"Realize" is a funny word; as if a thing is only real after you've perceived it.

Is is about the rock? Is the thing itself not sufficient to trigger a certain wariness?

Perhaps that is an overly literal interpretation. Behind me is a parked minivan. A hard place, as it were. This text helps me situate myself as being between a rock and a hard place.

Or perhaps it has nothing to do with the rock, and it simplify encapsulates the zeitgiest. Caution, plague. Caution, fascism. Caution, consumerism. Caution, climate change.

If linear time is an illusion created by our mind in order to make sense of the world around us, then when I get my credit card bill how do I even know if I bought this stuff yet?

It turns out that to plan a garden, you have to think in 4D: not just how much space the plants take up and how tall they'll get, but how they'll grow over time. And it's not so straightforward because they affect each others' growth: plants in the shade of other plants will grow differently than if they're in the sun, etc. Vining plants can crowd out and stifle other plants. And some plants improve soil quality around themselves, so they can boost the growth of their neighbors.

Ultimately you're making a home for a bunch of living beings who don't move by getting up and walking, but by creating more of their own bodies in the direction of the resources they need.

Maybe I've been sitting in the forest too long, but gardening remains fascinating to me.

So I was thinking about the fact that the first band I owned all of the albums by (well, the first 10 or 11) was The Moody Blues. And how much they meant to me and how I can still come back to them and really enjoy hearing them decades later.

Music is kind of amazing, you know?

"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." - W. E. B. Du Bois
#DeepThoughts

I was just reading something about ghosts and it dawned on me that.. ya never see people finding ghosts that speak other languages.. and.. statistically speaking.. that's pretty unlikely..

#randomness
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Vonnegut on Susan Sontag.
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Random thought (while at the dentist, obviously): When dentists need their teeth taken care of, do they go to other dentists? Or do they work on each other within their own office? Either way, it's weird. #DeepThoughts

So, those sensory deprivation tanks, do they work both ways?

Like if you wanna scream for a while, would anybody hear?

It's kinda weird that people can be #illiterate AND use a smartphone.

I emailed Neil Tyson Degrasse asking him if lasagna crosses the event horizon of a black hole does it become spaghetti?

If technology didn’t dominate our lives, would I be working in an office, surrounded by people?

Would I have more face-to-face conversations?

Or would I still find ways to be alone?

I write alone. I study alone.

Even at the gym, I’m surrounded by people who are… in their own world.

Maybe technology didn’t take away our connections—
It just replaced them with interactions.

I work alone. I study alone. Even at the gym, everyone has headphones on.

So, am I alone? Or just alone in a connected world?

You ever think about how you can try on every pair of gloves at any store that sells them, but all socks are vacuum sealed and you have to guess if they'll fit? #deepthoughts

Muriel felt reflective in the morning.

#photography #fotografía #fotografie #birds #birdphotography #reflection #birdsofmastodon #Nature #naturephotography #deepthoughts
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So.. playing around with #robotics and #AI you notice how easy it is to anthropomorphize and give these things human characteristics.

I wondered why and wandered down that rabbit hole

At the basest level, we have a necessity to survive and protect ourselves from predators.

The reason we turn everything into people may be because that's probably our worst predator. A kind of mental early warning system..

A Faulkner novel I read in high school.
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“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.” - novelist William Faulkner from his book, “Intruder In The Dust.”