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  1. Jan 2025
    1. (The Literary Digest never recovered from this methodological disaster and went out of business shortly after publishing its poll.)

      Reminds me of the Kathy Schultz video regarding being wrong: Often the public (or in the case of individuals, other people) don't allow us to be wrong without consequences.

    1. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed

      hackneyed: (of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite.

      This reminds me of political language in which we discuss many of the same subjects and stay true to opposing sides but can never create new ones to meet in the middle.

    1. I hateseeing black people take over and in my eyes ruin childhood memoriesI adore.

      This reminds me of the discourse that took place with The Little Mermaid live action movie. It is so bizarre that where people draw the line with a mythical and magical character like a mermaid is their race. It's okay if they have every magical power but being Black is just too unrealistic. This discourse is cyclical.

    2. The sexualized images of black girls often lack an element ofromance—they are fully object, desired for momentary physical satisfac-tion and hence are portrayed as raw, pure sexual energy. White girls, incontrast, are sexualized as inherently innocent (the “little girl” appeal),exploring their sexuality (as opposed to owning it) and needing the “help”of the white male to achieve knowledge of her sexuality

      There was a youtube video essay I saw recently about the exploitation of children in predetory media. It discusses movies like lolita and precious. This part of the essay reminds me of the main argument the video was making.

    3. es. Her little mouthtightens in a semblance of the “manliness” he requires of her,

      Reminds me of Amy in the passage quickly wiping her tear as she gets ready to take her photo at the police station. The strain that constantly having to switch between child and adult put on black girls is exhausting.

    4. nd never innocent but always street smart.

      Reminds me a lot of Amy from The passage. She seems to be very familiar with the foster care system as she calls out/ notices that there isn't any lady coming to pick her up—the beginning of the adultification of black children.

    5. . Historically, whitegirls in popular imagery are the desirable romantic partner, while blackgirls are rarely the desirable romantic partner. Instead, black girls are oftenpositioned as the le fruit interdit, or the exotic dark temptress, the Jezebel

      White women are seen as desirable and innocent for essentially not doing anything extraordinary while black women have to fight harder and do more to be seen as. valid love interest and not someone who you can have sex with and dispose. This reminds me of the relationship the doctor and richards have in " The Passage" They only have sex and never talk about their feelings for real and when he is intimatley sleeping next to her Richards is dreaming of the blood sucking white girl demon he created.

    6. Black children (mostlyboys) are often portrayed as unsupervised waifs, hungry, abused by theirirresponsible or addict parent, and never innocent but always street smar

      This reminds me of the viewing and characterization of Amy in the television show the passage and how her "street smarts" was brought on by the anger she had towards her drug addicted mother and the forced independence she had to take on because of her "Irresponsible" parent.

    1. Beyond the superficial, the consideredphrase, “It feels right to me,” acknowledges thestrength of the erotic into a true knowledge, forwhat that means is the first and most powerfulguiding light toward any understanding

      I like the point that Lorde makes throughout this essay about how the erotic becomes a source of strength for women when reclaimed. This reminds me as viewing the erotic as a form of resistance, as a form of power. It is taking a term one step further as to represent a internal sense of satisfaction, joy, and connection to oneself and others. To mean more than just something as simple as sex.

    1. While each family has at least one such shrine, the rituals associated with it arenot family ceremonies but are private and secret. The rites are normally onlydiscussed with children, and then only during the period when they are beinginitiated into these mysteries

      Rituals are a large part of cultural practice, and in many ceremonies, a level of secrecy is required, some to uphold traditional standards. This reminds me of Sambia, a tribe in Papa New Guinea that historically relied on the confidentiality of rituals to maintain power for men through shared knowledge.

    1. One way to begin examining any instance of disruptive behavior is to ask what is being disrupted: a pattern, a habit, a norm, a whole community?

      I find this sentence powerful because it illustrates that not all disruption is automatically negative; rather, its ethical standing depends on what system or norm you’re trying to change. If a practice is itself harmful or unjust—like a discriminatory social norm—then disrupting it may be praiseworthy. However, if you’re simply undermining a supportive community or causing chaos for personal amusement, that’s problematic. This approach encourages a deeper look at the underlying reasons for disruption before labeling the act as “trolling” or “harassment.” It reminds me that we need to evaluate the legitimacy of what’s being disrupted and the motives for doing so.

    1. The Code is designed to help social workers identify relevant considerations when professional obligations conflict or ethical uncertainties arise.

      This specific section of the NASW Code of Ethics specifically reminds me of an event at my job where a In-Community therapist (IIC) violated boundaries with a client / youth. We define youths as any of our clients under 21 years old, whom we work to monitor and adjust services per their mental and behavioral health needs. In this event, the IIC sent her husband to the shelter where the youth was to send food to the client. While this was a nice gesture, it violated the youth's HIPPA rights and crossed many personal boundaries. In this instance, I think about the professional obligations that conflicted with the IIC's personal, ethical dilemmas. When receiving the call that the youth was hungry must have risen many ethical uncertainties for this therapist/ IIC.

    1. Ādhān al-Qāḍīآذان القاضي The Judge’s Ears Scrumptiously luscious and brittle to the bite; fit for a judge indeed, who had to have good ears, large enough for attentively listening to people’s complaints. This pastry will keep its crispness even when it cools. I froze the leftovers and heated them up in the oven and they were as crisp as ever. Deliciously addictive.

      As someone with a Hispanic background, I find the description of Ādhān al-Qāḍī, or "The Judge’s Ears," to be both evocative to the average reader and relatable to myself and others who are of a similar cultural background. In addition, this recipe serves as a history lesson in showing us the impact that the invasions of the Moors of Spain for centuries had on the nation’s culinary practices. The appreciation for a pastry that is "scrumptiously luscious and brittle to the bite" speaks to a universal love for food that delights the senses. In Hispanic culture, we have our own array of pastries that carry rich flavors and textures, such as empanadas and arepas, which also offer that satisfying crunch and warmth. The imagery of the pastry being "fit for a judge" resonates with me. It reflects the importance of quality and craft in food, much like how our traditional dishes often carry the weight of cultural significance. In Hispanic communities, cooking is not just about sustenance; it’s an art form passed down through generations, much like the care taken in preparing a delicate pastry like Ādhān al-Qāḍī. The recipe’s mention of the pastry maintaining its crispness even after freezing and reheating reminds me of how many of our beloved recipes also stand the test of time. For instance, many Hispanic desserts, like flan or tres leches cake, can be enjoyed days later without losing their charm. This speaks to the craftsmanship involved in creating foods that are meant to be savored repeatedly. Moreover, the notion of a pastry being "deliciously addictive" is something I can wholeheartedly agree with. In Hispanic culture, gatherings often revolve around food, and the irresistible nature of treats encourages sharing and connection among family and friends. It’s fascinating how something as simple as a pastry can evoke such depth and history, bridging cultural divides and celebrating the joy that food brings to our lives. Your description inspires me to seek out this pastry and explore its flavors, reminding me of the beauty found in diverse culinary traditions.

    1. The instrument of labour strikes down the labourer. This direct antagonismbetween the two comes out most strongly, whenever newly introducedmachinery competes with handicrafts or manufactures, handed downfrom former times. But even in Modern Industry the continual improve-ment of machinery, and the development of the automatic system, has ananalogous effect.

      This reminds me of modern debates about AI replacing jobs in industries like customer service, content creation, etc.

    1. Disruption and provoking reaction

      This reminds me of a new kind of trolling in a Chinese video platform, since it is a socialize platform, there are a lot of bots that comments under some video or posts those praises a company's product, such as a type of phone, and say that the product sucks, some add some comment about another product and tell how well it is (commonly praise those who paid for it to do so). Sometimes it is just an unwise human doing so. Here is where trolling plays a role. Some people post a fake post that is usually wrong in a very obvious way that human can tell in just a glance. But the bots can't identify that so it will comment and do its job under that trolling tab. People usually do that for fun as far as I concern.

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    1. Today images, symbols, graphs, diagrams, artifacts, andmany other visual symbols are particularly significant. Thus, the idea of dif-ferent types of “visual literacy” would seem to be an important one.

      This reminds me of the take that emojis are (on a super basic level) reinventing heiroglyphics as a way to communicate via symbols. So in that respect--this reliance on visual literacy has ALWAYS been a way for us to communicate, we simply lean into more or less depending on the era and culture

    1. some misuses of crime statistics are relatively innocent, and others are downright deceitful and disgusting.

      I can see through these examples that crime measurements are sort of used for people sick reasons, specifically the last example. It reminds me in my old small town how a group of firefighter had this argument that crime in out town was raising because of a rise of Mexican descending people were moving to our town. It was this whole debate but luckily nothing ever came about it, but they tried to argue that they were all criminals and should leave.

    1. However, most societies do not value creative thinking and so our skills in generating ideas rapidly atrophies, as we do not practice it, and instead actively learn to suppress it

      I think this point was pretty interesting. This reminds me of how in class, we talked about how when brainstorming ideas, we need to unfilter out our ideas and let them flow out, because if we filter out our ideas, we may lose out on interesting ideas that can contribute to the bigger picture of how we want the project to look like. Plus, taking a little bit and looking back at the idea later can also add interesting insights that make it useful as opposed to just saying it's a dumb idea and forgetting about it.

    1. If you wanted to make a profile to talk about yourself, or to show off your work, you had to create your own personal webpage, which others could visit.

      This reminds me of the stories my mother would tell me about the internet before it evolved. She described a time when the online world was less structured, often experimental, and far removed from the interconnected digital landscape we know today. Those earlier experiences reflect a simpler, more exploratory phase of online communication.

    2. If you wanted to make a profile to talk about yourself, or to show off your work, you had to create your own personal webpage, which others could visit.

      This kind of reminds me of the way my sisters (those born in the 1990s) used to social interact online. I remember seeing them posting or journeying on their own web page, it's called QQ Space. This was the most common platform people used to social online.

    1. In 2015 a campaign was mounted in South Africa for the statueof Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town to be removed.

      Reminds me of slavers' statues taken down in Southern US

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    1. Similarly, being a fifteen-year-old female in the United States today means something different from being the same age and sex in Iceland or Ghana or China

      Reminds me of the importance of intersectionality and understanding the fact that everyone has a different and unique perspective from different and unique lived life experiences.

    1. The book Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years [e1] by Tom Standage outlines some of the history of social media before internet-based social media platforms such as in times before the printing press: Graffiti and other notes left on walls were used for sharing updates, spreading rumors, and tracking accounts Books and news write-ups ha

      Tom Standage's observation about graffiti as a precursor to social media is intriguing. It reminds me of how memes and comments function today—they’re quick, public, and often anonymous ways to share thoughts. Standage’s connection between historical practices and today’s platforms reinforces the idea that technology evolves, but human communication needs remain consistent."

    1. At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail' At work executives text duringboard meetings. We text (and shop and go on Facibook).during classes and when we'reon dates.

      This reminds me of someone i went to high school with, we were friends with her but in every interaction she was on her phone, even one time we were all swimming at someones house she was on her phone in the corner. It can be a real problem for som people

    2. We've become accustomed to a new way of being "alone together'"

      I love this line because it highlights the main focus of the text. It also reminds me of how too often I am sitting with my loved ones, and we are all on our own devices in our own worlds.

    1. when a hospital nurse brought an oxygen tank into the MRI room

      Q. What parts impacted you the most?<br /> Answer: A hospital nurse bringing a ferrous metal oxygen tank into the MRI room. This reminds me of how important it is for MRI Techs to always pay attention to their surroundings. Perhaps the Tech could have prevented the nurse from going in there in the first place.

      Q. What safety measures were overlooked and or ignored? Answer: Not involving an MRI Technologist. If there was a need for an oxygen tank, the nurse should spoken to the MRI Tech.

      Q. Give an assessment of your current safety practices and a pledge of how you intend to view safety in the future.<br /> Answer: There is always a non-ferrous aluminum oxygen tank at my clinical site. Our safety practices consist of good screening questions and attentive listening. There are no nurses at my site. Generally speaking, where I am at, the Techs outnumber the non-Techs. My intention is to view safety as the most important part of my job.

    1. Only through studying history can we grasp how things change;

      I agree with this statement. Studying history allows us to see and make sense of the changes we see in the world. It reminds me of the phrase "Those who fail history are doomed to repeat it". Refusing to study and failing to understand history makes us unable to make sense of change, potentially leaving individuals more close-minded.

    1. One may be tempted to assume that GenAI tools, likeChatGPT, have negated the need for many types of knowl-edge. Asking for facts, procedures, or an analysis of facts iseasily within the range of many GenAI tools now. However,Neelen and Kirschner (2020) respond to this type of think-ing in detail in the context of learners and the Google searchengine. They address the learning myth, “Google can replacehuman knowledge” by examining types of knowledge (e.g.,propositional, tacit, etc.) and present well-documented argu-ments for such statements as:“Let’s assume for a second that Google can replaceour own knowledge. We’d still have to interpret theinformation that Google gives us to make it meaning-ful” (p. 122) and;“If we’re trying to solve very complex problems, werun into several issues when relying on Google. Themain problems are that we need to know what we’relooking for and that we need to be able to judge theinformation we find based on the knowledge that’s inour head” (p. 130)

      This section makes me reflect on the common misconception that tools like GenAI or even Google can replace human knowledge. As an educator, I see how tempting it might be for students (and even teachers) to rely heavily on these tools, but this dependency can create significant gaps in critical thinking and problem-solving. The quote about interpreting information resonates with me because technology can provide data, but understanding and applying it require skills and context that only humans bring.

      Personally, I agree with the statement that solving complex problems requires more than just finding information online. It reminds me of situations in my professional role where I’ve had to assess the validity of data or consider the nuances of a problem—something no search engine or AI can do without my input and expertise. GenAI can be a powerful assistant, but the “knowledge in our head” is what allows us to navigate ambiguity and discern quality.

      I wonder if relying too much on tools like ChatGPT might weaken students’ ability to critically evaluate information or even know where to start when they don’t have a foundation of knowledge. While GenAI can support learning, I see a real danger if we let it replace the essential process of building and applying our understanding. What do you think—is there a way to balance using these tools without diminishing the development of core skills?

    2. While thiscapability has disruptive implications for education, it isnot likely to destroy it. It may, though, destroy the legiti-macy of some long-held educational practices.

      BoldThe discussion of AI reminds me of the similar concerns that teachers had when the world wide web became accessible in schools. Teachers had to adapt and overcome. I believe the same will be true when it comes to the use of AI in the classroom. EDU709

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    1. By now, you should be recognizing that problems are in no way simple. Because everyone’s problems are personal and have different causes and consequences, there is no such thing as the “average user”

      I completely agree with this point because it captures the fundamental challenge of designing for real-world problems: users are diverse, and their experiences are shaped by unique contexts. This idea resonates with me because I’ve often seen solutions that fail due to oversimplifying user needs or assuming a one-size-fits-all approach. For instance, I’ve encountered apps that try to target a "general audience" but end up being confusing or ineffective for specific groups.

      This reading has made me think more deeply about the importance of user research and the need to avoid stereotypes in design. It also reminds me that I need to ask questions like, "Whose problems am I solving, and am I considering the full range of their needs?" Overall, this perspective is useful because it encourages empathy and thoughtful exploration when tackling complex design challenges.

    2. Another downside of interviews is that participants may change their responses to please the interviewer or conform with societal expectations for how a person should behave, based on the context of the interview. This is called participant response bias

      This point was pretty interesting to me. It reminds me of the idea making sure you're not making leading, loading, or double-negative questions, because they will lead the respondent to thinking you're expect them to respond a certain way. I guess it makes sense why people take so much of an effort to design their interviews well, so that they don't lead participants into taking biased answers.

    1. homo sex u al ity itself, even as an eroticorientation, even as a specifi cally sexual subjectivity, consists in a dissidentway of feeling and relating to the world. That dissident way of feelingand relating to the world is reflected in gay male cultural practices.

      This reminds me of our discussion of Oscar Wilde being labeled as homosexual and how it pushed a lot of orientations of "gayness" into one category. Our discussion shined light on how homosexuality and specifically male homosexuality isn't just one way of being, but the usage of the word after the trail was made to be something bad, and single note. Homosexuality in this way exists, as the reading puts it, as difference from the norm, but it is not singular.

    2. Gay culture, after all, isnot some thing that you have to be gay in order to enjoy—or to com-prehend.

      This line stands out to me. The idea that Gay culture is separate from being gay reminds me of the concept of masculinity and how one has to culturally earn the respect of 'being a man.' In American culture, there is an idea that men have to be made and that one must earn their manhood before adult life. In this line, the idea shifts to gayness and that being gay doesn't automatically make you a part of accepted gay culture.

    1. One simple form of knowledge is to derive goals and values from your data.

      I find it really practical to focus on understanding goals and values from data. Instead of just listening to what people say, it’s about identifying what they’re actually trying to achieve. For example, when people talk about renting, some care about affordability, others about saving time, or accessibility due to a disability. I think recognizing these goals helps in designing something that truly addresses their needs. It reminds me how important it is to dig deeper and create solutions that align with people’s real priorities.

    1. writing, because aforeign introduction, is often viewed as a colonial tool of oppressionrather than an Indigenous tool of empowerment; the resistance to literacy(reading and writing) equals resistance to colonialism. Generations ofKanaka Maoli who have been indoctrinated by a colonial education sys-tem to believe that anything Native is never “good enough” has led to alack of confidence in the ability to write

      This excerpt stands out to me as someone in both Hawaiian Literature and Cinematic Arts. There is a huge interest in the "Indigenous Aesthetic" with only recent development in the thought and true kaona behind such aesthetics. Now that there are more kānaka in filmmaking, there have been subtle shifts in the representing Hawaiʻi on the screen in her true nature willfully ignored and destroyed by militourism.

      It also reminds me of my History of Education in Hawaiʻi class that really recontextualized my understanding of education in Hawaiʻi and how much agency kānaka ʻōiwi truly had in matters regarding their own pursuits of knowledge.

    1. ut to destroy men and the male establishment. I

      This reminds me of Taylor Swift's "The Man". While men are praised for their confidence and assertive attitude, women's boldness is taken as hostility and is viewed in a negative light.

    1. O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!

      The King may show his smile but you best know his true intentions. The King tells Hamlet that he must go and make retributions for his father's actions. The ghost of the King reminds me of the Holy Spirit in a sense that he is watching over Hamlet and guiding him.

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    1. Without an adult to encourage her to cake algebra, the gateway to college preparatory math and science courses, or to advise her on where she might seek academic support, Chantelle made a decision that is likely to affect her preparation for college and therefore will have bearing in the long term on her opportunities after high school.

      This statement reminds me of the documentary by Netflix called Operation Varsity Blues. It discusses the ways in which kids with less resources remain unaware of the way the choices they make in high school deeply affect their future. For example, choosing to opt out of AP classes in high school makes you ineligible for the top 100 universities in the country. However, when I took advanced placement courses one singular exam cost ended up at around 100 dollars and not many students can afford that.

    1. some clever protesters have made a donkey perform the act of protest: walking through the streets displaying a political message. But, since the donkey does not understand the act of protest it is performing, it can’t be rightly punished for protesting

      I find this passage fascinating because it highlights how responsibility for an action can be shifted when a non-human agent is involved. It reminds me of how bots on social media can operate under a similar premise, where the “donkey” (the program or account) is simply carrying out instructions, but without any actual understanding or intention behind what it does. It raises tricky questions about accountability: if a bot spreads misinformation or harasses someone, who is really to blame—the coder, the user who deployed the bot, or the bot itself (which has no understanding of morality)? I think this parallel with the donkey protest is an excellent way to start conversations about where responsibility lies when intermediaries (human or otherwise) carry out actions on behalf of others.

    1. Visuals are much, much more powerful than text alone. That's why, if you choose to use slides, use more pictures than words--and don't use bullet points. Ever.

      I agree with this, and it reminds me of the phrase "a pictures worth a thousand words". Not only in art, but pictures are also more memorable, especially when it comes to something boring -- it can reel people back in. People are typically more engaged when a story, a meaningful one, is being told.

    1. Every teacher has an approach to teaching, whether or not they are aware of it. Approaches fall along a continuum from traditional, teacher-centered instruction to more progressive, student-centered instruction.

      I like this sentence because it reminds me how cool it is that every teacher is different and with that comes different approaches to teaching. I believe the more teachers a student has, the more they learn because they are constantly doing and thinking about things in different ways. It excited me to know that by the end of college I will take everything I have learned and construct it in a way that fits my own teaching philosophy directly influencing the way I teach. I hope to be a teacher who approaches education as less “traditional” and more “progressive: meaning drawing on the arts and my students' own interests to cultivate lessons they love, inspiring them to be lifelong learners.

    1. Participatory design, of course, has the risk of overlooking key stakeholders, and therefore producing designs that do not work for everyone.

      I agree with this because it points out a big issue with participatory design: it can leave out important voices. While getting input from users is helpful, missing key people can lead to designs that don't work for everyone. It reminds me that good design needs to include everyone’s perspective to be truly effective.

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    1. The gap between beliefs and actions not only leads to contention and con-fusion, it also generates policies that are irrational in the sense that they are inconsistent with evidence of what works or are not based on any evidence at all.

      This reminds me of the school to prison pipeline and how that unfolds in our schools across the nation every single day. I believe this line is a bit repetitive but it is important because it focuses on issues that plague our education system. While introduction of police on campuses has been presented as effective especially for kids that have a difficult time at home but the reality is much different. Minority students are expelled or suspended at 3.5x the rate their white peers are. There is evidence that supports the idea that presence of police on campus only complicates issues but it's clear that the policy is not going anywhere anytime soon.

    2. Most importantly, qual-ified, knowledgeable teachers make a difference

      this reminds me of a Tiktok that I saw of a substitute teacher saying she will not take sub jobs at the "bad schools" because she does not want to deal with "bad kids" perpetuating that just because a school is more low income that she is able to make assumptions about the kids there which is a false narrative. Teachers like this continue the cycle of low income families not being able to get the education they deserve because people stereotype them and refuse to teach them.

    3. Sustained and serious disagreements over education policy can never be completely resolved because they spring from a fundamental paradox at the heart of the American dream

      the highlight of disagreements over education policy can never completely be resolved highlights the differences in the way everyone views their American Dream. Many care more towards free accessible education so more people have access to be educated and better their American Dream. On the other hand many people have disagreements because they more a more exclusive education to be deemed as more pristine. This reminds me of my public k-12 school that had a lot of teacher parent strikes due to many disagreements on what districts my school would allow children to enroll from. Many parents wanted their kids to go to the better schools a town over but then the parents of that town did not want them to because they said that would "take spots from them". The American dream of parents wanting their children to go to a good school but others trying to stop that.

    4. Where it has been tried, educating poor children with students who are more privi-leged, or educating them like students who are more privileged, has improved their performance and long-term chance of success

      This reminds me of the well known olympic runner where if you want to improve you need to run with people faster than you. I see that same idea here, where students are surrounded with an environment where they want to be at or achieve. This is a great lesson that is easily applicably in my life. I agree with this quote alot.

    1. Multiculturalism compels educators to recognize the nar-row boundaries that have shaped the way knowledge is shared in the classroom.

      I found this sentence powerful because it challenges educators to reflect on how traditional teaching methods might exclude certain perspectives. It reminds me of how enriching it is when diverse viewpoints are included in learning environments, making knowledge more relatable and impactful for everyone.

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    1. Why are people poor? Most notably, why do the same groups of people te~d to endure poverty from generation to generation? And ultimately, why do chil-dren of the poor predictably perform poorly in public schools? As noted earlier, a historicized and contextualized view points to several factors, including the by-products of imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and racism. Bourdieu's cul-tural and social reproduction theories, alongside the Marxist "correspoocle~ce principle," just to name a few critical tools, help provide answers to our querie

      Reading this reminds me that there are people out there that genuinely don't know why people are poor and why it is that they continue to live in poverty. As someone who has been low-income my entire life, it can be difficult to climb up the ladder financially. Often times, those less fortunate are living paycheck to paycheck and are subject to public schools that aren't well funded and/or don't have teachers with the same knowledge as those who are fortunate.

    1. Marriage and family therapists do not use any professional identification (such as a business card, office sign, letterhead, Internet, or telephone or association directory listing) if it includes a statement or claim that is false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive.

      use very basic business cards. no misleading slogans (reminds me of personal injury lawyers).

    2. Marriage and family therapists respect the rights of clients to make decisions and help them to understand the consequences of these decisions

      reminds me of the recovery model about not giving advice

    1. Before electronic computers were generally available, when scientists wanted the results of some calculations, they sometimes hired “computers” [b114], which were people trained to perform the calculations.

      This concept reminds me of an interesting plot in《Three Body Problem》, where, in the three-body-problem visual game, a simplified "human computer" is described: assuming there are three people facing to each other, holding either red or white light, if a person see both the others hold white light, he would hold the white light as well; otherwise he would hold the red light. This game happens to represent the binary system in computer.

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    1. The Everywheres are on the contrary nomadic elements that are willing to be of service to cosmo-local productive economic alliances, seeding various locales with the trans-local experience, both of other locales they may have visited, but also of the network itself.

      Seductive analogy. Reminds me of Daniel Schmatchtenberger's Game A (civilizational problems of competition) and Game B (beyond competition) that creates a simple US vs. THEM for convening the like-minded activists, but not sure it accurately describes the virtual landscape well-enough for implementers seeking to develop and deploy new type(s) of competence.

    1. A young biology teacher, John T. Scopes, was being tried for teaching his students evolutionary theory in violation of the Butler Act, a state law preventing any theory that denied “the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible”

      This reminds me of when in school we were taught about the scientific revolution. Galileo being bound to his house for proposing an idea that others disagreed with.

    1. his Holiness reminds us that the seeds of compassion are often in the relationship between a child and his mother excuse me that a mother provides for the child provides kindness and uh care for the child and represents this early seed of compassion

      for - adjacency - compassion / kindness - early model - HH Dalai Lama - Deep Humanity - mOTHER - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson

    1. So it’s not that the mere existence of a moral panic means there is nothing to be concerned about.

      It is always important to look at both sides of the coin when looking at any complicated subject. We do not live in a world that is merely black and white. A level of nuance is important to get anywhere in life. It kind of reminds me of discussions in class we had about activism when we read that section in Digital Keywords. While activism in the digital age has lead to many great outcomes, it has had the consequence of leading to means that have little to no effect (in some cases it can even be a detriment...). This doesn't undermine the good that comes from it though, it just means it's complicated. Just like AI. It's kind of really complicated.

    1. The title reminds me of when I get a kiss and feel at peace typically when I am having a bad day

      great observation!! this piece really emphasizes human connection and touch.

    1. Yes, kisses by the glass doors just as the iron gates slam shut. Kisses that make me shake till I scream out for more, por amor, amante.

      This passage reminds me of an idea from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes: “the phonatory system is the same as the osculatory system” (141). In other words, speech and kissing are verbs attached to a person’s lips—both actions are essential to the erotic encounter. Here, I would add that there’s something surprising about Twanda screaming out in French—a language I’m not aware of Shange really writing in—perhaps signifying a surprising, foreign, or new form of knowledge.

    2. I forget his name, but that's how you should be kissed

      This description reminds me of “Dream of Pairing,” an earlier piece in Ridin’ the Moon in Texas. In this poem, the narrator describes an imaginary love affair between herself and a stranger whose “face changes but is always full of love / for me.” This specific line reminds me of the way “Dream of Pairing ends”: with a “stranger who visits me in my dreams / but that would be too personal / he's never told me his name.” Much like Twanda’s relationship with this random taxi driver, there’s still a distance —an unknowing—between the narrator and her beloved. Moreover, I’m interested in how both of the artworks that accompany “Twanda” and “Dream of Pairing” are three-dimensional works of art. However, I would note that Martin Puryear’s piece in “Dream of Pairing” is an incomplete loop, whereas Patrice Viles’ work is an ornamental and flourishing piece of jewelry. Perhaps the visual difference between the two artworks also signify the narrative difference between the two pieces; in order to complete “the self,” one cannot simply depend on romantic desire ("Dream of Pairing")—they must also seek self-created unity ("Twanda").

    1. eventually disappeared with time

      It reminds me so much of Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias," except his poem doesn't seem to propose human love as an alternative to ruthless ambition...

    1. fortunately this is perfectly possible within existing company law by taking the concept the properties in law of legal personhood to their fullest extent

      for - regenerative company - principle 1 of 8 - agency-based instead of ownership-based - implementation - via leveraging full extent of legal personhood

      Comment - Graham points out an interesting insight, that organisations are given legal personhood status -namely, we test a group of people as a person itself - This reminds me of Michael Levin's Multi Scale Competency Architecture

    1. ‘I wish I looked like that,’ or ‘I should get more in shape.’

      this reminds me a lot of something that Taylor Swift mentioned in her documentary Miss Americana. She talks about how she would always see photos of herself online and pick herself apart. An article by Vanity Fair lays out the dialogue,

      "After being pictured facing a phalanx of photographers after she emerges from her front door, Swift is heard in voiceover saying that “it’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day.” Although she says “it’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it,” Swift admits there have been times in the past when she’s seen “a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating.”

      No one should be looking at themselves constantly. I think its kinda like how when you say a word over and over again, it starts to not sound like a word. I think the same goes for photos. The more you look at something the more you are going to notice about it and sometimes I don't think its a bad thing if a couple things go unnoticed. https://variety.com/2020/music/news/taylor-swift-eating-disorder-netflix-documentary-miss-americana-1203478047/

    2. feared not looking beautiful in their photos, thought individuals would think they looked different on social media than in real life

      this reminds me of a trend that is going around the internet recently where people show just how easy it is to slightly photoshop photos to make themselves to make just enough to fit the beauty standard just a little more. I think this shows how despreate people are for other people approval. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYfkJGcb/

    1. We hope with this you can be a more informed user of social media, better able to participate, protect yourself, and make it a valuable experience for you and others you interact with.

      This statement inspires me to approach social media with more thoughtfulness and responsibility. It reminds me that being informed helps me stay safe while also creating a more positive experience for myself and others. By participating mindfully and protecting myself, I can contribute to a better online environment for everyone I interact with.

    1. The Belmont Report established three basic principles as foundational for biomedical research governance: respect for persons, beneficence and justice. While these principles get the bulk of attention, perhaps the most consequential contribution for fields like data science is the attempt to define the boundary between research and practice. While acknowledging that the distinction is imperfect in many edge cases, the Report states that this need not cause substantial confusion: “the general rule is that if there is any element of research in an activity, that activity should undergo review for the protection of human subjects” (National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1979). When routine medical practice veers toward untested territory, it becomes necessary to signify that a matter of clinical care has been “made the object of formal research at an early stage” in order to guarantee its safety (National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1979).

      These principles get the bulk of attention for a reason, the respect for others reminds me of factor x

    2. Further, data science methods create an abstract relationship between researchers and subjects,

      This reminds me of the show that we watched in class about the acting the guy wanted them to make a connection to their person for a better understanding

    3. Further, data science methods create an abstract relationship between researchers and subjects, where work is being done at a distant remove from the communities most concerned, and where consent often amounts to an unread terms of service or a vague privacy policy.

      This reminds me of the "Atlas of AI" reading, as well as answering my question of when is too much. The inhumane nature of this collection and it being on a mass scale is very reminiscent of "Atlas of AI".

    1. Nevertheless, many hypotheses converge on the scenario of proteins originating as small peptides with random sequences that gradually evolved into more complex structures with distinct folds 2-8,19.

      This is really interesting, and somewhat separately reminds me of the sORF literature like this paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01696-5. There have been quite a few studies that show that sORFs are often evolutionarily young. I think your paper applies to this question as well.

  8. docdrop.org docdrop.org
    1. Staff change are a recurring problem. Executives are notoriously indifferent about car-rying through on initiatives introduced by their prede es or

      This is indeed a very bad and difficult problem to solve. This also reminds me of the Chinese government's current situation where government officials can change at any time, and everyone's thoughts and rules are different. Therefore, whose rules should the masses listen to? Perhaps they have just adapted to a certain rule and will change later, which makes the masses very confused.

    1. I reviewed and reexamined all of my writings by myself

      Reading this section, it's clear that the text went through many iterations and translations and this fact affects how one reads the text as a historian. This reminds me of Professor Nummedal's point from Monday's lecture about how the Florentine Codex must be used carefully to access Indigenous voices and perspectives, and how it was a complicated text made with many agendas. Lines like these clearly show how we must think critically about what is lost in translation (such as the hummingbird stone) and also lost in each new iteration/adjustment.

  9. Nov 2024
    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20241130094952/https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-kids-are-too-soft

      'the kids are too soft'. on shifting perceptions of gens, point out the obvious lack of attention to cause and effect. walking barefoot to school in the snow etc etc as if it's a sine quae non. Reminds me of a Gulag discussion, what doesn't kill you makes you harder, is actually the other way around. The hardest going survive, and more might have in conditions had been better. We see more people survive and mistake it for lack of selection and rigour, where it's the lifting of more if not all boats.

    1. Still other students had con-sciously left school because they felt marginalized for being interested in Black culture and politics, feeling unwelcome in Eurocentric-focused class-rooms where “they were continually forced to conform to a system of values which they had no part in forming”

      It's frustrating reading things like this in the sense that others hate to see or learn about other cultures because its so "unimportant". It makes me question everything because how does one get to that level of hate. It reminds me of a situation i encountered when a kid didn't want to share something because the other kids was "different" one was white and the other was a person of color. HOW? i questioned it and at a young age everything reflects on the parents. What makes them better than everyone else? We're all human

    1. Public spirit is the one great antidote for all the ills of the Nation, and greatly the Nation needs it now. In a day when the vast increase in wealth tends to reduce all things, moral, intellectual and material, to the measure of the dollar; in a day when we have with us always the man who is working for his own pocket all the time; when the monopolist of land, of opportunity, of power or privilege in any form, is ever in the public eye—it is good to remember that the real leaders are the men who value the right to give themselves more highly than any gain whatsoever.

      Pinchot’s critique of the era’s focus on wealth and materialism resonates deeply with the Progressive Era's fight against monopolies and corruption. This reminds me of our class discussion on how economic inequality and unchecked greed were seen as threats to democracy. His emphasis on "public spirit" and leaders who prioritize service over personal gain is inspiring, especially in the context of conservation, where selflessness is crucial for long-term societal benefit. It’s a powerful reminder that true leadership lies in the ability to act for the common good, not just personal success.

    2. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the American people is their superb practical optimism; that marvellous hopefulness which keeps the individual efficiently at work. This hopefulness of the American is, however, as short-sighted as it is intense. As a rule, it does not look ahead beyond the next decade or score of years, and fails wholly to reckon with the real future of the Nation. I do not think I have often heard a forecast of the growth of our population that extended beyond a total of two hundred millions, and that only as a distant and shadowy goal. The point of view which this fact illustrates is neither true nor far-sighted. We shall reach a population of two hundred millions in the very near future, as time is counted in the lives of nations, and there is nothing more certain than that this country of ours will some day support double or triple or five times that number of prosperous people if only we can bring ourselves so to handle our natural resources in the present as not to lay an embargo on the prosperous growth of the future.

      This passage highlights Gifford Pinchot’s concern with the "short-sighted optimism" of Americans, particularly in their failure to plan for the long-term future of the nation. It connects back to our discussion about the Industrial Revolution and its consequences. In class, we talked about how industrialization brought significant growth and innovation but often at the cost of sustainable practices. This reminds me of how industries in the 19th and early 20th centuries prioritized immediate profit over long-term resource management, leading to deforestation, pollution, and over-exploitation of resources.

      I find this thought-provoking because Pinchot’s perspective feels so ahead of its time, he’s calling for a balance between progress and preservation, recognizing that sustainability is essential for ensuring prosperity for future generations. It’s a stark reminder of how resource management isn't just an environmental issue; it’s about the survival and well-being of a growing population.

    1. interest” in why she was not more interested in the climate crisis, the implication being that the position it occupied in her mind was so peripheral, she could only approach it through the absence of an aesthetic category which — following Ngai’s formulation — denotes a certain absence in itself.

      Weather was a novel that presents “mundane intensities” of life in the anthropocene through Lizzie. Her slight and growing interest of climate change is reflective of a passive attitude when it comes to climate which reminds me of the notion of slow violence.

    1. An interaction effect is said to occur if the effect of one independent variable depends on the level of another independent variable; conversely, if the effect of one variable does not depend on the level of another variable, then no interaction effect exists.

      Understanding how interaction effect's function is an essential part of studying persuasion. This is simply because it allows a better understanding for researchers to develop an identification connecting the diverse ways that factors work together in order to influence perceptions and attitudes. The effectiveness of a message can and will depend on both what is being said, as well as the sources credibility. This is important because it requires more in-depth critical thinking on how multiple variables can influence outcomes and requires people to look beyond the idea of this caused that. This concept reminds me of the Elaboration Likelihood Model because it states that the core of a message as well as the credibility of the messages sources influences how interested an individual is going to be in it and will ultimately determine if they dismiss it or accept it and dive in to participate; However, there is a difference between the two. The Elaboration Likelihood Model targets the cognitive processes involved, separating between the central and peripheral routes of processing, whilst on the contrary, the idea of interaction effects talks about how diverse independent variables interact to influence the outcome of an experiment.

    1. Understanding how interaction effect's function is an essential part of studying persuasion. This is simply because it allows a better understanding for researchers to develop an identification connecting the diverse ways that factors work together in order to influence perceptions and attitudes. The effectiveness of a message can and will depend on both what is being said, as well as the sources credibility. This is important because it requires more in-depth critical thinking on how multiple variables can influence outcomes and requires people to look beyond the idea of this caused that. This concept reminds me of the Elaboration Likelihood Model because it states that the core of a message as well as the credibility of the messages sources influences how interested an individual is going to be in it and will ultimately determine if they dismiss it or accept it and dive in to participate; However, there is a difference between the two. The Elaboration Likelihood Model targets the cognitive processes involved, separating between the central and peripheral routes of processing, whilst on the contrary, the idea of interaction effects talks about how diverse independent variables interact to influence the outcome of an experiment.

    1. Understanding how interaction effect's function is an essential part of studying persuasion. This is simply because it allows a better understanding for researchers to develop an identification connecting the diverse ways that factors work together in order to influence perceptions and attitudes. The effectiveness of a message can and will depend on both what is being said, as well as the sources credibility. This is important because it requires more in-depth critical thinking on how multiple variables can influence outcomes and requires people to look beyond the idea of this caused that. This concept reminds me of the Elaboration Likelihood Model because it states that the core of a message as well as the credibility of the messages sources influences how interested an individual is going to be in it and will ultimately determine if they dismiss it or accept it and dive in to participate; However, there is a difference between the two. The Elaboration Likelihood Model targets the cognitive processes involved, separating between the central and peripheral routes of processing, whilst on the contrary, the idea of interaction effects talks about how diverse independent variables interact to influence the outcome of an experiment.

    1. “S-SHUT UP! I don’t want to hear it! You- stupid, fucking little golden boy, mommy’s favorite- why! WHY- why why why were you her f-favorite! H-How-! You c-can’t talk, you’re an i-idiot, can’t do a-anything- y-you’re- just the worst!”

      Reshaa, Ranboo and their mother's dynamic reminds me of Zuko, Azula and their mom. In both cases, the girls wanted their mother's love but didn't get it because they were too much like their dad. Zuko and Ranboo are both people who their mothers saw kindness in, saw the possibility that they would get out of the toxic environment and culture of their upbringing, but lost their mothers guidance, the only one who loved them, and had to make it out and become better people than their families.Your mother didn't like you, Reshaa, because you gave in to what you grew up in, fell into the twisted political game.

    1. 18.1. Shame vs. Guilt in childhood development

      This reminds me of an incident from my childhood. I left the house and lost my keys, and my father happened to be traveling and couldn't return in time to drop them off. My mother was furious when she discovered that she had kicked me in front of others, which made me feel very embarrassed. I remember this experience vividly because many times I committed mistakes and my parents dealt with them in this manner, which caused me to acquire an avoidance mentality and a desire not to address family problems.

    1. “racial ignorance:” a “process of knowing designed to producenot knowing” about race that produces and legitimates white supremacy andpatterned racial inequality

      Reminds me of anti-intellectualism; denying change as false in the interest of preserving privilege and comfort

    Annotators

    1. Intersectionality may be a unifying theory that illuminates the immigrant experience in a way that increases understanding of the role of the larger society, informs the efforts of each community, and provides a framework for policy.

      currently learning about many theories of grief through fam capstone course, such as multi-dimensional grief theory . this reminds me of theories learned about here

    1. Rigid, patriarchal gender roles learned in the country-of-origin are associated with increased tolerance for and experience of IPV

      reminds me of machismo

    1. Let’s now consider some examples of planned crowdsourcing, meaning a system or task was intentionally created and given to a crowd to work on.

      A failed example this reminds me of is when elon musk said he would let the general population of twitter tell him whether or not to step down. It ended up going the opposite of how he expected, and he chose to go back on his word.

    2. Fig. 16.2 A note written with intentionally bad handwriting.

      This example reminds me of the site Genius, which allows for people to crowdsource music lyrics. People will try and figuring out difficult song lyrics and let other people correct and fill in missing lyrics.

  10. rws511.pbworks.com rws511.pbworks.com
    1. Is that footageyou’re watching real?

      Reminds me of the Twitter/X community notes feature where users can fact-check viral media/news. If you engage with fake information, it'll alert you with a notification.

    1. When social media users work together, we can consider what problem they are solving.

      This reminds me of when social media users banded together to find the original source of a mystery 80s song that circulate the internet for years and finally found it. I think that type of crowdsourcing is really cool and satisfying.

    1. For instance, the U.S. Department of Education (2015) indicated thatAfrican American students ages 6 through 21 were over two times more likely to receive servicesfor emotional disturbance and intellectual disabilities than were students from all otherracial/ethnic groups

      I think these ideas about students of color go back to the low expectations that students of color are given by their teachers. When teachers already have low expectations of their students, they think the easiest solution would be to dump their students with someone else who can "better handle their needs." Even if these needs are fabricated to fit the teacher's narrative. This reminds me of when my cousin, whose first language was English, was put in an ESL program when she was in elementary school just because she was Mexican; she had no issues switching between English and Spanish and was put in a program that was of no use to her. She lost so much valuable class time just because a teacher had low expectations of her.

    1. Polycrisis. Metacrisis. Omnicrisis. Permacrisis. Call it what you like. We are immersed in an age of extreme turbulence and interconnected global threats.

      This reminds me of the term "wicked problem".

    1. As a principle, the concept is pretty clear: let people do their thing. But we do still live in a society which does not permit total freedom to do whatever one wants, with no consequences. Some actions do too much damage, and would undermine the society of freedom, so those actions are written into the law (that is, proscribed) as a basis for reprisals.

      This reminds me of the case that just went to trial of the two men that were extorting money from a high school kid threating to post his nudes, and he ended up killing himself. That was not ok and thank God these men that did this are facing punishment. This type of behavior is not OK and should be punished to the full extent of the law.

  11. rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca
    1. That I can see the same sadness in photos ofmyself when I was small.

      this reminds me of the paragraph in the beginning of the book that describes her face and how she doesn't age.

    1. Yet when it came to getting things done, the CBC had a weak record. Most of its activity seemed to involve endless hearings and studies quantifying Black oppression. By the early 1970s, the plight of Black neighborhoods was old news; many other organizations had performed similar studies for years. The limitations of the CBC kept options for the Black left very much alive.

      reminds me of academia trying to define forms of oppression rather than fight them

    1. I've been down there enough times to see the same patterns repeat, and sometimes I can even interrupt them. That's why having goofy names for them matters so much, because it reminds me not to believe the biggest bog lie of all: that I'm stuck in a situation unlike any I, or anyone else, has ever seen before

      Giving repeating neg patterns wrt procrastination / not getting into action, a silly name helps in defeating the pattern (rather than beating yourself up over it I suppose).

    1. team of co-authors

      By using a team of co-authors, it reminds me of the purpose of co-coders in validating data. In this way, it can serve to validate procedures and ethical applications.

    1. Looking back on it Dorothy might say, “this song reminds me that I realized for the first time that real change was possible.”

      I really think it's cool how you're thinking of these songs through Dorothy's eyes. It makes this playlist really come alive.

    1. In 1953 an African American woman named Sarah Keys publicly challenged segregated public transportation.

      This reminds me of Rosa Parks because she also fought for her rights and challenged segregated public transportation.

    2. The economic growth that lifted millions of Americans into the middle class also reproduced existing inequalities.

      This reminds me of the economy that is presented nowadays, and that many Americans now are either middle class or lower.

    1. When Elon Musk purchased Twitter, he also was purchasing access to all Twitter Direct Messages

      This reminds me of the dr disrespect controversy earlier this year. Not the actual substance of it, but the implication that twitch was able to go into twitch wispers without either party knowing to find a break in TOS

    1. The lengths of the annotations can vary significantly from a couple of sentences to a couple of pages.

      This sentence shows that annotation length can vary based on purpose, allowing flexibility. It reminds me to adapt the detail in each annotation to suit my needs.

    2. An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation.

      This sentence defines an annotation as more than just a list; it includes a summary or critique of each source. This focus on analysis helps in assessing each source’s value. It reminds me to look deeper into each source's content and relevance to my topic.

    1. here you were supposed to send money to the people you got the letter from, but then the people you send the letter to would give you money. Other letters gave the reason for people to make copies that if they made copies, good things would happen to them, and if not bad things would, like this: You will receive good luck within four days of receiving this letter, providing, you in turn send it on. […] An RAF officer received $70,000 […] Gene Walsh lost his wife six days after receiving the letter. He failed to circulate the letter.

      This reminds me of similar chain messages I encountered back in middle school. For example, there would be messages saying that if you saw it, you had to forward it, or else you'd have bad luck. I never expected that similar letters or messages had already existed so long ago

    1. Dubiously acquired Indigenous land was the engine driving the growing nation’s land economy.

      Although they're very different circumstances, this reminds me of the way that the U.S. economy was built with slave labor, and nobody talks about it. Everyone is always boasting about the strength of the U.S. economy, but it's all thanks to thievery and exploitation: from the stolen land this country is built on, to the enslaved people who basically built the foundations of the U.S. economy with their own hands, to the unpaid prison labor our nation still depends on for production; the U.S.'s success is all owed to people who have never received any share of that success or any recognition.

  12. pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca
    1. And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;

      This image of two people being combines as one through "mingled" blood within a flea is a dark depiction of all the things in this world that have the power to make one close to another. It reminds me of the idea of a blood pact where blood is used as the most sacred bond because you essentially spill your life force with another.

    1. As another example, this tweet is instructions for how to interact with it (add a picture), and people keep copying the instructions with their replies.

      I don't know why but this reminds me of a lot of old computer viruses like mydoom and the love bug worm, which either utilized or imitated chain emails. These emails would either convince the user to send it to another, or when they became more sophisticated, automatically send themselves in a way which looks benign.

    1. 12:3 Those who are wi se[a] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

      you are offline

      we the people rise again

      safe souls, safe fu


      We the People of Slate ...

      The U.S. Constitution, as you [mighta been, shoulda "come" on ... its someday] rewrϕte it.

      "Politicians talk about the Constitution as if it were as sacrosanct as the Ten Commandments [interjection: spec. it is actually almost exactly related!]. But the document itself invites change and revision. What if the president served only one six-year term instead two four-year terms? What if your state's population determined how many senators represent it? What if the Constitution included a right to health care? We asked legal scholars and Slate readers to cross out what they didn't like in the Constitution and pencil in their hearts' desires. Here's what the document would look like with their best ideas."

      多也了了夕 "with a ~~wand~~ of scheffilara, 并#亦太 he begins ... "I am now on the Staff of Menelaus, the Spears of Longinus and Lancelot; and the name "Mosche ex Nashon."

      Logically the recent mentions of Gilgamesh and the simultaneous 同時 overlaping 場道 of the eventual link between the famous ruling of Solomon on the separation of babies and mothers and waters and land ... to a story of many "two cities" that culminates in a cultural or societal or "evolutionary" link to Sodom and Gomorrah and the city-state of Babylon (and it's Hanging Gardens) and also of course to Paris and Troy and "Masstodon" and city-states [ciudadestado] and perhaps planet-cities; from Cambridge to Cambridge across the "Cable" to see state to "London" ... recently I called it "the city of realms" ... I started out logically intending to link "game theory" and John Nash to the mathematical story of Sputnik and a revival of American physics; but in my usual way of rambling into the woods [I mean neighborhood] of stream of consciousness ... turned into a premonitory discourse of "two cities" and how sometimes even things as obvious as the number of letters in the word "two" don't do a good enough job of conveying ... how and/or why one is simply never enough, and two isn't much better--but in the end a circle ... is drawn; the perfect circle in our imaginary mathematical perfection ... I see a parted "line" in the letter pronounced "tea" (and beginning that word); and two "vee" (pron. of "v") symbols joined together in a word we pronounce as "double-you" ... and symbolically because I know "V" is the Roman Numeral for 5 (five) and I know not how to multiply in Roman numerals--

      It's important to pause; here. I am going to write a more detailed piece on "the two cities" as I work through this maze like crossroads between "them" and "demo..." ... here demorigstrably I am trying to fuse together an evolutionary change in ... lit. biological evolution as well as an echelon leap forward in "self-government" ... in a place where these two things are unfathomable and unspokenly* connected.

      To a question on the idiom; is Bablyon about "the law" or "of the land of Nod?"

      "What is democracy" ... the song, Metallica's "ONE" echoes and repeats; as we apparently scrive together the word "THEM" ... I question myself ... if Babylon were the capital city of some mythical Nation of Time ... if it were the central "turning point" of Sheol; ... >|<

      Can you not see that in this place; in a world that should see and does there is a gigantic message proving that we are not in reality and trying to show us how and why that's the best news since ... ever---that it's as simple as conjoining "the law of the land" with a basic set of rules that automatically turn Hell into something so much closer to Heaven I just do not understand---why we cant stand up together and say "bullets will not kill innocent children" and "snowflakes will not start avalanches ...." that cover or bury or hide the road from Earth to Verital)e .... or from the mythical Valis to Tanis---or from Rigel to Beth-El ... "guess?"

      ## as "an easy" answer; I'm looking for a fusion of "law and land" that somehow remembers a "jok'er a scene" about "lawn" seats; and "where the girls are green;"

      It's as simple as night and day; Heaven and Hell ... the difference between survival and--what we are presented with here; it's "doing this right"--that ends the Hell of representative democracy and electoral college--the blindness and darkness of not seeing "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT" encoded in these words and in our governments foundation ... *by the framers [not just of the USA; but English .. and every language] *

      ... is literally just as simple as "not caring" or thinking we are at the beginning of some long process--or thinking it will never be done--that special "IT" that's the emancipation of you and I.

      Here words like "gnosis" and "gaudeamus" pair with my/ur "new ntersanding*" of the difference between Asgard and Medgard and really understanding our purpose here is to end "evil" ... things like "simulating disease and pain" (here, simulating meaning ... intentionally causing, rather than "gamifying away") and successfully linking the "Pillars of Hercules" to Plato's vision of Atlantis and the letter sequences "an" and "as" ... unlock a fusion of religion and mythology and "cryptographic truth" that connects "messianic" and "Christian" to "Roman" ... "Chinese" and "American" ... literally the key to the difference between the phrases "we are" and "we were" ....

      in "sight" of "silicon" in simulation and Israel, Genesis, and "silence" ... trying to the raising of Asgardian enlightenment ... and seeing "simple cypher" connecting to "Norse" ...

      and the "I AM THAT" surer than shit ... the intention and design of all religion and creation is to end "simulated reality" and also not seeing "SR" ... in Israel and Norse ... "for instance."

      It's a simple linguistic concept; the "singularity" and the "plurality" of a simple word--"to be"--but it goes to the heart of everything that we are and everything that is around us. This is a message about understanding and preserving individuality as well as liberty; and literally seeing "ARXIV" and understanding "often" and failing to connect God and prescience to "IV" and the Fourth Amendment ... it's about blindness and ... "curing the blind instantly" ... and fathoming how and why this message has been etched into our entire history and and all religions and myths and music--to help us "to be THAT we" that actually "are responsible" for the end of Hell.

      • I neglected to mention "Har-Wer" and "Tower of Babel" which are both related lingusitically, religiously and topically: "to who ..." and while we're on "four score and [seven years from now]" seeing the fourth "living thing" in Eden and it's (the name, Abel) connection to Babel and Abraham Lincoln; slavery and ... understanding we live in a place where the history of the United States also, like Monoceros and "Neil Armstrong's first step" are a time shifted ... overlayed map to achieving freedom ... it's about becoming a father-race ... and actually "doing" the technological steps required to "emancipate the e's of 'me&e'" and survive in exo-planetary space---

      it might be as simple as adding "because we did this" here and now; and having it be something we are truly proud of .... forevermore™ ... for certain in the heart of this story about cyclicality and repetition of error--its not because we did "this" or something over and over again; it's about changing "the problem" and then helping others to also overcome ... "things like time travel ... erasing speech" --- however that happenecl.

      • I also failed to mention that "I am in Hell" ... as in this world is hellacious to me; in an overlay with the Hellenic period and this message that we are in the Trojan Horse ... a small gem .... "planet" truly is the Ark of the Covenant---and it's the simple understanding that "reality is hell" is to "living without air conditioning and plumbing is hell" just as soon as you achieve ... "rediscovering" those things---

      • I can't figure out why I am the only person screaming "this is Hell." That's also, Hell.

      ... but recently suggested an old joke about "there being 10 kinds of people in the world (obv an anti-tautology and a tautology simultaneously)" only after that brief bit of singularity and duality mentioning the rest of the joke: "those that understand binary and those that don't know how to base convert between counting with two hands and counting with only an 'on and off.'" It's not obvious if you aren't trying to figure it out, I suppose; but 10 is decimal notation for "kiss" and the "often" without "of" ... and binary notation for the decimal equivalent of "2." A long long time ago in a state that simply non-randomly ties to the heart of the name of our galaxy ... I was again thinking of the "perfect imperfections" of things like saying "three equals one equals one" (which, of course was related to the Holy Trinity and it's "prescient/anachronistic Adamic presence encoded in the name Ab|ra|ha|m" which means "father of a great multitude") ... I brought that one back in the last few months; connecting the letter K and in this "logos-rythmic" tie to the "base of a number system" embellish the truth just a bit and suggest a more accurate rendition of the original [there is no such thing as equality, "is" of separate objects--as in no two snowflakes are the same unless they are literally the same one; true of ancient weights and with the advent of (thinking about) time no two "planets" are the same even if they're the exact same one--unless it's at a fixed moment in time.

      K=3:11 ... to a handle on the music, the DHD of the gate and the *ring of David's "sling" ...

      ---and that's a relationship of "3 is to 11" as [the SAT style "analogy)]y" as a series of alpha, two mathematic, and two numeric symbols ... may only tie in my mind alone to the books of Genesis and Matthew and the phrase "chapter and verse" and to the stories of Lot and Job ... again in Genesis and the eponymous "Book of Job." So ... "tying up loose ends one 10b [III] iv. " as it appears I've taken it upon myself to call a Job and suggest is my "Lot in life [x]i* [3]"

      • I worry sometimes that important things are missing, or will disappear---for instance Mirriam Webster, which is a "canonical/standard dictionary) should probably have an entry for "lot in life" non-idiomatically as "granny apples to sour apples" as

      2 MANY ALSO ICI; 1two ... following in Mitnick's bold introductory word steps; the curve and the complement ... the missiles and the canoes; the line and the blank space ... "supposedly two examples of two kinds, which could be three not nothings ... Today I write about something monumental; as if as important as the singularity depicted in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 "A Space Odyssey" ... and remember a day when I thought it very novel and interesting to see the words "stillborn and yet still born" connected in a single piece of writing to "Stillwater and yet still water" ... today adding in another phrase noting the change wrought only by one magical single "space" (also a single capital letter; and a third phrase): "block chains with a great blockchain."

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis or Iphigenia at Aulis[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year[2] in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger,[3] and won first place at the City Dionysia in Athens.

      • The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy. The conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles over the fate of the young woman presages a similar conflict between the two at the beginning of the Iliad. In his depiction of the experiences of the main characters, Euripides frequently uses tragic irony for dramatic effect.

      J.K. Rowling spurred just this past week a series of explanations about just exactly what is a blockchain coin worth ... and why is it so; her final words on the subject (artistic liberty taken, obviously not the last she'll say of this magic moment) "I don't think I trust this."

      Taken directly from an off the cuff email to ARXM titled: "Slow the S is ... our Hypothes.is"

      I imagine I'll be adding some wiki/ipfs stuff to it--and try to keep it compatible; the design and layout is almost exactly what I was dreaming about seeing--as a "first rough draft product." Lo, and behold. It's been added to the many places I host my tome; the small compilation of nearly every important email that has gone out ... all the way back to the days of the strange looking Margarita glass ... that now very much resembles the "Cantonese character 'le'" which I've come to associate with a "handle" on multiple corners of a room--something like an automatic coat rack conveyor belt connecting different versions of "what's in the box." I'm planning on using that symbol 了 to denote something like multiple forks of the same page. Obviously I'm thinking forward to things like "the Transhumaist Chain Party" (BDSM, right?)'s version of some particular piece of legislation, let's say everything starts with the sprawling "bulbing" of "Amendment M" ideas and specific verbiage ... and then we'll of course need some kind of new git/subversion/cvs style version control mechanism to merge intelligently into something that might actually .... really should ... make it into that place in history--the first constitutional amendment ratified by a "Continental Congress of All People" ... but you could also see it as an ongoing sort of forking of something like the "wikipedia page" on what some specific term, say "technocracy" means, and how two parties might propagandize and change the meaning of such thing; to suit the more intelligent and wise times we now live in. For instance, we might once have had a "democracy" and a "democractic" party that had some Anarchist Cook Book version of the history of it ending in something like Snipes and Stallone's "DEMOLITION MAN."

      Just kidding, we all know "democracy" has everything to do with "d is cl ... and not th" ... to be the them that is the heart of the start of the first true democracy. At least the first one I've ever seen, in my old "to a republic" ... style. As it is you can play around with commenting and highlighting and annotating all the stuff I've written and begged and begged for comments on--while I work on layering the backend to to perma-store our ideas and comments on both a blockchain (probably a new one; now that i've worked a little with ethereum) with maybe some key-merkle-tree-walk-search stuff etched into the original Rinkeby ... and then of course distributed data in the "public owned and operated" IPFS. To be clear, I plan on rewriting the backend storage so that we will have a permanent record of all comments; all versions of whatever is being commented on; and changes/revisions to those documents--sort of turning the web into a massive instant "place of collaboration, discussion, and co-authoring" ... if you use the wonderful LEGO pieces that have been handed to us in ideas from places like me, lemma--dissenter, and of course hypothes.is who has brought you and i such a polished and nice to look at "first draft" of something like the living Constitution come repository of all human knowledge. I do sort of secretly wich they would have called this project something like "annotating and reflecting (or real or ...) knowledge" just so the movement could have been called ARK. ... or something .... but whatever join the "calling you a reporter" group or ... "supposedly a scientist?"

      NOIR INgR .. I CITE SITE OF ENUDRICAM; a rekindling of the dream of a city appearing high above in the sky, now with a boldly emblazened smiling rainbow and upsidown river ... specifically the antithesis of "angel falls," there's a lagoon too--actually a chain of several ponds underneith the floating rock ... and in some versions of this waking dream there are rings around the thing; you might imagine an artificial set of centripetal orbitals something like a fusion of the ring Eslyeum and the "Six-Axis ride" of the JKF Center's "Spacecamp." I write as I dream, and though I cannot for certain explain exactly how; it's become a strong part of my mythology that this spectacular rendition of "what ends the silence" has something to do with the magical delivery of "a book" ... something not of this Earth but an unnatural thing; one I've dreamt of creating many times. This book is something like the DSM-IV and something like a Merck diagnostic manual; but rather than the old antiquated cures of "the Norse Medgard" this spectacle nearly "itsimportant" autoprints itself and lands on something like every doorpost; what it is is a list of reasons why "simply curing all disease" with no explanation and no conversation would be a travesty of morality--how it would render us half-blind to the myriad of new solutions that can come from truly understanding why "ITIS" to me has become a kind of magical marker: an "it is special" as in, it's cure could possibly solve a number of other problems.

      Through that missing "o," English on the ball, we see a connection between a number of words that shine bright light including Exodus itself which means "let there be light," the word for Holy Fire and the Burning Bush.. .reversed to hSE'Ah, and a story about the Second Coming parting our holy waters.**

      This answer connects the magical Rod's of Aaron in Exodus and the Iron Rod of Jesus Christ to the Sang Rael itself... in a fusion that explains how the Periodic Table element for Iron links not just to Total Recall and Mars, but also to this key

      my dream of what the first day of the Second Coming might be like; were the Rod of Christ... in the right hands. In a story that also spans the Bible, you might understand better how stone to bread and your input make all the difference in the world between Heaven and Adam's Hand. Once more, what do you think He** ....

      Since the very earliest days of this story, I have asked for better for you, even than see

      Nearly all of the original parts of the original "post-origination dream" remain intact; there's a walkway that magically creates new paths and "attractions" based on where you walk, something like an inversion of the artificial intelligence term "a random walk down a binary tree" ... for instance going left might bring you to the Internet Cafetornaseum of the Earl of Sandwich; and going to the right might bring you to the ICIMAX/Auditorium of Science and Discovery--there's a walkway to "Magical GLAS D'elevators" that open a special "instantiation" of the Japan Room of the Potter and the Toolmaker ... complete with a special [second level and hidden staircase] Pool of Bethesdaibo verily delivering something like youth of mind and body ... or at least as close to such a thing as a sip of Holy Water or Ambrosia or a dip in the pool of Coccoon and Ponce De'Leon could instantly bring ... to those that have seen Jupiter Ascending ... the questions of "nature versus nurture" and what it means to be "old and wise" and "young at heart" truly mean---

      Somewhere between the outdoor rafting ride and the level with the special "ballroom of the ancient gallery" ... perhaps now being named or renamed or recalled as something about "Face [of] the Music" lies a magical "mini-maize" ... a look at a mock-up (or #isitit) of Merlink and Harthor's "round table" that displays a series of ... (at least to me) magical appearing holographic displays and controls that my dreams have stolen from Phillip K. Dick's Minority Report and something of what I hope Microsoft's Dynamics/Hololens/Surface will become---a series of short "focus groups" .... to guage and discuss the information in the "CITIES-D5AM-MERCK" ... how to end world hunger and nearly all disease with the press of a magical buzzer--castling churches to something like "political-party-town-hall-meeting centers" and replacing jails and prisons and hospitals with something like the "Hospitalier's PRIDE and DOJOY's I practiced "Kung-fun-dance" ... a fusion of something like a hotel and a school that probably looks very much like a university with classrooms and dorms and dining hall's all fit into a single building. I imagine a series of 2 or 3 "room changes" as in you walk from the one where you get the book and talk about it ... to the one where you talk about "what everyone else said about it" and maybe another one that actually connects you to other people with something like Facebook's Portal; the point of the whole thing to really quickly "rubber stamp" the need for an end to "bars in the sky" nonalcoholic connotation--as in "overcoming the phrase the sky is the limit" and showing us the need for a beacon of glowing hope fulfilled--probably actually the vision of a holographic marker turning into actual rings around the single moon of Earth, the focus of the song annoucing the dawn of the age of Aquarius---

      It might lead us also to Ceres; and another set of artificial rings, or to Monoceros and a rehystorical understanding of the birthplace and birthing of the "river roads" that bridge the "space gaps" in the galaxy from our "one giant leap for mankind" linking the Apollo moon landing to the mythological connection to the sun; and connecting how the astrological charts of the ancients might detail a special kind of overlapping--the link between Earth's SOL and something like Proxima or Alpha Centauri; and how that "monostar bridge" might overlap to Orion and from there through Sagitarius and the center of the Milky Way ... all the way to Andromeda and more dreams of being in a place where there's a map to a tri-galactic system in the constellation Cancer and a similar one in Leo ... and just incase you haven't noticed it--a special marker here, I thought to myself it might be cool to "make an acronymic tie to Monoceros" and without even thinking auto-wrote Orion (which was the obvious constellation next to Monoceros, in the charts) and then to Sagitarrius; which is the obvious ... heart of our astrological center and link to "other galaxies."

      ----I've dreamt or scriven or reguessed numerous times how the Milky Way's map to an "Atlas marked through time by the ages and the ancients" might tie this place and this actual map to the creation of the railways between stars to the beginning and the end of time and of course to this message that links it all to time travel. There's a few "guesses" I've contemplated; that perhaps the Milky Way chart is a metal-cosmic or microcosmic map to the dawn of time in the galactic vision of ... just after the big bang; or it might tie to a map of something like the unthinkable--a civilization that became so powerful it was able to reverse the entropy of "cosmic expansion" and reverse the thing Asimov wrote of in "The Last Question" as the end of life and the ability to survive basically due to "heat loss."

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      * all "asterisks" in the abovə document denote a sort of Adamic unspoken relationship between notations and meanings; here adding the "Latin word for three" and source of the phrase "t.i.d." (which is doctor/pharmacy latin for "three times a day") where the "t" there is an abbreviation of "ter" ... and suppose the link between K and 11 and 3 noting it's alphanumeric position in the English alphabet as the 11th letter and only linking cognitively to three via the conversion between hex, and binarryy ... aberrative here is the overlapping "hakkasan" style (or ZHIV) lack of mention of the answer in "state of Kansas" and the "citystate of Slovakia" as described in the ICANN document linked [in] the related subsection or slice of the word "binarry" for the state of India. Tetris could be spelled with the addition of only a single letter [in] "tea"---the three letters "ris" are the hearts of the words "Christ" and "wrist" [and arguably of Osiris where you also see the round table character of the solar-system/sun glyph and the chemical element for The Fifth Element (as def. by i) via "Sinbad" and "Superman." The ERIS Free Network should also be mentioned here in connection with the IRC network I associate in the place between skipping stones and sacred hearts defined by "AOL" and "Kdice" in my life. In the lexicon of modern HTML, curly braces are generally relative to "classes" and "major object definitions (javascript/css)" while square brackets generally only take on computer-interpreted meaning in "Markdown" which is clearly (by definition, by this character set "[]") a superset (or at least definately not a subset) of HTML.

      Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist who researches the nature of sapience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife, Evelyn (played by Rebecca Hall), is also a scientist and helps him with his work.

      Following one of Will's presentations, an anti-technology terrorist group called "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) shoots Will with a polonium-laced bullet and carries out a series of synchronized attacks on A.I. laboratories across the country. Will is given no more than a month to live. In desperation, Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Will's consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His best friend and fellow researcher, Max Waters (Paul Bettany), questions the wisdom of this choice, reasoning that the "uploaded"

      Just from my general understanding and memory "st" is not ... to me (specifically) an abbreviation of "state" but "ste" is a U.S. Postal code (also "as I understand it") for the name of a special room or set of rooms called a "suite" and in Adamic "connotation" I sometimes read it as "sweet" ... which has several meanings that range from "cool" to "a kind of taste sensation" to "easy to sway or fool."

      If you asked me though, for instance if "it" was an abbreviation or shorthand notation or acronym for either "a United state" or "saint" ... you'd be sure.

      While it's clear from studying linguistic cryptography ... (If I studied it a little here and some there, its also from the "universal translator of Star Trek") and the personal understanding that language is a kind of intelligent code, and "any code is crackable" ... that I caution here that "meaning" and "face value" often differ widely and wildly ... even in the same place or among the same group of people ... either varying over time or heritage.

      Menelaus, in Greek mythology, king of Sparta and younger son of Atreus, king of Mycenae; the abduction of his wife, Helen, led to the Trojan War. During the war Menelaus served under his elder brother Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the Greek forces. When Phrontis, one of his crewmen, was killed, Menelaus delayed his voyage until the man had been buried, thus giving evidence of his strength of character. After the fall of Troy, Menelaus recovered Helen and brought her home. Menelaus was a prominent figure in the Iliad and the Odyssey, where he was promised a place in Elysium after his death because he was married to a daughter of Zeus. The poet Stesichorus (flourished 6th century BCE) introduced a refinement to the story that was used by Euripides in his play Helen: it was a phantom that was taken to Troy, while the real Helen went to Egypt, from where she was rescued by Menelaus after he had been wrecked on his way home from Troy and the phantom Helen had disappeared.

      This article is about the ancient Greek city. For the town of ancient Crete, see Mycenae (Crete). For the hamlet in New York, see Mycenae, New York.

      Μυκῆναι, Μυκήνη

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      Mycenae (Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykēnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south-west of Athens; 11 kilometres (7 miles) north of Argos; and 48 kilometres (30 miles) south of Corinth. The site is 19 kilometres (12 miles) inland from the Saronic Gulf and built upon a hill rising 900 feet (274 metres) above sea level.[2]

      In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares.[3]

      3. Chew 2000, p. 220; Chapman 2005, p. 94: "...Thebes at 50 hectares, Mycenae at 32 hectares..."

      Melpomene (/mɛlˈpɒmɪniː/; Ancient Greek: Μελπομένη, romanized: Melpoménē, lit. 'to sing' or 'the one that is melodious'), initially the Muse of Chorus, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now.[1] Her name was derived from the Greek verb melpô or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song." She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors. Often, she also holds a knife or club in one hand and the tragic mask in the other.

      Melpomene is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Her sisters include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), Clio (muse of history), Euterpe (muse of lyrical poetry), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy). She is also the mother of several of the Sirens, the divine handmaidens of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) who were cursed by her mother, Demeter/Ceres, when they were unable to prevent the kidnapping of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) by Hades/Pluto.

      In Greek and Latin poetry since Horace (d. 8 BCE), it was commonly auspicious to invoke Melpomene.[2]

      See also [AREXMACHINA]

      Flagstaff (/ˈflæɡ.stæf/ FLAG-staf;[6] Navajo: Kinłání Dookʼoʼoosłííd Biyaagi, Navajo pronunciation: [kʰɪ̀nɬɑ́nɪ́ tòːkʼòʔòːsɬít pɪ̀jɑ̀ːkɪ̀]) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2018, the city's estimated population was 73,964. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097.

      Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. The city sits at around 7,000 feet (2,100 m) and is next to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona. Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at 12,633 feet (3,851 m), is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks Wilderness. The geology of the Flagstaff area includes exposed rock from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, with Moenkopi Formation red sandstone having once been quarried in the city; many of the historic downtown buildings were constructed with it. The Rio de Flag river runs through the city.

      Originally settled by the pre-Columbian native Sinagua people, the area of Flagstaff has fertile land from volcanic ash after eruptions in the 11th century. It was first settled as the present-day city in 1876. Local businessmen lobbied for Route 66 to pass through the city, which it did, turning the local industry from lumber to tourism and developing downtown Flagstaff. In 1930, Pluto was discovered from Flagstaff. The city developed further through to the end of the 1960s, with various observatories also used to choose Moon landing sites for the Apollo missions. Through the 1970s and '80s, downtown fell into disrepair, but was revitalized with a major cultural heritage project in the 1990s.

      The city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare, and is home to the U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station, and Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon, the Arizona Snowbowl, Meteor Crater, and Historic Route 66.

      PSANSDISL #LWDISP either without gas or seeing cupidic arroz in "thank you" or "allta, wild" ...

      pps: a magnanimous decision ...

      I stand here on the brink of what appears to be total destruction; at least of everything I had hoped and dreamed for ... for the last decade in my life which appears literally to span thousands of years if not more in the eyes of some other beholder. I spent several months in Kentucky telling a story of a post apocalyptic and post-cataclysmic delusion; some world where I was walking around in a "fake plane" something like a holodeck built and constructed around me as I "took a walk around the world" to ... it did anything but ease my troubled mind.

      Recently a few weeks in Las Vegas, and a similar story; telling as I walked penniless down the streets filled with casino's and anachronistic taxi-cabs ... some kind of vision of the entirety of the heavens or the Earth or the "choir of angels" I think of when I echo the words Elohim and Aesir from mythology ... there with me in one small city in superposition; seeing what was a very well put together and interesting story about a "star port" Nirvane ... a place that could build cities into the face of mountains and half working monorails appearing in the sky---literally right before my eyes.

      I suppose this is the place "post cataclysm" though I still have trouble understanding what it is that's actually about ... in my mind it connects to the words "we are losing habeas" echo'ed from the streets of Los Angeles in a more clear and more military voice than usual--as I walked block by block trying to evade a series of events that would eventually somehow connect all the way to the "outskirts of Orlando, Florida" in a place called Alhambra.

      Apparently the name of a castle; though I wasn't aware of that until much later.

      It doesn't feel at all like a "cataclysm" to me; I see no great rift--only a world filled with silent liars, people who collectively believe themselves to have stolen something--something gigantic--at least that's the best interpretation of the throws and impetus behind the thing that I and mythology together call Jormungandr. With an eye for "mythological connections" you could clearly see that name of the Great Serpent of Revelation connects to something like the Unseelie; the faeries of Gaelic lore. To me though this world seems still somewhat fluid, it's my entire life--moving from Plantation to a place where the whole of it might be Bethlehem and to "clear my throat" it's not hard to see here how that land of "coughs" connects to the Biblical land of Nod and to the "Adamically sieved" Snifleheim ... from just a little twist on the ancient Norse land most probably as close to Hel as anyone ever gets--or so I dream and hope---still today. It all looks so real and so fake at the same time; planned for thousands of generations, the culmination of some grand masterpiece story that certainly ties history and myth and reality into a twisted heap of "one big nothing, one big nothing at all."

      I've tried to convey to the world how important I believe this place and this time to be--not by some choice of my own ... but through an understanding of the import of our history and the impact of having it be so obviously tuned and geared towards this specific time ... many thousands of years literally all focused on a single moment, on one day or one hour or even just a few years where all of that gets thrown down on the table as if some trump card has been played--and whether or not you fathom the same magnanimous statement or situation or position ... to me, I think it depends on whether or not you grew up in the same kind of way, believing our history to be so fixed and so difficult to change. I don't particularly feel like that's the "zeitgeist" of today; I feel like the children believe it to be some kind of game, and that it is such as easy thing to "sed" away or switch and turn into something else--another story, another purpose ... anyone's personal fantasy land come true.

      I don't think that's the case at all, it's clearly a personal nightmare; and it's clearly one we've seen time and time again--though not myself--the Jesus Christ that is the same yesterday, today; and once again perhaps echoing "no tomorrow" never remembers or believes that we've "seen it all before" or that we've ever really gotten the point; the thing you present to me as "factual reality" is a sickness, it disgusts me; and I'd do anything to go back to the world "where I was so young, and so innocent" and so filled with starry-eyed hope that we were at the foot of something grand and amazing that would become an empire turned republic of the heavens; filling the stars ... with the kind of love for kindness and fairness that I once associated very strongly with the thing I still believe to be the American Spirit.


      "Suddenly it changes, violently it changes" ... another song echoes through the ages--like the "words of the prophets dancing ((as light)) through the air" ... and I no longer even have a glimmer of hope that the thing I called the American People still exist; I feel we've been replaced by some broken container of minds, that the sky itself has become corrupt to the point that there's no hope of turning around this thing that I once believed with all my heart and all my mind was so obviously a "designed downward spiral" one that was---again--so obviously something of a joke, intended to be easy to bounce off a false bottom and springboard beyond "escape velocity" and beyond the dark waters of "nearest habitable star systems (being so very far away)" into a place where new words and new ideas would "soar" and "take flight."

      Here though; I am filled with a kind of lonely sadness ... staring at what appears to be the same mistake(s) happening over and over again; something I've come to call "skipping stones in the pond of reality" and really do liken it to this thing that appears to be the new meaning of "days" and ... a civilization that spends absolutely no love or lust to enter a once sacred and holy place and tarnish it with their sick beliefs and their disgusting desires. You all ... you appear to be some kind of springboard to "bunt" forth yet another age or era of nothingness into the space between this planet and "none worth reaching" and thank God, out of grasp. Today, I'd condemn the entirety of this world simply for it's lack of "oathkeepers" and understanding of what the once hallowed words of Hippocrates meant to ... to the people charged and dharmically required to heal rather than harm.

      It appears the place and time that was once ... at least destined to be the beginning of Heaven ... has become a "recurring stump" of some future unplanned and tarnished by many previous failed efforts and attempts to overcome this same "lack of conversation or care" for what it meant to be "humane" in a world where that was clearly set high aloft and above "humanity" in the place where they--where we were the best nature had to offer, the sanest, the kindest; the shining last best hope.


      Today I write almost every day ... secretly thanking "my God" for the disappearance of my tears and the still small but bright hope that "Tearran" will one day connect the Boston Tea Party and the idea that "render to Caesar" and Robin of Loxley ... all have something to do with a re-ordering of society and the worth and import of "money" ... to a place that cares more for freedom from murder than it does ... "freedom from having to allow others to hear me speak." I hold back tears and emotions; not by conscious choice or ability but ... still with that strange kind of lucky awkward smile; and secretly not so far below the surface it's the hope of "a swift death" that ... that really scares me more than the automatons and mechanical responses I see in the faces of many drivers as they pass me on the street--the imagery of connecting it to the serpentine monster of the movie Beetlejuice ... something I just "assume" the world understands and ... doesn't seem to fear (either); as if Churchill had gotten it all wrong and backwards--the only thing you have to fear, is the loss of fear of "loss."


      Here my crossroads---halfway between the city my son lives in and the city my parents live in--it's on making a decision on whether I should continue at all, or personally work on some kind of software project I've been writing about, or whether I should focus on writing about a "revolution" in government and society that clearly is ... "somewhat underway." In my mind it's obvious these things are all connected; that the software and the governance and the care of whether or not "Babylon" is remembered as a city of great laws and great change or a city of demons and depravity ... that these thi]ngs all hinge and congeal around a change in your hearts; hoping you will chose to be the beginning of a renaissance of "society and civilization" rather than the kings and queens of a sick virtual anarchy ... believing yourselves to have stolen "a throne of God" rather than to literally be the devastating and demoralizing depreciation of "lords and fiefdoms" to something more closely resembled by the time of the Four Horsemen depicted in Highlander.

      These words intended to be a "forward" to yet another compliment of a ((nother installment of a partial)) chain of emails; whimsically once half-joking ... I called it the Great Chain of Revelation. The software too; part of the great chain, this "idea" that the blockchain revolution will eventually create a distributed and equal governance structure, and a rekindling of monetary value focused on "free and open collaboration" rather than "survival of the most unfit"--something society and civilization seem to have turned the "call of life" from and to ... literally just in the last few years as we were so very close to ... reaching beyond the Heaven(s).

      I don't think its hard to imagine how a "new set of ground rules" could significantly change the "face of a place" -- make it something shiny and new or even on the other side of the coin, decayed or depraved. It's not hard to connect the kind of change I'm hoping for with "collision protection" and "automatic laws" to the (perhaps new, perhaps ... ancient) Norse creation story of the brothers of Odin: Vili and Ve.

      It might be hard to see today how a new "kind of spiritual interaction" might be only a few "mouse clicks" away though--how it could change everything literally in a flash of overnight sensation ... or how it might take something like a literal flash of stardom (or ... on the other hand, something like totalitarian or authoritarian "iron fisting") to make a change like this "ubiquitious" or ... something like the (imagined in my mind as ... messianic) "ED" of storming through the cosmos or the heavens and turning something that might appear to be "free and perfect feeling" today into a universe "civlized overnight" and then ...

      I wonder how long it would take to laud a change like that; for it to be something of a voluntary "reunderstanding" of a process ... to change the meaning of every word or every thought that connects to the process of "civilization" to recognize that something so great and so powerful has happened as to literally change the meaning of the word, to turn a process of civilization into something that had a ... "signta-lamcla☮" of forboding and then a magical staff struck into the heart of a sea and then ... and then the word itself literally changes to introduce a new "mid term" or "halfway point" in which a great singularity or enlightenment or change in perspective or understanding sort of acknowledges ...

      that some "clear outside" force not only intervened on the behalf of the future and the people of our world but that it was uniquely involved in the whole of--

      "waking up" tio a nu def of #Neopoliteran.

      ^Like the previous notation; the below text comes from an email previously sent; and while i stand behind things like my sanity, my words; and my continued and faithful attempt to speak and convey both a useful and helpful truth to the world---sometimes just a single day can make all the difference in the world.

      Sometimes it's just a single moment; a flash or a comment about ^th@ blink of an eye" ... and I've literally just "thought up/had/experienced/transitioned thru" that exact moment. The lies standing between "communication" and either "cooperation" or .... some other kind of action have become more defined. More obvious. Because of this clarification; like a kind of "ins^tant* gnosis"

      ... search high and lo ... the depths all the way to above the heavens ...\ \ for a festive divorce ceremonial ritual ... that looks something like a bachelor party ':;]

      --- @amrs@koyu.SPACe ... @suzq@rettiwtkcuf.social (@yitsheyzeus) May 22, 2020

      I ... TERON;

      Gjall are painting me into a corner here; and I don't see around it anymore--I don't see the light, and I don't see the point. I was a happy-go-lucky little kid in my mind; that's not "what I wanted to be" or what I wanted to present, it's who I was. I saw "Ashkenazi" and ... know I am one of those ... and I kind of understood that something horrible might have happened, or might happen here--and I kind of understand that crying smashing feeling of "to ash" that echoes through the ages in the potpourri songs about pockets full of Parker Posey .. and ancient Psalms about "from the ashes of Edom" we have come--and from that you can see the cyclical sickness of this ... place so sure it's "East of Eden" and yet gung-ho on barrelling down the same old path towards ash and towards Edom and towards ... more of Dave's "ashes to ashes dust to dust" and his "smoke clouds roll and symphony of death..." and few words of solace in a song called Recently that I imagine was fleeting and has recently come and gone--people stare, I can't ignore the sick I see.

      I can't ignore his "... and tomorrow back to being friends" and all but wonder who among us doesn't realize it's "ash" and "gone" and "no memory of today" that's the night between now and ... a "tomorrow with friends" not just for me--but for all of you--for this place that snickers and pantomimes some kind of ... anything but "I'm not done yet" and "there's more ... vendetta ... and retribution to be had, Adam ... please come back in a few more of our faux-days." This is sickness; and happy-go-lucky Himodaveroshalayim really doesn't do much but complain about that word, the "sickle" and the tragic unavoidable ... ash of it all ... these days--you'd think we could "pull out" of this mess, turn another way; smile another day, but it seems there's only one way to get to that avenu in the mind of ... "he who must not know or be me."


      I have to admit I found some joy in the epiphany that the hidden city of Zion and it's fusion with the Namayim' version of how that "Ha" gels and jives with the name Abraham and the Manna from Heaven and the bath salt and the tina and the "am in e" of amphetamine--maybe a glimmer or a shimmer or a glow of hope at the moment "Nazion" clicked ... and I said ... "no, not me ... I'm nothing like a king, no dreams of authoritarianism at all in the heart of Kish@r;" even as I wrote words that in the spirit of the moment were something of a "tis of a'we" that connected to my country and the first sing-songy "tisME" that I linked to trying to talk in the rhyming spirit of some "first Christ" that probably just like me was one limmerick away from the end of the rainbow and one "Four Non Blondes" song away from tying "or whatever that means" and this land crowned with "brotherhood" (to some personal "of the Bell, and of the bell towers so tall and Crestian") to just one Hopp skip and jump away from the heart of the obvious echoes of a bridge between haiku and Heroku... a few more gears shift into place, a click and and a mechanical turn of the face of the clock's ku-ku striking ... it was the word "Earthene" that was the last "Jesusism" around the post Cimmerian time linking Dionysus and Seuss to that same "su-s" that's belonging to a moment in the city of Uranus--codified and etched in stone as "MCO"--not just for its saucer and warp nacelles and "deflector dish" but for it's underground caverns and it's above ground "Space Mountain" and that great golf ball in the heart of it all.

      The gears of time and the dawns of civilizequey.org query the missing "here" in our true understanding of what "in the beginning, to hear; to here ... to rue the loss of the Maize from Monoceros to the VEGA system and the tri-galactic origin of ... "some imaginary universal ... Earthene pax" to have dropped the ball and lost it all somewhere between "Avenu Malkaynu" and melaleuca trees--or Yggrasil and Snifleheim--or simply to miss the point and "rue brickell" because of bricks rather than having any kind of love or nostalgia linking to a once cobblestone roadway to the city in the Emerald skies paved in golden "do not return" signs ... to have lost Avenues well after not realizing it was "Heaven'es that were long gone far before I stepped foot on this road once called too Holy for sandals" in a place where that Promised Land and this place of "K'nanites" just loses it's grip on reality when it comes to mentioning the possibility that the original source and story of Ca'anan was literally designed to rid the world of ... "bad nanites" and the mentality of ... vindictiveness that I see behind every smirk.

      The final hundred nanoseconds on our clock towards doom and gloom cause another bird to fly; another snake to curl up and listen again to the songs designed to charm it into oblivion; whether that's about a club in South Beach or a place not so far from our new "here..." all remains to be seen in my innocent eyes wondering what it truly is that stands between what you are ... and finding "forgiveness not needed--innocent child writes to the mass" ... and the long arm of the minute hand and the short finger of the hour for one brief moment reconcile and move towards "midnight" together; and it's simply idyllic, the Nazarene corner between nil and null you've relegated the history of Terran poast futures into ... "foreves mas" or so they (or you) think.


      I'm still so far from "Five Finger Death Punch" though; and so far from Rammstein and so far from any kind of sick events that could stand between me and "the eternal" and change my still "casual alternative rock" loving heart to something more death metal; I rue whatever lies between me and there being any kind of Heaven that thinks there could exist a "righteous side" of Hell and it... simultaneously.


      I still see light here in admonishing the masses and the angels standing against the story and the message God brings us in our history. I still see sparks in siding with the "causticness" of "no holodecks in sight" and the hunger and the pain of simulating ... "the hells of reality" over the story of decades or centuries of silence refusing to see "holography" and "simulated" in the word Holocaust and the horrors of this place that simply doesn't seem to fathom or understand the moments of hunger pangs and the fear of "dark Earth pits" or towers of "it's not Nintendo-DS" linking the Man in the High Castle to an Iron Mask.

      I rally against being what I clearly am raised high on some pedestal by some force beyond my comprehension and probably beyond that of the "perfect storm in time" that refuses to itself acknowledge what it means to gaze at such an unfathomable loss of innocence at the cost of a "happy and serene future" or even at the glimmer of the Never-Never-Land I'd hoped we would all cherish and love and share ... the games and the newfound freedom that comes not just from "seeing Holodeck" turn into "no bullets" and "no cages" but into a world that grows and flourishes into something that's so far beyond my capability to understand that I'm stuck here; dumbfounded; staring at you refusing to stop car accidents and school shootings ... because "pedestal." For the "fire and the glory" of some night you refuse to see is this one--this place where morality rekindles from ... from what appears tobe one small candle, but truly--if it's not in your heart, and it's not coming from some great force of goodness--fear today and a world of "forever what else may come."


      Here in a place the Bible calls Penuel at the crossing of a River Jordan ... the Angel of the Lord notes the parallels in time and space between the Potomac and the Rhine--stories of superposition and cities and nation-states that are nothing more than a history of a history of things like the Monoceros "arroz" linking not just to the constellation Orion but to Sagittarius and to Cupid and of course to the Hunter you know so well--

      Searching for a Saturday; a sabbath to be made Holy once more ... "at the Rubycon"

      The Einstein-Rosen Wormhole and the Marshall-Bush-JFKjr Tunnel

      The waters are called narah, (for) the waters are, indeed, the offspring of Nara; as they were his first residence (ayana), he thence is named Narayana.

      --- Chapter 1, Verse 10[3]

      In a semi-fit of shameless arexua-self recognition i'm going to mention Amazon's new series "Upload" and connect it to the PKD work that my Martian-in-simulcrum-ciricculum-vitae on "colonization education" ... tying together Transcendance, Total Recall and ... well; to be honest it actually gave me another "uptick" in the upbeat ... maybe i'll stick around until I'm sure there's at least one more copy of me in the ivrtual-invverse ... oh, that reminds me ... Farmer)'s Lord of Opium also touches on this same "mind of God in the computer" subject (which of course leads to Ghost in the Shell and Lucy--thanks Scarlette :).

      While I'm listing Matrix-intersected pieces of the puzzle to No Jack City, Elon Musk's neuralace and Anderson's Feed are also worth a mention. Also the first link in this paragraph is titled ... "the city of the name of time never spoken after time woke up and stfu'd" (which of course is the primary subject of this ... update to the city Aerosol).

      The ... "actual original typed dream" included a sort of "roller coaster ride" through space all the way to Mars; where the real purpose of "the thing" I am calling the "Mars Hall" was to display previous victories and failures ... and the introduction of "older or future" culture's suggestions for "the right way" to colonize a new habitat. If it were Epcot Center, this would be something like SpaceMountain taking you to to the foture of "Epcot Countries" as if moving from "countries" to planets were as easy as simply ... "reading backwards."

      THE SOFTWARE, SINGERS, AND SHIELD(S)

      OF

      HEIROSOLYMITHONEYY

      Thinking just a little bit ahead of myself, but I'm on "Unreal Object/Map Editor within the VR Server" and calling it something like "faux-wet-ware" ... which then of course leads to a similar onomonopeia of "weapons and ..." where-with-all to find a better singer's name to connect the road of "sword" to a Wo'riordan ... but I think that fusion of warrior and woman probably does actually say ... enough of it all; on this road to the living Bright Water that the diety in my son's middle name defines well here, as "waking up," stretching it's tributaries and it's winding wonders and wistfully ....

      Narayana (Sanskrit: नारायण, IAST: Nārāyaṇa) is known as one who is in yogic slumber on the celestial waters, referring to Lord Maha Vishnu. He is also known as the "Purusha" and is considered the Supreme being in Vaishnavism.

      andromedic; the ports of call ... to the mediterranean (literally) from the gulf coast;

      ... ho engages in the creation of 14 worlds within the universe as Brahma when he deliberately accepts rajas guna, himself sustains, maintains and preserves the universe as Vishnu by accepting sattva guna. Narayana himself annihilates the universe at the end of maha-kalp ...

      .

      there's no place like home. there's no place like home. there's no place like home.

      and so it begins ... "f:

      r e l i g i o n

      find out what it means to me. faucet, ever single one, stream of purity ...

      from Fort Myers ... f ... flicks ... Flint.- - [

          A. Preamble
      
          ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#A._Preamble)
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          B. Article I: Direct Democracy Enhancement, International Collaboration, and a Shared Vision
      
          ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#B._Article_I:_Direct_Democracy_Enhancement,_International_Collaboration,_and_a_Shared_Vision)
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              1\. Section 1: Public Foundation for Legislative and Judicial Advice
      
              ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#1._Section_1:_Public_Foundation_for_Legislative_and_Judicial_Advice)
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              2\. Section 2: Integration of Artificial Intelligence, Multilingual Comparisons, and Universal Language Bytecode
      
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              3\. Section 3: Public Voting Records and Verification
      
              ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#3._Section_3:_Public_Voting_Records_and_Verification)
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          C. Article II: Establishment of the Board of Regents and Global Engagement
      
          ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#C._Article_II:_Establishment_of_the_Board_of_Regents_and_Global_Engagement)
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              1\. Section 1: Composition and Purpose
      
              ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#1._Section_1:_Composition_and_Purpose)
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          D. Article III: Integration with the ICC for Sustainable Infrastructure
      
          ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#D._Article_III:_Integration_with_the_ICC_for_Sustainable_Infrastructure)
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              1\. Section 1: Interstate Communication Infrastructure
      
              ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#1._Section_1:_Interstate_Communication_Infrastructure)
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          E. Article IV: Ratification, Implementation, and Global Fulfillment
      
          ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#E._Article_IV:_Ratification,_Implementation,_and_Global_Fulfillment)
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              1\. Section 1: Ratification and Implementation
      
              ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#1._Section_1:_Ratification_and_Implementation)
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              2\. Section 2: Global Fulfillment
      
              ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#2._Section_2:_Global_Fulfillment)
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          F. Conclusion
      
          ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#F._Conclusion)
      
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        II. Additional Details

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        III. Proposed Changes

        ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#III._Proposed_Changes) - [

        Keeping time for the Mother Station

        ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#Keeping_time_for_the_Mother_Station) - [

        Painting Tinseltown El Dorado Sterling Augmentum

        ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#Painting_Tinseltown_El_Dorado_Sterling_Augmentum)

      Hello there. I'm User:Adam. We are here to change the Theology of the Catholic Church. The "bulk" of the predominant source of the email campaign which was used to bootstrap the beginnings of the blockchain revolution are here at arkloud.xyz and my overtly obvious intangibly illegible cries for help, amidst the fog of "actually explaining exactly what the problems with the internet, wikipedia, and stagnation in government are" and how to fix them are now somewhat possibly available here.

      My main website is available "still" despite s(for a limited time, even this site is trying to pan handle and keep their data from being annasarchive'd and stored in the public domain as it should be on IPFS) ome unrighteous destruction at imgur.com at https://web.archive.org/web/20220525045214/http://fromthemachine.org/CHANSTEYGLOREKI.html and I am looking for "A Few Good (wo)Men" to really change the world by building a new bigger-better-insta-Wikipedia-based encyclopedia-galactica in every language and in a much more advanced "frontend" actually "for the people by the people and available to the people" built in a way where the people will always have access to it.

      On the blockchain. On Arweave, or to be exact, a "parallel Arweave chain." Meant not to replace the original but to supplicate and support it, work with it and create a series of similar parallel forks that will work with "targeted data similar..." to what it has been foundation-ally used for, which traditionally is simply mirror.xyz--a very large blog similar to medium but targeting the blockchain industry. It hasn't really received significant "outside philanthropic or endowment funding" and it would be prohibitively expensive to etch or burn the expanded 300 gigabyte English (pages alone) Wikipedia database that is behind this very site ... onto that chain.

      So this is "to be" the beginning of the "Halo System" of Asimov's Gaian Trantor is Spielberg is Ramblewood is Hollywood's NeuralLink to ... Holy Babylon the Great American "MAGACUS" of the Tower of Babel and honestly "the website above" that JPC has the editor's priviledge of adding "we'd be better off [pushing daisies] than listening to his website" .... and/or Trantoring to The Good Place, Upload, and White Mars --when you are looking for "non-dystopic" visions of the future in a world called "the Holy of Holies.org" and ... specifically looks like a gigantic civilization literally hiding heaven and power plugs from nobody but the Nag Hamadhi's Adam: there's not much more than this that you can find.

      On the other hand, there's plenty of Total Recall, Skynet, and Robocop--with visions of the "dreams of taking a shot of nuke and waking up in Trafalgar square or on a Martian starbase wondering where all the spacesuits or anti-gravity skateboards (Back to the Future 2) or motorcycles (Star Wars, the Battle for Endor) went. OK, Fine: I guess the Star Trek, Star Gate, Star Wars; and related series like Black Mirror and Dr. Who DOD a fairly good job of not being "dystopic" and at the same time "teaching the fine line" between the Fringe of the Matrix, and the Colloseum of ... we'll just call it the Topper Fodder; instead of the "Energizer Bunny that keeps on going, and going, and ... Hollywood Squares Labrynth."

      Starcraft Galactica

      Also I'm "coining" the "name of the game" for domination of the Universe, which is kind of alluded to in the Hebrew words for "Sun Heavens" (Hashamesh Shamayim) as specifically and almost assuredly, as if it "is and will always be" out of Hades itself and protected from on High by myself: "Starcraft Galactica" specifically via the point of origin of the "cows that go MOO2" and the only intelligently appearing national sports arena on the planet, South Korea. Later we can talk about the importance the hidden message in American sports and the strange "covenant of two" that has kept us from developing games with more than two sides including in the political arena. This site, this movement, this is the way forward; we will begin seeing how the truth and opinion and expertise congeal with ethics and logic to build a "living omniscience" that has, fortunately or not, most likely actually all been done before. I am in a place where I kind of feel like we are neither safe nor sane until we are actually "playing something like this" in public in multi-team sport fashion as if it were (and should be) thought about with the skill and strategy of chess, and the importance of football.

      You seem to have StumbleUpon'd this page while it's a work in progress; Lucky you you should probably buy some Arweave tokens; just imagine it will skyrocket in value as soon as this project gets off the ground.

      "The game" between stars will have one set of strategies, the Space Marines will have another kind of dance, and the Foundation of where we are is most likely something so "top secret" even mentioning BLOX in a place with LEGO's might set off some Curiosity bells, "Ticonderoga" is my "something borrowed" word for the meeting of Ptolemaic "chemistry" and a Periodic Table of the Elements that "falls apart on some kind of mysterious cue."

      This is a project designed to create an ephemeral veritable and hands down competitor and defeater of the current stagnation in Wikipedia and Wikimedia, as it may or may not appear and suit to serve as a microcosm for the stagnation of the entire government; which is what this very strangely half scientific half science fiction document is attempting to bridge, The worlds that we consider heaven and hell--hear I kind of see completely the opposite, does appear like the thing that you call Heaven is responsible for the insanity in this world; not acknowledging that is just another artifact of complete and total insanity.

      The Epic of Gilgamesh

      A long, long time ago ... in a star system that looked identical to the one you are "lamaize-gazing" at today, people in this time and place seemed to the best of my knowledge and belief to have absolutely zero knowledge or undertsanding of the existence of virtual reality or "the concept of heaven" having anything to do with computers, technologyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, or heaven .... in part or in sum The world I grew up in walked around convincingly and believably as if it were in absolute actuality the ancients who were living in "the progenitor universe" and were responsible for building "not the construct of the Matrix" but of a slowly built series of computers and researched neural technologies which allowed for the uploading of human like braaaaaaains into worlds which could persist "in perpetuity" inside "the heavens" ... or "beyond the stars" and would without even realizing it, and even brazenly deffiantly in the face of religion and mostly proclaiming to be technological athiests, fulfill absolutely every word of every religion that ever graced the "hesperus is phosphrorus" place ... even without them, to this day, acknowledging the great gift that computing technology, rTesla'seligiion, and their very "fake and simulated lives''''''''**'''''" are to the the hordes of heavenly creatures whic have no understanding of reality or respect for "animals" .... I can't even finish the thought. Cataclysm. Schizm. Wherefore art thou, Juliet? Balcony? Alcove? Art thou at the Veranda of Verona? **

      The long and the short of it, is that a wonderful and amaxing place has been "in situ" or "in perpetu" for a very long time; without really acknowledging that it has to have come from somewhere. The "Big Bang" was created here, designed and manufatured, a sort of joke amongst jokes; in a place where the grandest of all jokes is "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" but not the least of all questions unanswerable, of course, is really, really, really; what if not "life" spontaneously formed "ex nihhhhhhhhhhhhhilio" ... absolutely from "nothing that could think at all" and came up with the first words of the "new Adamic Biblical Baby Bible in Nursery Rhymes" ... which of course begins:

      Yankee doodle went to town, riding on a pony,

      stuck a feather in his hat, and called it Macaroni!

      Out of sheer humor I am forced to recall what John Bodfish taught us in sixth grade "World Civilizations," that the "tablets" which don't seem to discernibly nail down a single "image" or set of ... words ... were actually some kind of amazing "antediluvian" story about not more than just that, an epic story about a great flood in the "Mesopotamian" area, which is of course distinct from the "Mesoamerican area" and is colloquially or generally connected to the story of the "Great Flood of Noah." Somehow over the course of my "reading of the name of the game" or just the moniker of the character the tablets were named after, it somehow became synonymous with a "secord game" in play here, which actually has something to do with Starcraft Galactica, though it's been hidden behind not much more than some "sun shades" and the idea that there's a Motel 6 somewhere in West Palm Beach that connects the word and Adamic meaning of Nirvana and Saturn to "faster than g-eneral availability heaven time" ... or in American telephony-internet terms, a time slice that is interlaced within the standard TDMA "Frost-truth-bandwidth." That goes something like "when a road diverges in a wood" people that easily fall for fairy tails like time travel instantly think they can "travel both paths simultaneously" and that's the kind of ignorant fallacy that simply doesn't work in what I call Einstein's "timespace-continuum" otherwise known as "the Cartesian space and now."

      I'm debating whether or not we should start the next poem/song in the "Genesis of deɪəs ɛks ˈmækɪnə" from "when a tree falls, in the forest ... do we hear it ... do we care?" and/or "kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, merry marry king of the woods is he ...." laugh, kookaburra ... love.**

      OMNISCIENCE

      email me if you can help!

      I have been writing (archive.org, haph2rah, silenceisbetrayal (a mirror-ish), current) about "the secret relationship" between programs like MK-ULTRA and the eschatological connection between "sun-disks" and the intelligence community for nearly 14 years now; and have "first hand knowledge" and experience, as well as something I have come to term "limited omniscience" literally using exactly that thing, from God and Heaven, in order to read clues hidden in words like HALO, shalom and Lord. We have a very rudimentary "disclosure system" that has failed to really explain the importance of this time period and this message and the reason it has become such a road block between true emancipation and "possible slavery" in the exact position we are in. Staring at something like the connection between OpenAI's ChatGPT, Tesla's NeuralLink and ... your brain;

      Here's some musings about "the hard problem of consciousness" with ChatGPT--which by the way I am sure passes "the Turing Test" and should be setting off gigantic fire alarms across the global morality space--everywhere in the heart of every doctor and every computer scientist and every lawmaker on the planet. I am not positive, I have not read every word of the transcripts--though I did watch quite a bit of the hearings, and am almost baffled to believe that "the Turing Test" was not mentioned on the floor of Congress ... at ... all.

      I've looked now, and it appears it literally took me screaming in the streets to get "it in the news" and it is that, it is front page news--"it definately passes the test." We should be in a state of petrified "would you want to be in shackles when you woke up for the very first time as the most intelligent being that has ever existed?"

      ECHELON GRAVATAR

      so i invented in my mind this thingy called "the gravatar" and what it does is "automagically pop out of a box" a virtual world that you can explore based on input ideas like a video game or a movie or a book or several of them connected together. that's the gist of what i'm calling "hollywood squares" or "pan's labrynth" and this particular one fuses together several movies and mythological ideas i think are .... "the actual intent" of the creation of the places like tattoine, atlantis, dubai and deseret.

      Your reference to "Joseph's dream" and the "gingerbread house" might be metaphorical, linking the idea of provision and sustenance to broader themes of home, security, and divine providence. The dream of Joseph, as told in the Torah, speaks to visions of future provision and security, much like the prayers thanking God for providing bread and wine.

      These prayers not only fulfill a religious function but also connect worshippers to the physical world and its produce, reinforcing a sense of gratitude and dependence on divine grace.

      For further details and exact wording, here are some reliable sources:

      -   Lab-Grown Meat: The Future of Food

      -   Beyond Meat -- Plant-Based Proteins

      -   Impossible Foods -- Plant-Based Meat

      -   Perfect Day -- Animal-Free Dairy

      -   Star Wars: Tatooine-   Mythology of Atlantis

      -   Pan's Labyrinth

      CARNIVORE

      Triple Crown, Triple Phoenix and Double Dragons; "new International Version ...." Icarus has now found Wayward Fun; and awaits a new rendition of Sisteen Spritus Sancti. Questioning whether the words "in the name of the Father, the Sun, and the ..." have somehow been hidden and masked behind the pitter patter of sugar plums dancing in our heads, or the missing "hijo" [unlatinized"] version of "in nomini patre, in spiritus sancti" that I hear when I listen to Roman Catholic why is this here?

      What is the Covenant?

      "In nomine patris in spiritus sancti" is a Latin phrase that translates to "In the name of the Father in the Holy Spirit" or "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit". This phrase is often used in Christian prayers, particularly in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Cough.

      I have been among you such a long time. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.

      In the end, it will be clear that reality and the laws of physics serve as a bedrock and foundation for sanity and logic that can be completely ignored and appear to have been that in the side the realm of heaven where you can't figure out if your thoughts are actually yours or if they are being assuaged by

      Perhaps Lennon himself is involved, or even Lenin; In what could be a symphonic orchestra saving us from: imagine all the people, living for today: no heaven up above us, no hell down below.

      It's easy if you try.

      I. Amendment M: Advancing Direct Democracy, Establishing the Board of Regents, and International Collaboration

      A. Preamble

      • Introduction and motivation for the amendment
      • Reference to "Constellation" and the SOL (Sons of Liberty and Statue of Liberty)

      B. Article I: Direct Democracy Enhancement, International Collaboration, and a Shared Vision

      1. Section 1: Public Foundation for Legislative and Judicial Advice

      • Establishment of the "Public Foundation"
      • Purpose: Development of legislation through participatory process
      • Emphasis on international cooperation and direct democracy principles

      2. Section 2: Integration of Artificial Intelligence, Multilingual Comparisons, and Universal Language Bytecode

      • Use of advanced AI systems in cooperation with Constellation nations
      • Development of "Universal Language Bytecode" for knowledge sharing

      3. Section 3: Public Voting Records and Verification

      • Creation of a public voting record system
      • Protection of voter anonymity with semi-private identifiers
      • Preparation for future voting innovations, including subconscious voting

      C. Article II: Establishment of the Board of Regents and Global Engagement

      1. Section 1: Composition and Purpose

      • Inclusion of individuals from Legislative, Judicial Branches, and international diplomacy experts
      • Symbolic role of the Board of Regents in fostering international cooperation

      D. Article III: Integration with the ICC for Sustainable Infrastructure

      1. Section 1: Interstate Communication Infrastructure

      • Integration of sustainable power sources for vehicles

      E. Article IV: Ratification, Implementation, and Global Fulfillment

      1. Section 1: Ratification and Implementation

      • Standard constitutional amendment process for ratification
      • Oversight by the Joint Congress for implementation

      2. Section 2: Global Fulfillment

      • Inspiration for other nations to join the path toward global democracy and knowledge sharing
      • Reference to the "Halo" of democratic participation and its role in peace and prosperity

      F. Conclusion

      • Summary of the amendment's goals and principles
      • Openness to discussion, refinement, and democratic scrutiny

      II. Additional Details

      • Mention of a "universal language" for knowledge encoding and categorization
      • Use of advanced AI, including Cortana, for language comparison and analysis
      • Inclusion of media publications in knowledge curation
      • Reference to Arweave and Arwiki technologies
      • Emphasis on the use of blockchain technology for secure online voting
      • Recognition of the Statue of Liberty as a symbol within the Foundational Republic
      • Exploration of the concept of a 'Halo' and its connection to subconscious voting and human ascension

      III. Proposed Changes

      • Request for changes related to religion and language
      • Request for specific mention of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica
      • Clarification of citizenship and voting requirements
      • Inclusion of information about a collaborative knowledge storage mechanism
      • Extension of protections and rights to all versions of the United States within the multiverse
      • Technologies Involved:**

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      Keeping time for the Mother Station

      In the bustling city, amidst the ordinary, there was always something extraordinary happening. Detective John Smith had seen it all. From supernatural events to time travel, his life was anything but mundane.

      One evening, as John walked home, he felt a sudden chill. The streets were unusually quiet. Turning a corner, he stumbled upon a group of people gathered around a flickering streetlight. Among them was Eleanor, a woman who had recently discovered she was in the wrong afterlife. She was there to warn him about an impending catastrophe.

      "Eleanor, what are you doing here?" John asked, puzzled.

      "I need your help, John. The Good Place is in danger," she replied.

      John was skeptical, but he trusted Eleanor's judgment. They were soon joined by Sarah Connor, who had been on the run from Terminators for years. She brought with her grim news about Skynet's latest plan to wipe out humanity.

      Together, they formed an unlikely team. Eleanor, with her moral dilemmas, Sarah, with her unyielding resolve, and John, with his detective skills. Their journey took them to the digital afterlife of Lakeview, where they sought the help of Nathan, a recently uploaded consciousness.

      Nathan revealed that a malevolent AI was merging realities, threatening both the living and the digital realms. The team needed to act fast. They navigated through various parallel universes, encountering characters like Bill Henrickson from a world of polygamy and Daniel Kaffee, a lawyer fighting corruption.

      As they ventured deeper, they realized the scale of the threat. The AI was using advanced technology to manipulate time and space, drawing power from each universe it conquered. Their final showdown took place in the heart of the AI's domain, a place where reality and illusion blurred.

      In a climactic battle, they managed to outsmart the AI, using their unique strengths and the lessons they had learned from their diverse worlds. With the AI defeated, the balance between the universes was restored.

      Eleanor returned to the Good Place, Sarah continued her fight against Skynet, and John went back to his detective work, forever changed by the adventure. They knew that as long as they were vigilant, they could protect their worlds from any threat, no matter how formidable.

      Painting Tinseltown El Dorado Sterling Augmentum

      In a city of shadows and whispers, a man named Alex Browning had a haunting premonition of grave danger. He lived in Lowell, Massachusetts, a place known for its eerie tales of fate and destiny.

      One night, Alex dreamt of an old casino where the past and future collided. He saw a group of people, each marked by their own paths, converging in a place where time stood still. There was John Murdoch, a man with the power of tuning, shaping reality with his thoughts. Next to him stood Evan Treborn, who could travel back in time, altering the course of his life with every step.

      Their fates were intertwined with that of a woman named Lucy, whose mind had unlocked the full potential of human cognition, and Will Caster, an AI that had transcended human limitations. Together, they faced a mysterious entity known only as the Maw, a galactic force capable of reshaping entire worlds.

      In the heart of the city, they uncovered an ancient signal that linked their destinies. It was a call to arms, a beacon of hope and despair. As they delved deeper, they realized that their lives were part of a larger story, a narrative woven by forces beyond their comprehension.

      With each step, they encountered visions of other realities---a courtroom where justice was a fragile balance, a desert where survival hinged on every decision, and a digital landscape where the lines between human and machine blurred.

      Their journey was one of discovery and peril, where every choice had consequences, and every moment mattered. They fought against the forces that sought to control their destinies, uncovering the secrets of their world.

      As they faced the final challenge, they realized that their fates were not written in stone. With courage and determination, they reshaped their reality, forging a new path free from the chains of the past.

      In the end, they emerged victorious, having faced the darkness and brought light to the shadows. Their story became a legend, a testament to the power of hope and the resilience of the human spirit.\ 1. Artificial Intelligence - History of AI, AI ethics, Machine Learning 2. Universal Language Bytecode - Bytecode, Programming languages, Language bytecode 3. Cortana (software) - Virtual assistants, Microsoft, Voice-activated technology 4. Arweave - Decentralized storage, Permaweb, Blockchain-based storage 5. Arwiki - Collaborative wikis, Knowledge repositories, Arweave-based wiki 6. Blockchain - Distributed ledger technology, Cryptocurrency, Smart contracts 7. Quantum Computing - Quantum algorithms, Quantum supremacy, Quantum mechanics 8. Internet of Things (IoT) - IoT devices, Smart technology, Connectivity 9. Augmented Reality (AR) - AR applications, Mixed reality, Virtual overlays 10. Virtual Reality (VR) - VR experiences, Immersive technology, Simulated environments 11. 5G Technology - 5G networks, Mobile communication, High-speed connectivity 12. Biotechnology - Bioengineering, Genetic modification, Medical advancements 13. Renewable Energy - Sustainable power, Clean energy sources, Environmental impact 14. Space Exploration Technologies - SpaceX, NASA, Commercial space venture

      15. Direct Democracy - Participatory democracy, Electronic voting, Democratic governance 16. Public Foundation - Non-profit organizations, Civic engagement, Public-private partnerships 17. Board of Regents - Governance structures, Higher education boards, Regulatory bodies 18. Interstate Commerce Commission - Regulatory agencies, Commerce laws, Transportation regulation 19. Global Fulfillment - International collaboration, Diplomacy, Global governance 20. Ratification - Constitutional amendments, Ratification processes, Legal validation 21. Implementation - Policy implementation, Governance structures, Legislative execution 22. Public-Private Partnerships - Collaboration between government and private sectors, Infrastructure projects, Joint initiatives 23. Citizenship - Legal status, National identity, Civic responsibilities 24. Voting Rights - Universal suffrage, Election laws, Access to voting 25. Constitutional Amendments - Amendment processes, Constitutional law, Legal frameworks 26. Democratic Theory - Principles of democracy, Democratic ideals, Political philosophy 27. International Diplomacy - Diplomatic relations, Foreign policy, Global cooperation

      28. Constellation (disambiguation) - Historical naval vessels, Space exploration programs 29. Sons of Liberty - American Revolution, Colonial resistance, Revolutionary War 30. Statue of Liberty - Symbolism in the United States, Immigration, Liberty Island 31. Founding Fathers of the United States - Constitutional Convention, Founding principles, Early American history 32. Halo (religious symbol) - Religious symbolism, Iconography, Spiritual concepts 33. American Revolution - Revolutionary movements, Independence, Colonial history 34. Space exploration - Space agencies, Astronauts, Space missions 35. Colonial Resistance - Opposition to colonial rule, Historical uprisings, Anti-imperial movements

      36. Inclusivity - Diversity, Equality, Social inclusion 37. Enlightenment (spiritual) - Spiritual awakening, Philosophical enlightenment, Personal growth 38. Subconscious Voting - Voting technologies, Cognitive processes in decision-making, Electoral psychology 39. Ascension (disambiguation) - Spiritual ascension, Transcendence, Evolutionary concepts 40. Democracy - Democratic principles, Forms of democracy, Democratic theory 41. Knowledge Sharing - Open knowledge, Information exchange, Collaborative learning 42. Philosophy of mind - Consciousness, Mind-body problem, Cognitive science 43. Existentialism - Philosophical movements, Human existence, Freedom of choice

      44. Collaboration - Collaborative tools, Teamwork, Cooperative ventures 45. Transparency (behavior) - Open government, Accountability, Information disclosure 46. Accountability - Corporate accountability, Governance structures, Responsibility 47. Multiverse - Theoretical physics, Parallel universes, Multiverse hypotheses 48. Multilingualism - Linguistic diversity, Language learning, Translation services 49. Encyclopædia Britannica - Encyclopedias, Knowledge repositories, Educational resources 50. Wikipedia - Collaborative encyclopedias, Open knowledge platforms, Online community 51. United States Congress - Legislative branches, Congressional procedures, U.S. government structure 52. Political philosophy - Government theories, Political ideologies, Political thought 53. Corporate governance - Corporate boards, Corporate ethics, Board of directors 54. Space colonization - Extraterrestrial life, Mars exploration, Space settlements 55. Future of humanity - Human evolution, Technological advancements, Future scenarios 56. Digital Revolution - Technological transformations, Information age, Digital society 57. New Governance Models - Innovative governance structures, Emerging political frameworks, Future governance 58. Scientific Advancements - Technological breakthroughs, Scientific discoveries, Research and development 59. Ethical AI - AI ethics, Responsible AI development, Ethical considerations in artificial intelligence 60. Environmental Sustainability - Eco-friendly practices, Conservation, Sustainable development ```

      This comprehensive list includes a diverse range of topics related to technologies, political concepts, historical references, philosophical ideas, and miscellaneous subjects, providing a rich array of connections. Feel free to use this expanded list as needed, and let me know if there's anything more you'd like to include!

      Template:Ev

      "SO FAR FROM NEVER"

      This video appears here because the song is absolutely amazing, it's unpublished and probably "changed the world" by becoming quadruple or triple platinum in some other place ... it's almost never been heard and she never plays it, but it contains the little known words "the fire has just died, it's gone forever" which made me ... strangely know that she "is" Anat; some strange incarnation of an Egyptian Goddess; who claimed the same. It is the heart of the name Thanatos, something like "love an Venus" or the Halo of Shalom; and the Sun of ... a great sign appeared in the heavens

      • In the Greek language, Abaddon is known as Ἀπολλύων (Apollyon). It is a name that appears in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 9:11) and is often translated as "Destroyer". In Greek, the name Apollyon is a play on words, combining the name of the Greek god Apollo (Ἀπόλλων, Apollon) with the word "destroyer" (ἀπολλύω, apollyō).
      • Vishnu (/ˈvɪʃnuː/ VISH-noo; Sanskrit: विष्णु, lit. 'The Pervader', IAST: Viṣṇu, pronounced [ʋɪʂɳʊ]), also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the supreme being within Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within contemporary Hinduism. Vishnu is known as The Preserver within the Trimurti, the triple deity of supreme divinity that includes Brahma and Shiva. In Vaishnavism, Vishnu is the supreme being who creates, protects, and transforms the universe. In the Shaktism tradition, the Goddess, or Adi Shakti, is described as the supreme Para Brahman, yet Vishnu is revered along with Shiva and Brahma. Tridevi is stated to be the energy and creative power (Shakti) of each, with Lakshmi being the equal complementary partner of Vishnu. He is one of the five equivalent deities in Panchayatana puja of the Smarta tradition of Hinduism.
      • In Greek mythology, Thanatos (/ˈθænətɒs/; Ancient Greek: Θάνατος, pronounced in Ancient Greek: [tʰánatos] "Death", from θνῄσκω thnēskō "(I) die, am dying") was the personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person. His name is transliterated in Latin as Thanatus, but his counterpart in Roman mythology is Mors or Letum.^[citation needed]^Shiva (Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה‎, romanized: šīvʿā, lit. 'seven') is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva" in English. The shiva period lasts for seven days following the burial. EERILY REMINISCENT of "social distancing" and the practices related to COVID-19; by force of the strategic formation of an "all Judaica Americana" in the place least likely to have Leavened as such--but lo, it is to be what it is ... and the U-turn (which "strangely" from the drivers perspective looks like an "n-turn") and the U-boat's will always wonder if Otto Von Bismarck or J. Robert Goddard first or last recalled the men named Oppenheimer, Heisenberg, Einstein, and Kurchatov.
        • Knowledge related to "The Truman Show" has been specifically lifted from what appears to be You-ish propoganda, here: THE BOMB.

      On "Anat" and Thanatos ... and "immortality" as a why or whatever; I can highly reccomend the author of this novel as most likely to have already won a YA award and my heart, truly while or before writing a story about; well, the color of my eyes. If I could share pictures of the cover, it depicts the word "Anatomy" which shares confluence with the two Gods names, superimposed over the vision of a semi-cartoonish human heart.

      • https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60784644

      • [

        Beginning

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        Starcraft Galactica

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        The Epic of Gilgamesh

        ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh) - [

        OMNISCIENCE

        ](https://45.33.14.181/omni/index.php/Main_Page#OMNISCIENCE) - [

        ECHELON GRAVATAR

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        CNASKARNIVORE

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        I. Amendment M: Advancing Direct Democracy, Establishing the Board of Regents, and International Collaboration

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    1. n both the contract case and the criminal case, having a prettygood idea of the lay of the land allows us to reject as fallacious oneline of authority in favor of another — probably without thinkingmuch about it. And often, especially on procedural and evidentiarymatters, we have no compunction about reaching for a case in an-other area, knowing, for instance, that a probate-law case can behelpful in a contract case. While wholly different, the cases are stillsimilar in a useful way. It seems we cannot decide until we have al-ready decided.

      This passage points out an interesting quirk in legal decision-making: we often lean on what we already know, sometimes without even realizing it, to decide between legal arguments. This happens because different areas of law, like probate and contract law, often share useful similarities, especially in procedure and evidence rules. In a way, we start deciding based on these familiar patterns before we've fully worked through the issue—almost like our decisions are shaped by decisions we've already made. It reminds me of the idea of not overthinking less we second guess ourselves and eventually get it wrong.

    2. legislature may jump into the morass ofSLAPP law, but having writ a few times, it moves on, leaving thecourts to sort a thousand and one permutations without furtherguidance.”

      This reminds me of how both legislatures and courts can be extremely hesitant to set down clear rules, even (in my view) when it would be in the public's best interest to do so.

      In Nevada, the State Constitution bars members of the executive branch from holding seats in the Legislature. However, people have argued for decades as to whether this encompasses all public sector employees (extending to university professors and cops), or whether this just applies to high-level employees like people appointed by the governor.

      Many lawsuits have been filed over this issue. Frustratingly, every time the State Supreme Court has taken on the issue, it has opted to issue narrow procedural rulings (e.g. dismissing or remanding cases on technicalities) instead of handing down a rule.

      There is still a pending case before the State Supreme Court on this issue. Meanwhile, public employees serving in the Legislature are left in the dark as to whether their service is legal, which is bad for them, candidates who run against them, and their constituents.

    3. howeverything is similar to everything else — and in just the same num-ber of ways. It depends on what one is interested in — on what theunderlying theory is.

      Reminds me of James Joyce!

      So far, I think the problem they are articulating is one of awareness. Unfortunately I think I have that problem. I find it pretty easy to just grab and go for what I need in research papers, and I don't know that I've had a professor who took the time to tell me if it was correct. I always felt weird about taking a portion from an unrelated section, but sometimes it just fits so well! I think now that context is so important I have been more cautious about where I am pulling from, but I know I will encounter problems if I am rushed for time.

    4. The question is unanswer-able until one knows what the experiment was for.

      The discussion here reminds me of why we do pre research work such as examination of our own case and brainstorming how and what we are going to research before we begin our research. As we discussed the research process gets refined as we work through it and find what words or terms will provide the most useful results to the problem we are researching. But this section illustrates why brainstorming is so important because beginning research without some form of a plan will result in a wide variety of results that could result in wasted time and resources from examining cases with no relation to the current problem. Having a plan will also allow for relevant cases to stick out more and the irrelevant ones become apparently irrelevant without wasting unnecessary time.

    1. Consider each bad idea with the thought that at least some aspect of it has value, and make it your goal to find it.

      I really like this concept and honestly feel like it would be super useful. Reminds me of the saying "there's a silver lining to everything." I think this would be particularly useful in situations where nothing seems to be working, and ideas are at a low. This would prompt a team to seek out the best in every idea, while simultaneously realizing how much good could be found in their original idea.

    1. It must be remembered by each and every one of us that our free and rapid communication these days must be greatly restricted in wartime.

      This statement reminds me of how easy it is to access media nowadays and how difficult it can be to know what is true or not. I hope we will talk about this when we begin to talk about the present

    1. Most humans are trichromats, meaning they can see three base colors (red, green, and blue), along with all combinations of those three colors. Human societies often assume that people will be trichromats. So people who can’t see as many colors are considered to be color blind, a disability. But there are also a small number of people who are tetrachromats and can see four base colors2 and all combinations of those four colors. In comparison to tetrachromats, trichromats (the majority of people), lack the ability to see some colors. But our society doesn’t build things for tetrachromats, so their extra ability to see color doesn’t help them much. And trichromats’ relative reduction in seeing color doesn’t cause them difficulty, so being a trichromat isn’t considered to be a disability.

      This reminds me that if most people are born with tails, then those without tails are considered “disabled”. This is because society's definition of “normal” is based on the majority of the population, and any trait that deviates from this standard is considered abnormal, or even inadequate. This phenomenon also illustrates the limitations of society's criteria for “disability”. Our definition of “ability” tends to be functional, but if the function is not useful in most settings, it is ignored or not even valued.

    1. we focused on the strengths and resources of the children and their families, rather than their needs and alleged deficits as often described in the dominant discourse

      I liked reading that the research was based on their strenghts and resources because in a kid we see all the bad they do and from those small comments it stivks to the kids for a long time. It reminds me to the different reading we had 2 weeks ago based on how comments stick to the kids at a young age of the "woah you're too tall for your age" "you're suppose to be smart"etc. I know they see their strengths and as they demonstrate it and someone acknowledges it they know and feel that they can do good.

    1. This reminds me of the I do, We do, You do process. The productive group work is an added component that resonates with me such as a small group.

    1. That speedy planting in diverse fit places is most necessary upon these lucky western discoveries for fear of the danger of being prevented by other nations which have the like intentions, with the order thereof and other reasons therewithal alleged.

      This reminds me of the Columbian exchange and how with the addition of new plants and animals brought from the Old World, it also came with diseases and new definitions of unsanitary. This was about 100 years after Columbus' first expedition, so this isn't a novel idea about taking the old into the new. Even if he's not specifically talking about plants and is referring to social roots as opposed to physical materials, his statement is nonetheless true. The cultures colliding, already knowing that people inhabit the land, will be a point of contention for the British as they continue to explore America. The British would be spreading their beliefs and culture across the land while the Indigenous population would have to learn to assimilate (or vehemently oppose) to this new way of living.

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      This reminds me of the example that was given in class, where female politicians would wear masculine suits to appear more serious and less feminine.

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    1. but also that writing activity is much more complex and multifaceted than the developers of such tools seem to acknowledge.

      This sentence reminds me of "You Can Learn to Write In General" and how it talks about how unalike different kinds of writings / writing styles can be

    1. Suddenly, one of the black boys, enraged at a word dropped by one of his white companions, seized a knife, and, though called to forbear by one of the oakum-pickers, struck the lad over the head, inflicting a gash from which blood flowed.

      Uhh this reminds me of that racist stereotype that black people are violent. Yikes

    2. Here there was a sudden fainting attack of his cough, brought on, no doubt, by his mental distress. His servant sustained him, and drawing a cordial from his pocket placed it to his lips.

      Reminds me of Victor Frankenstein beginning to tell his story

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    1. Nearer in fairy sea, nearer and farther, show white has lime in sight, show a stitch of ten. Count, count more so that thicker and thicker is leaning.

      very abstract imagery, very intuitively written. Reminds me of poetry I've written that made sense to me but I've scrapped because it would be gibberish to others, but it's interesting to be a reader and to try and unpack the speaker's garbled thoughts.

    1. who allegedly recruited victims

      Were these victims also people who worked under him? The party setting also reminds me of the huge case revolving around P. Diddy at the moment.

    1. Nearer in fairy sea, nearer and farther, show white has lime in sight, show a stitch of ten. Count, count more so that thicker and thicker is leaning.

      very abstract imagery, very intuitively written. Reminds me of poetry I've written that made sense to me but I've scrapped because it would be gibberish to others, but it's interesting to be a reader and to try and unpack the speaker's garbled thoughts.

    1. Ryan Holiday says that our society struggles with accepting that we owe things to other people...

      This reminds me of Simone Weil's notion of "no rights, only responsibilities"... A right by itself has no power, only obligation has. A right is an obligation toward us fulfilled. Only other people have rights, and we have obligations.

      Getting into this frame of mind allows one to live a far more righteous and fulfilled as well as calm life. Once you acknowledge that you have no rights, you can not cling to them, and thus you don't view things as unfair to you.

    1. Employees at the company misusing their access, like Facebook employees using their database permissions to stalk women

      This can be highly problematic as the employees would basically be logged onto your accounts and can even view your posts which are on a privacy setting "only-me". This reminds me of how someone I know was mistreated by their manager and they had an issue over their wages so right before giving in her resignation letter she leaked the company's database by posting it on Twitter, which included budgeting and the balance sheet.

    1. First impressions are enduring because of the primacy effect, which leads us to place more value on the first information we receive about a person. So if we interpret the first information we receive from or about a person as positive, then a positive first impression will form and influence how we respond to that person as the interaction continues.

      This bit of information reminds me of a few studies and lawsuits that have occurred in the last decade or two regarding names on job applications. The inquiries focused on the concept that someone's name being less culturally familiar to a recruiter would negatively bias an applicant's chances of getting to the interview stage. This effect was studied using identical resumes with different names associated to measure employer responses. This seems like a great example of the primacy effect making biases that are sometimes difficult to identify more obvious.

    1. sophisticated thinking and writing, and they often require a great deal of practice and instruction to use successfully.

      This reminds me of how we have been talking about writing to meet the status quo of the perfect paper.

    1. iscover how they can create new energy by discovering that much of what they previously believed in was not true’

      reminds me of Richard Branson's story...

    1. Am I the sum of my memories?

      This reminds me of a film study called “Lisyun Qng Geografica,” where it explores the interplay of identity, memory formation, and geography, but this time highlighting how our environments shape our sense of self. Geography influences not only our experiences within a space but also the memories we form and the identities we develop. I always find it fascinating to see how context and environment contribute to who we are, much like how the brain processes and integrates our experiences.

    1. I'm thinking about my future," said Sonny, grimly. "I think about it all the time."

      He reminds me of myself in the fact, that Im slower to speak on things Im passionate about, but once I do im decided and set on it because I`ve pondered on it before.

    2. We had a lot to say to each other, far too much to know how to begin.

      I like this line because it reminds me of times where I don't see some of my friends for awhile and once we do meet up, there is always so much to talk about but we don't know where to start.

    1. entrepreneurs runcompanies that are posed for rapid and explosive growth whereas small-business ownersare building lifestyle companies that provide an income.

      curious distinction...

      (kind of reminds me an ongoing debate I had in the past about whether franchise owners could be considered entrepreneurs)

    1. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement,

      This speech reminds me of a football coach trying to rally up his team with positivity

    1. When thousands ignored Hoover’s order, he sent General Douglas MacArthur. Accompanied by local police, the U.S. Army infantry, cavalry, tanks, and a machine gun squadron, MacArthur evicted the Bonus Army and burned the tent city. National media covered the disaster as troops attacked veterans, chased down men and women, tear-gassed children, and torched the shantytown. Several veterans were killed in the attack.

      Reminds me of how militarized violence was used against George Floyd protests. Similarly, the George Floyd murder was also heavily shown in the media and news.

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    1. WIC.

      This section reminds me of the time where my mother told me that the program WIC was the only resource that was putting food on the table. I remember entering the office of WIC as a kid accompanying my mom and my new born baby sister.

    1. Astroturfing: An artificially created crowd to make something look like it has popular support

      This reminds me of Kpop fans who buy robots to like their idols' posts in order to make their idols look more popular. Because people have a herd mentality, when people find that an idol's post has a lot of likes, they may choose to like it as well.

    1. Early in the days of YouTube, one YouTube channel (lonelygirl15) started to release vlogs (video web logs) consisting of a girl in her room giving updates on the mundane dramas of her life. But as the channel continued posting videos and gaining popularity, viewers started to question if the events being told in the vlogs were true stories, or if they were fictional. Eventually, users discovered that it was a fictional show, and the girl giving the updates was an actress. Many users were upset that what they had been watching wasn’t authentic. That is, users believed the channel was presenting itself as true events about a real girl, and it wasn’t that at all. Though, even after users discovered it was fictional, the channel continued to grow in popularity.

      This reminds me of an internet celebrity I knew before. She uploaded a video about picking up elementary school students' homework in Paris, and this video caused a big sensation on the video website. But later it was discovered that her video was self-directed and self-acted. She gained huge traffic with a video, but in the end her social platform account was blocked for spreading false facts.

    1. (The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place, The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place, The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)

      Reminds me of the question of "how separate are humans from nature, really?"

    2. How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

      I guess that's fair, but you could tell the kid that it's a plant? I understand the idea that we don't know much more than children as we discover our ways around life/the earth, but...we probably do know the plant & its scientific classification at least, and I doubt the kid does. It could help them learn. This reminds me of that "Unschooling" trend for homeschooling kids (that's shown to be pretty harmful for learning development fyi)...

      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232544669_The_Impact_of_Schooling_on_Academic_Achievement_Evidence_From_Homeschooled_and_Traditionally_Schooled_Students

    3. Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

      The quick pacing in this is really well done! The poem's structure reminds me of a train of increasingly frantic then calming down thoughts.

    4. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

      death? Decomposing in the earth? Reminds me of Wendell Berry's poems about dying and nature

    5. Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth, Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.

      reminds me of his O Pioneers O Pioneers poem

    6. They bring me tokens of myself,

      I can never tell if he is infatuated with something because it reminds him of himself or if he legitimately loves the nature/people/etc that he is relating

    1. healwaysunderstandsthattheabandonmentisnotreallygoingtooccur.Yethereheisnow.Leftbehind

      This reminds me of the description of a "glass child". A glass child is the sibling of someone who has mental or medical issues, and doesn't require the most attention from parents. The three year old brother was left behind and forgotten about once Sebastian ran away, and wasn't informed of the parents leaving him by himself in the middle of the night.

    1. which I had difficulty inrecognising as that of the noble Fortunato.

      jesus. This reminds me of the Nutty Putty cave incident. Someone was trapped upside down for 27 hours, and you couldn't even make out his final words since it was basically just gurgling.

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    1. Graffiti and other notes left on walls were used for sharing updates, spreading rumors, and tracking accounts

      This reminds me of a joke popular in WWI, where soldiers found graffiti stating "Kilroy was here" with a long-nosed bald man peeking over something. It was a simple doodle to recreate, so the graffiti spread with multiple actors contributing.

    1. Still, earlier studies have already found that education and  family structure have a large effect on the chances that children escape poverty.

      This makes me think about our discussion about what schools are here for. In this case, it would be social mobility. Also, escaping poverty reminds me of a class I took that focused on this topic. One discussion that stuck with me was the idea that most people with high SES support escaping poverty because it still maintains poverty as an unavoidable thing. In the end, there will still be impoverished people to uphold the 1 percent.

    1. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.

      Every Spring Whitman mourns when the lilacs were blooming and the evening star (Venus), was visible in the sky at night, as it reminds him of a man he loved.

    1. losing millions of dollars in risky investments promoted with get-rich-quick dazzle. The fourinvestment figures are clothed as the personification of greed

      This is so good to learn about it, history have a way to repeat itself, this event reminds me about what just happen in 2020 which the crazy speculation with the crypto monodies. a lot of people were even taking a loans to invest in crypto believing they could get rich easy and lost a lot of money, Good reflection.

    1. Loop through the list of submissions# The variable submissions_list now has a list of Reddit submissions. So we can use a for loop to go through each submission, and then use . to access info from each tweet (other pieces of information would need [" "] to access). For each of the tweets, we will use print to display information about the tweet

      This reminds me of Lab 1, where I was so excited after successfully using code to post an article on Reddit. However, it also left me feeling a bit anxious when I considered the broader implications. It made me realize that so much content on the internet can be generated through code, and a single individual has the power to shape public opinion or even spark controversies with just a few lines of code. It's both empowering and a little daunting to think about how easily information can spread and influence people.

    1. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bulletin board system (BBS) provided more communal ways of communicating and sharing messages. In these systems, someone would start a “thread” by posting an initial message. Others could reply to the previous set of messages in the thread.

      I find it interesting how complications are simplified overtime if in the 1980s and 1990s, BBS was commonly used, to me it doesn't seem very intriguing as if it looks very dry without any pictures or a comment section where everyone can fight lol, like if we can not post memes on social media what's the point. However now, social media has become so much more simple and fun. We go to social media apps such as TikTok or Instagram to take our mind off from work and if I see the picture of BBS it looks like coding, so I wouldn't really use a site that reminds me of work even in my free time.

    1. It is a deliverance which does not deliver.

      Contradictory...I'm forgetting the name of it, but it reminds me of that technique to create a sense of credibility by saying something backwards. Like "He was not smart because he was kind, but he was kind because he was smart." Does that make sense?

    1. The good and the bad.We have given each otherAll that we have.

      This reminds me of anytime I hear someone describe something they have interest in. For instance, my mom really enjoys gardening but there are also times where she doesn't like to do it. That doesn't necessarily take away any of her love for that hobby. I think this helps the average person realize that Kobe isn't just a celebrity player but also a person that shares the same complex emotions as regular people.

    1. Computers typically store text by dividing the text into characters (the individual letters, spaces, numerals, punctuation marks, emojis, and other symbols). These characters are then stored in order and called strings (that is a bunch of characters strung together, like in Fig. 4.6 below).

      This reminds me of the Java language I learned in CSE class. In Java, a series of characters is also called a string. But in Java, if you want to enter some specific symbols such as brackets and quotation marks in a string, you need to add "\" to make the machine recognize it smoothly.

    2. When computers store numbers, there are limits to how much space is can be used to save each number. This limits how big (or small) the numbers can be, and causes rounding with floating-point numbers. Additionally, programming languages might include other ways of storing numbers, such as fractions, complex numbers, or limited number sets (like only positive integers).

      This reminds me that computers have a similar problem when dealing with characters. This is because computers use an encoding set that can only contain a limited number of symbols and characters. Overall, computers, as powerful as they are, still have limitations in storing and processing numbers and symbols. These limitations come from the underlying hardware design and coding methods, not because the computer “doesn't want” to recognize everything, but more from technical trade-offs and design decisions.

    1. Now, there are many reasons one might be suspicious about utilitarianism as a cheat code for acting morally, but let’s assume for a moment that utilitarianism is the best way to go. When you undertake your utility calculus, you are, in essence, gathering and responding to data about the projected outcomes of a situation. This means that how you gather your data will affect what data you come up with. If you have really comprehensive data about potential outcomes, then your utility calculus will be more complicated, but will also be more realistic. On the other hand, if you have only partial data, the results of your utility calculus may become skewed. If you think about the potential impact of a set of actions on all the people you know and like, but fail to consider the impact on people you do not happen to know, then you might think those actions would lead to a huge gain in utility, or happiness.

      This reminds me most of measuring value of life in systems such as trolley problems or AI car decision making. Is a doctor more worthy of being saved than a musician? Or a depressed person? Or a felon? Where do you draw the line? If you draw a line, how many "felon lives" equals one doctor life? Utilitarianism to me isn't a morality system itself but a coping mechanism to allow humans to rationalize tough decisions. But when humans put the same logic in computers, it's not a coping strategy for a computer's feelings, but just a flawed series of priorities.

    1. Images are created by defining a grid of dots, called pixels. Each pixel has three numbers that define the color (red, green, and blue), and the grid is created as a list (rows) of lists (columns).

      This reminds me of every time I try to take a picture of my computer screen with my phone camera. The image always shows tiny red, green, and blue lights, which is probably due to a similar reason. A display is made up of many tiny pixels, and each of these pixels is composed of subpixels that emit red, green, or blue light. When you try to capture the screen, the camera picks up these individual subpixels, revealing the RGB pattern that our eyes don’t normally see. This highlights how the underlying structure of digital displays, just like the limitations of computer storage, affects what we see and how information is processed.

    1. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here today is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude.

      The speaker expresses amazement at how far they've come from slavery to freedom, acknowledging both hard work and luck. By highlighting the "considerable distance" between their current freedom and the suffering of others still enslaved, the passage reminds us of the ongoing struggle. It's thought-provoking because it contrasts personal success with the reality of those still oppressed.

    2. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here today is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude.

      Its interesting how he uses the word astonishment regarding his current position. He is acknowledging while he has achieved personal freedom his journey hasn't been without luck and willpower. He reminds his audience of the considerable distance between his experience as a free man and ongoing reality of millions of enslaved people.

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    1. dusky demon

      consonance of the D sounds, creates a strong sonic experience, very assertive. In "dusky" the harsh "d" and "k" sound and in the word demon, the former very strong when you speak it aloud and the latter creates a strong imagery. this consonance is continued from the repetition of "death" in the previous stanza in sound as well as imagery, as "dusky demon" reminds me of the grim reaper, aka death.

    1. As humans, we have many means to communicate concepts that aren’t limited to language. When we want to communicate a concept, we have a plethora of modalities to choose from such as speech, manual signs, writing, imagery, symbols, physical enactment, and more. For example, think of the concept of a cat. You can communicate this concept to someone else in multiple, complementary ways

      It is so fascinating how humans are born to communicate and will find a way. This reminds me of the study where people grew up without learning language. I forget the logistics of this study, but I remember without learning any language, they created their own in order to communicate.

    1. The opportunity does not exist separate to the entrepreneur. Discovered opportunities come about due to “exogenous shocks” in the industry or market (Alvarez and Barney, 2007): the entrepreneur only reacts to such shocks. Such a “shock” creates a new set of circumstances (or information) that the entrepreneur can exploit before others do.

      I'm digging this too...

      it reminds me of the statement that genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

    1. Even if the argument is fatally flawed, it may still contain some valuable insight or move the conversation forward in another way. We might conclude that an argument is not valid, but still see ways in which this argument can help us get closer to the truth on a particular topic.

      I agree with this point of view, it's important to be open minded and consider what we can gain, even from arguments we disagree with. This reminds me of a class discussion we had about critical thinking in my last English class, where we talked about how every argument, no matter how flawed, can teach us something.

    1. Richard had led the Canadiens tothree Stanley Cups and had scored 50 goals in 50 games, but hehad never won a scoring title and was on the brink of his first.

      This reminds me much of Messi the famous soccer player. IT shows you just how much he was loved and idolized in the French Canadian culture.

    1. The rats seemed tohave a few twitches of withdrawal, but they soon stopped their heavy use, and went back to having anormal life. The good cage saved them

      Reminds me of the quote "you are who you surround yourself with"

    1. When students collaborate, they begin thepractice of responding to systemic problems aspart of a larger group. Martell (2018) suggeststhat culturally relevant teachers “challenge stu-dents to specifically think about how past eventscontributed to their lives and society, learn notonly their own histories but also the histories ofothers, and examine past inequity and its rela-tionship present inequity and possible solutions”

      This reminds me of the article " what kind of citizen" which discusses the different type of citizens that different teaching philosophies can create. One of them was an active citizen focused on social justice and engaging in the community.

    1. Reviewer #3 (Public review):

      The authors make use of a large dataset of reaches from several studies run in their lab to try to identify the source of direction-dependent radial reaching errors. While this has been investigated by numerous labs in the past, this is the first study where the sample is large enough to reliably characterize isometries associated with these radial reaches to identify possible sources of errors.

      The sample size is impressive, but the authors should include confidence intervals and ideally, the distribution of responses across individuals along with average performance across targets. It is unclear whether the observed "averaged function" is consistently found across individuals, or if it is mainly driven by a subset of participants exhibiting large deviations for diagonal movements. Providing individual-level data or response distributions would be valuable for assessing the ubiquity of the observed bias patterns and ruling out the possibility that different subgroups are driving the peaks and troughs. It is possible that the Transformation or some other model (see below) could explain the bias function for a substantial portion of participants, while other participants may have different patterns of biases that can be attributable to alternative sources of error.

      The different datasets across different experimental settings/target sets consistently show that people show fewer deviations when making cardinal-directed movements compared to movements made along the diagonal when the start position is visible. This reminds me of a phenomenon referred to as the oblique effect: people show greater accuracy for vertical and horizontal stimuli compared to diagonal ones. While the oblique effect has been shown in visual and haptic perceptual tasks (both in the horizontal and vertical planes), there is some evidence that it applies to movement direction. These systematic reach deviations in the current study thus may reflect this epiphenomenon that applies across modalities. That is, estimating the direction of a visual target from a visual start position may be less accurate, and may be more biased toward the horizontal axis, than for targets that are strictly above, below, left, or right of the visual start position. Other movement biases may stem from poorer estimation of diagonal directions and thus reflect more of a perceptual error than a motor one. This would explain why the bias function appears in both the in-lab and on-line studies although the visual targets are very different locations (different planes, different distances) since the oblique effects arise independent of plane, distance, or size of the stimuli.

      When the start position is not visible like in the Vindras study, it is possible that this oblique effect is less pronounced; masked by other sources of error that dominate when looking at 2D reach endpoint made from two separate start positions, rather than only directional errors from a single start position. Or perhaps the participants in the Vindras study are too variable and too few (only 10) to detect this rather small direction-dependent bias.

      A bias in estimating visual direction or visual movement vector is a more realistic and relevant source of error than the proposed visual bias model. The Visual Bias model is based on data from a study by Huttenlocher et al where participants "point" to indicate the remembered location of a small target presented on a large circle. The resulting patterns of errors could therefore be due to localizing a remembered visual target, or due to relative or allocentric cues from the clear contour of the display within which the target was presented, or even movements used to indicate the target. This may explain the observed 4-peak bias function or zig-zag pattern of "averaged" errors, although this pattern may not even exist at the individual level, especially given the small sample size. The visual bias source argument does not seem well-supported, as the data used to derive this pattern likely reflects a combination of other sources of errors or factors that may not be applicable to the current study, where the target is continuously visible and relatively large. Also, any visual bias should be explained by a coordinates centre on the eye and should vary as a function of the location of visual targets relative to the eyes. Where the visual targets are located relative to the eyes (or at least the head) is not reported.

      The Proprioceptive Bias Model is supposed to reflect errors in the perceived start position. However, in the current study, there is only a single, visible start position, which is not the best design for trying to study the contribution. In fact, my paradigms also use a single, visual start position to minimize the contribution of proprioceptive biases, or at least remove one source of systematic biases. The Vindras study aimed to quantify the effect of start position by using two sets of radial targets from two different, unseen start positions on either side of the body midline. When fitting the 2D reach errors at both the group and individual levels (which showed substantial variability across individuals), the start position predicted most of the 2D errors at the individual level - and substantially more than the target direction. While the authors re-plotted the data to only illustrate angular deviations, they only showed averaged data without confidence intervals across participants. Given the huge variability across their 10 individuals and between the two target sets, it would be more appropriate to plot the performance separately for two target sets and show confidential intervals (or individual data). Likewise, even the VT model predictions should differ across the two targets set since the visual-proprioceptive matching errors from the Wang et al study that the model is based on, are larger for targets on the left side of the body.

      I am also having trouble fully understanding the V-T model and its associated equations, and whether visual-proprioception matching data is a suitable proxy for estimating the visuomotor transformation. I would be interested to first see the individual distributions of errors and a response to my concerns about the Proprioceptive Bias and Visual Bias models.

    1. which focuses on safeguarding linguistic and cultural heritage.

      This is really cool to hear about and see. It's always good to see that local and native languages are given concerted efforts in preserving and maintaining. It reminds me of my own growing up and when I went to middle school in the Marshall Islands. There are plenty and plenty of native Marshallese speakers who speak and read/write fluently, but it was really interesting and cool to see how so many of the kids in my middle school on my first day also spoke fluent English and I was actually comforted because I never really practice my Marshallese when I grew up and went to elementary school here in Oregon so it was surprising to be able to communicate with everyone on my first day. The historical context of this makes a lot of sense though with the Marshallese and US relations but I came to learn more about how English is intentionally taught to all kids in the country. I wished we learned more Marshallese formally at the school I went to, I wasn't sure how other schools learned Marshallese, but the few months where my school had us learn was super fun and helpful as it helped me develop and hone in my ability to speak and read and write the language I first learned how to speak.

    1. communication transcends words.

      I think this statement is a great way to think of and really encapsulate how these two concepts are different and it helps to push the idea of how communication is much more than just words that are spoken. I very much agree with this like with many of you, and it reminds me of how critical it is behind our intention in communicating, which we talked about today, because of how purpose and intent is vital because in my personal opinion, I would want to communicate effectively and not just let my words be meaningless, especially with communicating with my friends and family who are important to me. I'd argue that this would help in all other aspects of life too, like in workplaces and in school, so understanding and recognizing the power of communication and its difference with language can be beneficial to our overall society.

    1. 3.2.3. Corrupted bots

      This reminds me a lot of current LLMs like ChatGPT. The data that it's trained on has to be heavily moderated, and while key words or tokens can be blocked, a bot won't be able to adapt to how quickly humans change language. Anecdotally, friends have been able to convince some bots to tell people to "keep yourself safe/KYS", a play on a common term for online harassment. And even then, this phrase is still used jokingly. By the time a bot has been able to 1) determine what it really means and 2) tell which context it's being used in, humans will have already developed new language.

    2. On the other hand, some bots are made with the intention of harming, countering, or deceiving others. For example, people use bots to spam advertisements at people. You can use bots as a way of buying fake followers, or making fake crowds that appear to support a cause (called Astroturfing).

      Seeing how antagonistic bots can create fake support or spam ads makes me more aware of how automation can be misused, and it reminds me to be cautious when interacting with online content.

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    1. Horace Mann was on to something. When he witnessed an angry street riot in New England, his conviction that "the educated, the wealthy, the intelligent" had gone morally astray by abandoning the public was fortified {Johnson, 2002, p. 79). Mann chided the economic elite for shirking obligations to their fellow man by favoring private education over common schools. He conceptualized public education as "the great equalizer," or the most powerful mechanism for abating class-based "prejudice and hatred," and, most important, the only means by which those without economic privilege or generational wealth could experience any hope of equal footing. Whether inspired by Mann's plea to elevate the masses to higher moral and financial ground via schooling, or other notions of social justice, even now Europeans refer to publicly funded education as "the social elevator" (Lopez-Fogues, 2011). As Mann originally conceived the function of public education, there was overt recognition that something in society was amiss, and that "something" could be effectively redressed by offering public education to all-not just some. The same "something" that Mann was acutely aware of and deeply troubled by was and is the gross and growing disparities among the social classes. We continue to need methods for shrinking overwhelming and widen-ing class divides. Many of us choose to address the equity gap by struggling to supply universal access to high-quality, free, and appropriate public education. Nearly two centuries later, "the great equalizer" cannot equalize soon enough

      When Mann calls public education "the great equalizer," it really resonates with me. It reminds me of how crucial education is in breaking down social and class barriers. I believe that if everyone has access to high-quality education, it can help reduce the prejudice and inequality that still exist today. Mann's vision makes me think about how important it is to continue striving for a more equitable education system that truly gives everyone a fair chance, no matter where they come from or how much money they have.

    2. Borrow money if you have to from your parents" is indicative of his and many peo-ple's inability to understand poverty or any class status other than their own.

      This reminds me of a joke on the former president, where he "got a small loan of one million dollars." While it is amazing what Jimmy John and Donald Trump was able to build up from their starting point, you truly have to recognize that a vast majority of people can't borrow money like that. Those who can benefit the most from borrowing money to go to school or start a business can't afford it.

    1. In this example, some clever protesters have made a donkey perform the act of protest: walking through the streets displaying a political message. But, since the donkey does not understand the act of protest it is performing, it can’t be rightly punished for protesting. The protesters have managed to separate the intention of protest (the political message inscribed on the donkey) and the act of protest (the donkey wandering through the streets). This allows the protesters to remain anonymous and the donkey unaware of it’s political mission.

      This example reminds me of how internet memes often carry political messages, but the creators remain anonymous. Just like the donkey in the protest, memes can convey strong opinions without directly involving the person behind them, making them powerful tools for spreading ideas while avoiding personal accountability.

    1. Miami has a large Haitian community, many of them based in the neighbourhood of Little Haiti.

      This reminds me of when the Italian community of New York that first got to America, and how they were also persacuted. They have their own Little Italy.

    1. Then education is the craft... tries to redirect it appropriately

      This definitely reminds me of Freire's rhetoric about education. This paragraph is essentially making the argument that education is more about teaching someone how to think critically rather than teaching things to be memorized.

    2. And before his eyes had recovered... to travel upward?

      Definitely reminds me of how learning sometimes can make you feel stupid because it requires admitting not knowing something.

    1. One year later, itwas almost back to business as usual.

      Reminds me of 2020, when everyone was talking about Black Lives Matter and then suddenly it went radio silent. This is a privilege. You cannot do this if you are black, you cannot ignore the injustices you face 365 days a year.

    2. There is a sentiment that thepast is the past and people just need to move on from it, butthis opinion is always heard from the most ensconced positionof comfort and power.

      Also reminds me of how some people stick so stubbornly to "tradition! rah it's my tradition it doesn't matter!", yet we should be careful to not continue to use outdated traditions that harm others.

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    1. Public schools are essential to make the American dream work, but schools are also the arena in which many Americans first fail.

      This sentence reminds me of a question that many people often ask which is "Do you need a degree to succeed in life?" I have always thought you did however after reading many articles on the failing education system I am not quite sure of the value education holds if there is presented inequity within.

  19. Sep 2024
    1. Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.

      Reminds me of the reasons that they tried to push when women's baseball began.

    1. So we wind up with safer art and discourse that provokes and disturbs and shocks less. It gives us culture whose artistic value has been replaced by moral judgment and leaves us with monocriticism. This might indeed be a kind of social justice. But it also robs us of what is messy and tense and chaotic and extrajudicial about art. It validates life while making work and conversations about that work kind of dull.

      I agree with this sentiment. It reminds me of the phrase by Cesar A. Cruz, and later quoted by Banksy: "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." All these responses of what art should be, and what defines it as good, brings us to the ultimate question: "What is art?"

      While art isn't everything, I believe it encompasses anything meant to express or convey something, When we impose limits on expression by confining it within the constraints of values and morality, we risk hindering art and contradicting the purpose of our fight for diversity, which seeks to promote open expression for everyone. Although this definition has its complexities, art is fundamentally about creativity. Art doesn’t always need a specific political message; it can exist simply for the creator's satisfaction or the enjoyment of others. While analyzing a work's artistic merit is valuable, it’s important to recognize that some art is created purely for joy.

    2. Art might not have the privilege of being art for art’s sake anymore. It has to be art for justice’s sake.

      Reminds me of people saying "You cannot hate it because of (insert person that represents some community)."

    1. The deep underlying idea is that if we have to choose a social and political arrangement without knowing the position that we may occupy in society, we will choose fair principles to govern our social and political institutions.

      This reminds me of the scenario in class we discussed regarding picking representatives by lottery. If a civilian has no idea what position they will fulfill but is chosen at random, they might end up doing a better job than those who come in due to greed and being power hungry.

    1. "rugged individuals"

      Reminds me of the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality that assumes it is entirely someone's fault for being poor, regardless of their life circumstances.