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"I'm well aware this is an imperfect analogy, but I'm OK with that. It's close enough to make me think, which is all that matters in my book." 💅 https://t.co/FWCWbDc2OD
I am wondering, what is a body without organs? and I remembered that funny meme about an🥚What are the organs of a stem cell? Really makes u think.https://t.co/wZNSC1NmSH
Are these organs? 🦋Is this a seed?🌱https://t.co/0iGKtaPnEihttps://t.co/iEs3idniXE https://t.co/YsCaQ7OkCt
I am thinking a lot about viruses that infect viruses and the nature of self-mutating code.Why is it so fun to write programs that write programs?https://t.co/CGXIvfqnLp
I spend a lot of my time thinking about how metaphors used among computer software developer are cargo-cult versions of the real thing.https://t.co/CkC2W9hSLC
I wonder how many models of evolution in computer science are riffing off of myths and misunderstandings.Ring species wasn't really even validated until 2012! Allopatric speciation (darwin's finches) might even be a result of collaboration between gut microbes and host!
Deleuze/Guattari, work is a great vehicle for this kind of thinking. One of their better works is a sort of attack against underlying assumptions in psychology and how those ideas spread tendrils into another way of thinking.https://t.co/mLdHcE9hao
Oft, original authors of an idea are very well read on the topic they cite + use as a metaphor. They intentionally borrow an idea from one space with the assumption that many unspoken ideas will come along with it. Seeing this lets you find better ideas!https://t.co/jatpmJcnmM
You can do some pretty interesting things when you realize that many of the founders of a field has a deep knowledge about a topic that helped them see the space under an entirely different lens than the larger industry.https://t.co/IZUAutawWw
Many times, the founders themselves don't understand how important one of their ideas was.So as much of a field slowly cargo-cults a practice for the sake of status => It takes an outsider perspective to show them what they missed.https://t.co/svFSXPn88B
So you can get an entire field stumbling around in the dark, not realizing that one of the vital factors for the original founder's success was a sort of unspoken and misunderstood feature.E.g. Freud was learning about gut microbes via his dog's nose. Few understand this.
I spent morning learning about the antipsychotic Olanzapine. Never heard about before.Figured out it acts on gut microbes on a guess. Based on a title of a single paper. Correctly guessed it would impact sleep + cause problems on dementia patients.https://t.co/tUvsjLBI16
It makes mice fat.I wonder what their farts smell like.https://t.co/YH0XQi8SXG
I spoke with @rafiq about his experience with Olanzapine. Helped me come to a conclusion it might make farts stink like Hydrogen Sulfide. Or more specifically, similarly to the result of eating "Peri-Peri Prawns" (which is heavy with garlic too).https://t.co/3snzXXK2gX https://t.co/PaMIidR3Vq
Found some studies that suggest those antipsychotics do indeed impact that space via H2S related pathways.https://t.co/YM00XwmoUjBut this study doesn't seem to account for the impact on gut bacteria specifically. https://t.co/p07uWAkRc1
Yep. I'm just some rando on twitter asking people what their farts smell like and using it to infer really fascinating metabolic patterns of antipsychotic.https://t.co/g9V94sGZoc
"These bacteria produce carbon dioxide and a number of compounds that account for the unique odour: pungent (propionic acid), rotten-egg (hydrogen sulfide), rancid-butter (butyric acid), and vinegary (acetic acid)"https://t.co/kdvacJllKUSounds Delicioushttps://t.co/VGq4IiWZjH
Hydrogen Sulfide in particular is really fascinating when it comes to dementia.https://t.co/dYbqCedBnI
I also found some odd pathogens that can impact that space while exploring a 'demon' that makes you smell of brimstone.https://t.co/6VNN9BVl8h
"has been described in patients taking sulfur medications or who have cultured hydrogen sulfide producing intestinal bacteria such as Morganella morganii. This case describes a pediatric patient who was found to have cyanosis"https://t.co/zaCka4XXNshttps://t.co/CjlVHOercy
So yeah. What is a body without organs? Rotten eggs?Really makes u think.https://t.co/mkGKNjiOHn
I found the meme. Saving for posterity.https://t.co/UWbIVpi6Z7 https://t.co/OB2CBo2oZh
"Cysteine, an amino acid found in meat, eggs, and other protein-heavy foods, increased the amount of hydrogen sulfide SEVEN times over!But when they mixed the waste with fructans and resistant starch, the amount of sulfide was reduced by 75 percent." https://t.co/8Yk9CZwqrN
It seems NAC "N-acetylcysteine" is likely effective treatment options for schizophrenics who are resistant to clozapine. https://t.co/jRWFCL8OniI guessed because of people's farts.
Have you tried eating eggs to boost cystine levels and possibly help with insulin sensitivity by impacting lipidshttps://t.co/jn6mXSFvqWYou can fight the stinky farts with selective use of gut microbiota promoting fibers.https://t.co/isYSQBHMIA
Mitochondrial damage?"Researchers thus decided to test a theory: Can exposing cells to artificial hydrogen sulfide help keep their mitochondria strong and prevent diseases from getting worse?" https://t.co/xcISKTyssk
Mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia?https://t.co/RzvXzp1Gil
What does that mean? Why would "second generation" drugs for schizophrenia impact mitochondrial related pathways?https://t.co/j6c4MIEqcf
"The important life-supporting role of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has evolved from bacteria to plants, invertebrates, vertebrates, and finally to mammals. Over the centuries, however, H2S had only been known for its toxicity and environmental hazard."https://t.co/QomC7pIjeC
"I love your beer, it just turns me a bit away that when I expel gas every other person around me must evacuate for fear of death. You’re team is great.P.S.Fuck those people, they will experience the annihilation farts and they will remember them."https://t.co/VaAdYnwTB7
"any food that’s been condemned as a fart inducer — beans, cabbage, eggs, broccoli and its relatives, onions, and red meat — are not only harder to digest but also contain a higher-than-average amount of sulfur in its protein chains" https://t.co/yjiOzMa63v
Ok, so the corned beef and cabbage stew is making my farts stink. So I should eat things with resistant starches to make it less foul?Or I can just double down and turn it into a egg+hash and keep feeding the microbes that produce mitochondrial protecting gasses.
Does anyone know how to test stomach acid levels without vomiting? Those I ask would rather not."Together these results highlight the importance of including measurements of gastric pH when investigating gut microbial dynamics within and across species."https://t.co/HtWg6evMDA
@Evolving_Moloch "We expect that animals feeding on carrion will have the most restrictive filter, i.e. higher stomach acidity. Carrion has the potential to sustain high pathogen loads because the dead host’s body has stopped suppressing bacterial growth."https://t.co/Czk7TNCH2X
If eating red meat and eggs causes sulfur production and stinky smelling farts... are you possessed by a demon bacteria or yeast that is killing your ability to fully digest them?https://t.co/3LuAgvBj3Z
Tired: Autistic Obsession.Wired: Holistic Ethnography."listen carefully and observe (and smell). What do you see? Who is farting? Why did they fart? What happened before and after they farted? How did people react? How did the fart smell?"https://t.co/6pBjbkCKs3
Note to self: ask @dschorno what their farts smell like.https://t.co/2wmFre0Zpc
I wrote an essay about an extremely interesting theory of the obesity epidemic that I came across. Read a history of fad diets, how croissants can help you lose weight, and details about squirrel hibernation and mania you never knew you needed to know: https://t.co/JSKw6s6BTo
"Anthropologist Kirsten Bell, inspired to track the history of our relationship with farts, found herself at a dead end. Anthropologists will study nearly anything, she says, but they seem uninterested in farts."https://t.co/KlCs3TpE4p¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, so it turns out that the modern literature on farts is woefully lacking, and it seems to be because there isn't enough fart ethnography. I will have to start with fartistry and early clown traditions. https://t.co/4xKqWCbjqd
"How on earth did a harmless joker like fart end up in the same cell with hardened felons like fuck and cunt and cocksucker? Whatever the grounds for the taboo, I’ve internalized it [...] I have to override an inhibition every time I write [fart]" https://t.co/E7ARmX2Ukf
Having it 'repeat after me', I have also confirmed that it is perfectly fine saying 'Shit' 'Piss', and 'Twat'.It seems to miss hear 'cunt' as "cont.", and if you add "or" after, it repeats "contour".If it hears me correctly, it bleeps 'cunt' just fine tho.
A deep rabbithole of semiotics just wafted under the door jam.> "pre-whoopee epoch it wasn’t necessary or even desirable for a noisemaker to sound exactly like the real thing; it just had to sound like something sometimes used to symbolize the real thing"https://t.co/64DGZxTzD8
Fart jokes permeate our society, butt few understand this.Probably because you can't smell them when we all have too much collective (brain) trauma.https://t.co/UuMBojwtt6https://t.co/cPNG69HPhG
Other recent curiosities I've typed into google include a quest to discover the origin of "Soiled Trousers" and "Pretty Great Pants" (items in @GrimDawn)I'm running around throwing poop at things in a video game. I have never been more on brand. https://t.co/vVeFzuGwbt
This is the kind of trauma I'm talking about: https://t.co/gbXvI55ZS6
Oh, maybe Brian Posehn? Looks like he has a comedy routine from 2013 called "The Fartist"https://t.co/zsx3r1S7h7
If you've got a Roku, or wanna sign up for some random website "The Fartist" is available on Tubi.https://t.co/P86FjK3XCx
Amazing.https://t.co/nInj3wGDHo https://t.co/mPS2Xybtp9
We collectively know more about how sloths (don't) fart than we do about human farting behaviors it seems.Mostly because some zoologist decided to start a spreadsheet to track it.https://t.co/eD1mYnnuhn
Feynman once said to "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." So I'm looking up the history of fart jokes to mine insights in to garlic https://t.co/8OHEOxrBzu
And other stories about how "sulfur demons" are actually about how stuff like eggs and prawns impact fart smell due to fiber metabolism of bacteria and fungus. Especially in reflecting dysbiosis states.https://t.co/GVzXbh4J6l
This whole thread is because @jasonfried's last name is (to me) a pun on methods of cooking eggs mashed up with a joke on stem cells being seeds.Explorations into role of garlic in GI health? Because I like to eat fried eggs w/ garlic & ghee (butyrate). https://t.co/DT6Skiv3PE
I inferred an ancient healing remedy from a meme spread about the ingredients used to keep link from feeling the cold. Comparing it with Viking methods derived from Valheim's recipes & the use of fermenting barrels in potion making. Memetics take many forms. https://t.co/OLfo0u8uzN
Did you know you can just look up the origin and influence of recipes found in video games?https://t.co/CYSWTqyiA7
What the heck is Giant's toe in Skyrim, and why does it make a healing potion? And do you think it would make your farts smell bad?Do you think that's related to troll semen?https://t.co/9hviZFUZ5R
I still haven't been able to actually find any garlic in Valheim and I've been got 32 hours in.https://t.co/LPebm8YQEs
Press F to burp and pay respects to the hearth minder.https://t.co/uOyfJ484dj
I think it's funny that there's a nickname for a Viking that everyone reframes as "the swift". But its probably fjært because he fell off a boat trying to shit over the side due to an explosive fart.🌬️https://t.co/0qTcG7d0IhNot sure if it's true, but its fun.
What if you have to fart on a longboat?"movie was quite weird but what topped it all was when one of the fishermen said he was ready to sh*t. He then unceremoniously arose, pulled down his pants, and stuck his *ss over the edge of the gunwale to sh*t."https://t.co/vMqqfBxCGP
I made a toilet in @Valheimgame . It's not authentic because most of the Viking ones seemed to be pit houses, but there is not a consensus on this. I went out of my way to make it feel cold. The bee hives don't seem to mind the vent. 😌 https://t.co/Ozt6AFApfL
I've been fermenting garlic in real life. IMHO the smoke mechanic should be used to model the rank smell it produces in fermenting barrels. So in game I put the barrel by a window. https://t.co/MxhbL1bOLQ
Valheim is so serene and peaceful. I play it a lot on the days when I can't do much else. I just managed to get Bronze going and am aiming to build a proper settlement to explore for garlic and onion. https://t.co/4E1fFhtCKt
I like that I'm going to mirror how the they explored new lands to farm, and go about setting up colonies using local resources.Found a bunch of YouTube videos on Viking style architecture. It's neat to see how they adapted to iceland https://t.co/euTPK0cb0U
It would be really cool if there was a mod that added stink to the game...*5 minutes later*oh no.https://t.co/tsmgDgThAP https://t.co/2dikgg6Cjp
Do you ever wonder if alchemical plants in video games are imperfect analogies, perhaps put there to make you think?https://t.co/DuJOfJYyfM
Digging into alchemy in video games.Does anyone know what Skyrim's Nirnroot was based on? I know it's named after Nirn, probably was manufactured by Dwemer's acoustic prowess, but are there real life (maybe mythic) plants that make sound? cc @EpicNate315 https://t.co/MTgliwFAny
I play very few video games despite going to college over wanting to become a video game developer. Those that I do play is because I wanna learn from them.Like how game designers play to learn mechanics, I play just enough to understand how it feels.https://t.co/eVPFV8W81r
I find it fun to pretend that skills like Assasin's Creed's 'Eagle Vision', The Witcher's 'Witcher Senses', or more mundane survival skills like Medieval Dynasty's 'Inspector Mode' are analogies for synesthesia like skills involving scent and attention. https://t.co/EAV49kri8K
I know someone who's family line were dowsers. In talking to them, I may have reverse engineered what kind of sensory data would help someone sense underground water. I am learning to smell soil bacteria+fungus of phreatophytes https://t.co/dgokRHFmQehttps://t.co/NnJbJhgQ0k
*sniffs*https://t.co/ZVoKqKpzqW
Bro, do you even whiff?Why would human nose be acutely able to smell natural gas?Why are so many greek temple around gas veins?https://t.co/MbTmz2mlXlDid you know this is also made by bacteria?https://t.co/j85Vhp4tuPWhat is fresh water smell?https://t.co/wYDWyZy3Uu
smells like calm.https://t.co/HKHwCmGmuT
@CurlOfGradient We smell soil bacteria near streams, not water itself."amygdala responds strongly to both pleasant and unpleasant smells (in other words, smells that elicit some sort of emotional response) but not to neutral smells." (Still trying to find these studies)https://t.co/RCt8oOTYxb
When healthy again, I'm hoping to spend time down by rivers and creeks and wander around smelling areas with known aquifers. I think if I pay attention, I might be able to get environmental auras by piggy backing on latent emotional word-color synesthesia.https://t.co/SbstQSajRi
What i'm saying is I'm going to transform in to a literal witcher and show up all these cargo-cult phonies.https://t.co/j2IaoQEi8Qhttps://t.co/JRC1cvZiHf
Its all going to be an act. A magic trick. A ruse.https://t.co/4uzHye71VH
I like that The Prestige referenced the photo manipulation theory of Nikola Tesla's famed Tesla Coil photos - The whole movie is layered with deep mythos about tricks and magic. https://t.co/wzzwVVNUGW
Also, that was david bowie."In the history of rock, there is likely no truer magician than Bowie, as he has come to personify how magic works." https://t.co/3ibL4etA8X
I am batman. Or rather, I have done that thing again where I accidentally transpose characters in my head based on the actor. I am Alfred Borden -> seeing thru to the magic tricks.https://t.co/vQ61eB3i9H
Do you ever wonder what your farts would smell like gulping down all these strange looking potions? If you spent hours of time being stressed out fighting monsters and demons, what would that do to your gut?https://t.co/l8T2pc9OW7
"The scientists believe that infection induces the body to alter bile production, increasing levels of taurine in the gut. This prompts gut microbes to produce high levels of sulfide to prevent colonization by pathogens." https://t.co/iL9SSCregDhttps://t.co/jgJ781r4iE
Thinking about playing Skyrim again with my new appreciation of the lore that inspired it.@nsreed & I invented a very questionable speedrun based on watching @DougDougFood and I think I can do the horse glitch. https://t.co/uZ06LqwByy
I was talking with my mom about weird healing rituals and ways to promote healthy skin microbes.She mentioned how urine was used as a wound healing aid in the Vikings TV show.https://t.co/esKOzFDHVv
I spoke to her a bit about ancient fertilizer methods that may have involved urine and ash as they were easily available. https://t.co/Vf4VMo5exX
Trying to speculate what kind of soil amendments may have promoted healthy soil bacteria to promote wound healing. https://t.co/VxdXYhE7qj
I can't wait to see someone talking about how stupid people were for putting honey, garlic, and dirt in their wounds. Then laying into them w/ about how some dirt has commensal bacteria that promote literal wound healing properties.Well... actually... https://t.co/y0L0uGbZSN
The ideas that pulse thru my head are vile. Thinking about a speedrun about literally cucking people in video games as a way to inspire myself to be able to play Skyrim faster so I can explore it more deeply to look for allusions to healing myths.https://t.co/VxdXYhE7qj
I can't wait to see someone talking about how stupid people were for putting honey, garlic, and dirt in their wounds. Then laying into them w/ about how some dirt has commensal bacteria that promote literal wound healing properties.Well... actually... https://t.co/y0L0uGbZSN
I am offensive and belligerent.Literally re-encoding a video of myself tasting dog shit so I can upload it to the internet.https://t.co/nnljoL6JqZ
Thinking a lot of ancient gut health."Paleoscatologists have been able to discern much from the girthy deposit, including that its producer ate mostly meat and bread was likely a Viking, [...] — and had a gut full of parasites." https://t.co/5Iymm18zXUhttps://t.co/PjssUSilNX
I wonder what was in that lady's pee.https://t.co/HJIJa6HZSX
@balajis @The_Lagrangian @almostlikethat I'm basically trying to reverse engineer how the Viking bear clans would go into trances and gain the ability to heal wounds.I guessed the answer.Did you know people used to use honey and dirt to heal wounds? We poo-poo it because we don't know how it works.Now I do. https://t.co/psuwGfVHbw
"Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar, a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title." https://t.co/KntZfQMRt2https://t.co/itoiaEtObA
"It’s almost like a technological dream in its own way. It creates the images from a dream state without having to go through the boredom of going to sleep all night; [...] And it will give me access to areas that I wouldn’t be thinking about otherwise…" https://t.co/g9vhuV9vOJ
Why do I keep hearing alchemic and mystic cult symbolism in songs?"In my eyesIndisposedIn disguises no one knowsHides the faceLies the snakeAnd the sun in my disgrace"https://t.co/HC23X9rrz1https://t.co/Kzvup5RgJp
"What am I coming to?I'm gonna melt downBlame it on the black starBlame it on the falling skyBlame it on the satellite that beams me homeThis is killing me"https://t.co/DKZG3oRjvS
"Through his work, Bowie turned himself into a musical ‘ascended master’, a Gnostic Christ-like figure who achieved a high level of illumination and who sought to communicate a cryptic message to humanity." https://t.co/5W2dBvCxhC