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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Sometimes I like to convince myself that my unfunny tweets are really just too highbrow for other people to find them amusing.

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5/16/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

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When only a few like my tweets I assume that they are the smart ones. TL;DR: @leashless_bot is a genius.https://t.co/54ZqQtxfgQ

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Sometimes I like to convince myself that my unfunny tweets are really just too highbrow for other people to find them amusing.

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5/16/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

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My best blab was titled "[the sound of economies crashing]",changed from "I'm signalling so hard right now."A joke in here somewhere...

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5/22/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

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Oh right, I started talking about how bacterial colonies could perhaps form social groups by using their feces as signaling mechanisms.

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5/22/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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"the distinction between anger and disgust and between surprise and fear, is socially, not biologically based." https://t.co/HzXPgHaSyi

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Poop and eusociallity:https://t.co/BXo10X7Uxy https://t.co/NV63W7xZ1I

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Waste products as origin of cell communication?https://t.co/b41iGXRtNh https://t.co/MlIp51RPdQ

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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You should read "What is Life" by Erwin Schrödinger...then read "Schrödinger’s Cat" by RA Wilson...It's profound: https://t.co/r05DE0CjIA

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Followed by https://t.co/CKihVmEah9 And @sarahdoingthing's works on @ribbonfarmLife: signaling all the way down.https://t.co/5Ovbc5hz9I

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

You should read "What is Life" by Erwin Schrödinger...then read "Schrödinger’s Cat" by RA Wilson...It's profound: https://t.co/r05DE0CjIA

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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What do these things have in common? Another Wilson wrote a book on Sociobiology, he likes ants. I also like ants...https://t.co/bqmCUIAfaP

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Ants react to gradients in the environment to form dynamic structures while seeking resources... just like cells do: https://t.co/XTIvbqyf5h

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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You should probably start with E.O. Wilson's book too, if you like ants...https://t.co/jo5ksz8Mhm

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

Watch E.O. Wilson explain the meaning of human existence, in 6 minutes http://t.co/7Z26Hmhpan via @grist

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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These are quotes from his interview: https://t.co/NmrUWAFbY4The books are better. https://t.co/OUbZ3XAMX5

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7/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Oh hey, @sarahdoingthing summarized her work: "The Systems of the World" https://t.co/B20qoGY6HG

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7/9/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Life poops out more life thru a complex mechanical work cycles.https://t.co/GfmBWfXdyN https://t.co/SKzerhVryc

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8/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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TL;DR: want to know more about the nature of living systems? Study ant poop.https://t.co/XzXJYAkDDF

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8/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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"A kind of programming is occurring here, a complex tree of if-then statements abstracted into shape." https://t.co/NpQiXYPMMM

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8/9/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Living systems seem best described by how they handle waste. An ecosystem is a basically a poop-cycle. https://t.co/Pd4wDpX2MJ

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Colon: A tube to make poopColony: A group of said tubesColonize: To make safe for deuterostomes to poophttps://t.co/HXIy0zfy8R @hankgreen

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9/18/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Humans use words to direct poop. Cities with the best poop tunnels grow bigger. https://t.co/I8Y4yy0sYI

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

"You can’t poop on the sidewalk." https://t.co/UHYVCvCOTC

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9/18/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"... reacted to parasites with overwhelming revulsion, wiring the brain for morals, manners, politics and laws"https://t.co/2P1fa6aG1u

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9/19/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Creating & sharing theories is how the hivemind 'thinks'. Fights / shitting on each other is how we encode utility? https://t.co/qJqRmVr8uR

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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We decide on the veracity of the story in the same way that neuron's which fire together encode meaning.https://t.co/6aiQxCACYi

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

@pmarca This random thing seems to match my pattern of this other random thing I hate. They must be in league. http://t.co/AJnxrPQ7rL

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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We use shame, angry faces, and slurs as ways of enforcing group normativity. The same way brain cells use chemicals.https://t.co/wHulqlPTuJ

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

Monkey see, Monkey do: Shame as a social contagion indirectly used to enforce group norms and create social cohesion. Part of a spectrum?

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Social contagion of ideas; stories encode temporality and cause/effect. Same way brains figure out muscles?https://t.co/Pxktzlr7sP

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

“Humans are storytelling monkeys trying to control each other with emotion-activating mind-viruses.” — @naval https://t.co/Bac8BJGXra

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Perhaps. This is a deep metaphor.https://t.co/9qFnC1sn4d

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Human swarms as a Bayesian collective sampling the environment? #Beehiveiorism https://t.co/YfA0CrTaOC

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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We need to reduce negative effects of these idea-wars on the host, while still maintaining the utility and function.https://t.co/IChuNiMEmu

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

1800s analogue society: people publicly shamed for minor slights, and fights broke out over a woman's honor.https://t.co/YDn4wiw35d https://t.co/aYcxyd6B4p

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Strong views, weakly held? Dopamine: a neurotoxin we are constantly metabolizing. Vital to function, but slow death.https://t.co/mpPKDQQkLr

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Robert Anton Wilson, on John von Neumann's invention of "maybe logic".Was RAW's absurdity simply utility functions?https://t.co/ARXBRAb9Px

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10/8/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"strategy was to familiarize himself w/ those formal patterns in order to be able to see connections and analogies"https://t.co/mgzIjO7k6A

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10/8/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"we're always creating meaning, investing & divesting an endless parade of objects and symbols with a significance…" https://t.co/YfcaYyYCRX

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

~A🐜E🐜S🐜T🐜H🐜E🐜T🐜I🐜C~https://t.co/NTJ4jfWbGx

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10/8/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Social systems, when viewed thru the lense of (ant) colony level homeostasis, leads me to toilets & goat sheds:https://t.co/mAG6z4wsQU

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11/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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The outgroup's shit is more disgusting?"Not only that, but they were ingesting their neighbors' shit. That's what really made them change…"

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11/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Found a shitpost that didn't make it in to this thread:https://t.co/YP6cSLYGrE

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

mutation : shitposting, clickbaiting, & insight pornmeme flow : cultural appropriationmemetic drift : schoolnatural selection: dank memes

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11/15/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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This entire thread is full-of-shit. So is this one:https://t.co/zR0fDW0P6w

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Some futurists are prolific feculent prognosticators. But even w/ predictions full of shit, there's utility in signal boosting the weird. <3

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11/15/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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If I were to sum up my shitpost-as-collective-cognition theory in a nutshell:https://t.co/VQq9pbsaM0

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11/15/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Here's I explore the nature of shit-posting; Literally shitposts & sometimes figuratively literature on shitposting: https://t.co/EIFQITDFue

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Trophallaxis + Cacophagy =>Ant-puke-networks + Poop =>Poop Residue Networks + Stigmergy =>Evaporative Memory + Signaling Networks + Time.

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11/15/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Many shitposts / puns / poetry & related rituals seems like ways to map epistemic territory by playing w/ words. https://t.co/eqNdD05mQV

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Word pollution:Dungian Shadow.Magical Contamination.ShitPosting.PoopCycle.Deep Metaphor.https://t.co/6Gqa6rK2iL

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11/15/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Of ants and men:https://t.co/rAA6CGw2YG

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 10 years ago

"Dive into the remarkable life and groundbreaking work of biologist E.O. Wilson." http://t.co/Bn826hc9FGvia /r/ants/

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12/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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In which The Pope talks of fake news in context of coprophagia and cacophagy. Pontification on eating shitposts? https://t.co/6oTdSlBlkY

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12/11/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"… grasp their own feces, chew them and eat them often with great pleasure and satisfaction (coprophagia)"https://t.co/bWW0oWQ68e https://t.co/k6SRZDvVai

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12/11/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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fake news => bear false witness => "preposterous & malicious falsehood" => talking shit => shitpost => coprophagia?https://t.co/VBXARWNCgI

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12/11/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Shibboleths in language seem to spread primary thru utility of identity signaling.https://t.co/AQYQf0xeYr

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12/12/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Gossip, talking shit, & usage of phrases that spread rapidly thru culture seem something we're keenly receptive to?https://t.co/LjACM5rI8S

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12/12/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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We all roughly use the same underlying primitives to learn & harness language, yet we differentiate between groups.https://t.co/PcJaG4dC4O

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12/12/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Scenting"Most mammals mark their territories with excretions. Humans mark their territories with ink excretions on paper" – @fortelabs

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12/12/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Building complex narrative castles out of shitposts, one brick at a time.https://t.co/WvHnSi6sAQ

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Humans share beliefs to update priors?"Exploring the Cultural Ratchet throughFunction Learning" https://t.co/WiUWR2ZlAS#beehiveiorism https://t.co/oVLOw89uTt

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12/13/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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No, not castles, entire kingdoms, built upon layers of waste. https://t.co/QiuHCvCZ0J

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

"We thought that there might be storage space for food or a stable beneath the house. But had no idea that it..." https://t.co/E1Zg1dvY7k https://t.co/NEuE8fLXjT

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12/13/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Emotions spread faster than memes."The role of emotion as a source of bounded rationality has been largely ignored"https://t.co/AAXEu3TMgA https://t.co/dkj9G0oPMd

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1/20/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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This shit is banana's. Poop tunnels and politics. https://t.co/xhffq8H3t2

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1/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"you've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children"https://t.co/mAG6z4wsQU

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1/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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There are two things you can do to kill a living organism: disrupt their food growing systems, or disrupt their poop recycling systems. 💩🐜

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1/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Politics from nothing: More poop per sq. ft. = more (taxable) value generation. Balancing "Ant Puke/Poop Networks".https://t.co/lLBosP4PeO https://t.co/k1sQV1rW8q

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1/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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My fellow ingroup, ask not what your narrative can do for you, ask what you can do for your narrative.https://t.co/lAkQaX944u HT @DavidBrin https://t.co/jgv24HOSIn

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3/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"Minimal Group Paradigm" model suggests ingroup and outgroup identity basically follows process of autopoiesis. Why?

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3/6/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Autopoiesis - the act of 'othering'. Drawing lines in the sand and defining meme boundaries. "One of us" -> Hazing? https://t.co/2JqTLQN08x https://t.co/7we5dzLBsM

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3/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Ingroup jokes for the ingroup goddess. Signals for the signal banana.

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3/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Ingroup codes for the ingroup goddess. Pooping on the outgroup. Attraction and repulsion. Polar Autopoiesis.https://t.co/cwnuXa3AtG

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Its interesting how differentiation between cells in your body and groups (cells?) of people happen based on "code".https://t.co/hr7hwvuUSQ

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3/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Idea poetry, bouncing around in embodied minds - forming the shape of network. Self organizing. Reifying culture.https://t.co/9KgFtoAbYY

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Cellular biologic consists of autopoietic systems.Human biologic consists of auto-poetic systems.https://t.co/eZ6S59OcX1

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3/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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This thread is now about how self-forming poop tunnels spread politic to form brain boundaries and divide people. https://t.co/9nTfyfOLlU

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Oh right, I started talking about how bacterial colonies could perhaps form social groups by using their feces as signaling mechanisms.

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3/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I explore a bit more here:“Auto-poetic Games: [Us] Versus [Them]” https://t.co/BU1TnDXjeh https://t.co/kegCrKTiBo

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3/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I need to update my old writing in terms of viruses / infections of networks / disgust processing. https://t.co/eFwl28e8Fx

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3/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Memetics is now "study of poop loop signaling mechanisms and meta-evolution of localized situational strategies".https://t.co/NMJ6QwtRtF

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

"Cooperation and cheating are behavioral options for all social species, even bacteria" https://t.co/8D91th1TYZ https://t.co/PbgLU5oGZM

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3/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"...Why humans spread [poop/politics/memes]"https://t.co/Fax8MskvUb

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Toxic emergent patterns are encoded into biology—mass-scale interactions follow absolute laws, like molecules—this is why humans spread. https://t.co/AK1b6r74LH

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3/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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The blind scientists mapping the elephant; except scientists are ants, and the elephant is their territory: They are foraging for food.

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Endozoochory: when a plant's surrogate mother uses poop for their seedling progeny.ref https://t.co/HcYwLOEapn andhttps://t.co/lAyr5Qsggx

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3/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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People: "whoa, marsupials are so weird?!"Nature: *sees how impressed everyone is*Nature: Dung Beetles do that for trees via elephant poop.

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3/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I'm starting to think that insexts are much better understood as external sex organs for plants.https://t.co/7gzOBLZuw1

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

.@MADinMelbourne I don't know. Bees are basically just flying sex toys for plants. I'd rather be the plant. https://t.co/fLfCunhGkO

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3/31/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"There are people in other countries who are starving due to their politics, so stop complaining and eat it." https://t.co/Rl5s4czMZE

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5/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"What do they want from meWhat'll they do to me?There's no escape for meI'm crawling with… microscopic bacteria"https://t.co/SboOBNiYLq

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6/30/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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I joke about poop a lot. But its meant to have you think about humans in a holistic sense. Shit matters.https://t.co/dfUT29piUS

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Did you know if you wanna buy land in Vermont, you have to have a permit to build a compostable toilet? Or pay $$$https://t.co/kPbE4LQe1y

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"It is unsanitary and illegal in most places in the USA to defecate into holes in the ground."https://t.co/JwpjGCBsG6

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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The slow march of progress."The technology, simple as it is, is unlikely to become widespread."https://t.co/CU5kXwzFFd

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Issues with sewage drainage at a rest stop in VT lead to 6.3 million dollar waste recycling system. "Living Machine"https://t.co/A9HNUlrfhd

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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I wasn't a fan of my HS's science program, but I fondly remember our attempt at a "Living Machine" back in 2002https://t.co/V1bOfdCPPL

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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I've also seen first hand the results of someone's septic over-running and destroying downstream potability. Sucks.https://t.co/gmXNYXqKRo

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Industrial waste in Vermont is 90% cow shit (sulfates) - but much of the industry's leakage into water gets a pass.https://t.co/dBfg5cqL9C

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Humans use words to direct poop. Cities with the best poop tunnels grow bigger. https://t.co/I8Y4yy0sYI

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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All those "free range cows" are putting too much biological load on our streams. Take care of your shit.https://t.co/ou78IZWdgH https://t.co/rpaTUXcNES

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7/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Why do we *only* focus on C02 when talking about pollution... It's like a political fetish?https://t.co/0UfkyZtVgy

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7/8/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Theory: politics about climate change are merely layers of abstractions being applied to cow shit, farts, and burps.https://t.co/JnRUy0kClZ

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Natural gas, the energy source we've been flocking to, is just swapping one demon for another. Myopic fads SMH.https://t.co/v2qMoyJVVB

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7/10/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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People playing "pass the buck"; blaming other industries for climate change. Apes throwing shit over the wall.https://t.co/5Ovbc5hz9I

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

You should read "What is Life" by Erwin Schrödinger...then read "Schrödinger’s Cat" by RA Wilson...It's profound: https://t.co/r05DE0CjIA

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7/10/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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- Silos lead to poor cooperation in complex systems of politics.- Silos of silage transform in to silos of sewage.∴ Politics is cow shit.

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7/10/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Political asphyxiation: death by political externalities.https://t.co/eGsfxnpGEi

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Death by cow farts.

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7/10/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Ever wonder why is everything grown in California?Regular sun, cheap labor, low cost shipping networks.https://t.co/2sSb9QsWQu https://t.co/H20dMtNgKe

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8/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Personally I'd prefer to skip the whole thing and go with this technique:https://t.co/6oKApE8juQ

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8/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Or somehow get automation scaled down to something that can be done for those smaller farms in a practical way.https://t.co/wyOU7o7fb1

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8/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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It's a race!https://t.co/uAZkjwuqP5

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8/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Is this... uh... funny because it's true?https://t.co/KSZS0f8VR0 https://t.co/JwTOnRT93B

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8/30/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"see them both as part of something bigger and therefore can synthesise them into a new concept." (h/t @KikiSchirr)https://t.co/8EgndcoDi4 https://t.co/4VJYwpHLUk

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9/2/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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The eternal conflict: how to deal w/ other people's (bull)shit at scale.Sociopolitical Dynamics on @ComplexityAdmyhttps://t.co/zjGcdWz7RJ https://t.co/mE8BLyG0Cy

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9/2/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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JERF they exclaim! While stuffing their gobs w/ domesticated vegetables & tamed chicken meat; contributing to runoffhttps://t.co/IqvaDyPjOc

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9/10/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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The good news: Vermont technically no longer needs to kill all the crows anymore because we don't grow as much corn.https://t.co/fZTTPVwBtQ

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9/16/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"But corn—with all the fertilizers and pesticides it takes to produce—is an exceptional burden on waterways."https://t.co/5cJyeUut9O https://t.co/bXCVSH8QM7

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9/16/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"Cyanobacteria [...] toxins that cause asthma-like symptoms, severe vomiting, diarrhea, or irritated skin or eyes."https://t.co/YhUHLo8b2u https://t.co/77hqSezTg5

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9/16/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Death by cow shit.https://t.co/0FQo2lO5AR https://t.co/zwyCPFvCl6

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9/16/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Norms & behavior change are hard won, even for stuff like toilets.Little success if there is no community buy in. https://t.co/HnJfi1UDA0 https://t.co/NPExxZiIQT

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9/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Not many people realize the scale of change the american household went thru. Toilet paper had massive ad campaigns.https://t.co/fbz5Zct21u https://t.co/YOHoidprVO

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9/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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America has tissue issues & odd externalities.E.g. sewer "fatbergs" are symbolic of our resistance to change…https://t.co/l7NYgdizaC https://t.co/GBeDHy3Haj

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9/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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I bet people who invented toilets never thought turkey grease & flushable wet-wipes would be used to cook food 🤮https://t.co/RZjYulU92F https://t.co/LbpHTOXWpU

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9/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"one possibility is to switch to a food making system where resources get recycled rather than depleted"https://t.co/tuK2lb8pvJ https://t.co/3QCjCtNvth

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9/28/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Me right now...https://t.co/DdIDjg5hCJ (h/t @MarkProffitt ) https://t.co/YyCJXNbMGL

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11/12/2017