kontextmaschine

So when ScottStarCodex came through Portland I went to the meetup and he told me I was one of the only ones he could picture doing the “build a following” thing too, and I still had the anxiety then so I took it as flattery but now, yeah

anime–irl:

anime_irl

Just heard One Headlight for the first time in decades

Yeah that was def. Bob Dylan’s Gen X son, huh?

Dat short-cropped black-dyed-bright-blonde curly hair and chinstrap that only ever means “bisexual”

Oh god, I just realized that means I can pitch myself to him and the trailing girl as a unicorn

lumpytouch:

I made a fake mobile game ad!

micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

Looking through a great big pile of shit I found this ticket to a Michigan football game I went to 15 years ago that also doubles as a David Terrell trading card for some reason

$55 for a ticket for a 10 year old for an amateur sports game is pretty ridiculous but I’m pretty sure the ticket was free because my dad’s best friend is Doug Karsch

The only NFL game I’ve ever seen live was Super Bowl XXX (Cowboys-Steelers at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, January 1996) because my uncle was an executive with Aramark

femmenietzsche:

With the ongoing decline of nunneries quasi-erotic dreams about Jesus are probably at a 1500 year low

kontextmaschine:

So as the new bar nearest me has been ramping up it’s now full of 40something greyingbeards on dates with 20somethings, so I’m good

And it definitely matters if the bar staff recognizes the 40something or the 20something as a regular

So as the new bar nearest me has been ramping up it’s now full of 40something greyingbeards on dates with 20somethings, so I’m good

vriskakinnieaynrand:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

So anyway, my sense now (since Covid went “long” in my brain, destroyed my personality, and left me to form a new one, from perspective of which I realized the old one had been well-“masked” autistic) is that autism is a matter of the personality constructing itself such that it has no role for pre-rational, pre-human “animal instinct”, and thus must do everything (including further self-construction) by conscious logic alone

(Like, I don’t know how social species without language would organize themselves if they couldn’t parse each others’ feelings directly, and we come from a long line of such species)

This also means that autism and sexuality (the old personality was heterosexual, this one’s bi) aren’t set at birth (and thus conceivably might be externally influencable), but are set prerationally and aren’t consciously (or possibly at all) changeable within an established personality

Also another insight I’ve picked up is the reason for all the transbians and manly-men late-life transitioners and yaoi fujoshi turned trans men is it’s absolutely a Kinsey 0 thing, it’s not so much autogyne/androphilia as a fetish as you only see value in the opposite from your birth sex yet you want to see value in yourself

Since I’ve been bi I’ve absolutely had “gender euphoria” about inhabiting a male body like I didn’t before, and it makes me realize this is what I wanted identifying as a girl (a lesbian, even!) in adolescence in the 90s. If there was some treatment available that made you bi honestly I’d recommend that over gender transition but there isn’t.

if value is downstream of sexual desire, where do straight trans people fit into this?

Yeah I don’t know. The old gatekeeping idea of “gender dysphoria” (as compared to modern “eh, but I’d really rather be X”) and sissy gay boys adopting a female identity might be something else marching under the same banner.

I was very into “psychonaut” psychedelics-(“entheogens”, even!)-to-understand-or-change yourself stuff since late adolescence, I don’t think it ever cleared out the autism but it helped me learn the ropes at the meta- level such that I immediately appreciated it and could work with it when it did clear

So something to appreciate is basically every native cuisine or really culture bordering the Indian Ocean since the 16th century is actually Portuguese fusion

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

prudencepaccard:

kontextmaschine:

slartibartfastibast:

kontextmaschine:

No. Immortality has been “just a few improvements on the current state of the art” away for approximately ever.

Don’t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clichéd little hearts.

Yeah the funny thing is how the “state of the art” consistently refers to whatever field’s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.

It’s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it’s biotech because of course it is.

In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.

“In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography” holy shit this is 100% right

This post was one of the ones that “made me” early on

Incredibly stupid to equate biotech with any of these other things but go off I guess.

the current thing is different, you see

Kontext, you’re an idiot. An entertaining one! But you are a clown and nothing you say is worth taking seriously.

“How on earth could the field working on developing a mechanistic understanding of biological systems be different in it’s contribution to how we manipulate those systems than fucking alchemy”

If humanity does make meaningful advances in extending the human lifespan beyond where it is currently, it will absolutely be attributable to advances in medicine, biotechnology, and molecular biology.

Establishing your prior from base rates is important, but you do then have to actually look beyond the base rates.

Like, I assure you, alchemy, 19th century electricity, post-war physics and computronics were all master life sciences of their day, understood as the keys to understanding life, and our world and lives today heavily rely on insights and innovations derived from all of them.

And yet.

You’re just an idiot

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

prudencepaccard:

kontextmaschine:

slartibartfastibast:

kontextmaschine:

No. Immortality has been “just a few improvements on the current state of the art” away for approximately ever.

Don’t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clichéd little hearts.

Yeah the funny thing is how the “state of the art” consistently refers to whatever field’s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.

It’s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it’s biotech because of course it is.

In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.

“In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography” holy shit this is 100% right

This post was one of the ones that “made me” early on

Incredibly stupid to equate biotech with any of these other things but go off I guess.

the current thing is different, you see

Kontext, you’re an idiot. An entertaining one! But you are a clown and nothing you say is worth taking seriously.

“How on earth could the field working on developing a mechanistic understanding of biological systems be different in it’s contribution to how we manipulate those systems than fucking alchemy”

If humanity does make meaningful advances in extending the human lifespan beyond where it is currently, it will absolutely be attributable to advances in medicine, biotechnology, and molecular biology.

Establishing your prior from base rates is important, but you do then have to actually look beyond the base rates.

Like, I assure you, alchemy, 19th century electricity, post-war physics and computronics were all master life sciences of their day, understood as the keys to understanding life, and our world and lives today heavily rely on insights and innovations derived from all of them.

And yet.

binary-bluejay:

kontextmaschine:

prudencepaccard:

kontextmaschine:

slartibartfastibast:

kontextmaschine:

No. Immortality has been “just a few improvements on the current state of the art” away for approximately ever.

Don’t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clichéd little hearts.

Yeah the funny thing is how the “state of the art” consistently refers to whatever field’s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.

It’s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it’s biotech because of course it is.

In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.

“In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography” holy shit this is 100% right

This post was one of the ones that “made me” early on

Incredibly stupid to equate biotech with any of these other things but go off I guess.

the current thing is different, you see

kontextmaschine:

prudencepaccard:

kontextmaschine:

slartibartfastibast:

kontextmaschine:

No. Immortality has been “just a few improvements on the current state of the art” away for approximately ever.

Don’t tell the most recent immortality cult about this. It would break their clichéd little hearts.

Yeah the funny thing is how the “state of the art” consistently refers to whatever field’s particularly prominent and cutting-edge at the time.

It’s been alchemy in medieval Europe and ancient China, electricity in Revolutionary France, extremely low-temperature liquid circulation in the rocket age, data storage in the computer age, now it’s biotech because of course it is.

In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography.

“In 16th Century Spain with the whole Fountain of Life thing it was fucking western hemisphere cartography” holy shit this is 100% right

This post was one of the ones that “made me” early on

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

So anyway, my sense now (since Covid went “long” in my brain, destroyed my personality, and left me to form a new one, from perspective of which I realized the old one had been well-“masked” autistic) is that autism is a matter of the personality constructing itself such that it has no role for pre-rational, pre-human “animal instinct”, and thus must do everything (including further self-construction) by conscious logic alone

(Like, I don’t know how social species without language would organize themselves if they couldn’t parse each others’ feelings directly, and we come from a long line of such species)

This also means that autism and sexuality (the old personality was heterosexual, this one’s bi) aren’t set at birth (and thus conceivably might be externally influencable), but are set prerationally and aren’t consciously (or possibly at all) changeable within an established personality

Also another insight I’ve picked up is the reason for all the transbians and manly-men late-life transitioners and yaoi fujoshi turned trans men is it’s absolutely a Kinsey 0 thing, it’s not so much autogyne/androphilia as a fetish as you only see value in the opposite from your birth sex yet you want to see value in yourself

Since I’ve been bi I’ve absolutely had “gender euphoria” about inhabiting a male body like I didn’t before, and it makes me realize this is what I wanted identifying as a girl (a lesbian, even!) in adolescence in the 90s. If there was some treatment available that made you bi honestly I’d recommend that over gender transition but there isn’t.

roach-works:

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

funniest thing about the mean sims glitch is that all my mean evil jackass sims love to dish it out but they canNOT take it. they wake up in the morning like “god I can’t wait to hurt someone’s feelings” but the moment someone mocks their outfit—which is constantly, because the glitch compels nice sims to be evil—they run back to bed to have a cry about it and develop anxiety disorders. REAL. digital hellscape.

that’s just real life

bespeckledbauble:

had a couple friends question why I won’t make an insta or twitter or tiktok and I wanted to say something semi intelligent about the unique culture and user interaction of this hellsite and unfortunately every salient point went through the car wash of my brain and it came out like

amazoogle:

Have and Have Not (2006)
Crystal Schenk