4RnpV7yIP
I gotta spit these ideas out, they taste nasty.https://t.co/gnTra0Xa2c
Oh! It's not semen i'm playing with... it's Beef liver! Of course.How much vitamin A is in beef liver?https://t.co/cVb3AyZeYg
My memory works funny.I see polar bear liver fighting fertility & suddenly I'm talking about bull semen. But really I am trying to remember a fun fact about sources of vitamin A in the diet.So I gotta play (word games) with myself till an idea cums.https://t.co/fY7qHC3pSU https://t.co/RYUxD9wIU4
Words don't cum easy.https://t.co/0xPFP8bfH7
My words are perverted.https://t.co/ow3B7qHOMp https://t.co/q1b5N039Ct
Bull ejaculating until the ideas cum everyone.https://t.co/TaY2gRRXjp
My muse speaks in riddles, and I have to solve them to figure out what the heck my thinking bits actually meant.It says "fire, hot, burn" when I mean "cook"It says "bed, pillow, warm" when I mean "sleep"."Bullshitting until the truth comes out."https://t.co/sBBf2W8nKZ
Cunning linguistic aphasia.https://t.co/y87h8MfvGi
Did you know that Copper and Vitamin A are related...https://t.co/PJOMK2VMop
"Christian conceptions of sex as obscene or shameful prompted the 19th-century archaeologists who excavated the ancient city to hide its erotic artifacts from the public."https://t.co/CLfLOk7izB
Are data scientists just horny for data?Are they data mommies and daddies?"People "suffering" from infornography are generally people that greatly enjoy receiving, sending, exchanging, and digitizing information" https://t.co/uHoiaa5SQt
Oh no, i'm infohorny on main again.https://t.co/ySeOX3pEUs
@literalbanana @pelavarre "All citizens of the 17th-century Republic of Letters corresponded by letter, exchanged published papers and pamphlets, and considered it their duty to bring others into the Republic through the expansion of correspondence." https://t.co/pfYjcQyPs1https://t.co/MN6UDZtFxF
infornography is when you print out an email, photgraph it, then print *That* out, then use a photocopier to email an attachment to the email address that lets you post stuff to your friends via [username][at]facebookmail[dot]com so zuck can watch you be a sicko w/ data formats.
Now your email provider, the phone, the photocopier's harddrive, the SMTP relay your IT department runs, Facebook, *and* all your friends can all laugh as the surveillance state runs data science algorithms against a picture of your dong you sent as a joke while you were drunk.
Using sticks to measure the earth.https://t.co/tRU6ycl9eW
Using a springy stick and some pointy sticks to make more sticks."This machine builds machines"?Naw dude, this stick makes sticks.https://t.co/lBj1yZtsaP
You can beat some long sticks against some other hard sticks to get thin sticks. If you twist them together (using a stick! https://t.co/63bNkc2HTu ) you get something we call a rope, which is like a fancy lashing stick.Useful for lashing the springy stick to the work stick.