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Trying to find other references insects in 'Serial Experiments Lain' aside from this one on ants... https://t.co/0Bvv9zp8El
"Yet Artificial Life is not only about the construction and simulation of living systems, whether artificial or natural; an impressive engineering effort is geared towards the construction of adaptive autonomous robots."https://t.co/PAfRwchJt8https://t.co/ooewdMkY4R https://t.co/AeUkPZD9A6
Whispers in my ghost."According to Hearn (1900), the shells cicadas leave after their final molt are used in both Japan and China as medicine to cure ear-aches."https://t.co/3kWhZowdDBhttps://t.co/mC4IWCKt91
What does this augur?https://t.co/A75uM0PiLX
Gonna have to dig into some interesting healing potions it seems, to explore TCM's use of cicadas.https://t.co/3xGqOoIv1m
"Revisit gut microbiota and its impact on human health and disease" [JUL 2019] from 'Journal of Food and Drug Analysis' highlights some additional insights to the Molybdenum/bacteria related inflammation processes aside from butyrate/propionate levels.https://t.co/fDBTlr3w3E https://t.co/3k1ZS6hRT6
Eater of wood. Sucker of Xylem.If cicadas are like aphids, what farms them like ants?https://t.co/xIWz8EwRULhttps://t.co/Z43lYloALP
I consume information like I eat books.Pica makes me crave paper and glue.it goes away if I eat vellum.I think animal collagen ferments into butyrate & heals intestinal inflammation -> reduces pica.Irony is that everyone eats woodpulp based celluose.https://t.co/YkciIotul2
I wonder what is eating the pine tree out back. one of them looks like it's bleeding. Maybe a bird?https://t.co/XU6QYfykzU What happens if you eat something that feeds off of sap?https://t.co/nQqoFFOkSW
Did you know that ants collect pine tree resin to help the colony fight off infectious diseases targeting their fungal colonies? If lemon+avc thing doesn't do the trick, I'm going to do the same with pine pitch soap because it is also high in saponins.https://t.co/CISIkWdwve
Tiny cows.https://t.co/bWuxVZ1PvS
What if it wasn't butyrate. What if they were using the butt-fungus?https://t.co/vsC4r8I5h0
"thought that the cicadas had picked up a fungal infection, but he found the same cells in every species that lacked Hodgkinia. These insects had clearly adopted some kind of fungus and turned it into an endosymbiont that replaced the missing bacterium."https://t.co/JBfmUWorGr
An organism that feeds of trees would do well to cooperate with fungal colonies that protect it from tree toxins.https://t.co/Dn0pmEmR2D
Tired: Tree VampiresWired: Tree Vultureshttps://t.co/IxOU3FIsKu
@eigenrobot @simplic10 I wondered today if cicadas are attracted to certain trees more because the old sick trees are consenting to being killed so they can be used to fertilize young saplings and help light up the forest floor. In context of the blight of the American chestnut. https://t.co/kPHHn8pZYX
Fuzzy-butt cicadas are loaded with something we call "cathinone". It makes them horny.https://t.co/YhAtujQ2d9https://t.co/fynMQucstI
Lots of interesting drugs could be made from cicada shells."The finding marks the first time that researchers have discovered a fungus, other than mushrooms, producing psilocybin, and the first organism outside of plants to make an amphetamine."https://t.co/XLbTR0GzpH
We always dismiss ancient remedies outright, but what if we just don't understand how they work, and mistake the process used to find the right sources as just 'ritual'?https://t.co/0zTn7CshH0
Eater of koans.Eastern Wisdom.Wizards of the East«пришли с востока волхвы и спрашивали, где родившийся царь Иудейский» (Матфей, II, 1 и 2)https://t.co/Jr9IrGLcPGhttps://t.co/Zm5070J7Iz https://t.co/BcZGmoHXfQ
"[...] The very concept of magicians became more and more blurred, and by them were meant in general adherents of everything mysterious and incomprehensible. [...]"https://t.co/fcqTNZuQqlhttps://t.co/mHfeow1nu2
"The Assyrian-Babylonian Magi"Inertia. <= I found a signpost.https://t.co/7nERAN45j0
Pythagorean Inertia."The tablet not only contains the world’s oldest trigonometric table; it is also the only completely accurate trigonometric table, because of the very different Babylonian approach to arithmetic and geometry."https://t.co/ZRqSCBoFwNhttps://t.co/mzJ2V42yO7
Pulling on the thread of a fungal tendril of ideas that has woven it's way thru my net(work of ideas).https://t.co/rf4iFrNDxM
The thread that tightens as I pull it.https://t.co/tAtCb3Bae7https://t.co/dlzbx34Wzi
E.g. term 'signpost' itself helps me find my thread on how I use twitter. A lazy form of decentralized indexing that captures emergent associations + generates serendipity via search.A passive folk ontology building a stigmergic linguistic zettelkasten. https://t.co/KiNuT1etyQ
Textiles as metaphor."This book is indeed a tightly knitted fabric that outlines the main features of Chinese medicine. It is suitble for a broad range of readership who like to learn more about traditional medical and medicinal culture."https://t.co/aduP315xpf
Silk. Paper."The text names 12 Magi, not three, while other parts of the text suggest that "a group the size of a small army" traveled to Bethlehem, says Landau."https://t.co/g3L3SNwBaS https://t.co/PqPZ3pVQIW
"We Three Kings Of Orient Are"🎶https://t.co/XtPVJ2ExjhFollowing yonder star.https://t.co/ZvSzKTxEPG
Twitter's tweet ID guid is called "snowflake". The winter's star.https://t.co/XPqiSoW7IE
Why gold?https://t.co/hugchmAqw5
That argument is a case of "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" acting itself out in the mind of someone having no idea what is going on at technological level, but is acute aware of social trends + acts as a conduit for a particular memetic godhead.
Why gold?https://t.co/Y6wKCDTHwi
When terms light up part of my brain around the idea that i'm interested in, the colors of text shimmer and transition. For a moment I see gold, blue, yellow, orange. Years of excitment over a rare drop in a video game training my emotions. Now it's running in reverse.
"Myrrh is mine its bitter perfume Breathes a life of gathering gloomSorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dyingSealed in the stone cold tomb" 🎶Myrrh stops bleeding. Stops pain.This is a memory aid.https://t.co/jsQn31kSMm
Fang bearer.https://t.co/3AswnNH8Mi
@csolisr @KylePlantEmoji I found that a lot of older medical grimoires (like Avicenna's cannon of medicine) was written as a sort of poem. Egyptians had ritual prayer. As a memory aid it makes sense.Also possibility of using something akin to sea shanties acting simultaneously as memory & timing tool.
Fang Bearer => Bear Fang => Bear Healing Rituals.https://t.co/je5XpWlUn4
Bear's grease.https://t.co/2gVL0Vv0jehttps://t.co/wipp3bWWgO
"The cicada has a history as a symbol of immortality in China, with examples decorating bronze vessels dating as far back as 1500 B.C.E."https://t.co/DiT4Bo09gVBronze.https://t.co/per4Ybb4yH
"instructs the reader to crush garlic and a second Allium species (whose translation into modern English is ambiguous), combine these with wine and oxgall (bovine bile), and leave the mixture to stand in a brass or bronze vessel for 9 days and nights."https://t.co/m9aghNFfFr https://t.co/guT0cpIRQh
Why Gold? => Why not Bronze?https://t.co/FfqQeHJ68W
"Far over the Misty Mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away, ere break of dayTo seek our pale enchanted gold" 🎶https://t.co/WtciKhCINThttps://t.co/mGIKY9N4Up
Misty Mountains."Veni, veni Emmanuel;Captivum solve IsraelQui gemit in exilioPrivatus Dei Filio"https://t.co/47deAJPnEO
Oh misty mountains cold.ǎn má ní bā mī hōnghttps://t.co/KwsZdbzuEX
Jewel in the Lotushttps://t.co/ql3mBe9KcOhttps://t.co/mjSxJtIj6s
Healing.https://t.co/0oPKugaMDp
If humans can hibernate, you'd think it'd be embedded in our oral history; acting as instructions. Stories about lotus flowers, sirens, fae feeding parasite ridden food that makes you sleep. Goblins like Midgna who use sleep as a weapon. Sleeping Beauty bewitched by fae adjacent.
These all make my heart rate sync with the beat.Why?https://t.co/S2LwCo2iHr
Talking to myself.You 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀𝓌𝒾𝓉𝓈.https://t.co/M9RyePkHbd
Ants aren't the only digger."As soon as you begin to understand the importance of these little creatures as one of nature's greatest recyclers, you will never look at a pile of dung the same way." https://t.co/ubLBRnsIpUhttps://t.co/TS4VcGIxrP
If ants can smell healthy dirt bacteria, I bet they can seek out gold thru smell.Like people ought to be able to.https://t.co/OyroVXsl0o
I wonder if Kanye's sense of smell is as POWERful as his hearing.Ought to be able to.https://t.co/VB5hRkR8sE
"(21st-century schizoid man)" 🎶I see you.https://t.co/XKIygK6eqZ
Kanye doesn't know the day of the week,and can't speak even around a whisper.Watching his whole body stop as he stills his mind. His expression change as he endures the sounds wash over him. Resisting a wave in the ocean as he focuses on flow.🫂https://t.co/HTtpXpPx1n
I can hear the clang as the bell tolls.The words he rang as the lion bellows.Language is his muse,how he does it? a mystery.But i'm learning to do it on command,watch and see.I'm not lion.https://t.co/iFi7TNH28E
I wonder what kinds of rap battles occurred when the Ancient Sumerians were sitting around a big pot of fermented mash and roasting each other.Fight or Flyte?https://t.co/Jo0Hem7reY
This 4000 year old ancient Sumerian poem makes more sense if you consider honey-mead was used as an aphrodisiac."My precious caress is more savory than honey,In the bedchamber, honey-filled,Let me enjoy your goodly beauty,Lion, let me caress you."https://t.co/mvvw8f3QiE
Why gold?A flight of honey. https://t.co/TcUPZAymFi
Burrowing bees,related to ants,maybe also be smellingfor golden dirt?https://t.co/eGtBk7BydL
Haha."To my knowledge this is the first reported investigation of the impact of the biogenic gold nanoparticles on garden soil processes." [2015]https://t.co/uXRIAL5hdY https://t.co/xJkrZLD5Zy
Golden dirt = actinomycetes = actinobacteriahttps://t.co/NTV1PbAWjb
The divine dung beetle.https://t.co/hWqOp1SqAq
I did this with my power over words.https://t.co/ARK1lDLaK3
@pup_god Neo: So are you saying I can actually use a pendulum to dowse for gold by leveraging synesthetic experiences to induce distortions in my mental map of an envirionment?Morphious: No, neo. I'm saying when you are ready, you won't have to.https://t.co/MD2PTTBLCI
Literal figurative shitposts inspired by divine wisdom.https://t.co/7x0Xtqi7A7
Speak the truth = sooth sayer.https://t.co/eOspKkrL8W
I like the color gold.https://t.co/ubhfAEB9Fy
I remembered the other day how, as a child, I had emotion-color synethesia that went away with puberty.I am starting to see words in colors again.My entire twitter web lighting up like christmas lights. Using the color tones from diablo 2's rare items to highlight excitement. https://t.co/13LOqBc597
It taste like the delicious reward of curiosity.A bit like custard."Lacking large exocrine glands in the abdomen and strong pheromones in the head, the males, on the other hand, tasted a bit like custard."https://t.co/1ojE32SOjw
I need to find a real silver spoon.https://t.co/W0cD9PVxVr
Why gold?https://t.co/4x3TTxSbhZ
Technically speaking this is wrong. Most early gold was actually electrum (A silver/gold fusion). Tho there are some indications Ancient Egyptians may've had a glass smelting process (to separate out gold) that rivaled our modern methods way earlier than we give them credit for. https://t.co/BSngw4D4LS https://t.co/Ser0AQ7KhA
Snakes venom as curative?https://t.co/c58XEYQfTU
The left is the rod of Asclepius and is associated with healing. The right is the rod of Hermes and is associated with negotiation. Hospitals would have you believe they use the symbol on the right as a mistake. It's not a mistake. https://t.co/xqD3GRYVXo
Lost ideas sitting as myth and rhyme.https://t.co/g1ccO7oQBJ
https://t.co/gM4NfnjXyc https://t.co/UTkIxkf1Ib
I bet I can impregnate my skin with chemicals that are derived from gold nanoparticles.If B12 is cobalt, what vitamin contains au?https://t.co/WDEOl5vJFz
"Every inch of your skin is a holy grail I've got to findOnly you can set my heart on fire, on fireYeah, I'll let you set the pace'Cause I'm not thinking straight" 🎶https://t.co/bZbQEaMPBQGod speaks to me thru spotify.https://t.co/uS2b6g2wDV https://t.co/SbLUL3YQaX
"I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.... I deal with natural laws. This is my work here on earth." — Einstein and the Poet: In Search of The Cosmic Man, 1983https://t.co/dg6RKteeNf
Channeling Einstein's God.https://t.co/hghiadI2hY
I wanted this before I knew what it meant. I looked up at the stars and marveled. How does the universe work?https://t.co/yFuKxP3YRQ
When the song is harmonious, god is singing.https://t.co/bbdGAoDgkz
'Ate music.Simple as.https://t.co/zBAm1kDIRz
I already know a lot of Latin. Ideas about magic and science embedded in pop culture and video games. Concepts I use as loan words in order to understand our cosmic order.I just had to change my lens.https://t.co/lDkSLXfmXm
"They represent the "flavors" of magical energy (vis and essentia), and the knowledge used for research. [...] Each aspect is identified by a Latin name, an icon, and a characteristic color."https://t.co/JuNWqiBw3o
Rapping myself with Ideas encoded into the fabric of our reality.https://t.co/tVK8apwz0G
"A Dragonologist was a magizoologist who specialised in the study and handling of dragons" https://t.co/39cd4fEdex
Proverbs 8:7https://t.co/RFbnCsHffk
Inner work.Alchemic crucible.Set your soul ablaze.Transform.https://t.co/OyqndPGBxMhttps://t.co/l91CHkjKcn https://t.co/8hpPfqUIZD
"Gold, silver, and platinum get all the attention as the world's most precious metals. But they're more precious for the global economy than for human health."https://t.co/PZeEDWkAyf
I bet gold, silver, and platnum, and other metals that aren't considered 'essential' are actually someting that our gut bacteria uses to provide for our health.Poop is mostly dead bacteria. So the gold may be for them. https://t.co/hWqOp1SqAq
and mercury lingam would be a way to get it in our system.https://t.co/cOUlN1GVxC
GET REKT. "New research by a team at Pennsylvania State University suggests that microbes in the human gut could be harnessed to block absorption of toxic metals like mercury and help the body absorb useful nutritional ones"https://t.co/sAuq7aPrM4https://t.co/d1VnAdUM94
"How Mercury Is Used in Gold Mining First, mercury is mixed with the materials containing gold. A mercury-gold amalgam then is formed because gold will dissolve in the mercury while other impurities will not." https://t.co/bc5dDFsiQDhttps://t.co/05sSi8QgzN
Bacteria make vitamins. What do bacteria make out of gold?https://t.co/SLbwYHqLyu
ah ye(s), stronger.Ought to be able to => a reference to one of my favorite mashups.https://t.co/ID1x5BYqEj
I'm trippinhttps://t.co/78Zqil2j6r
https://t.co/OJ5P3kC6eIhttps://t.co/RitzYbWLJvhttps://t.co/3z5V59ZxVgI understand now.
"More than ever, hour after hourWork is never overWork it harder, make it betterDo it faster, makes us strongerMore than ever, hour after hourWork is never over" 🎶https://t.co/hOEld2Worxhttps://t.co/vv0RbJmg21