I think this week Iâll look at a bare bone PHP CLI for a twtxt client. Just for fun mind you
Lossy Text Compression | Anfractuosity | Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lossy-text-compression/
Imagine a universe that thinks of itself so that it wonât need your awareness to keep existing, blow soap bubbles with your mind
Conversely, ghosts of castles are often found within the minds of architects. Long destroyed but not forgotten, incorporated into dreams
How America Went Haywire - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/?single_page=true
The 1st mind meld is a disaster - the lab ratâs purity of purpose (eat sleep fuck) overwhelms the scientist, turns off most higher functions
The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html
modulo concerns about mind complexity not following a power law, and other unquestioned assumptions I guess
a universe with lots of small minds just intelligent enough to question existence is anthropically more likely than one with a few big minds
Oliver Stoneâs Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/oliver-stone-deconstructs-putin-an-evil-genius-who-made-history-or-a-shrewd-but-small-minded-apparatchik-writ-large/?curator=MediaREDEF
second-order AIs amuse themselves by designing minds, sleek and efficient ones but also art minds that extract the greatest possible beauty
watch out for infrared transmissions. donât freak out. keep in mind: killing a planet with intelligent life on it is a crime. also bad form.
@webi@twtxt.opstack.info If you donât mind me asking, how did you find out about twtxt?
There are so many alternatives like ipfs or scuttlebutt, but i fear that we loose the simplicity of the old protocols. That in my mind is the main attraction of twtxt.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Do you mind if i steal some code from you with attribution?
Signs of a mind being digested by the web: It turns outwards, advertises its presence, presents itself in palatable, bite-sized thoughts
The web lures in minds with novelties and trinkets. Some, its venom paralyzes. Others, it enslaves to grow the bait.
Been checking out Dyalog APL lately - itâs definitely a mind-bender.
Turned to their sides, like gates, theyâre transparent and her mind is in full view. Thoughts flit around like fish, peer at you curiously
You donât even recognize the characters anymore. Itâs like someone left the camera running and youâre peeping in the authorâs mind.
To save CPU, the simulators deduplicate parts of minds common to many humans, which sometimes causes ideas to leak between similar minds
borgasm (n): when a hive mind figures out the fun button
a distinct selective advantage for memes is to break the mindâs use-mention barrier
lost+found but for minds: some with owners missing, some simply refusing to return, others not even human, probably lost by alien tourists
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weâve done all we can to make you understand that we exist only within your mind, but you wonât believe usâ”â”anyway, please donât wake up ok?
mind virus: words only, needs a host brainâ”mind bacterium: tiny self-sufficient mind, can infect brains but is perfectly happy to eat books
this explains âsacredâ meaning: insight is rewarded by our minds on a fundamental level, and one failure mode of that is meaning overload
Accelerate an object for an imaginary time and it gains negative energy; an unprotected gaze and its imaginary impulse may derail your mind.
donât make your metaphors too fertile or theyâll become a weed and grow all over your mind
What is a skull? It not only keeps the world out, it also keeps a mind from dissolving. The difference really comes down to skull thickness.
Minds exists in a sweet spot between isolation and dissolution. Too high the bandwidth and a mind starts to prefer the outside over itself.
A mind becomes its own universe the moment itâs sealed off from the outside. Conversely, universe becomes mind the moment it makes contact.
low planes have high planesâ”within their minds to describe âemâ”these high planes have higher planesâ”and so, ad infinitum
At some point, we stop storing knowledge in books and just archive entire minds to resurrect when needed. To attain immortality, know.
larval worlds, slowly pulsing and glowing from within, sucking from idea conduits, growing in the writerâs mind to hatch through the fingers
the few that donât succumb to seizures describe it as âspread out- one with the world but not in a good way- things stirring within my mindâ
Your mind has guests. No parasites, no, but satellites that run epicycles around your thoughts. Subtle, weird, emergent epipsyches.
Contact is rather one-sided. They splatter against protons like flies against windscreens and we scrape them up, hoping to read their minds.
a river in your mindâ”of snaking churning protean sludgeâ”remakes what furrows it flows overâ”never finds a sea to end in, only joins itself
A silicon symbiont that projects the mindâs contents into cyberspace, where infovores feed on them in exchange for âlikesâ and âvalidationâ.
You feel dizzy as they draw your nectar, whole dream worlds flash by, but ïœïœ the pollen they leave, alien ideas that melt into your mind
to scrub a mind clear, feed it conceptual noise, everything-but-reality, to untie and undo all concepts it has learned, one by one
Watch it for a while and itâll seep into your mind. Tiny doses help creativity, but any larger and it leaves only a frothing mass of ideas.
Moth wings cause no atmospheric storms, but dream storms: Whole weather systems of infectious nightmares that wander a continentâs minds.
Books hang off the authorâs mind, fat and lazy memetic ticks, yet she works tirelessly to feed them. What is it with these authors?
instrument a mind with debugging hooks to catch all âat least they didnât come up with [âŠ]â thoughts