Only Mediocre Minds Nitpick (new article) ⌘

People of twitter all seem to do the same thing, one of them does something they all do it, like one mind between them all.

first thing that comes to mind: this can be used for ascii art.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, Dagger of the Mind https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/12/trek-dagger.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Minds https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/01/minds.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #minds

bujo : I’m getting used to it, it’s nice and clear and I love how everything I do is archived :) It helps moving forward and having a clearer mind ^^

@lucidiot@tilde.town Agreeing that BuJo kind of saved my mind too. It now takes me about three months to fill up 251 pages with tasks, notes and events.

Thanks a lot @lucidiot@tilde.town ! I’ll be sure to keep that in mind ^^

@von@tilde.town Understanding you. For me: keeping a bullet-journal on a paper notebook helped me herd my chaotic mind into manageable streams. See https://bulletjournal.com

the mind-numbing task of undoing bad C++

the best vacations are the ones in your mind

Inside the minds of Elon Musk’s fans - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-tesla-spacex-fandom

Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum – Museum Crush https://museumcrush.org/how-mescaline-made-art-in-the-1930s-at-the-bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/

GitHub - historicalsource/amfv: A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/amfv

Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018

all the jokes you remember whose origins you don’t recall were precision engineered by cosmic coincidence control for the purpose of nooforming the mankind biocomputer change my mind

Hyperloops for our minds – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2019/03/hyperloops-for-the-mind/

Band name of the day: emotion mind

Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.

Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA

Mind Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Takes

Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds

Band name of the day: mind, stamina, muscle, & feet

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

A Lever for the Mind https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind

There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/

The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem

The Coping Economy | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global mind what a close encounter does to individual minds.

Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/

Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind

‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Three Nightmares of the Inductive Mind — Glass Bead http://www.glass-bead.org/research-platform/three-nightmares-inductive-mind/?lang=enview

Shades of ‘monkey mind’: http://yokai.com/satori/

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Stuff is heavy on the mind. What is a lightweight lifestyle worth? Trash everything under this value. You can always rebuy it.

a stationary bicycle for the mind. (stationery?)

a bicycle for the mind / tanks for the memories

mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind

Slack as group mind https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

“Mind-boggling” Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons https://newatlas.com/blood-cells-transformed-neurons-stanford/54948/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part two) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/15/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-two/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part one) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/14/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-one/