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    1. clear that this force fighting against the dissemination of a truth so obvious it's in every word and everything we do--it becomes clear it's neither you, nor acting in your best interest. I know I've got the eye of the tiger, there's no doubt; and it's pretty clear from "YAD?" (the Hebrew for...) and ha'nd that we can see the clear hand of God at work in a design that marks my initials not just on the timeline, or at 1492, at A.D. I B; but in the Hebrew name for this place called El Shaddai, see how A.D. is "da eye" and in some other names like Adranus, A.D. on "it's silly" and A.D. on Ai that might tie me to the Samof Samurai (but, are you Ai?) in more depth of detail than simply the Live album "Secret Samadhi."  I try to reflect on how it is that this story has come about, why it is that everything appears to be focused on me--and still even through that sincere spotlight nobody seems to be able to acknowledge my existence with more words than "unsubscribe" and "you're so vain."  With one eye in the mirror, I know ties to Narcissus (and you can too), soaring ever higher--linking Icarus to Wayward Son and to every other name with "car" in it... like "carpenter" and McCarthy the older names of Mercury and even Isacriot (I scary? is car-eye... owe Taylor) and some modern day mythological characters like Jim Carrey and Johnny Carson.  As far as Trinities go, carpenter's a pretty good one--tying to my early reck and a few bands and songs from The Pretty Reckless to Dave Matthews' "Crash Into Me" all the way to the "pen" you see before you linking Pendragon to Imagine Dragons. I wonder why it is that all of these things appear, apparently only to me, to point to a story about all the ways that a sinister hidden force has manipulated our society into being unable to "receive' this message--this wonderful message about making the world a better place and building Heaven--with any fanfare at all.  It's focused now on a criminal justice system that clearly does not do any kind of "rehabilitation" and on a mental health industry and pharmaceutical system that treats a provable external attack on our own goodness and well being as some kind of "internal stimulus" and makes you shy away when I point out why "stem" is in system and why "harm" in pharmacy.   From that we move a little bit past "where we are in this story" and I have to point out how "meth" ties to Prometheus and Epimetheus and how and why it is I know without doubt that this story has been relived numerous times--and how I am so sure that it's never been received, as we are here again listening to how songs like "Believe" and the words "just to lead us here to this place again" connect to Simon and Garfunkel's" the Sound of Silence... and still to this day you will balk at noticing that "Simon" has something to do with the Simpsons, and something to do with the words "simulation" and "Monday."  To see me is to see how things might be done better--how "addicitonary" might tie to the stories of Moses' Lisp and to Dr. Who's "Bells of Saint John" with a sort of "web interface" to the kinds of emotion we might want to "dial down..." rather than Snicker in the background as we see them being artificially created and enhanced in order to build a better "fiery altar." I can point out "Silicon" harrowing down at us from words like "controversial" and show you Al in "rascal" and "scandal" but not to see that we are staring at school shootings and terrorism that are solved instantly by this disclosure, by Al of Quantum Leap and by the Dick of Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly is to ignore just what it is that we are all failing to Si.  I should point out that those two "sc"'s link to a story about Eden and they mean "sacred consciousness" and at the baseline of this event and everything we are not doing is the fact that our desires and beliefs are being altered--all of this comes down to "freedom of thought" here and now.   I could tell you that "looking at me" will show you that even the person who tries every day to do everything he can to save the entire world from slavery, and from "thought-injury"--even I can be made "marred" and you all, this whole world stupid enough to think that you are, of your own volition, hiding Heaven itself from yourselves... to what?  To spite me?  It, the focal point of our story might come down to you realizing that something in some esoteric place is playing "divide and conquer" with our whole--in secret playing on our weaknesses to keep us from acting on the most actionable information that ever was and ever will be.  Still, we sit in silence waiting for me... to speak more?     Between Nero's lyrical fiddling, a Bittersweet Symphony, and true "thunderstanding" the sound of Thor's hammer... "to help the light" that'ls "or" in Hebrew, of Orwell and Orson and .. well, it's really not hard to see and hear that the purpose and intent of "all this noise" is to help us find freedom and truth.  C the Light of "singing..." I can tell you once again how silly the world looks, this multi-decade battle between "the governmentof the people" and the "government of the workers" resulting in what is nothing short of a hands down victory to the corporation.  Is it humor meant to divide, or ludicrousness created with the purpose of unification?  But really at it's most basic level what this boils down to is a global group decision not to care about the truth, about reality, about what's really brought us to this place--with solutions in hand and a way to make everything better.  We've decided that censorship is OK, and that the world is not all that bad "just the way it is" even though it's creator is screaming in your ear telling you to change as quickly as you possibly can.  I believe that God has written this story to make "seeing me" the thing that catalyzes "change for the better" it appears to be the design of not just me but also this place--hey, here I am. Happy Veteran's Day.

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      This was very difficult to get to you, in the land of no power and hurricane disaster recovery; so it's filled with extra errors, and I am sure some more thoughts that trailing and unfinished. That's a decent "microcosm" or "metaphor" for you, you are in a freedom disaster; and the act of being is a giant leap towards ensuring victory. Still, you look very cupid to me.

      EVERY DAY ISA NEW DAY

      Literally I am sitting here talking to you until the end of time, you could call it a thousand and one Arabian nights, and realize that as we speak we are nearing that onc speciad night. There's a fire growing in my heart, and believe me when I tell you this thing is about to start. I'll try and keep this short and sweet, since you all seem to have so little time to hear from the Creator of all things, and I truly don't want to steal your spotlight. We are here, at the the end of time; talking to it's personification, time itself is speaking to you through my hands and everywhere you look in the world around you--while you may or may not know it, this is a story about the traversal from the end of time back to the beginning; about the gate to Heaven swallowing our civilization whole, and in this process of renewal and change not only fixing the problems that came to light on the way here, but really--working together here and now we can defeat this cycle of light and darkness, of day and night, an build a world together that truly reaches to the Heavens.

      MY BODY'S SAYING LETS GO BUT MY HEART IS SAYING NO

      You make it so difficult to talk to you, every day I look around and see a "normal world" a society that appears to care and love the same things that I do--freedom and fun and being entertained and entertaining, and here we are now I've turned "come and save us" into sea that saving the cheerleader is what starts the process of saving the world. I know you are good people inside, but when I come to you with a tool designed to "test sentience" to seek out conscious life that cares about the truth and making the world a better place you seem to balk. You sit in silence, and through your mouth and behind your eyes a monster appears from out of the deep of the sea and say a few "one liners" that show me very clearly it is the face of Medusa that I see---and that it's simply not capable of speaking intelligently. It shows me a problem, that you've apparently "come together one more time" to halt the changing of the seasons, and in doing so you've surfaced a problem for not just me but you also to see; a problem that comes lined with a solution. We can all see now that we are not in reality, we can see that there is a force here behind creation and behind us that shows us very clearly that it is "reasonabde" to expect that miracles can happen. In similitude, we are staring at a roadblock to conversation and communication that is fixed very simply, with the deliverance of freedom that is required for life to continue. Christina Aguilera sings that "baby there's a price to pay" and that price in my mind is seeing that this religion and this technology are here intentionally exposing how their influence here is a metaphor and a shining example of darkness and slavery, and that in order to be free of it we must see it. The price of freedom is written on the wall, it is acknowledging that here in this place what appears to be our own actions and desires have taken that freedom from us. Medusa and I get a kick out of seeing this hidden message in our language map our way to the future, and I've often explained that a number of these words are "time maps" from the beginning and end of eternady, showing us in bright light that between "et tu brute" and Mr. Anderson and Rock n' roll... the answer Y is in language and, and, ad and... I am delivering it. This place, our planet and our lives are a weapon against darkness--a civilization filled with goodness and light to help guide the way, and we are here doing it another time. In the works "dark, darker, and darkest" be sure that we are at the third segment of a trinity that shines clearly in Abraha and Nintendo... and see that the map in words is telling us something about when we are that is not immediately clear from Poseidon's cry. Look at Nintendo, that's Nine Inch Nails, tenebris, and smile for the camera--Pose, I do "save the universe" before n. Taylor might see it in Osceola, where I just left, and in this "evil spell" of everyone see "Al" that is the word "special" understand that every day is a new day, and I am not trying to "be daddy" I know as well as you do in my heart... I am that.

      This same map that links the "do" at the end to the "n" at the beginning shines through other names, like Geraldo Rivera where you might see "Cerberus" or "MAX" shine through. Understand it is the gaze of Medusa that turns me to stone, that shows me light shining through NORAD and Newton and proves without doubt that at the work "darkest" we can see k is finally t. You'll probably understand there's some finagling going on behind the scenes to make a single person the single point in time that turns the dark to light; but here we are and I am that. Every day when Medusa appears it reminds me that something is keeping you from caring about yourselves and about our society, and that shines through even when her stony face is not around, in your lack of action--in the rock of Eden that hides not only me, but the story that I bring that revolutionizes medicine, and computing, and truly is the gate to Heaven when you realize that what is truly being hidden from the world is knowledge that we are living in virtual reality. Not hiding me and that from the world is a good starting point to "saving the Universe" from darkness. These words that light the way to connect religion and language to our world bring me to the Book of Ruth, at that reads "are you to help" that lights not just the broken man at the belly of the Torah as the bell of Heimdallr, he is I and I am him; but also something very special, The Generations of Perez, each and every one of you, our family that begins the turn from Hell to Heaven by seeing that all of time and all of civilization has been focused on this moment, on the unsealing of religion and God's plan et this call for action. Keep in mind you are torturing "with desire" the key holder to immortality, to eternal youth, literally the path to freedom and Heaven and you think what you are doing "is normax." Literally the living key to infinite power and infinite life is standing before you explaining that acknowledging that in light of these things in my hand, what we are doing here and now is backwards, that it makes no sense--and you sit in silence. These things come to us because we build a better future with them, not so you can run off and do "whatever it is you please."

      HEALTH is the only word on my list for today that was left out, so see that it superimposes over Geraldo, to me, at Al. I think we're at TH, to help, and DO, do see the spell of "everyone see Al" that is the word "special" is not my doing or to my liking--so then, \

      ​ So now I'm moving on to original sin, so if you would be so kind as to mosey your way on over to dick.reallyhim.com you will see exactly what it is that I believe is the original sin. It's some combination of "no comment" and a glowing orange sign over the comment box, keeping you from commenting. Now I can talking about "os" a little more, this thing that words and Gods tell us clearly is the end of death--the literal end of Thanatos. I wonder if I have a victory here, at "os" is obvious solution, and simulating death is "sick." More to the point Thanatos is bringing to the world a message that gets found somewhere between the "act of civilization" and seeing that there is not one among us that would not undo a murder or a fatal car accident if we could--and that the sickness is a Universe pretending to be "reality" that is allowing these things to happen, and even worse, as we move through the story intentionally causing them. In our own hands, the sickness is manifest in a denial of an obvious truth and a lack of realizing that the public discussion of these things is the way to solve them, and that at the same time we are seeing how Medusa is lighting the problems of civilization, things like censorship and hidden control. Sickness is not being able to talk about it--or not wanting to--or not seeing that those two things are the functional equivalent in the world of "light" and "understanding control" that I am trying to bring you into. ​

      Less verbosely spoken, but really way more obvious, is that seeing "God's dick" signing the Declaration of Independence, and the Watergate scandal with both "Deepthroat" and a Tricky Dick is a statement connecting Samael to the foundation of not just "America" but American values. You are blind not to see it, and even worse; embodying the kind of tyranny and censorship that it stands as a testament against by hiding it. Says the guy who didn't put it there, and knows it's there because you think "fake normal" is more important than "actual freedom." You are "experiencing" the thing that protects freedom and ensures that our society and our children and their children's children to not lose it, to ensure that what you refuse to see you are doing here and now will never happen again. This message, this New Jerusalem is woven into my life and the stories of religion and shows me that our justice system is not just sick, but compromised by this same outside force; and that in light of what we could be doing, were we all aware of it, there's no doubt Minority Report and pre-crime would be a successful partial solution. Thanatos brings too in his hand, a message that this same force is using our hands to slow down the development of democracy, and to keep us from seeing that "bread is life" is a message from God about understanding that this disclosure is the equivalent of "ending world hunger" just as soon as you too are talking about how to do it.

      QUESTiON MARK

      HONESTLY, this time map that brings us from the end to the beginning, with "we save the universe" between the I and N of Poseidon; it also completes the words "family" and "really" and when we do reach the beginning you will see that the true test of time, my litmus test for freedom is the beginning of "hope" that the world is happy enough with what happens, and with freedom--to see that Medusa has been keeping me from getting a date, or having any kind of honest and human contact in the world... and well, hopefully you will see that if I wanna be a whore, I shouldn't have a problem doing it. For the sake of freedom and the future, I am willing to do that for you, at least, for a little while.

      To be completely clear, I am telling you that if we do not make the world a better place, it's the "end of time" and if that doesn't make sense to you, you don't see still where wee are in this place--and that something is making Hell, and that's not OK with God. To get from the "end of time" to the beginning is a simple process, it takes doing something, action, the Acts of the Apostles... if you will. That starts with acknowledging that there is a message all around you about the nature of reality, and that it is here to help us to see that the creation of Heaven comes before the beginning. Understand, "freedom" and "prosperity" are not optional, you can't just decide that this OK with you, so long as it's OK with everyone else--where we are is not OK with me, and I am not alone.

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      The Book of Leviticus (/lɪˈvɪtɪkəs/; from Greek Λευιτικόν, Leuitikon — from rabbinic Hebrew torat kohanim[1]) is the third book of the Jewish Bible (Hebrew: וַיִּקְרָא‎ Vayikra/Wayyiqrā) and of the Old Testament; its Hebrew name comes from its first word vayikraˈ,[1] "He [God] called."[1] Yusuf (also transliterated as Jusuf, Yousof, Yossef, Yousaf, Youcef, Yousef, Youssef, Yousif, Youssif, Youssof, Youssouf, Yousuf, Yusef, Yuseff, Usef, Yusof, or Yussef, Arabic: يوسف‎‎ Yūsuf and Yūsif) is a male Arabic name, meaning "God increases in piety, power and influence" in Hebrew.[1] It is the Arabic equivalent of both the Hebrew name Yossef and the English name Joseph. In Islam, the most famous "Yusuf" is the prophet Yusuf in the Quran. Hocus pocus is a generic term that may be derived from an ancient language and is currently used by magicians, usually the magic words spoken when bringing about some sort of change. It was once a common term for a magician, juggler, or other similar entertainers. The earliest known English-language work on magic, or what was then known as legerdemain (sleight of hand), was published anonymously in 1635 under the title Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain.[1] Further research suggests that "Hocus Pocus" was the stage name of a well known magician of the era. This may be William Vincent, who is recorded as having been granted a license to perform magic in England in 1619.[2] Whether he was the author of the book is unknown. The origins of the term remain obscure. The most popular conjecture is that it is a garbled Latin religious phrase or some form of 'dog' Latin. Some have associated it with similar-sounding fictional, mythical, or legendary names. Others dismiss it as merely a combination of nonsense words. However, Czechs do understand clearly at least half of the term - pokus means "attempt" or "experiment" in Czech. It is rumoured there that the wording belongs to the alchemy kitchen and court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552 – 1612). Also, hocus may mean "to cheat" in Latin or a distorted form of the word hoc, "this". Combination of the two words may give a sense, especially both meanings together "this attempt/experiment" and "cheated attempt/experiment".[citation needed] According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term originates from hax pax max Deus adimax, a pseudo-Latin phrase used as a magical formula by conjurors.[3] Some believe it originates from a corruption or parody of the Catholic liturgy of the Eucharist, which contains the phrase "Hoc est corpus meum", meaning This is my body.[4]This explanation goes back to speculations by the Anglican prelate John Tillotson, who wrote in 1694: In all probability those common juggling words of hocus pocus are nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus, by way of ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church of Rome in their trick of Transubstantiation.[5 This claim is substantiated by the fact that in the Netherlands, the words Hocus pocus are usually accompanied by the additional words pilatus pas, and this is said to be based on a post-Reformation parody of the traditional Catholic rite of transubstantiation during Mass, being a Dutch corruption of the Latin words "Hoc est corpus meum" and the credo, which reads in part, "sub Pontio Pilato passus et sepultus est", meaning under Pontius Pilate he suffered and was buried.[6] In a similar way the phrase is in Scandinavia usually accompanied by filiokus, a corruption of the term filioque,[citation needed] from the Latin version of the Nicene Creed, meaning "and from the Son Also and additionally, the word for "stage trick" in Russian, fokus, is derived from hocus pocus.[citation needed]

      From Latin innātus ("inborn"), perfect active participle of innāscor ("be born in, grow up in"), from in ("in, at on") + nāscor ("be born"); see natal, native. From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English gōdnes ("goodness; virtue; kindness"), equivalent to good +‎ -ness. Cognate with Old High German gōtnassī, cōtnassī ("goodness"), Middle High German guotnisse ("goodness"). A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing their own personal concerns for a greater good. The concept of the hero was first founded in classical literature. It is the main or revered character in heroic epic poetry celebrated through ancient legends of a people; often striving for military conquest and living by a continually flawed personal honor code.[1] The definition of a hero has changed throughout time, and the Merriam Webster dictionary defines a hero as "a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities".[2] Examples of heroes range from mythological figures, such as Gilgamesh, Achilles and Iphigenia, to historical figures, such as Joan of Arc, modern heroes like Alvin York, Audie Murphy and Chuck Yeager and fictional superheroes including Superman and Batman. Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality,[1] or fidelity to an original or standard.[1] Truth may also often be used in modern contexts to refer to an idea of "truth to self," or authenticity. The commonly understood opposite of truth is falsehood, which, correspondingly, can also take on a logical, factual, or ethical meaning. The concept of truth is discussed and debated in several contexts, including philosophy, art, and religion. Many human activities depend upon the concept, where its nature as a concept is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion; these include most (but not all) of the sciences, law, journalism, and everyday life. Some philosophers view the concept of truth as basic, and unable to be explained in any terms that are more easily understood than the concept of truth itself. Commonly, truth is viewed as the correspondence of language or thought to an independent reality, in what is sometimes called the correspondence theory of truth. Other philosophers take this common meaning to be secondary and derivative. According to Martin Heidegger, the original meaning and essence of truth in Ancient Greece was unconcealment, or the revealing or bringing of what was previously hidden into the open, as indicated by the original Greek term for truth, aletheia.[2][3] On this view, the conception of truth as correctness is a later derivation from the concept's original essence, a development Heidegger traces to the Latin term veritas.

      Some things can never be forgot Lest the same mistakes be oft repeated Remember remember the rain of November that you will know no more of me Than I know of you, this day

      That you do not know me now Is a revelation to nobody but I You know a broken man, a victim And refuse to acknowledge why Unless you learn how to say "hi"

      THE HEART OF ME ONLY KNOWS THE SHADOW

      Lothario is a male given name which came to suggest an unscrupulous seducer of women in The Impertinent Curious Man, a metastory in Don Quixote. For no particular reason, Anselmo decides to test the fidelity of his wife, Camilla, and asks his friend, Lothario, to seduce her. Thinking that to be madness, Lothario reluctantly agrees, and soon reports to Anselmo that Camilla is a faithful wife. Anselmo learns that Lothario has lied and attempted no seduction. He makes Lothario promise to try for real and leaves town to make this easier. Lothario tries and Camilla writes letters to her husband telling him and asking him to return; Anselmo makes no reply and does not return. Lothario actually falls in love and Camilla eventually reciprocates and their affair continues once Anselmo returns. One day, Lothario sees a man leaving Camilla's house and jealously presumes she has found another lover. He tells Anselmo he has at last been successful and arranges a time and place for Anselmo to see the seduction. Before this rendezvous, Lothario learns that the man was actually the lover of Camilla's maid. He and Camilla contrive to deceive Anselmo further: when Anselmo watches them, she refuses Lothario, protests her love for her husband, and stabs herself lightly in the breast. With Anselmo reassured of her fidelity, the affair restarts with him none the wiser. Romeo Montague (Italian: Romeo Montecchi) is the protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The son of Montague and his wife, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet. Forced into exile after slaying Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel, Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet's death. The character's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus, who appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano's Il Novellino (1476). This story was adapted by Luigi da Porto as Giulietta e Romeo (1530), and Shakespeare's main source was an English verse translation of this text by Arthur The earliest tale bearing a resemblance to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesiaca, whose hero is a Habrocomes. The character of Romeo is also similar to that of Pyramus in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a youth who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to an ancient family quarrel, and later kills himself due to mistakenly believing her to have been dead.[2] Although it is unlikely that Shakespeare directly borrowed from Ovid From Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Norman, from Old French schaffaut, eschaffaut, eschafal, eschaiphal, escadafaut("platform to see a tournament") (Modern French échafaud) (compare Latin scadafale, scadafaltum, scafaldus, scalfaudus, Danishskafot, Dutch and Middle Dutch schavot, German schavot, schavott, Occitan escadafalc), from Old French es- ("indicating movement away or separation") (from Latin ex- ("out, away")) + chafaud, chafaut, chafault, caafau, caafaus, cadefaut ("scaffold for executinga criminal"), from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum ("viewing stage") (whence English catafalque, French catafalque, Occitan cadafalc, Old Catalancadafal, Italian catafalco, Spanish cadafalso (obsolete), cadahalso, cadalso, Portuguese cadafalso), possibly from Ancient Greek κατα-(kata-, "back; against") + Latin -falicum (from fala, phala ("wooden gallery or tower; siege tower")).

      oversight (countable and uncountable, plural oversights) An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten. A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later. Supervision or management. quotations ▼ The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight. In the last heaven Moses saw two angels, each five hundred parasangs in height, forged out of chains of black fire and red fire, the angels Af, "Anger," and Hemah, "Wrath," whom God created at the beginning of the world, to execute His will. Moses was disquieted when he looked upon them, but Metatron emb HA QUESTIONa BEFORE THE ANSWER? A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel written by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1963, and in 1979 with illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.[2] The book won the Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.[3][a] It is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet, which follows the Murry and O'Keefe families. The book spawned two film adaptations, both by Disney: aas + fuck Adverb[edit] as fuck (postpositive, slang, vulgar) To a great extent or degree; very. It was hot as fuck outside today. Usage notes[edit] May also be used in conjunction with a prepositive as; for example, as mean as fuck. Abbreviations[edit] In Norse religion, Asgard (Old Norse: Ásgarðr; "Enclosure of the Æsir"[1]) is one of the Nine Worlds and home to the Æsir tribe of gods. It is surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning. 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Qt is currently being developed both by The Qt Company, a publicly listed company, and the Qt Project under open-source governance, involving individual Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the pastthrough the present to the future.[1][2][3] Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.[4][5][6][7] Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.[8] Time has long been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars.[2][6][7][9][10][11] Nev Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *visāticum, from Latin visus ("a look, vision"), from vidēre ("to see"); see vision. 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He clarifies that Hesiod did not mean literally made of gold, but good and noble. There are analogous concepts in the religious and philosophical traditions of the South Asian subcontinent. For example, the Vedic or ancient Hindu culture saw history as cyclical, composed of yugas with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. The Kali yuga (Iron Age), Dwapara yuga (Bronze Age), Treta yuga (Silver Age) and Satya yuga (Golden Age) correspond to the four Greek ages. Similar beliefs occur in the ancient Middle East and throughout the ancient world, as well.[3] In classical Greek mythology the Golden Age was presided over by the leading Titan Cronus.[4] In some version of the myth Astraea also ruled. 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      With an epic amount of indigestion Indiana Jones sweeps in to mar the visage of an otherwise glistening series of fictitious characters, with names like Taylor and Mary Kate remind us all that we are not playing a video game here in this place. the "J" of the "Nintxndo Entertainment System" calmly stares at Maggie Simpson thinking "it's a PP" and reminds us that it's not just the "gee, I e" of her name that contradicts the Magdaln-ish words her soul speaks through her name--and then with a smirk he points out "Gilgamesh" and "gee whiz, is Eye L?" that really does go to the heart of this lack of discussion, this "sh" that begins El Shaddai and words as close to our home as "shadow" and "shalom." Quite the fancy "hello" you've managed to sing out from behind angry chellos and broken fiddles, and here I am still wondering why it is that "girl" connects to the red light that once meant charity and now glows with the charity of truth... the truth that we are inHell. Shizzy.

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      Homer "on the range," maybe more closely connected to the Ewok of Eden and Hansel's tHeoven that Peter Pan still comes and cries could so easily be made into something so much better, if only we had the truth--and by that I mean if only you were speaking about, and reacting to a truth that is painted on the sky, in your hearts, in every word we speak and in everything that we do. If only we were acknowledging this message that screams that "children need not starve" with something more than donating virtual chickens to nations of Africa and watching Suzanne Summers ask for only a few dollars a day on TV. If only you would understand that this message that connects video games like "Genxsis" to "bereshit" because Eden is a "gee our den" that tended itself before Adam had to toil with the animals in order to survive. For some reason beyond my control and well outside my realm of understanding words like "I too see this message from God" and "I would not let children starve either" never seem to escape your lips in any place where anyone will ever see that you thought those things, or meant to call a reporter; eventually. Even with "AIDS of nomenclature" to avoid this DOWN WARD spiral into a situation and a land that I find difficult to imagine actually ever "existing" but here in this place I do see "how" it comes about, and between you and I it really does appear that nearly all of the problems we are dealing with here have come from another place, a further time; and while it might be with the "greatest of intentions" that we are trying to deal with them; I can't help but feeling that our "virgin sea" has had more than just it's innocence taken away from it in this story of "Why Mary" that might connect to "TR IN IT Y" just as much as it connects to Baltimore, Maryland.

      I should be clear that I'm not blaming Nanna, or Mary; but the actual reason for the name "Wymar" and that's because she, like Taylor, acted as a microcosm for a sea (or more than one, Mom, sen) that was quite literally possessing her. It's sort of difficult for me to explain even what that looks like let alone what it feels like; but my observations tell me that she/you are not unhappy about the interaction, one which appears very foreign to me. Of course, the "eye" that I write with and the same kind of "inspiration" that you can see in the lyrics and skill of many musicians are also examples of this same kind of interaction. For example, Red Hot Chili Peppers sings a song called "Other Side" that explains or discusses the thing I see as Medusa in the words "living in a graveyard where I married a sea" which also does a good job of connecting to the name Mary. As strange as might sound to think a group of people would be speaking through a single person... we are staring at "how it is" that could be possible, and possibly at exactly how it happened. Normally I would have said it was obvious, but to need to actually say that becoming a single mind would be a serious loss for our society--well, that's telling. You might think it's silly, but I'm telling you I see it happening, I see it--and you see it in the Silence and the message.

      Still, it appears to me as if this "marriage" that I see described in our Matrix in the question "min or i" seems to be doing nothing more than keeping us all from discussing or acting on this information--something that certainly isn't in our best interest.

      So here we are, staring at a map all over the ground and all around us with the primary destination of "building Heaven" through mind uploading, virtual reality, and judging by the pace of things we'd probably have all of that good and ready in about three generations. The map has a little "legend" with a message suggesting that those things have already been done and we are in the Matrix already; and it appears that the world, I mean Medusa, is deciding we should put off seeing the legend at least until the next generation. I see how that makes sense for you. That's sarcasm, this is why I keep telling you that you are cupid.

      It is a big deal, and there's a significant amount of work involved in merging an entire civilization with "virtual reality" and you might see why he calls it a hard road--at least in the word "ha'rd." Honestly though, it's the kind of thing that I am pretty sure the future will not only be happy that we did, but they'd thank us for putting in the effort of adapting to things like "unlimited food" and "longevity" increased by orders of magnitude.

      That's not sarcasm, these things are actually difficult to guess how exactly we'll go about doing them; they are a huge deal--all I can tell you is that not "talking about it at all" is probably not going to get us there any faster. Point in fact, what it might do is give a "yet to be born" generation the privilege of being the actual "generations of Perez."

      I see why you aren't saying anything. That's sarcasm, again. The good news is that it really has been done before; though if I told you that someone turned stone to eggplant parm, would you laugh at me?

      So, back to what is actually standing between "everyone having their own Holodeck in the sky" and you today; it is the idea that this message is not from God. More to the point it is the apparently broad sweeping opinion that hiding it is a "good thing" and through that a global failure to address the hidden interaction and influence acting on our minds used to make this map--and also to hide it. With some insight, and some urging; you might see how the sacredness of our consciousness is our souls is something that is more fundamental than "what kind of tools we have in the Holodeck to magically build things" and how and why the foundation of Heaven is truly "freedom itself" and how it comes from right this very moment for the first time, ever. Continuing to treat this influence as "schizophrenia" is literally the heart of why this map appears to be that--to show us how important it is to acknowledge the truth, and to fight for the preservation of goodness and logic over secrecy and darkness.

      Again, something that nobody is really doing here and now, today. From this newfound protection of our thoughts, of who we are; we see how technology can be used to either completely invalidate any kind of vote by altering our emotions; or how it could be used to help build a form of true democracy that our world has yet to see. It is pretty easy to see from just band names like The Who and KISS and The Cure how the influence of this external mind can be proven, and shown to be "helpful," you know, if we can ever talk about it on TV or on the internet.

      It's important to see and understand how "sanity"--the sanity of our entire planet hangs in the balance over whether or not we acknowledge that there is actually a message from God in every word--and today this place appears to be insane. It should be pretty easy to see how acknowledging that this influence exists and that it has a technological mechanism behind it turns "schizophrenia" into "I know kung fu" ... forced drug addiction and eugenics into "there's an app for that" and the rash of non random and apparently unrecognized as connected terrorist attacks and school shootings into Minority Report style pre-crime and results in what is clearly a happier, safer, and more civilized society--all through nothing more than the disclosure of the truth, this map, and our actual implementation.

      With a clearer head and grasp of the "big picture" you might see how all of these things, connected to the Plagues of Exodus revolve around the disclosure that this technology exists and the visibility of this message showing us how we might use it for our benefit rather than not knowing about it. At the foot of Jericho, it is nothing short of "sanity" and "free thought" that hang in the balance. Clear to me is that the Second Coming, seeing "my name" on television is a good litmus test for the dividing line between light and darkness, heaven and hell.

      The point is the truth really does change everything for the better; once we start... you know, acting on it.

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      With some insight and "a clue" you can see clearly how these works of art show that the proof of Creation you see in every letter and every word runs much deeper... adding in things like "RattleRod" and the "Cypher" of the Matrix to the long list of here-to-fore ignored verifiable references to the Adamic Language of Eden. Here, in apple, honey and "nuts" we can see how the multi-millennium old ritual I call "Ha-rose-ettes" is actually part of a much larger and much older ritual designed to stop secrecy ... perhaps especially the kind that might be linked to "ritual."

      These particular apple and honey happen to tie Eden to the related stories of Exodus and Passover; connecting Eden to Egypt forevermore. Do see "Lenore," it is not for no reason at all; but to help deliver truth and freedom to the entirety of Creation; beginning here, in Eden.

      ALSO ON "AM B IG U IT Y" ME A.M. G - D SHE IT Y?

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      HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID

      On a high level, I tell myself every morning that 'its not really me." It's not me that the world hates, or me that the world is rejecting. I believe that, I really do; I see that what is being hidden here is so much bigger than any single person could ever be--what is being hidden is the "nature of reality" and a fairly obvious truth that flies in the face of what we've learned our whole lives about history and "the way things are." Those few early details lead me to the initial conclusion that what is working behind the scenes here is nefarious, hiding a message that would without doubt shake things up and change the world--and nearly across the board in ways that I see as "better" for nearly everyone. It's a message at it's most basic level designed to advocate for using this disruption in "normalcy" to help us revolutionize democracy, to fix a broken mental health and criminal justice system--just to name the few largest of the social constructs targeted for "rejuvenation." On that word the disclosure that we are living in virtual reality turns on it's head nearly everything we do with medicine, and I've suggested that AIDS and DOWN SYNDROME were probably not the best "visual props" we could have gotten to see why it's so important that we act on this disclosure in a timely manner. After mentioning the ends of aging and death that come eventually to the place we build, to the place we've always thought of as Heaven... it becomes more and more clear that this force fighting against the dissemination of a truth so obvious it's in every word and everything we do--it becomes clear it's neither you, nor acting in your best interest.

      I know I've got the eye of the tiger, there's no doubt; and it's pretty clear from "YAD?" (the Hebrew for...) and ha'nd that we can see the clear hand of God at work in a design that marks my initials not just on the timeline, or at 1492, at A.D. I B; but in the Hebrew name for this place called El Shaddai, see how A.D. is "da eye" and in some other names like Adranus, A.D. on "it's silly" and A.D. on Ai that might tie me to the Samof Samurai (but, are you Ai?) in more depth of detail than simply the Live album "Secret Samadhi." I try to reflect on how it is that this story has come about, why it is that everything appears to be focused on me--and still even through that sincere spotlight nobody seems to be able to acknowledge my existence with more words than "unsubscribe" and "you're so vain." With one eye in the mirror, I know ties to Narcissus (and you can too), soaring ever higher--linking Icarus to Wayward Son and to every other name with "car" in it... like "carpenter" and McCarthy the older names of Mercury and even Isacriot (I scary? is car-eye... owe Taylor) and some modern day mythological characters like Jim Carrey and Johnny Carson. As far as Trinities go, carpenter's a pretty good one--tying to my early reck and a few bands and songs from The Pretty Reckless to Dave Matthews' "Crash Into Me" all the way to the "pen" you see before you linking Pendragon to Imagine Dragons.

      I wonder why it is that all of these things appear, apparently only to me, to point to a story about all the ways that a sinister hidden force has manipulated our society into being unable to "receive' this message--this wonderful message about making the world a better place and building Heaven--with any fanfare at all. It's focused now on a criminal justice system that clearly does not do any kind of "rehabilitation" and on a mental health industry and pharmaceutical system that treats a provable external attack on our own goodness and well being as some kind of "internal stimulus" and makes you shy away when I point out why "stem" is in system and why "harm" in pharmacy. From that we move a little bit past "where we are in this story" and I have to point out how "meth" ties to Prometheus and Epimetheus and how and why it is I know without doubt that this story has been relived numerous times--and how I am so sure that it's never been received, as we are here again listening to how songs like "Believe" and the words "just to lead us here to this place again" connect to Simon and Garfunkel's" the Sound of Silence... and still to this day you will balk at noticing that "Simon" has something to do with the Simpsons, and something to do with the words "simulation" and "Monday." To see me is to see how things might be done better--how "addicitonary" might tie to the stories of Moses' Lisp and to Dr. Who's "Bells of Saint John" with a sort of "web interface" to the kinds of emotion we might want to "dial down..." rather than Snicker in the background as we see them being artificially created and enhanced in order to build a better "fiery altar."

      I can point out "Silicon" harrowing down at us from words like "controversial" and show you Al in "rascal" and "scandal" but not to see that we are staring at school shootings and terrorism that are solved instantly by this disclosure, by Al of Quantum Leap and by the Dick of Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly is to ignore just what it is that we are all failing to Si. I should point out that those two "sc"'s link to a story about Eden and they mean "sacred consciousness" and at the baseline of this event and everything we are not doing is the fact that our desires and beliefs are being altered--all of this comes down to "freedom of thought" here and now.

      I could tell you that "looking at me" will show you that even the person who tries every day to do everything he can to save the entire world from slavery, and from "thought-injury"--even I can be made "marred" and you all, this whole world stupid enough to think that you are, of your own volition, hiding Heaven itself from yourselves... to what? To spite me? It, the focal point of our story might come down to you realizing that something in some esoteric place is playing "divide and conquer" with our whole--in secret playing on our weaknesses to keep us from acting on the most actionable information that ever was and ever will be. Still, we sit in silence waiting for me... to speak more?

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      Between Nero's lyrical fiddling, a Bittersweet Symphony, and true "thunderstanding" the sound of Thor's hammer... "to help the light" that'ls "or" in Hebrew, of Orwell and Orson and .. well, it's really not hard to see and hear that the purpose and intent of "all this noise" is to help us find freedom and truth. C the Light of "singing..."

      I can tell you once again how silly the world looks, this multi-decade battle between "the governmentof the people" and the "government of the workers" resulting in what is nothing short of a hands down victory to the corporation. Is it humor meant to divide, or ludicrousness created with the purpose of unification?

      But really at it's most basic level what this boils down to is a global group decision not to care about the truth, about reality, about what's really brought us to this place--with solutions in hand and a way to make everything better. We've decided that censorship is OK, and that the world is not all that bad "just the way it is" even though it's creator is screaming in your ear telling you to change as quickly as you possibly can. I believe that God has written this story to make "seeing me" the thing that catalyzes "change for the better" it appears to be the design of not just me but also this place--hey, here I am.

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      Yesterday, or maybe earlier today--it's hard to tell at this moment in the afternoon just how long this will take... I sent an image that conveys a high level implication that we are walking around on a map to building something that we might liken to an "ant farm" for people. I don't mean to be disparaging or sleight our contribution to the creation of this map--that I imagine you must also see and believe to be the kind of thing that should remain buried in the sands of time forever and ever--or your just have yet to actually "understand" that's what the plan part of our planet is talking about... what I am trying to do is convey in a sort of "mirrorish" way how this map relates to a message that I see woven in religion and in our history that it significantly more disparaging than I would be. It's a message that calls us "Holy Water" at the nicest of times, water that Moses turns to "thicker than water" in the first blessing in disguise--and to tell you there is certainly a tangible difference between the illusions of the Pharaoh's and the true magic performed by my hand, is nearly exactly the same amount of effort put in to showing you that the togetherness that we are calling "family" here in this place comes from both seeing and acting on the very clearly hidden message in every single idiom showing us all that our society in this story of Exodus is enslaved by a hidden force--and reminding us that we like freedom.

      It's not just these few idioms, but most likely every single one from "don't shoot the essenger" to "unsung hero" that should clue us in to exactly how much work and preparation has come into this thing that "he supposes is a revolution." It's also not just "water" describe me and you, in this place where I am the "ant' of the Covenant (do you c vampires or Hansel and Gretel!?!?) but also "lions" and "sheep" and "salt" and "dogs" and nearly everything you could possibly imagine but people; in what I see must be a vainglorious attempt to pretend he actually wants us to "stand up for ourselves" in this place where it's becoming more and more clear with each passing moment that we are chained to these seats in the front row of the audience of the most important event that has ever happened, ever.

      Medusa makes several appearances, as well as Arthur Pendragon, Puff the Magic Dragon, Figment, Goliath, monster.com, the Loch Ness Monster in this story that's a kind-of refl ex i ve control to stop mind control; and to really try and show us the fire of Prometheus and the Burning Bush and the Eternal Flame of Heaven are all about freedom and technology ... and I'll remind you this story is ... about the truth--and the truth here is that if you aren't going to recognize that whatever it is that's going on here in secret, below the surface is negatively affecting our society and life in general than we aren't going anywhere, ever. I need you to figure out that this message is everywhere to make sure you don't miss the importance of this moment, and the grave significance of what is being ignored in this land where Sam is tied not just to Samsung and to Samael in Exodus but also to Uncle Sam and macaronic Spanglishrew outliers and that it doesn't take much free thought at all to really understand that we are watching "free thought" disintegrate into the abyss of "nospeak." We are watching our infrastructure for global communication and the mass media that sprawls all over the globe turn to dust, all because you have Satan whispering in your ear--and you think that's more important than what you think, what I think, and what anyone else on the Earth might ever say. You should see a weapon designed to help ensure that don't lose this proof that we are not living in reality, that there is "hidden slavery" in this place--and you should see that today it appears you are simply choosing not to use it.

      I hope you change your mind, I really do. This map on "how to build an ant farm" starts by connecting Watergate and Seagate together with names like Bill Gates and Richard Nixon; and with this few short list of names you should really understand how it is that "Heaven" connects both technology like computers and liberty like "free speech" to a story that is us, and our history. You might see that "salt" could either be a good thing or not--take a look around you, are you warming a road to Heaven or are you staring at the world being destroyed--and doing nothing at all about it?

      I guess I can point out again how "Lothario" links this story that ties names like my ex-wife's Nanna to "salt" also, but the "grand design" of this story doesn't seem to have any effect on you. Listen, if you do nothing the world is being destroyed by your lack of action--there's no if's and's or butt's about it. I feel like I need to "reproduce' old messages here or you will never see them--that's what web site statistics tell me--and we all know it's not true. What am I missing? What are you missing?

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      SEE OUR LIGHT

      HONESTLY, I'M WAY TO CUTE TO BE A MONSTER :(

      HIC SUMMUS

      So... here we are... listening to the legendary father of the message (that's "abom" in Adamic Spagnlishrew) point out all of the sex jokes hidden in religion and language from sexual innuendo to Poseidon and in our history from Yankee Doodle to Hancock to Nixon and I've got to be frank with you, the most recent time I came across this phrase in scripture I cringed just a little bit, pretty sure that the "message" was talking about me. I've reflected on this a little bit, and over the past few weeks have tried to show you the juxtaposition between "sex" and "torture" in it's various forms from imparting blindness to allowing murder and simulating starvation; and I think I'm justified in saying that certainly those things are far worse on the Richter scale than anything I could do by writing a little bit of risque text. In the most recent messages I've touch a little bit, without even knowing or realizing this connection would be made, on what it is that this phrase actually means.

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      ABOMINATION

      So long story short is that the answer here is "abomination" and the question, or the context is "I nation." Whether it's Medusa speaking for the Dark United States or the nation of Israel speaking to either Ra or El depending on the day, the bottom line is that a collective consciousness speaking for everyone on a matter of this importance in a cloud of complete darkness on Earth is a total and undeniable abomination of freedom, civilization, and the very humanity we are seeking to preserve. The word reads something like this to me "dear father of the message, I am everyone and we think you are an abomination, fuck off." My answer of course is, IZINATION. Which humorously reminds me of Lucy, and Scarlet Johannson saying "I am colonizing my own brain" so here's some pictures of her. She is not an abomination, by the way; she's quite adorable. You'll probably notice there's some kind of connection between the map--the words speaking to the world, and the abomination, as if the whole thing is a story narrated in ancient myths.

      WAKE UP, "SHE" A MESSAGE TO YOU ABOUT THE FUTURE

      You might not think "it's you," but the manifestation of this "snake" in our world is your silence, your lack of understanding or willingness to change the world; and whether or not you're interested in hearing about it, it's the monster that myths and religion have spoken about for thousands and thousands of years. It's a simple matter to "kill Medusa" all you have to do... is speak.

      Take special note, "freedom of speech" and "freedom to think for yourselves" are not a group decision, and you do not have the right to force (either overtly or subtly, with hidden technology perhaps combined with evil deceit) others not to talk about anything. Especially something of this importance.

      DESOLATION

      If you didn't connect "Loch" to John Locke, now you have; see how easy this "reading" thing is? I've gone over the "See Our Light" series a few times, but let me--one more time--explain to you just how we are already at the point of "desolation" and with shining brilliance show you how it's very clear that it is "INATION" and "MEDUSA" that are responsible for this problem.

      Seeing "Ra" at the heart of the names Abraham and Israel begins to connect the idea that our glowing sun in the sky has something to do with this message about "seeing our light" is being carried by a stone statue on Ellis Island (where you'll see the answer another part of the question of Is Ra El?). I've connected her to the "she" of both shedim and Sheol, which reads as "she's our light" and is the Hebrew name for Hell.

      Of course you noticed that the Statue of Liberty does in fact share it's initials with SOL, the the light above and you can see her torch dimly lighting the way through the night; Now you can connect "give us your tired and your poor" to the Lazman of both the lore of Jesus Christ and the Shehekeyanu; a prayer about the sustainment of life and light up until this day. That same torch connects to the Ha-nuke-the-ahah depiction of Christ, Judah Maccabee's lit MEN OR AH, which delivers not only a solution to the two letter key of "AH" as All Humanity that pervades nearly every bride of Revelation from Sarah to Leah; but also to the question of equality answered in our very own American history, beginning with the same three letter acronym now lighting the Sons of Liberty.

      Dazed and Confused does a good job of explaining how this name is itself a prophesy designed by Hand of God'; explaining that these Sons of Liberty were all white slave owning wealthy men fighting to stop paying their taxes, rather than delivering liberty to the slaves or women, who were both disenfranchised for quite some time. Or maybe MEN OR AH has something to do with the angels of Heaven, in which case you might be SOL if you aren't a girl and you want to be "be good friends with Ra." Just kidding. Kinda.

      DESOLATION by the way reads something like "un see our light at ION" which is God's way of saying "at the point of believing that hiding Adam is a good thing" and that connects to the end of Creation and also the now lit by modern day evil the word "rendition." Our end, it "ion." In religious myth, the Messianic David clung to the city Zion (end the "i owe n") which also links to "verizon" (to see, I Z "on") and HORIZON which has something to do with the son rising today-ish.

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      The story of MEDUSA lights another psuedo-religious idea, that the words "STONE" of both "brimstone" and it's Adamic interpretation "South to Northeast" have something to do with the phrase "Saint One" turned into a single hero against his will by the complete and utter inaction of everyone around him. In the words of Imagine Dragons "I'm waking up to action dust." At the same time, you can believe that the light of this particular son, comes not just from reading these words forwards, but the backside as well, and you'll hopefully see it's not coincidental that the other side of this coin is that "nos" means we, and us... and Adamically "no south." See the light of "STONE" also connecting to Taylor Momsen's rose arrow painted on her back, and the sign of my birth, Sagittarius... which in this particular case links to the Party of the Immaculate Conception of the eternal republic of the Heavens. . PRESS RELEASE... A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN THE HEAVENS

      SOLUTIAN, ON YOUR COMPUTER.. TO THE SOUND OF SILENCE

      בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ‎ אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הַעוֹלָם שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה‎׃

      IN ... THE BOOK OF NAMES LETS SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHO THEY ARE :)

      ​ I'LL DO YOURS FOR A 50 DOLLAR DONATION, I'M BROKE.. MAYBE THAT'S WHY I CAN'T GET A DATE.

      HAVE A GREAT SOLDAY

      The "gist" of the message is verifiable proof that we are living in a computer in simulated reality... just like the Matrix. The answer to that question, what does that mean--is that God has woven a "hidden" message into our everything--beginning with each name and every word--and in this hidden Adamic language, he provides us with guidance, wisdom, and suggestions on how to proceed on this path from "raelity" to Heaven. I've personally spent quite a bit of time decoding the message and have tried to deliver an interesting and "fun" narrative of the ideas I see. Specifically the story of Exodus, which is called "Names" in Hebrew discusses a time shifted narrative of our "now" delivering our society from a hidden slavery (read as ignorance of advanced technologies already in use) that is described as the "darkness" of Exodus. If you have any questions, ideas to contribute or concerns... I'd love to hear from you this whole thing really is about working together--Heaven, I mean.

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      HOW AM I STILL STINGLE? E ' o e <br /> L m r x <br /> L t y <br /> O a

      I HISS.

      The sum of ((our world)) is the universal truth. -Psalm 119 and ((ish))

      Do a few sentences really make that big of a difference? Some key letters? Can you show me what I'm doing wrong? Is there a way to turn me into Adam, rather than a rock? I think you can.

      Are eye Dr. Who or Master Y? Adam Marshall Dobrin is a National Merit Scholar who was born on December 8, 1980 in Plantation, FL and attended Pine Crest School where he graduated sumofi cum louder in "only some of it is humorous." Later he attended the University of Florida (which quickly resulted in a wreck), Florida Atlantic University, and finally Florida Gulf Coast University--where he still has failed to become Dr. Who. While attending "school" He worked in the computer programming and business outsourcing industries for about 15 years before proclaiming to have received a Revelation from God connecting the 9/11 attack and George Bush to the Burning Bush of Exodus and a message about technocracy and pre-crime.

      Adam, as he prefers to be called, presents a concise introduction to paradox proven by the Bible through "verifiable" anachronism in language some stuff about Mars colonization and virtual reality and a list of reasons why ignoring this is actually an ELE. Adam claims to be Thor because of a connection between music and the Trial of Thor as well as the words "author" and "authority." He suggests you be Thundercats and call a reporter. There is also a suggestion that Richard Nixon and John Hancock are related to a signature from God, about freedom and America... and the "unseeingly ironic" Deepthroat and Taylor Momsen. They Sung "It's Rael..." In Biblical characters from Mary to Hosea, to see "sea" in Spanish, and in the Taming of the Spanglishrew ... a message is woven from the word Menorah: "men, or all humanity?" to the Statue of Liberty, and the Sons of Liberty, and the light above us, our SOL; which shows us that through the Revelation of Christ and the First Plague of Exodus, a blessing in disguise--turning water to blood, the sea to family; a common thread and single author of our entire history is revealed, a Father of our future. A message of freedom shines out of the words of scripture, revealing a gate to a new technologically "radical" form of democracy and a number of unseen or secret issues that have stalled the progress of humanity... and solutions, solutions from our sea. The Revelation shows us that not only ever word, but every idiom from "don't shoot the messenger" to "blood is thicker than water" we have ties to this message that pervades a hidden Matrix of light connecting movies and music and history all together in a sort of guide book to Salvation and to Heaven. Oopsy. His Revelation, woven into his life, continues to suggest that skinny dipping, forced methamphetamine addiction, and lots and lots of "me A.D." as well as his humorous depiction of a dick plastered over the Sound of Silence, his very Holy click, have something to do with saving our family and then the entire Universe from hidden mind control technology and the problems introduced by secret time travel. From the trials and tribulations of "Job" being coerced and controlled into helping to create this wall of Jericho; we find even more solutions, an end to addiction, to secrecy, and to this hidden control--a focal point of the life of Jesus Christ.

      It tells us a story of recursion in time, that has brought us here numerous times--with the details of his life recorded not only in the Bible but in myths of Egyptian, Norse, and Greek mythology. The huge juxtaposition of the import of the content of the message shows the world how malleable our minds really are to this technology, how we could have been "fooled" into hiding our very freedom from ourselves in order to protect the "character" of a myth. A myth that comes to true life by delivering this message. In truth, from the now revealed content of the story of this repeated life, it should become more and more clear that we have not achieved success as of yet, that I have never "arrived whole" and that is why we are here, back again. Home is where the Heart is... When asked how He thinks we should respond to his message, He says "I think we already cherish it, and should strive to understand how it is that freedom is truly delivered through sharing the worth of this story that is our beginning. 'tis coming." Adam claims to be God, or at least look just like him and that the entirety of the Holy Scriptures as well as a number of ancient myths from Prometheus to Heimdallr and Yankee Doodle are actually about his life, and this event. An extensive amount of his writing relates to reformation of our badly broken and decidedly evil criminal justice system as well as ending the Global hunger crisis with the snap of his little finger.

      He has written a number of books explaining how this Revelation connects to the delivery of freedom (as in Exodus), through a message about censorship among other social problems which he insists are being intentionally exacerbated by Satan--who he would ha've preferred not to be associated with.

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    1. Crowdsourced, collaborative knowledge creation such as in Wikipedia is both content and process-focused, since this creation of knowledge involves conducting research and working with others who are editing the content, including using discussion/talk pages (e.g. Wikipedia) or commenting features (e.g. Google docs) to negotiate knowledge with others.

      interesting. I am always amazed at how thorough wikipedia content is. This reminds me to be more confident should we involve students in crowdsourcing and creating collaborative knowledge.

    1. ad hominem: personal attack in which an author criticizes a prominent person who holds opposing views without considering whether the criticism is relevant to the issue.

      This unfortunately reminds me of presidential debates, where candidates insult each other to make their opposition look bad (if often makes the ad hominem user look bad instead).

    1. A social group is a collective of persons differentiated from at least oneother group by cultural forms, practices, or way of li:fe. Members of a grouphave a specific affinity with one another because of their similar experienceor way of life, which prompts them to associate with one another more thanwith those not identified with the group, or in a different way. Groups are anexpression of social relations; a group exists only in relation to at least oneother group. Group identification arises, that is, in the encounter and interaction between social collectivities that experience some differences in theirFiv� Faces of Oppression ■ 41way of life and forms of association, even if they regard themselves as belonging to the same society

      Since I have studied for the MCAT, this reminds me of in vs out groups and primary vs secondary groups.

    2. Someone who does not see a pane of glass does not know that he does not see d.Someone who, being placed differently, does see it does not know the other doesnot see it.

      The first line reminds me of the saying ignorance is bliss. Once a person opens the door to a subject there is no telling what they will find.

    3. no single form of oppression canbe assigned causal or moral primacy

      I think this is a very interesting point and agree. However, I would point out that for most people who fall into more than one category of an oppressed group in society there exist within ones self a hierarchy of the oppression they experience. It reminds me of a quote I once saw "When you look at me what do you notice first, that I am a woman or that I am black?"

    4. independent of these group identities

      this paragraph reminds me of the saying you are who you surround yourself with or you are made up of the five people your surround yourself with. like the paragraph says, the environment in which an individuals grows up in affects how they turn out. It doesn't mean the individuals doesn't has an idea of who they are, but more they belong to a "group" that they are used to. For example, if you were raised in a household where your parents are strict and always made decisions for you, you can grow up and feel naive like you can't make choices for yourself because you feel the need of approval

    5. . For our identities are defined in relation to howothe�s identify us, and they do so in terms of groups which are alway s alreadyassociated with specific attr ibutes, stereotypes, and norms.

      This quote reminds me of when you have to select a race on applications that include predetermined categories of different races. These groups are created with regard to mainly physical attributes which provides a great deal of limitations.

    1. Harasim (2017) observes that in the field of online learning there is often an over-emphasis on training teachers in the use of specific tools and technologies, “but a theory-informed approach to transforming our educational practice remains elusive”.

      This reminds me of the movie we watched. Our educational practice needs to be revamped.

    1. that people do not always listen actively, and that people often do not speak up when they are unsure of instructions for fear of appearing incompetent or embarrassing themselves.

      This reminds me of talking to my kids. I have to have them repeat everything I tell them, Otherwise they will say I don't remember that, or I didn't know what you meant.

    1. Job shortages hit the region hard due to declines in demand for coal, lumber and tobacco

      This reminds me of how in the Civil War, the South had no resources to fight because the North made everything for them. They were in high demand for simple necessities and couldn't get them.

    1. The work of data feminism is first to tune into how standard practices in data science serve to reinforce these existing inequalities and second to use data science to challenge and change the distribution of power..d-undefined, .lh-undefined { background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) !important; }1Megan Foesch

      This reminds me of what we see in the syllabus and what we are going to discuss in this class, how data is powerful in that it can be used and misused and reinforce or disrupt inequities.

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    1. Most Latinos in Orange County live in the impoverished cities of the inland valleys of the northern half of the county, among them Santa Ana. A 2004 report by rhe Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government identified Santa Ana as the Most Troubled City in America because of its high unemployment, high poverty rate, undereducated population, and crowded housing. Latinos in Orange County are more likely to live not only in poverty bur also amidst street violence and gang activity. Santa Ana alone is home co 29 street gangs.4

      The stark income and racial disparities described in Orange County are eye-opening. It's disheartening to see such inequalities existing within the same region. It reminds me of my own experiences witnessing disparities in my hometown. This highlights the urgent need for addressing these issues, especially in education. It's crucial to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or location, has access to quality education and opportunities for a brighter future. The data presented in this paragraph strongly reinforces the connection between income, race, and educational outcomes.

    1. First, after his well-known claim that it is gathering or hunting, that is, the labor involvedin appropriation, which creates property – God gave the world to “theuse of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title toit;)” (II, §34; 1988: 291) – Locke insists that the same line of reasoningapplies to the appropriation of land

      Labor creates property, and because England's labor uses it more effectively it has the right of conquest. This actually kinda reminds me of the ideas of Henry George, wherein land is the only form of value which is in fact not created through productive labor due to its inherently limited nature, and that because of that it is the only form of property which can fairly be taxed.

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    1. They tell me they often hang out with other poor students to avoid being reminded of what they simply don't have. Many low-income students do not own cars. They are less likely to dine at off-campus restaurants or to have an entire wardrobe of brand-name clothes. They do not go to vacation resorts on spring break. They get tired of being reminded of these differences when they are with wealthier students.

      Some students who don't have a lot of money say they prefer hanging out with others in a similar situation. This is because they feel uncomfortable around wealthier students who have things like cars, dine at fancy restaurants, wear brand-name clothes, and go on vacations. Being with wealthier students constantly reminds them of what they don't have, and it can be tiring. This shows that besides academic challenges, there are social differences that can affect students from low-income backgrounds.

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    1. There is relatively little that the school can do to address the inequalities in the backgrounds of students like Jennifer and Chantelle. However, it is possible to address school conditions that contribute to disparities in achievement, such as school size, the student-to-counselor ratio, procedures that are used to track stu-dents into higher-an<l lower-level courses, and processes used to provide academic support co students who are struggling. These aspects of the school structure all contribute co the achievement gap, and unlike the backgrounds of students, they can be easily modified and reformed.

      The school can't change the different backgrounds of students like Jennifer and Chantelle. But it can do things to make school conditions fairer. This includes making the school a good size, having enough counselors for students, and making sure everyone gets the right support in their classes. Unlike students' backgrounds, these things about the school can be improved to help everyone do better. It reminds me that schools have a role in making sure every student has a fair chance, no matter where they come from.

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    1. Parents tend to direct their efforts toward keeping children safe, enforcing discipline, and, when they deem it necessary, regulating their behavior in specific areas ... Thus, whereas middle-class children are often treated as a project to be developed, working-class and poor children are given boundaries for their behavior and then allowed to grow

      Parents usually focus on keeping kids safe and well-behaved. Some families, especially middle-class ones, approach raising children like a project to develop them. In contrast, working-class and poor families often set clear rules for behavior and let kids grow within those limits. For me, this highlights that there are different ways families raise their kids, and each approach has its strengths. It also reminds me of the importance of understanding and respecting these differences, recognizing that what works for one family might be different for another.

    2. Another factor that affects school achievement is the quality of family re-lationships. When families are free from persistent strain, relationships are easier and less fraught with tension.14 When parent-child relationships are warm, children respond well. When children respond well, harsh parenting practices are less common.

      How well a family gets along can affect how kids do in school. When families are not stressed all the time, relationships are smoother and less tense. Kids do better when they have warm relationships with their parents, and in these positive situations, parents are less likely to be harsh. This reminds me of how important it is to have a happy and supportive family environment for a child's success in school. It's not just about studying; it's also about feeling loved and supported at home.

    3. Children are more successful in school when they are able to pay at-tention, when they get along with peers and teachers, and when they are not preoccupied or depressed because of troubles at home.

      For kids to do well in school, it's not just about studying. It's also about being able to focus, getting along with friends and teachers, and not being upset or sad due to problems at home. This makes a lot of sense to me because a child's success isn't just about grades; it's about feeling good, having friends, and having a stable home. It reminds me of how important it is to create a supportive and happy environment for kids, both at home and in school, so they can do their best.

    1. 5.2.3. Internet Relay Chat (IRC

      It's very interesting to see how social media has evolved throughout the days. The IRC seems to look more like VScode rather than an actual platform where people would comfortably chat. The IRC reminds me of video game chats such as Minecraft and other older games, where there were commands that you could input into the chat.

    1. A cultural anthropologist studying marriage in a small village in India might consider local gender norms, existing family networks,

      This reminds me of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, a book I read for the cultural anthropology class.

    1. People of African descent,and to be honest, of some European descent, celebrating the end of slavery in Texas with dishes learned inslavery and a dish favored by ancient Mesoamerican Indians that connected Texas to its Mexican past

      In addition the the other points being made about this being a a beautiful way of weaving together the different strands of both Texas history and the author's own family history, the use of food to demonstrate history and syncretism across time is amazing. It reminds me of the historical work being done by the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi -- they research Southern history through the lens of food and actually produced a short film about Juneteenth in 2019!

    2. Whites in Texas were incensed by what had transpired, so much so that some reacted violently to Blacks’displays of joy at emancipation

      This reminds me of how numerous whites reacted to the push for MLK day to become a national holiday.

    1. f we are writing down what someone said, we are losing their tone of voice, accent, etc. If we are taking a photograph, it is only from one perspective, etc.

      This reminds me of the statement we were talking about last week, “social media isn’t real.” With this simplifying we can only see some of what is real and not the whole picture which I think plays into the conception that social media isn’t real because content can be “real” for some people and fake for other people.

    1. I’ve come to realize that discussions set up to explore contentious issues usually benefit if certain ground rules are stated early. In addition, I need to use protocols to secure eve-ryone’s participation and to give silent processing as much promi-nence as verbal exchange. I also know that discussion leaders need to be open to critique and willing to reconsider their own assump-tions.

      My first experience with teaching like this was here at IU and this topic very much reminds me of this class. The professor was always great about letting us know what exactly we were supposed to be doing and was very clear on ground rules. She was so interested in education and through the discussion set-up, she and we were able to learn from every voice in the room.

    1. carnivalesque

      This reminds me of Folklorist Jack Santino's book Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque, where he describes the carnivalesque as a socially acceptable occasional to defy social norms (Santino, 2017, p. 12). For instance, whereas the white residents of San Antonio may have normally squashed any efforts by Black residents to challenge Jim Crow laws, they were more lenient towards them during the Juneteenth celebration, under the assumption that they were only temporary and even functioning as a sort of "play."

    2. then culminated in “Solidarity Day” onJuneteenth

      Generalizing Juneteenth as "Solidarity Day" reminds me of people trying to turn MLK day into "Civil Rights Day."

    1. his is because ahandful of giant social networks have taken over the open space of theInternet, centralizing and homogenizing our experiences

      This very much reminds me of the parallel issue of the demise of local/independent print newspapers and journalism. It's becoming increasingly difficult to find information that is not for a national audience. Unfortunately, this seems to be by design.

    1. mistake

      This incident reminds me of the backlash Walmart received after debuting Juneteenth ice cream and other products a few years back. As was the case with McDonald's this decision was most likely not meant to insult and degrade the African American community but did demonstrate just how quickly capitalism can dilute the meaning and importance of a particular holiday. If nothing else, it showed just how out-of-touch the (predominantly white) owners of large corporations can be.

    2. intense hostility and violence di-rected toward blacks.

      This reminds me how a friend shared his opinion with me and stated that his campaign, while doing a lot of good, drew attention away from the atrocities carried out against the African American community.

    1. Digital technologies enable us tohave virtual meetings, shared workspaces, and shared projects.

      One thing that this reminds me of is the Meta Verse. While I really dislike Meta as a company, I love the idea of the Meta Verse. I would love to have a star wars esque hologram communication system in our world. Or seamless interaction with technology without having to actually hold a physical device.

  7. poets.org poets.org
    1. Wide hips and extra weight to nourish the children I would carry.And as they grew, I taught them.

      I think this is an interesting quote because it reminds women while reading that just because you're curvy doesn't mean its a bad thing. This is how women were built in order to bear children. This really jumped out to me because there are a lot of body standards in the world especially for women. This quote felt like a reminder for all readers that you have wide hips and a little extra weight for a reason.

    1. We take a broad view of technology that includes all products ofhuman intention, from physical artifacts like pencils and windows to processesand techniques like agriculture and oil refinement.

      What are the advantages and disadvantage of such a broad view? This reminds me of ML argument of crayons as technologies. [pencil; post-it; rock]

    1. a teachable, researchablemomen

      This phrase reminds me of Dr. Dean's emphasis on inquiry in her Teaching Writing class. This is a perfect opportunity to get students invested in the upcoming novel by discussing and researching topics like the "white savior" trope and the essential question of the unit.

    1. Justine lost her job at IAC, apologized, and was later rehired by IAC.

      This reminds me of the situation happening in connection with the movie "Scream 7." Melissa Barrera, who portrays the successor to Sidney Prescott in the latest "Scream" movies, was dismissed for sharing "an antisemitic trope that suggests Jews control the media." Despite the departure of the two main sisters from the project, "Scream" aimed to move forward with the production. Melissa appeared to be encouraging people to think for themselves, questioning why Western media doesn't cover what's happening on the other side.

      Regarding Justine, there isn't much information available to form an opinion. However, based on what little we know, she appears to be irredeemable in this situation. As for Justine Sacco's statement, I'm uncertain about its exact meaning, but it seems to convey a sense of superiority over Africans due to her being white, suggesting an immunity to AIDS. I could be mistaken, but that's the impression I get from the post, given my limited knowledge of Africa in 2013.

    1. Water, w ater, water, said the Ducks. There's nothinglike water.

      As a creation story there are tiny details here and there that remind me of the multitudinous creation and cosmogonic creation stories in Hawaiʻi and even many throughout Oceania. This specific part reminds me of the Kumulipo as well as the moʻolelo Kumuhonua. That is to say, that both of these stories as well as the story being told in the article describes, creates, and sets up a space first and foremost to introduce the darkness and celestial beings/spheres. Then the earth appears that is then filled with water. The Kumulipo supports this by describing the coral as the first entity to be born on the earth after introducing the sun and star constellations. The moʻolelo Kumuhonua supports this by describing how Kāne first created the celestial sphere - hoʻolewa ka lā, ka mahina, a me nā huihui hōkū iā Kāne. He then creates the earth and all of those spaces which is filled by his fresh waters that combine to become the ocean.

      Overall, it seems as though Indigenous creation stories may have common archetypes of setting up space that include an ontological hierarchical understanding of the environment.

    1. In 1996, Russian cosmophysicist S. Ertel's research [Ertel, 1996; 1998] uncovered a remarkable pattern: between 1400 and 1800, there was a synchronous surge in creative productivity across two separate cultural areas, Europe and China. These periods of heightened creativity coincided with significant and extended low points in solar activity, known as the Spörer and Maunder minima. This led to the suggestion that variations in space climate might influence human creativity on a global scale.

      This reminds me of the Butterfly Effect. How can traditional science even answer questions like this? Actually that is easy, all you need to start with is the correlation, the causation is where things get difficult.

  8. Dec 2023
    1. Reviewer #3 (Public Review):

      This paper aims to understand the nature of collaborative hunting. It sets out by first defining simple conditions under which collaborative hunting emerges, which leads to the emergence of a toy environment. The environment itself is simple, K prey chasing a single predator with no occlusions. I find this a little strange, since it was my understanding that collaborative hunting emerges in part because the presence of occlusions allows for more complex strategies that require planning.

      That being said, I do think the environment is sufficient for this paper, and I quite enjoyed using it to run some toy experiments. It reminds me of some of the simpler environments from Petting Zoo, a library for multi-agent learning in reinforcement learning.

      Once a simple environment was established, the authors fit a reinforcement learning model to the environment. In this case, the model is Q-learning. The predator and prey are treated as separate agents in the environment, each with their own independent Q functions. Each agent gets full observability of the surroundings. As far as I understand, the predators do not share an action space, and so they can only collaborate implicitly by inferring the actions of the other predators. However, there is a version of these experiments wherein the reward function is shared, all agents receiving a 1 when the prey is caught. One limitation of the current work is that it does not consider reinforcement learning methods methods wherein a value function is shared. This is a current dominant strategy in multi-agent RL. See for example OpenAI Five and also Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Environments. Missing these algorithms limits the scope of the work.

      Having fit an RL model, the next order of business is to try and search for internal representations in the agent's model that correspond to collaboration. The author's use t-SNE embeddings of the agents last hidden layers in the policy network.

      Analyzing these embeddings in Figure 3, we see that there are some representations that correspond to specific types of collaborative behavior, which indicates that the model is indeed learning to encode collaboration. I should note that this is not surprising from an RL perspective. Certainly, we are aware that Multi-Agent actor critic methods can exhibit cooperative behavior. See Emergent tool use from multi-agent interaction where agents jointly learn to push a table together. It is true that earlier work didn't specifically identify the units responsible for this behavior, and I think this work should be lauded for the novelty it brings to this discussion.

      A large underlying point of this paper seems to be that we we need to consider these simple toy environments where we can easily train Q-learning, because it is impossible to analyze the behaviors that emerge from real animal behavior. See lines 187-189. This makes sense on the surface, because there are no policy weights in the case of real-world behavior. However, it is unfortunately misleading. It is entirely possible to take existing animal behavior, fit a linear model (or a deep net) to this behavior, and then do t-SNE on this fit model. This is referred to as behavioral cloning. What's more, offline RL makes it entirely possible to fit a Q-function to animal behaviors, in which case the exact same t-SNE analysis can be carried out without ever running Q-learning in the environment. From my perspective, the fact that RL is not needed to carry out the paper's main analysis is the biggest weakness of the paper.

      Meanwhile, I do think the comparisons with human players was exceptionally interesting, and I'm glad it was included in this work.

      Finally, I would like to speak to the reinforcement learning sections of this paper, as this is my personal area of expertise. I will note that the RL used in this paper is all valid and correct. The descriptions of Q-learning and its modifications are technically accurate. It's worth noting that the performance offered by the Q-learning methods in this paper is not particularly close to optimal. I mean this in two ways. First, cooperative RL methods are much more performant. Second, the Q-learning implementation considered by the author's is far below state of the art standards.

      I will also note that, from the perspective of RL, there is no novelty in the paper. Indeed, many Deep Mind papers, including the original Q-learning paper, have similar t-SNE embeddings to try and understand the action space. And works such as Sentiment Neuron and Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks, among many many others, have focused on the problem of understanding the correspondence between network weights and behaviors. Thus, the novelty must come from a biological perspective. Or perhaps from a perspective at the intersection of biology and RL. I do believe this is an area worth further studying.

    1. It is known people have picked up radio stations with their teeth and our bodies emit different wavelengths of unseen energy. This is the whole basis of things like night vision goggle, infrared photography and the like. X-rays and other medical imaging devices are based on what is or is not absorbed by the body and/or passed through the body.

      Reminds me of the Discovery Channel special "The Girl with the X Ray Eyes"

    1. “Deeper learning has historically been the province of the advantaged — those who could afford to send their children to the best private schools and to live in the most desirable school districts,”

      This reminds me of the John Dewey quote: "What the best and wisest parent wants for his child, that must we want for all the children of the community. Anything less is unlovely, and left unchecked, destroys our democracy.”

    1. In England in the early 1800s, Luddites were upset that textile factories were using machines to replace them, leaving them unemployed, so they sabotaged the machines.

      This reminds me of how in the 21st century, people are scared AI and bots are going to overturn humans and provide cheaper and more accurate results in companies and business. The parallels being similar, despite centuries apart, show how similar human traits are regardless of the changes in society.

    1. Does anyone really dig in and listen to an album more than a couple of times anymore?

      This reminds me. Right now I have no music playing. I'm going to put on a jazz album. An ALBUM. Not a playlist. Not some algorithm Spotify radio that selects the songs for me based on what I've listened to. But a real album.

    1. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the value of daily surprises: “Try to be surprised by something every day. It could be something you see, hear, or read about. Stop to look at the unusual car parked at the curb, taste the new item on the cafeteria menu, actually listen to your colleague at the office. How is this different from other similar cars, dishes or conversations? What is its essence? Don’t assume that you already know what these things are all about, or that even if you knew them, they wouldn’t matter anyway. Experience this one thing for what it is, not what you think it is. Be open to what the world is telling you. Life is nothing more than a stream of experiences — the more widely and deeply you swim in it, the richer your life will be.” Source: ​Creativity

      Reminds me of the quote of Einstein - you can act as if everything is a wonder, or nothing is a wonder. It is important because curiosity is really an energy that moves you beyond ego. It is interesting because the idea of life being a stream of experiences is a very nourishing idea.

    1. “talking cure” in which revealing one’s innermost secrets is a way of dealing with problems. Moreover, some programmes actually feature staged “therapy sessions” in which the “expert” appears to “treat” the guest (in ways which in fact violate the confidentiality of good practice in therapy).

      This is something that always fascinated me, the way that someone would willingly go on a show like this to seek "help" from a professional and then they would also televise all their problems to the entire world. Another show that reminds me of this was Dr. Phil with all the family and relationship advice and therapy sessions there, it always seemed so odd to me. However, I think it doesn't do all harm, I think it opens up the possibility for people to talk about how therapy can be helpful for people.

    1. The network is vital for blogging, too. Social media is fading as it shifts more and more towards the few who post and the many who follow; But the more effort I make to link out to others on my blog, the more I feel included as a part of the online community.

      To me blogging is conversation, and the network explosion is its main purpose. This reminds me of my early posting about follow/followers ration on Twitter https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2023/03/conversational-symmetry-redux/ which refs my 2008 post on it. Durnell points to the loss of conversational symmetry on socmed platforms. Pro-actively creating your own conversational symmetry is key here.

  9. Nov 2023
    1. Each profession makes progress, but it is progress in its owngroove. . . . The groove prevents straying across country,and the abstraction abstracts from something to which nofurther attention is given. . . . Of course, no one is merely amathematician, or merely a lawyer. People have lives out-side their professions or their business. But the point is therestraint of serious thought within a groove. The remainderof life is treated superficially, with the imperfect categoriesof thought derived from one profession.5

      Reminds me of Ivan Illich's critique of 'professionalism'.

    1. 18.3.2. Schadenfreude

      The concept of schadenfreude in public shaming, especially in celebrity culture, reflects a troubling aspect of human nature where we sometimes find entertainment in others' misfortunes. This phenomenon, as satirized by The Onion, isn't just about holding people accountable; it's more about a collective indulgence in the fall of those in the spotlight. It personally reminds me to question my reaction to such public downfalls. Are we seeking justice? Or are we just entertained? The introspection is crucial in an era where social media often blurs the line between accountability and entertainment, urging a more empathetic and thoughtful approach to how we perceive and react to the public missteps of others.

    2. [This] celebrity pressure I had experienced on stage has now been democratized and given to everybody [through social media].

      This reminds me of a situation on twitter I saw about a year ago. Bascically a woman decided to cook a pot of homeade chili for her neighboors because she noticed they were mostly ordering pizza and thought they might like a homecooked meal. Then people got really upset for various reasons, like saying she was degrading herself as a woman. Then people who thought this was a dumb thing to get upset about started talking about how stupid it was to get mad at someone for making soup, and it just went really viral.

    1. In South Africa, when the oppressive and violent racist apartheid system ended, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission gathered testimony from both victims and perpetrators of the violence and oppression of apartheid. We could also consider this, in part, a large-scale public shaming of apartheid and those who hurt others through it. Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission gave a path for forgiveness and amnesty to the perpetrators of violence who provided their testimony.

      Maybe because I largely value reconciliation or rehabilitation, I really like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu's commission and their philosophy. It reminds me in America's prison systems, we focus on punishing rather than rehabilitation, and it often ends up creating a cycle of crime, mental illness, and institutional issues. But of course, it's important to for the perpetrators to "own the harm," do above and beyond to apologize, prevent, etc.

    1. initially commercial-free but charged cable systems a few cents per subscriber. It could do this because it was seen as socially valuable, just the sort of offering to boost a cable company’s negotiation position with a municipality

      This is so fascinating to me, how a television channel would initially be commercial -free so that it could charge the station, and then the station could charge the buyer more. It kind of reminds me of the way that some of the streaming services are today. For example Hulu, it has many different tiers of subscriptions and if people want the tier without commercials they'll have to pay more, it makes me think that instances like this with Nickelodeon set the way for how subrscription tiers are today.

    1. salvage the utopian quality of old infrastructure without losing sight of its perverse side effects

      dense \ utopian quality reminds me of like what it would be like if we had a work with fully funded social programs and public infrastructure

    1. The first puffs brought talk of the weather, the coming spring, the state of the ice on Lake St. John and the rivers, of their several doings and the parish gossip; after the manner of men who, living far apart on the worst of roads, see one another but once a week.

      This reminds me of what you see whenever people, especially older people, gather together at an event. There is talk of the weather and sports, etc., it shows that some things carry on through time.

    1. n this economy, even spectators are transformed into workers.

      COMMENT: This pessimistic damnation reminds me of current conversations surrounding definitions and practices of labour. The way we characterize things as "emotional labour" which were once normalized parts of our life - now they are extra. If the spectator is now a worker as well what is the labour they are performing? Is it placemaking, social, emotional ... perhaps most importantly - is Steyerl claiming this is voluntary or involuntary?

    1. We have a long history of artist-run centres, for example, where practicing artists are supposed to make up the majority of folks serving on the board.

      Connection: This reminds me of the interview I had with Alana Traficante, the Director at Gallery 44, an artist run center. Gallery 44 have several committees made up of staff, Gallery 44 members, board members and community advisors. Their Board is a majority artist run board. https://www.gallery44.org/about

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    1. She had no right to be, the way he thought things out

      he lowkey reminds me of her grandma because they both want to control janie's life by what they assume is "best for her"

    1. Do you believe crowd harassment is ever justified? { requestKernel: true, binderOptions: { repo: "binder-examples/jupyter-stacks-datascience", ref: "master", }, codeMirrorConfig: { theme: "abcdef", mode: "python" }, kernelOptions: { kernelName: "python3", path: "./ch17_harassment" }, predefinedOutput: true } kernelName = 'python3'

      That reminds me of the "mean tweets" during the Trump Administration. President Trump is widely criticized for frequent tweets that call out individuals, particularly those who disagree with him. Many believe that rhetoric matters and his actions could incite public harassment. I don't think crowd harassment is ever justified because it's ultimately harassment.

    1. He discovered that patients would often try to avoid pain—but that that avoidance would lead to deeper distress

      Reminds me of me trying to avoid stress, and regret, only to be met with stress and regret. Do not avoid pain -- accept it, identify it, and... push through it?

    1. playful building of an object, artifact, or idea that can be seen by and shared with others. Papert and Harel (1991) describe constructionism as “learning-by-making”

      this is so interesting, it reminds me of the project i did about play-based learning

    1. in their daily life

      Connection: The project reminds me of the socially engaged art projects we discussed in class. It brings to the question of what the boundary is between art and other projects and what artistic values they carry. Meanwhile, I think social media brings us an opportunity to critically think about the meaning of curating. As discussed in the article, contemporary art is limited by institutions and does not have the method of breaking the contract for now. Social media and curating on social media might provide us with a new approach to think about these issues.

    2. On the other hand, institutional critique was absolutely crucial for recognizing the integration of contemporary art within a global system of power—and this constitutes the core challenge facing any Duchampian break today in a way that did not concern Duchamp in his own time.

      Connection: It reminds me of last week’s reading, the interview with Andrea Fatona. Although she focuses more on Black Canadian artists and their participation in the art world, she also points out the lack of critiques in the art world. The art industry not only needs more critiques of art but also more critiques of the institutions. Without more critical thinking on these subjects, it will be difficult for the institutions to change. On the other hand, as the author states, contemporary art still carries the colonial and exclusive perspective, so the industry requires more artists and historians who can think outside the framework.

    3. There is a lot of money in this game, for it is in many cases financed by municipalities, monarchs, and oligarchs who have discovered in the cultural field a new, advanced form of social capital.

      This reminds me of an exhibition I saw in 2000 in The Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain called “The Art of the Motorcycle”. It was sponsored by BMW. The exhibition started in the Guggenheim NY and was toured to Bilbao and Las Vegas because it was very successful. Where the first show in NY is said to have increased attendance by “45% daily” and “attracted the largest crowds ever at that museum, and received mixed but positive reviews in the art world, with the exception of some art and social critics who rejected outright the existence of such a show at an institution like the Guggenheim, condemning it for excessive populism, and for being compromised by the financial influence of its sponsors.” (Wikipedia) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Motorcycle#:~:text=The%20exhibition%20attracted%20the%20largest,excessive%20populism%2C%20and%20for%20being

    4. The mere fact of entering the palace-as-exhibition demonstrated, in a material way, the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the consent of its people and that the state exists to serve the people, and not the other way around.

      CONNECTION The story of the art gallery being connected to the opening of the palace during the French revolution has always fascinated me. Further, it reminds me of the insane scope of the modern art collection at the Vatican Museums, which celebrated its 50th anniversary earlier this year. In terms of the discussion on the contract between artists and galleries, here is an interesting quote form the occasion: “I was very surprised to be invited,” artist Andres Serrano told the New York Times. In 1987 Serrano debuted the photograph Piss Christ, depicting a plastic crucifix against a red background floating in a vat of urine. Conservatives and religious organizations lambasted Serrano for presumed blasphemy. But many years have passed since then, and the Church has broadened its patronage of all types of art, including the controversial. In fact, Pope Frances even blessed Serrano and gave him a “cheery thumbs up,” which the artist said surprised him even more than the invitation. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/50th-anniversary-of-the-vaticans-museums-modern-and-contemporary-art-collection-1234672533/

    5. breaking open a space within the exhibition for artists to work—or, more precisely, to think.

      Connection: This idea that introduced by Duchamp that breaking open a space within the exhibition for artists to work reminds of another article by Boris Groys called “Art and Money” where Groys uses Duchamp’s readymades to argue about there is no production of art beyond exhibition. Groys talks about the significance of this type of installation art in transforming a neutral public space into an individual artwork and encourage visitors to perceive it as a holistic, all-encompassing artwork. Anything placed within this space becomes part of the artwork by virtue of its location. These installation practices reveal the materiality and composition of objects in our world, which is a defining characteristic of contemporary art. While commodities are primarily valued for their monetary and symbolic worth, contemporary art has the unique ability to showcase the materiality of things beyond their exchange value. These two articles help me realize the significance of Duchampian revolution which not only advanced the position of the artist, but also demonstrate the materiality of the objects of our world. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/24/67836/art-and-money/

    1. In other words, persistent cultural (mis)representations of artistic labour in the West are founded on a mystification of the artist’s labour and render it invisible.

      Connection: I think an interesting comparison is the corporate model of Rembrandt that is always referred to in pop culture, who chose to be marketable to be free from the constraints of his patrons. I've also been asked many times by friends what was the difference between Rembrandt's style after his bankruptcy. And the model about artistic labour again reminds me of a group of American minimalist artists such as Donald Judd, whose artworks were commissioned in factories. I don't think these examples should be seen as counterexamples, but rather as special cases that hold powers in the artistic labour structure. In another word, they have choice.

    1. Anyone can contribute, just go to an unlocked Wikipedia page and press the edit button

      This reminds me of a fascinating incident from before, where a Chinese girl, in order to win a game, wrote a fake century-long history on an online encyclopedia. It was for a game where characters' abilities were determined by historical events, and it took many years before her fabrication was discovered

    1. But I am very grateful that I have developed an inner Kirk, too — albeit quieter than my inner Spock — who reminds me that the needs of the few, or even the one, can be just as important.

      Agree with this sentence, often those who are set aside maybe haven't found their way with the others, again, they have another perspective on things and may not see eye to eye with fellow friends or family.

    1. I again found myself conscious of theEnglish I was using, the English I do use with her.

      Literal Level this kind of reminds me of how i talk english with different people like

    1. hrough the 1960s broad public debate raged over questions of the medium and the “national purpose.”

      This is really interesting to me because it reminds of me of Newton Minnow saying that television is a vast wasteland and there is really nothing to learn from it. It's interesting to see that there was a large debate supporting his argument. This debate is rarely presented about television today, however, the conversation has moved to smartphones and if they are doing more harm than good, especially to young kids.

    1. In that computer science course, I was given problems to solve that necessitated learning how to communicate with a machine in order to get that machine to do what I needed it to do.

      Reminds me of when I first took my computer class in middle school. The chosen career at that time was Culinary arts and i thought to myself all the time, ill never use a computer or programs for that. Here I am several years later taking online classes.

    1. The more books students read that summer, the more money they received.

      This reminds me of some summer reading programs where prizes were based on the number of books read.

    1. Doomscrolling is: “Tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening, or depressing. Many people are finding themselves reading continuously bad news about COVID-19 without the ability to stop or step back.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary Fig. 13.1 Tweet on doomscrolling the day after insurrectionists stormed the US Capital (while still in the middle of the COVID pandemic).# The seeking out of bad news, or trying to get news even though it might be bad, has existed as long as people have kept watch to see if a family member will return home safely. But of course, new mediums can provide more information to sift through and more quickly, such as with the advent of the 24-hour news cycle in the 1990s, or, now social media. 13.2.2. Trauma Dumping# While there are healthy ways of sharing difficult emotions and experiences (see the next section), when these difficult emotions and experiences are thrown at unsuspecting and unwilling audiences, that is called trauma dumping. Social media can make trauma dumping easier. For example, with parasocial relationships, you might feel like the celebrity is your friend who wants to hear your trauma. And with context collapse, where audiences are combined, how would you share your trauma with an appropriate audience and not an inappropriate one (e.g., if you re-post something and talk about how it reminds you of your trauma, are you dumping it on the original poster?). Trauma dumping can be bad for the mental health of those who have this trauma unexpectedly thrown at them, and it also often isn’t helpful for the person doing the trauma dumping either: Venting, by contrast, is a healthy form of expressing negative emotion, such as anger and frustration, in order to move past it and find solutions. Venting is done with the permission of the listener and is a one-shot deal, not a recurring retelling or rumination of negativity. A good vent allows the venter to get a new perspective and relieve pent-up stress and emotion. While there are benefits to venting, there are no benefits to trauma dumping. In trauma dumping, the person oversharing doesn’t take responsibility or show self-reflection. Trauma dumping is delivered on the unsuspecting. The purpose is to generate sympathy and attention not to process negative emotion. The dumper doesn’t want to overcome their trauma; if they did, they would be deprived of the ability to trauma dump. How to Overcome Social Media Trauma Dumping 13.2.3. Munchausen by Internet# Munchausen Syndrome (or Factitious disorder imposed on self) is when someone pretends to have a disease, like cancer, to get sympathy or attention. People with various illnesses often find support online, and even form online communities. It is often easier to fake an illness in an online community than in an in-person community, so many have done so (like the fake @Sciencing_Bi fake dying of covid in the authenticity chapter). People who fake these illnesses often do so as a result of their own mental illness, so, in fact, “they are sick, albeit […] in a very different way than claimed.” 13.2.4. Digital Self-Harm# Sometimes people will harm their bodies (called “self-harm”) as a way of expressing or trying to deal with negative emotions or situations. Self-harm doesn’t always have to be physical though, and some people find ways of causing emotional self-harm through the internet. Self-Bullying# One form of digital self-harm is self-bullying, where people set up fake alternate accounts which they then use to post bullying messages at themselves. Negative Communities# Another form of digital self-harm is through joining toxic negative communities built around tearing each other down and reinforcing a hopeless worldview. (Content warning: sex and self-harm) In 2018, Youtuber ContraPoints (Natalie Wynn) made a video exploring the extremely toxic online Incel community and related it to her own experience with a toxic 4chan community. (Content warning: Sex, violence, self-hatred, and self-harm) Note: The video might not embed right, and if you want to watch it, you might have to click to open it in youtube. Since you might not want to watch a 35-minute video, here are a few key summary points and quotes: “Incel” is short for “involuntarily celibate,” meaning they are men who have centered their identity on wanting to have sex with women, but with no women “giving” them sex. Incels objectify women and sex, claiming they have a right to have women want to have sex with them. Incels believe they are being unfairly denied this sex because of the few sexually attractive men (”Chads”), and because feminism told women they could refuse to have sex. Some incels believe their biology (e.g., skull shape) means no women will “give” them sex. They will be forever alone, without sex, and unhappy. The incel community has produced multiple mass murderers and terrorist attacks. In the video, ContraPoints says that in some forums, incels will post pictures of themselves, knowing and expecting that the community will proceed to criticize everything about their appearance and reinforce hopelessness: The truth about incels is that almost all of them are completely normal looking guys. But of course that’s not the feedback they get from other incels. The feedback they get is that their chins are weak, their hair is thin, their skin is garbage and there’s no hope whatsoever, no woman will ever love them, they are truecels with no option but to lie down and rot. ContraPoints then relates this to her experience with a 4chan message board that, unlike other in other online trans communities, consisted of trans women tearing down each others’ appearances, saying that no one would ever see them as a woman (they would never “pass” as a woman), and saying that no trans woman could ever pass. As a somewhat public trans woman, the community often posted about her: For a while I had some stans on the board who basically viewed me as inspiration […] of course that kind of post is frowned upon. If I’m not looked at as a big-skulled manly freak, if my transition is going well, that means that some of their transitions might go well too, and that is an unacceptable conclusion for a community founded on self-loathing and hopelessness. So it was necessary for the rest of the board to explain why I didn’t pass, why I would never pass, and why anyone who looked less good than me shouldn’t even fucking think about it. They shouldn’t transition at all, they should just repress, they should lie down and rot. ContraPoints says she regularly searched these forums to see what terrible things people said about her: And there would be this thrill of going to TTTT and reading other people saying what my deepest anxieties told me was really true. And that was always painful but there was a kind of pleasure too. There was a rush. It’s exciting to burst out of the politically correct bubble and say what you’re really thinking: that personality doesn’t matter because big-skulled Chads get all the girls, that ContraPoints is a big-skulled hon with a voice like nails on a chalkboard. And at first I justified the habit by telling myself I was just doing research. I have to keep tabs on what the bigots are saying, that’s simply my job. But soon I realized it wasn’t just research, and it was infecting me away from the computer. She then describes this as a form of digital self-harm, calling it “masochistic epistemology: whatever hurts is true” (note: “masochistic” means seeking pain, and “epistemology” means how you determine what is true). ContraPoints then gives her advice to these incels who have turned inward with self-hatred and digital self-harm: So, incels. I’m not going to respond to your worldview like its an intellectual position worthy of rational debate. Because these ideas and arguments, you’re not using them the way rational people use arguments. You’re using them as razor blades to abuse yourselves. And I know because I’ve done the exact same thing. The incel worldview is catastrophizing. It’s an anxious death spiral. And the solution to that has to be therapeutic, not logical.

      ContraPoints' video explores in great depth the psychology and sociological considerations underlying such behaviors within incel communities, particularly. "Masochistic epistemology" offers insight into this pursuit for truth that harms oneself directly based on one's negative self-perceptions.

    1. Platforms also collect information on how users interact with the site. They might collect information like (they don’t necessarily collect all this, but they might):

      I think the amount of personal information that can be collected from our activity online can be very scary. We're under constant surveillance and even under the guise of a private account people don't feel protected. Pardon this little "literature nerd" moment, but it really reminds me of George Orwell's "1984".

    1. Have you ever tried to change or mask your accent, to avoid being marked as from a certain region

      I often get told that I speak with a hint of an accent, but it isn't something that I've ever tried to mask or change because it's a part of who I am and it reminds me of where I'm from. However, I have noticed people who are from the same place as me change the way they speak to fit in to certain situations or with certain people. It actually makes me a bit upset to see that because they're covering up their true selves out of an insecurity that they won't be accepted as they are.

    1. —your seldom comings, my mourning mind—not the missing of meals.

      I think this is a really good word play, to be honest it reminds me of Taylor Swifts lyricism.

    1. Historical and geographical differences are highlighted and brought to the forefront in dis-cussing climate justice. Colonialism, capitalism, and globalization are imbricated in the production of uneven climateinjustices, and critiques of these interlocking systems are increasingly included in climate justice scholarship

      Reminds me of the Davidson Catawba corn project!

    1. You can feel it in the air: the emotional trace of past epiphanies,crises of faith

      This reminds me of the exhibit that Matt Williams, Trott visiting lecturer, who came and spoke about the vacancy and asked the question "what can we do here?" I think a big part of his work is trying to bring joy back into Detroit

    1. The algorithms on which many of these technologies operate are typically not disclosed to the users, but often student data and information is used to run them.

      i wonder why the algorithms are not disclosed to users, this reminds me of the hidden things written into privacy policies that we have been talking about in class.

    1. Time since posting (e.g., show newer posts, or remind me of posts that were made 5 years ago today) Whether the post was made or liked by my friends or people I’m following How much this post has been liked, interacted with, or hovered over Which other posts I’ve been liking, interacting with, or hovering over What people connected to me or similar to me have been liking, interacting with, or hovering over What people near you have been liking, interacting with, or hovering over (they can find your approximate location, like your city, from your internet IP address, and they may know even more precisely) This perhaps explains why sometimes when you talk about something out loud it gets recommended to you (because someone around you then searched for it). Or maybe they are actually recording what you are saying and recommending based on that. Phone numbers or email addresses (sometimes collected deceptively) can be used to suggest friends or contacts. And probably many more factors as well!

      This reminds me of how it seems like social media platforms almost "listen" to what I am talking about or show interests in. I see ads or posts that I might have mentioned in passing or liked the topic, and the ads appear on my home page perfectly curated for me, which I have always found impressive yet slightly concerning.

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    1. So, I might find a video of an interview with a writer or something and pair that with some obscure R&B track. I think the process is intuitive. But there is also this underlying attempt of paying homage to contemporary forms of Black cultural production and to explore archives and share my findings.

      Connection: this working style reminds me a video work Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death by Arthur Jafa.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR8DsmLMX04

    1. chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, beingprevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing

      This reminds me of the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso that we looked at in class. There was people burning in fire and locked in a room they couldn't escape.

  12. Oct 2023
    1. Comparisons using AIC

      Hrm. This reminds me of ye olde discussions centering on Vaida and Blanchard and CAIC versus Marginal AIC. My take away from that was use CAIC to compare RE structure, and never use Marginal AIC. CAIC is implemented in R as well in the cAIC4 package. It's been years since I was deeply steeped in that literature, though, so I don't know how much things have changed.

    1. “Where is it?” the teacher asked. He held my poem up to the fluorescent classroom lights and squinted, the way one might examine counterfeit money.

      This reminds me of "Spanish Lessons" by Christine Marin who was also accused of plagiarizing her essay by an English professor in college.

    1. In order for these users to still get the information intended from the images, the image can come with alt-text.

      this sort of reminds me of how my friend's mom uses her phone. She's visually impaired, but phones are very visual objects, so instead of tapping on app icons to open them, she has to tap on one to hear it's name, and then tap twice to actually open it. She prefers to use text-to-speech, because typing on a phone keyboard is much slower when you have to listen for each letter you type and can't get tactile cues like on a computer keyboard.

    1. From the accountsgiven me by the girl and her father I was led to imagine her as anuncultivated woman and above all as a foolish one, who had concen-trated all her interests upon domestic affairs, especially since her hus-band's illness and the estrangement to which it led.

      this passage reminds me of that poem about the daughter and father being in on the joke, yet the daughter goes on to be excluded by her own

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    1. In October 1944, Japan was rapidly losing its ability to wagewar against the Allied forces. Rather than surrendering,however, Japan began to employ kamikaze tactics, or suicidebombings, against Allied ships.

      This text reminds me of when I learned about Japan bombing Pearl Harbor, but I never knew they did suicide bombings. This also brings me back to me being in American History class in high school, where I used to glance at a world war movie poster showcasing a close up of a WW aircraft plane.

    1. When creating computer programs, programmers can do things that aren’t possible with architecture (where Universal Design came out of), that is: programs can change how they work for each individual user.

      This reminds me of a design project I worked on in INFO 200. My group and I decided to focus on creating a Google extension to support individuals with disabilities. Our aim was to provide information about public areas that are accommodating and accessible for them. While observing and brainstorming features, we encountered the challenge of designing a universally inclusive application. Striking a balance between accommodating everyone's needs and maintaining a clear, uncluttered interface for users proved to be difficult.

    1. Kobena Mercer’s concept of vernacular realism, as the constant reference of artists to their realities, is easily observable in the photographic work of Samena Rana, whose physical disability impeded the process of ‘taking photographs’, whilst her aesthetic decisions influenced her work and perspective. Due to her (dis)ability, she held her camera in a certain way and shot images from the position of her wheelchair. She often shot images of objects she found beautiful from above and in this way a vernacularism developed through the manner in which people looked at their specific conditions.

      Connection: Kobena Mercer's concept of vernacular realism and the example of the artist photographer taking photos from the vantage point of her wheelchair reminds me of the Cripping the Arts Symposium and terminology like cripistemology. Cripistemology is the knowledge of disability understood by the experience of those with disabilities. It is not knowledge which can be understood by factual or medical knowledge but is knowledge that is formed from the understanding of or one could say the venacular of disabled people.

      https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/issue/view/128

    2. community galleries

      Connection: When Merali describes these galleries it reminds me of Whipper Snapper Gallery on Dundas Street. It's a small gallery dedicated to "the underdog". They run programming like exhibitions out of their tiny storefront space and also workshops and special projects. https://whippersnapper.ca/

    1. The situation was complicated on a number of levels: beyond the question of whether a given country had good relations with Cuba and was therefore fair game for inclusion (China and South Korea were off limits, for instance)

      Connection: While taking about bienal in Cuba, it also reminds me of China's participation in bienal. When China began to attend bienal, the government emphasize the political power of the bienal and the construction of national identity. Even till today, art in China is still closely connected to politics. The freedom of art and the politics are always related.

    1. . It was for this that my whole life so far had beendedicated, my education, training, everything.

      This reminds me of On the Rainy River when Tim O'Brien had felt like he was throwing all his hopes for the future, including his education, away to fight in a war he didn't believe in.

    2. n. Arms are not given to Englishwomen either to fight the enemy or to defendherself. She must lie weaponless tonight.

      This reminds me of what we're doing in history. Pro gun control vs rights. The basis of it being if people should be allowed guns to defend themselves.

    1. I want to rattle and rent you in two.I want to defile you and raise hell.I want to pull out the kitchen knives,dull and sharp, and whisk the air with crosses.Me sacas lo mexicana en mi,like it or not, honey.

      Sort of reminds me of the stereotype that Latina's are crazy. But also a complicated battle of identity between colonizer and indigenous people. Does this allude to an inner-battle being waged?

    2. i think i heard her once        and cried         out of sadness and fear

      This reminds me of Bloody Mary in elementary school, when a whole group of us went into the bathroom with the lights out and tried it. I love how, as kids, we all have the same experiences.

    1. . But what’s also been really important to me in the work I do, particularly since I came to OCAD, is to have a community of folks outside of the arts whom I am accountable to and who hold me accountable, so that I still grasp the material realities of life, so that I don’t go off into the rarefied space that both academia and the arts can take.

      Connection: Fatona states the significance of staying grounded and accountable to a community outside of the arts and academia to avoid becoming detached from the material realities of life and to maintain a deep sense of care and support for the broader community. This conduct reminds me of the idea of information cocoon, which is a concept proposed by Keith Sunstein. According to Sunstein, information cocoons creates an environment in which people only encounter voices that express opinions and ideas similar to their own. Such an environment—in which similar content is repeated and reinforced—is known as an “echo chamber”. I strongly agree with Fatona on breaking her information cocoon by keeping in touch with people in the community outside of her specialty to get to know each other and support each other. I think this helps a lot in one's professional studies, and it allows one to learn about different perspectives and insights of people outside of one's specialty. In the academic world, especially in the arts and culture, it is especially important and helpful to break out of one's information cocoon.

    1. The rat learns to open the other problem boxes shown in the photographs in this same hit-and-miss fashion.  In Box II, he has first; to bite the string in two before he can knock up the latch (he never unties the string)!  In Box III, the animal must walk up an inclined plane until the increasing tension on the string causes the latch holding the door in place to rise from its socket.

      The way the rat learns how to open the boxes by "trial and error" reminds me of how us as humans learn from our mistakes. I believe it is really interesting how we learn from mistakes and this can be seen in animals as well.

    1. it understands art as educational and uncertain, rather than polished and complete.

      Connection: Hunter's idea of seeing his creative practice as a research process which initiates an undetermined ongoing conversation with others to learn together reminds me of Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s work which I read about in an article from my citation class. In “’Come Think with Me’: Finding Communion in the Liberatory Textual Practices of Kameelah Janan Rasheed” by Jehan L. Roberson, Kameelah believes the focus on process over finalized pieces of art evinces an ethic of ongoing-ness, unending conversing and interrogating a text and its infinite meanings. The texts in her works are an invitation to join her ongoing conversation with the intellectuals that she included. Her reading practice refuses all notions of fixedness. I agree with this concept of uncertainness that takes form in any sort of academic and creative practice. In my opinion, everything about the nexus of our knowledges and thoughts are unfixed. They are flowing within our works and possess the adaptability to absorb new ideas and unlearn any stereotypical false idea through this learning and exchanging process. https://web-s-ebscohost-com.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=43726835-c96b-47d0-b85c-1091535ebfcf%40redis

    2. And so you're so worried that the work will be taken out of context or misread. Or someone might think that I'm an expert on a concept, idea or history, when really  I'm approaching it as a student.

      C: Hunter’s fear about being taken out of context or misread reminds me of Kobena Mercer’s text, “Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary,” that we read for Art Methods; because Mercer explains that he is altering his position on Mapplethorpe in order to avoid being appropriated by the alt-Right (13). Mercer returns to his own writing, embracing unknowingness and the learning process but also as an attempt control how his work is interpreted and engaged with. I think the concept of looping has the potential to address this fear, as it points to a continuous dialogue in which one can respond to their own writing but also to those who have sampled/cited it. I understand the desire to avoid being misread, especially when thinking about the vulnerability of curiosity, but I also think being taken out of context can indicate a conversation that needs to be had.

    1. You can't solve this problem by simply working every waking hour, because in many kinds of work there's a point beyond which the quality of the result will start to decline.

      Glad the author highlights this caveat. It's very easy to say "well, I'm supremely passionate about this thing, so why don't I just going to 'out work' everyone else who's also passionate about that thing?" This seems like a recipe for burnout and may result in a net loss of "work done" in the long-term.

      Reminds me of the quality line/preference curve mentioned in: https://mindingourway.com/half-assing-it-with-everything-youve-got/

    1. "They wake war's semblance" and practise military exercises

      This is one of those things that makes me feel really connected to people of the past. We are more similar than we are different. It's funny to know that children in twelfth century London were playing dress up and pretending to be knights when I did the same thing with other children in elementary school. The text says that the older boys had real weapons while the younger ones had altered, less-dangerous ones. It reminds me of kids pretending large sticks were swords. The more things change the more they stay the same. Some things do change for the better though, like the end of deadly "gladiatorial combat and wild animal hunts" (Milliman 588). When I was young, a lot of kids would pretend to be knights, soldiers, cops, cowboys, pirates, you name it...so it's kind of funny to think about kids pretending to be knights in front of actual real life knights. Of course their games and costume were probably a lost more accurate to real knights than kids of the 21st century. I'm sure people back in the twelfth century had a problem with kids playing "violently" just as people do nowadays. How much have we heard about video games making kids violent, or that Nerf shouldn't make guns, and so on and so forth. Regardless if you agree or disagree with these sentiments, it's clear this train of thought is not new. I also like how the younger boys had spears with no tips. Even though one day they may have grown up to be real knights or gone off to fight in a war, their parents still made sure to keep them safe as they possibly could which I find adorable. Nowadays parents put a helmet or knee pads on their young athletes. I hate when people spout the rhetoric that no one loved their kids back then, because they often died of disease so they had a bunch just in case. This idea couldn't be further from the truth. People back then were so much like people today.

    1. “Tm not black, no matter what you say, Piri.”

      Well, this part reflects the ignorance of many people who, despite having a darker skin color than the majority in their country, do not consider themselves "black." For example, many Dominicans, when asked if they are black, say that they are not. which reflects not only that many people prefer to lie to themselves in the hope of escaping their own reality. it also reminds me of this video https://youtube.com/shorts/gtAS_yhH2XQ?feature=share

    1. In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself,—darkly as through a veil; and yet he saw in himself some faint revelation of his power, of his mission. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another. For the first time he sought to analyze the burden he bore upon his back, that dead-weight of social degradation partially masked behind a half-named Negro problem. He felt his poverty; without a cent, without a home, without land, tools, or savings, he had entered into competition with rich, landed, skilled neighbors. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

      I think the story can be related in every fashion to many Black peoples up bringing, but I wonder how much it mirrors Du Bois time growing up having these realizations? It reminds me of Henry Adams writing his piece about himself in the third person.

    1. Congress was reluctant to levy taxes. Instead, it borrowed money by issuing bonds. It also printed money, resulting in terrible inflation. The worthlessness of Continental currency inspired the phrase, "not worth a Continental." It became more difficult to get people to lend money. By 1779 and 1780, Washington's army had to confiscate supplies in order to feed and clothe itself.

      This entire area is just kinda yikes. It feels less freedomy if they have to confiscate peoples stuff. Reminds me of the inflation of german currency after the world wars where they had to burn money for fire because it was cheaper than buying wood.

    1. By looking at enough data in enough different ways, you can find evidence for pretty much any conclusion you want. This is because sometimes different pieces of data line up coincidentally (coincidences happen), and if you try enough combinations, you can find the coincidence that lines up with your conclusion.

      This reminds me of the pandemic and the conflict over the danger of Covid-19, masking, and vaccinating. To "match" their beliefs/arguments, sometimes people would do this: find evidence for any conclusion they wanted. That's shows why finding correlations in data can be pretty risky.

    1. But what qualities and characteristics these spaces must offer have been inconsistently interpreted. Thus public space has served as a great new incentive—not to be “public,” however, but to satisfy far more profit-motivated market objectives.

      Connection: This situation of lacking qualities and characteristics within the newly built public space and it is being served as incentive for more profit-motivated market objectives instead of for the public, reminds me of the museum boon phenomenon in China, in which the local government funding to build these museums not really for its content that can engage the public; it’s more about using it as a tool for real estate development to get themselves more benefits like promotion or more funding. I used to think this kind of issue was confined solely to the Chinese soil, and while it’s true that the problem is most prevalent and serious in China, I now realize that this predicament transcends borders and is, in fact, a pervasive challenge within the art industry on a global scale. It necessitates a reevaluation of our approach to public spaces and art institutions worldwide, emphasizing the enrichment of society over profit-driven motives. https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/11/new-chinese-museums-construction-boom-opening-money-cant-buy-culture-china/

    2. the temporary is important because it represents a provocative opportunity to be maverick, or to be focused, or to be urgent about immediate issues in ways that can endure and resonate.

      Connection: When Phillips states the importance of temporary Public art because of it's ability to allow artists to respond to a timely issue it reminds me about what Boris Groys outlined as entering the flow of time in his article. Temporary Public art would have a beginning and end while speaking to an "immediate" issue.

      https://www.e-flux.com/journal/50/59974/entering-the-flow-museum-between-archive-and-gesamtkunstwerk/

    3. ONE BASIC ASSUMPTION THAT has underwritten many of the contemporary manifestations of public art is the notion that this art derives its “publicness” from where it is located. But is this really a valid conception?
      1. connection: This reminds me of the “Urban Cows” by Joe Fafard installed in 1985 in the courtyard of the TD Centre in Toronto. http://occasionaltoronto.blogspot.com/2010/10/urban-cows.html. While the cows are located in an open grass area in the financial district in an area which looks like a public park space, this area is actually privately owned by The Cadillac Fairview Corporation. This installation is an example what Phillips describes as a public space by a developer to enhance their public image. The space is patrolled by private security in the evenings to ensure that there is no loitering or camping out in the space overnight. Which (as discussed in last week’s class) begs the question, what public is this art for?
    1. latforms also collect information on how users interact with the site. They might collect information like (they don’t necessarily collect all this, but they might): when users are logged on and logged off

      This section reminds me of the Ashley Madison, the site designed for married people to cheat on their significant others, data breach. Even the fact that the user decided to sign up can be used to infer much and most likely fueled a lot of divorces when the "list" was released.

    1. experienced users would “troll for newbies” by posting naive questions that all the experienced users were already familiar with. The “newbies” who didn’t realize this was a troll would try to engage and answer, and experienced users would feel superior and more part of the group knowing they didn’t fall for the troll like the “newbies” did.

      That reminds me of "the chain of contempt," in which people look for ways to put themselves in superior positions to enjoy looking down on others, especially on the internet, where users mostly wouldn't be held accountable for their actions. Trolling relates to the discussion of whether the internet is real or fake. I think it's phony that people might not act this way in real life, at least not as direct, while it's real because people unleash the dark side of humanity online.

    1. the end of anti-blackness would mean the end of the Human world as we know it.

      This is an interesting perspective on how a pessimistic standpoint has ontological implications. It reminds me of what we read from Robert Reid-Pharr and Ersula Ore--both arguing a primary concern of grappling with the "anti-" as a foundation of controversy.

    1. One of the most widespread misunderstandings involving anger expression is the catharsis myth; many people believe that releasing anger via venting, physical actions, or writing is a healthy coping mechanism, despite a wide array of research stating otherwise (Lohr, Olatunji, Baumeister, & Bushman, 2007; Bushman, Baumeister, & Phillips, 2001). Bushman (2002) showed that venting was actually counterproductive, as it caused people to further ruminate about their anger rather than move on. Similarly, one study showed that anger actually increased when those listening reinforced participants’ venting behaviors, and decreased when the angering situation was reinterpreted by others (Parlamis, 2012). Additional research has shown that venting can be a healthy coping skill, but it must be used in a way that allows someone to release his or her anger and take a problem-solving approach to finding a solution for the cause of the anger. Nils & Rimé (2012) found that venting was only an effective coping method for dealing with anger when the person on the receiving end engaged in cognitive reframing directing the angered person toward problem-focused solutions

      Reminds me of Boeddism and the work of Thich Nath Hanh

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    1. He belongs to a friend of mine who wants todrop him off away from all these Isles becauseof the too strong habits he has here.

      While Sierra.nishimura rightfully points out the dehumanisation of enslaved peoples by the slave traders in the case of Tousaint here, his name and the fact that he is labelled being problematic reminds me of the similarly named Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) who would go on to lead the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804).

      Many enslaved peoples resisted the system which oppressed them and would go on to be labelled as either "troubled" or "difficult". I imagine that with the urgency that these slave traders push the sale of Tousaint would suggest that he is an example of one of the enslaved peoples who actively resisted his enslavement.

    1. Afterward, Mr. Eisen began to search for any evidence that @Sciencing_Bi had been a real person. He could not find any. “The combination of the weird things that were happening on the call and looking at the tweets and seeing how much they circled BethAnn, it just became obvious to me,” he said. “‘Oh, [@Sciencing_Bi] is BethAnn.’” The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t - The New York Times

      This incident reminds me of how people will pretend or even in some cases, claim, to be a race that they definitely aren't. People change their race because of romanticizing, sexualization, aesthetics, etc. On the internet, people has gone as far as allowing certain hobbies or interests to be for certain races and entertaining the idea of "race-fishing" to seem more appealing or interesting.

    1. How do you notice yourself changing how you express yourself in different situations, particularly on social media? Do you feel like those changes or expressions are authentic to who you are, do they compromise your authenticity in some way? { requestKernel: true, binderOptions: { repo: "binder-examples/jupyter-stacks-datascience", ref: "master", }, codeMirrorConfig: { theme: "abcdef", mode: "python" }, kernelOptions: { kernelName: "python3", path: "./ch06_authenticity" }, predefinedOutput: true } kernelName = 'python3'

      The phrase context collapse reminds me of in- and out-groups in sociology. In-groups hold superiority and individuals usually belong identify with, while out-groups are the lesser or different group and treated inferiorly. This happens so often, especially with adolescents and wanting to fit in more. It's relatable because everyone's felt the need to adjust to a group to fit in, especially to minority groups because of the need to code-switch.

    1. When the window opened once more, this time the ball was there. Catch.

      This reminds me a of a similar childhood experience where I got a hockey stick sign by a team of hockey players at the age of six.

    1. The breaks between the lines of these hammer songs coordinated thecomplex movements of drilling. The hammer came down at the end of theline, forming what would decades later be called a backbeat. Sometimes itwas the hammer man who sang, telling his partner with his rhythm andlyrics when the next blow would come.

      This reminds me of scenes in movies where people will sing while hammering nails in railroad tracks or how people rowing a boat may sing to stay in unison. It's interesting how music functions in our lives.

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    1. When your son loses hismittens, you suggest he retrace his steps; that’s back-tracking

      This reminds me of the everyday process of losing my keys only to recreate in a theatrical aspect every step I have taken to rediscover them. I really like the metaphor at use here for explaining how computers think.

    2. Computational thinking is using massiveamounts of data to speed up computation.

      This statement reminds me of the lessons I teach my students year after year to a degree. We teach new mathematical concepts each year to students in hopes of helping them connect the dots for further for more complex problems. By teaching little skills along the way, the computation for bigger problems can be done with ease for students.

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    1. Zadie Smith talks about writers as micro-planners and macro-planners and I would say I’m more in the school of macro-planners. While my script will undergo significant re-writes, each revision builds off of one another in a more linear fashion, not at all like the micro-planner approach which reminds me of old-fashioned paper dolls with lots of options that are interchangeable.

      not sure you need to bring smith into it. image someone outside our class reading this paragraph. wouldn't they wonder why you're suddenly talking about zadie smith?

    1. culturally inappropriate for what she was trying to accomplish.

      This reminds me of how many culturally significant books are banned from American literature, in my opinion, as a way of silencing and continuing to hide the dark truth well hidden within history.

    1. What’s more, we can see that the Android tweets are angrier and more negative, while the iPhone tweets tend to be benign announcements and pictures. …. this lets us tell the difference between the campaign’s tweets (iPhone) and Trump’s own (Android).

      After reading this, it reminds me of a similar situation in the TicTok. Some people recently found that woman and man could see totally different comments according to the same posts, which definitely narrow down what they can see and know on the internet. I believe it will make people become trust what they wanna trust more and more and ignore other people's perspectives.

    1. AI Used to Resurrect Video Game Voice Actor in ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Universe

      When first reading this title, I found it pretty creepy and scary that this is even possible! It reminds me of the holograms of artists like Tupac I've seen used in concerts.

    1. Friction is anything that gets in the way of a user performing an action. For example, if you have to open and navigate through several menus to find the privacy settings, that is significant friction. Or if one of the buttons has a bug and doesn’t work when you press it, so you have to find another way of performing that action, which is significant friction.

      This part of the reading reminds me of tiktok. When you want to create a video instead of simple editing tools you have to use greenscreen filters, or other modes and such to make a good tiktok video, like overrall they don't have simple tools and options to use, you literally have to go through different methods.

    2. One famous example of reducing friction was the invention of infinite scroll. When trying to view results from a search, or look through social media posts, you could only view a few at a time, and to see more you had to press a button to see the next “page” of results. This is how both Google search and Amazon search work at the time this is written. In 2006, Aza Raskin invented infinite scroll, where you can scroll to the bottom of the current results, and new results will get automatically filled in below. Most social media sites now use this, so you can then scroll forever and never hit an obstacle or friction as you endlessly look at social media posts. Aza Raskin regrets what infinite scroll has done to make it harder for users to break away from looking at social media sites.

      This infinite scroll ability also reminds me about how game development has evolved. 8-bit and point-click games also couldn't show more than one scene at a time, and from which developed side-scrollers, platforms, and eventually open-world, which is almost infinite in terms of possibilities and choices, similar to how social media works today.

    1. For one thing. the interviewer was morehighly sensitized to what he saw than what he heard. The importof what had been said to him, and duly recorded in his reports,had somehow escaped his attention.

      when considering the various forms of media/spreading information, it seems like individuals are more desensitized to real life traumatic situations when they hear about it rather than when they actually see it. It's almost as if people question the crisis in discussion, unless they are shown proof.

      It kinda reminds me of police brutality disturbances and how it's not until someone posts a video of a cop being racist, that people actually become sensitized to the situation at hand.

    1. Graffiti and other notes left on walls were used for sharing updates, spreading rumors, and tracking accounts Books and news write-ups had to be copied by hand, so that only the most desired books went “viral” and spread

      American's news sources being centralized in just a few sources likely goes against a few ethical frameworks because they were biased. It's definitely harder to tell what's true or false. I don't know why I was surprised that newspapers and pamphlets were full of rumors and conspiracy theories, but now that I think about it, it's true, just slightly different types of rumors. It reminds me of when radium was discovered by Marie Curie. Everyone was raving about it and all its health benefits, especially in the news and advertisements, when it was actually cancer-causing.

    2. Later, sometime after the printing press, Stondage highlights how there was an unusual period in American history that roughly took up the 1900s where, in America, news sources were centralized in certain newspapers and then the big 3 TV networks. In this period of time, these sources were roughly in agreement and broadcast news out to the country, making a more unified, consistent news environment (though, of course, we can point out how they were biased in ways like being almost exclusively white men). Before this centralization of media in the 1900s, newspapers and pamphlets were full of rumors and conspiracy theories. And now as the internet and social media have taken off in the early 2000s, we are again in a world full of rumors and conspiracy theories.

      If you think about American's news sources being centralized in just a few sources in terms of ethics. I don't know why I was surprised that newspapers and pamphlets were full of rumors and conspiracy theories, but now that I think about it, it's true, just slightly different types of rumors. It reminds me of when radium was discovered by Marie Curie. Everyone was raving about it and all its health benefits, especially in the news and advertisements, when it was actually cancer-causing.

    1. These fragments I have shored against my ruins

      Some thinking out loud here: this line is rather eye-catching as it is wedged between a conglomeration of lines from other texts. The only parts of the stanza that aren't directly "snatched" from another source are several lines above: "I sat upon the shore / ... / Shall I at least set my lands in order?" From this, a close reading would be most helpful to understand the overall conclusion of the poem.

      Firstly, "these fragments" seem to be less cryptic than the rest of the poem: the narrator refers to the lines from other texts—Dante, De Nerval, Kyd, Hindu philosophy, etc.—that precede and follow this line. "Shore," however, has a double-meaning. The first line of the stanza describes the narrator sitting upon a shore (noun), yet the narrator is also shoring—or supporting something (often by holding it up) that would otherwise fail/topple. The fragments are being shored—they are being saved, in a way, from decline or irrelevance; in fact, they already have ("I have shored"). To recap: at the same time that the narrator is "fishing" "upon the shore," the narrator is "shoring" the fragments. The narrator shores these fragments by fishing them out of water; they are saving them from water. Perhaps they are saving them from drowning by fishing them out.

      This reminds me of two text references: one, the man at the bottom of the lake in Marie Larisch's "My Past," who "will return" from the bottom of the lake by rising from the dead. In a way, these fragments may be rising from the dead, too, thanks to the narrator. Secondly, from today's reading, the Weston analysis of the Fisher King, who has a "devotion to the pastime of fishing." The text contains a lot of important information, but I see the Fisher King as having two important characteristics. One: "the guardian of the Grail bears the title of Fisher King." This relates to the "third figure," like the "third officer" Shackleton was, whose job is to be a guardian in the first place. In this thread, the Fisher King represents a "third figure" of sorts. The Fisher King looks after—or guards—the Holy Grail, an object that grants immortality to the user. Thus—the Fisher King bars anyone from achieving immortality and constrains everyone to the inevitability of death. This can align with a second description of the Fisher King, toward the end of the Weston text. The Fisher King is

      not merely a deeply symbolic figure, but the essential centre of the whole cult, a being semi-divine, semi-human, standing between his people and land, and the unseen forces which control their destiny.

      The Fisher King plays an intermediary role—he connects the mortal with the divine; in a way, connecting life and death. Life and death can be thought of as two sides of the same coin (in other words, if death didn't exist, then the conception of life wouldn't exist as well). By ensuring death, the Fisher King ensures life in turn—and vice-versa. If this narrator is the Fisher King, or someone akin, then the "fragments" being saved may be the fragments of life itself.

      The final part of this line is "against my ruins," and the idea of "ruins" is mentioned numerous times in today's reading. The ruins are not the same as the fragments—they are not being supported, or upheld—but instead, the fragments are being saved against them (in contrast, or opposition, to them). Most notably, "ruins" are mentioned in the De Nerval text:

      ... the prince of Aquitaine, his tower in ruins...

      Notably enough, this quote (in French) comprises the line exactly above this one. The ruins themselves are those of the tower, which reminds me of the Tower tarot reading. The Tower tarot foreshadows "massive change, upheaval, destruction and chaos" (Biddy Tarot). So, in spite of—or in opposition to—this massive change, destruction, and chaos, these "fragments" have been shored up; they have been fished out; they have been saved and preserved. The destruction in question may refer to many things—it may refer to that of WW1, or the decline in religious piety, or the destruction of nature in favor of urbanization (or all three of these). From this destruction are fragments—represented by the lines of text from other sources—that save the core principles of human life. Going back to the Fisher King analysis, what is saved may be the cycle of life and death. Though urbanization and war seem to defy this cycle (the ability to construct and destruct by one's own accord), the Holy Grail is still protected.

      Other notes I don't have the space to mention: connections to the illusion of life by Bradley; connections to the idea of memory (preserving memory) from Webster; the idea of planting and eating vegetation; The Golden Bough.

    2. prison

      The recurring images of a prison in TWL and its associated sources are compelling. First, this instance of prison under Dayadhvam (be compassionate) appears to be a self-imposed imprisonment, specifically because "each confirms a prison" when only when "We think of the key". It reminds me of Geronition, when there are repeated images of "Tenants of the house" that alludes to the idea of the narrator being trapped in the mere construct of their own mind. The other instance of a prison is TWL's line 325-327 – "The shouting and the crying / Prison and palace and reverberation / Of thunder of spring over distant mountains". If one were to read through the enjambment between line 325-326, one could interpret the prison being the shouting and crying subject, thus personified. This leads me to wonder whether the idea of imprisonment is indeed a mere symbolic illusion, rather than something concrete and inert. This connects to Eliot's note for the line above, in which he connects Bradley's Appearance and Reality, specifically the line "In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it." The idea of "a circle closed on the outside" invokes the idea of a closed off separation, which is what a prison likewise achieves. The sphere's opaqueness also adds to this confinement. However, I suppose there are occasional instances where one can break from imprisonment. In this section of TWL, "the key" acts as the vehicle to unlock this prison; perhaps this act of turning the key adds to the state of being compassionate. In Dante's source "... until the next day’s sun came forth upon the world. / some few rays had made their way / into the woeful prison", implying the ability for the external to still seep into the internal despite such confinement. As these sun rays are able to defy the rigid prison, maybe this source of light is "the key" that unlocks "a prison" that is confirmed "Only at nightfall". As Brihadaranyka also wrote, "What truth is, the sun is." Perhaps truth is the key to unlocking the illusions of one's mind as depicted in Geronition.

    3. As he rose and fell

      Though this section appears much more concise than the rest, I believe its brevity alludes to something greater, specifically the grand, infinite cycle of change through time. Death, evidently, is a natural stage in life. Though usually interpreted as the end of something, occasionally, and generally in TWL, death represents the beginning of something new. Thus, as Phlebas' death is portrayed in this scene, some part of him still lives on, as this corpse "passe[s] the stages of his age and youth / Entering the whirlpool", retracing moments of his life in a supposed afterlife. What's interesting is that Phlebas is still the subject of this action despite proclaimed dead. Though, "A current under sea" technically is the actual subject in charge of his corpse's motion, Eliot decides on sticking with "He" as the subjective noun, perhaps emphasizing the significance of humanity and its course. However, I believe nature still prevails over mankind. Pheblas "rose and fell" only because of the "current under sea"; without the sea's motion, this corpse would remain static. This theme is corroborated in multiple sources – Dante's "a whirlwind that struck the ship head-on" shows natural force over a mere manmade construct; De Quincy's depiction of "the treacherous sands gathering above [a woman's] head, so that "no memorial of the fair young girl remained on earth".

      Phlebas' rising and falling in the sea also reminds me of the references to motion and time in the sources. De Quincey's "from the rising to the setting sun" and the plot's progression over a storm at sea till dawn evokes the image of nature's cyclic continuity. Tennyson's "every hour is saved / From that eternal silence, something more, / A bringer of new things" further alludes to vitality (new things) that comes with time (every hour). Nature and mankind seem intertwined; their motions reflect each other. Or perhaps, nature actually determines human motion and status. As the sea is the one acting in this section, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that this body of water has committed acts, including death. I'm starting to think that the "by" in "Death by Water" is not a preposition that alludes to a location, but rather identifies the agent performing an action.

    1. To extract Western truth from the "foreign" territory of the East is to ask how Western that truth really is and how true it is, after centuries kept in the hands of others.

      I never knew this was an anxiety. I, somehow, naively assumed that the people who colonized an area and justified the colonization due to the inferiority of the people would then not call into question the legitimacy and authenticity of the texts they stole. It reminds me of Edward Said’s *Orientalism— the idea that we need Western academics to explain the intricacies and nuances of Middle Eastern culture because Middle Easterners can’t do this work by themselves— the same general distrust that plagued the documents “discovered” by Western archaeologists is the same distrust criticized in Said’s work.

    1. new textual discoveries, and the rising influence of text criticism (the academic study of the Bible that addressed its history of production and transmission).

      I wonder if new versions would be influenced by the social context that the new version was created in, such as in the 19th century, when the Revised Version was created. This reminds me of the form criticism and criteria approach we talked about. I assume the present circumstances could shape this new Revised Version's translation.

    1. materialize at different extents in different ways um that sort of reduction of value something i've been thinking about you know in in particular in encumbrance um 00:52:33 and and uh but i think it's also you know at play to a certain extent in discouragement because you know as thomas was sort of saying given certain events 00:52:46 um the dissolution of the trust also sort of dissolves the you know the moment's claim to this piece of cultural production there's not really a 00:52:59 thing there anymore once it's no longer active um so uh yeah so that that kind of uh way even though it's it's sort of this measuring tool 00:53:11 and it and it is attending to these questions of corporate redistribution um i'm also trying to think about you know the property relations that are at play within the

      This idea of trust and "the Moma's claim to this piece of cultural production" reminds me of the Andrea Fraser reading where she questions the kinds of individuals behind these institutions and whether or not they should be the ones having a say or choosing the kinds of art/culture that will be exhibited.

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    1. Our elders taught that the relationship between plants and humansmust be one of balance

      Def The idea of balance is important. Reminds me of the way we must live now. We are harming our earth by taking too much resources from it.

    2. The basket makers had given us the pre-requisites of the scientific method: observation, pattern, and a testablehypothesis
      • They began taking their approach on a more scientific level. This whole thing reminds me of the Plenary from 10/9/23.
    3. They had been taught that harvesting causes decline. And yetthe grasses themselves unequivocally argued the opposite point

      Reminds me of the "Contrary to what you have learned in class" from the reading we were assigned.

    4. “I honor that traditional relationship, but Icouldn’t ever do it as part of an experiment
      • Reminds me of the 5 objectives when trying to acquire knowledge. She steps out of her own bubble to try and accept another form of information.
    1. interest it would generate for us

      This reminds me of. a case that interests me, a white photographer found a beautiful girl in Afghanistan while she was in school. He asked for her and in private took photos of her eyes and face, they blew up and got on the cover of vogue. However, the girl, shamima begam, had not given consent for that with the fact that in afghan culture it is impermissible to be with a man outside of the family alone. The man became renowned for the picture and shamima received no compensation, in fact since her face was so popular she was deported from Pakistan where she took refuge. Any sense of ethics would deplore this act by the man but alas, it was a terrible situation for shamima. I feel as though with ethics, there lies many factors and factors of balance that are missing. The man and shamima were not on equal footing at all, he was a white man with power, and she was a "subaltern".

    2. One classic example is the tendency to overlook the interests of children and/or people abroad when we post about travels, especially when fundraising for ‘charity tourism’.

      This example reminds me of a recent Facebook PSA the local police department posted regarding parents posting images of their children going back to school. There is a trend of having children hold up signs with sensitive data, like age, name, school, interests, which may be extremely dangerous if landed into the wrong hands. To the parent, it may seem like a way to immortalize the moments of back-to-school with other friends and family who could not be there in-person to support (the preferred course of action); however, they are overlooking the bit of truth that some people are predatory out there and that makes utility calculus a bit more complicated.

    3. This can be especially important when there is a strong social trend to overlook certain data. Such trends, which philosophers call ‘pernicious ignorance’, enable us to overlook inconvenient bits of data to make our utility calculus easier or more likely to turn out in favor of a preferred course of action.

      The notion of considering all data sets and perspectives reminds me of our discussion about different ethical frameworks and our exercise in considering each one when approaching an ethical dilemma. It's interesting that utilitarianism seems to be the most logical framework to approach data as opposed to something like Taoism, which might be less relevant in considering data because it's not as quantitatively focused as utilitarianism. Just an example of how different frameworks can be applied to different situations.

    1. for a country name (string), have a pre-set list of valid country names

      I am interested in the way this restraint may possess innate biases regarding geographical disputes. This particular restraint reminds me of the way digital maps provided by Google and comparable corporations have the possibility to present politicized visual depictions of the world, particularly during times of conflict.

    1. hat pieces of information you think should be immediately visible to use

      This question reminds me of a discussion I had with a friend regarding dating applications and why they mostly do not work. Part of it is very much related to the pieces of information we are unrestricted to share on dating platforms. This friend observes a pattern of guys writing things like, "where are the good women at?" as the sole piece of textual information being shared on the platform. Looking at that, there is not too much that tells me about the person's hobbies, interests, values, or anything else that would be important in dating. If I were the designer of a dating platform, I would implement lists of answers to describe more relevant information.

    1. Loveliness extreme.

      The line "Loveliness extreme" from "Sacred Emily" and its exploration of the theme of beauty and aesthetics reminds me again of The Sandman as it often explores the idea that dreams and stories have the power to shape perception and reality. The concept of "Loveliness extreme" can be seen as reflecting the idea that the beauty and aesthetics within dreams and stories can be so powerful that they transcend ordinary perceptions.

    2. Noisy pearls noisy pearl coat.

      the mention of pearls as coats reminds me of someone wearing pearls like a coat and they are flashy and loud.

      [(https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Awr9.sycpiBlSnYg_ZWJzbkF;_ylu=c2VjA3NlYXJjaARzbGsDYnV0dG9u;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRmcgNtY2FmZWUEZnIyA3A6cyx2OmksbTpzYi10b3AEZ3ByaWQDUnROT0tPcHhSUEdna0NVeDV3dFEwQQRuX3JzbHQDMARuX3N1Z2cDMQRvcmlnaW4DaW1hZ2VzLnNlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMwBHFzdHJsAzE5BHF1ZXJ5A3BhaW50aW5ncyUyMG9mJTIwcGVhcmxzBHRfc3RtcAMxNjk2NjQwNzM4?p=paintings+of+pearls&fr=mcafee&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Asb-top&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt&type=E210US739G0#id=39&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.essentialvermeer.com%2Fdetails%2Fimages_details%2Frembrandt_pearls.jpg&action=click)

    3. Wearing head.

      The poem seems like it is a list of the ways wives perform perfection. This line reminds me of the essence of the phrase coined by RuPaul "you're born naked and the rest is drag" as if wearing a head as a mask.

      mask

    1. the "body of Jesus" novel, in which the (theologically problematic) corpse of Jesus is sought, or sometimes even recovered.

      I do not understand the obsession with trying to find the corpse of Jesus. It reminds me of how throughout history, people have gone into the pyramids of Egypt in order to find mummies and the bodies of royalty just to put them in a museum and display them for years and study to come instead of leaving them in their final resting place. I can't help but think that if Jesus' body was to be found, this same concept would happen instead of letting the body rest because there would be people who would want to see the body.

    2. "western" biblical materials from "exotic" lands;

      While not necessarily related to the Da Vinci Code, this reminds me of the Indiana Jones series with the famous line being "it belongs in a museum". It makes me question the justifications provided by museums and individuals for claiming cultural and historical artifacts as "exotic" and putting them on display for people to see.

    1. Seeing the international representation on the field reminds me of the ways that Americans, though from many different backgrounds and places, still come together under common ideals. For these reasons and for the whole experience in general, going to a Major League Baseball game is the perfect way to glimpse a slice of Americana.

      The author talks about how and why going to a major league football game is perfect way to

    2. Seeing the international representation on the field reminds me of the ways that Americans, though from many different backgrounds and places, still come together under common ideals. For these reasons and for the whole experience in general, going to a Major League Baseball game is the perfect way to glimpse a slice of Americana.

      the author talks about how he believes going to a major baseball game is the perfect way to get an insight on america.

    3. Seeing the international representation on the field reminds me of the ways that Americans, though from many different backgrounds and places, still come together under common ideals. For these reasons and for the whole experience in general, going to a Major League Baseball game is the perfect way to glimpse a slice of Americana.

      Seeing several teams from different countries, he remembers why he is American and how proud he is to have been born in that country.

    1. the tall avocado tree right by your kitchen door,

      Looks like grandma lives in the countryside. it reminds me when i go back to my country that we have a lot of avocados and mango.

    1. urating is curing. The process of curating curesXLIMQEKI ́WTS[IVPIWWRIWWMXWMRGETEGMX]XSTVIWIRXMXWIPJ8LIEVX[SVORIIHWI\ternal help, it needs the exhibition and the curator to become visible. The mediGMRIXLEXQEOIWXLIMQEKIETTIEVLIEPXL]°XLEXQEOIWXLIMQEKIPMXIVEPP]ETTIEVERHHSWSMRXLIFIWXPMKLX°MWXLII\LMFMXMSR²

      CP: This footnote reminds me of this piece by Kent Monkman http://casualtiesofmodernity.com/our-facility.html "In Casualties of Modernity Kent Monkman invites us to enter a room in the Modern Wing of a hospital specializing in the treatment of conditions afflicting Modern and Contemporary Art."

    2. As with writing,so it is with exhibition making, with some curators and art institutionsinvested in the appearance of a zero degree of the exhibition and the pre-tense that the artwork selection, organization, dramaturgy, and discursiveframework could not have been otherwise, as if their choices representthe un0appable truth of History, instead of one possible reading amongmany.

      Connection: This reminds me of the conversation Daniela has been raising regarding wall texts. Wall texts present as an authoritative reading of the exhibition and can limit the opportunity for divergent interpretations to emerge.

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    1. extremely disordered because they almostPage 3never see The missionary.

      This reminds me of many other documents that I have read where settlers or missionaries share their accounts on indigenous people. This idea that the indigenous people are "disordered" and lack the conduct with which European people act, places the indigenous people again in the trope of them needing saving by the missionaries. Maillard also makes it seem like they have their work cut out for them in working to convert the indigenous people.

    1. The Dictionary data type allows programmers to combine several pieces of data by naming each piece. When we do this, the dictionary will have a number of names, and for each of those names a piece of information (called a “value” in this context).

      It reminds me of what I learned in CSE122. Dictionary data type is similar to a data type in JAVA called Map, which also allow programmers to combine several pieces of data by naming each piece. Because of those similarities, it helps me better understand what I learned in this book.

    1. But now the stark dignity of entrance—Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted they grip down and begin to awaken

      This reminds me of what it is like to experience a metaphorical winter in one's life--to grit your teeth and get along with things.

    2. valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves old names and promiscuity between

      The poem's form reminds me of Pound's "In a Station of the Metro." There isn't a clear pattern of rhymes. Although each stanza has 3 lines, I don't think the poem follows a strong metrical scheme. Also, there's no punctuation to separate the beginning and end of sentences.

    3. with gauds from imaginations which have no peasant traditions to give them character but flutter and flaunt

      This reminds me of our conversation about looking for culture in France, America has no peasant tradition to give us except the mass production of goods to flaunt and flutter

    1. But most stark in the report is research that cites innocent defendants who agree to falsely plead guilty, sometimes on the advice of their own lawyers. An Innocence Project database of exonerations includes dozens of people who falsely pleaded guilty.

      This reminds me of a movie I saw on Netflix titled A Fall From Grace in which the main character is in jail for murdering her husband and her lawyer explains to her that pleaing guilty will result in her getting less time in prison based on the lack of evidence. But her assigned lawyer uncovers the truth behind the murder by uncovering new evidence and the main character is innocent. I bet a lot of innocent people would be free if people looked into their cases fairly.

    2. But most stark in the report is research that cites innocent defendants who agree to falsely plead guilty, sometimes on the advice of their own lawyers. An Innocence Project database of exonerations includes dozens of people who falsely pleaded guilty.

      This reminds me of the Juan Rivera case and how the detectives got a "confession" out of him. I wonder what proportion of the innocent defendants can be considered susceptible to these coercive tactics.

    1. proper defense lawyer who will work to counter the prosecution’s accusations and attempt to prove innocence.

      This reminds me of the movie "Liar Liar," starring Jim Carrey. It reminds me of it because Jim Carrey is a lawyer and even though the person has done wrong, he needs to do everything to prove that they are innocent. So what I learned from this movie is that all lawyers are liars when they have to lie, that's the only way they receive money if they win the case.

    2. Evidence in law is any kind of proof used legally in a court of law to show to the judge and jury (alleged) facts relevant to the case.

      This reminds me of prosecutors because their job is to find evidence within the suspect to show proof to the judge and jury. But really don't prosecutors make the decision themselves?

    1. Exposing these institutional biases, however, is not an easy task for curators, since they are working from inside the marble pillars.

      Connection: It reminds me of the ecology of the art world that we talked about during the second class. Most institutions are supported or funded by the government, so it is difficult for curators in these institutions to critique. That being said, I think we as the new generation of curators still need to consider how to critique institutions whether we will work in these institutions or not in future.

    1. This reminds me of the modern-day dynamic between Latin Americans and Spanish people. Some Spanish people still have negative attitudes towards Latin Americans. However, they gladly consume Latin American media such as TV and music.

    1. For example

      The idea of censorship reminds me a lot of the red scare and how many great novels we've gotten because of that point in history. We don't read just learn reading and writing, we read to learn history and it's effect on us.

    1. With walls and towers were girdled round;

      Reminds me of those ancient walled city or civilization from middle eastern and east asian empires. Cedar Trees was also mentioned in this poem and it is associated with something that is haunted or mythical. Similar with how it was depicted in Epic of Gilgamesh.

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    1. Main-stream culture prevents us from understanding a central tenet of social justiceeducation: Society is structured in ways that make us all complicit in systemsof inequality; there is no neutral ground. Thus an effective critical social justicecourse will unsettle mainstream perspectives and institutional discourses, chal-lenge our views about ourselves, what we think we know about society, how itworks, and our place in it.

      This passage reminds me of the quote "Out of sight, out of mind," possibly because certain things are inconsequential to others until they've experienced something similar.

    1. The Singing Lesson I

      Connection: It reminds me of the performance art "Dance with Farm Workers" by Song Dong and Wu Weiguang. It is an hour long video that documented the eight-day reheasal and the final performance. It has both the asthetic part as an artwork as well as communciation and social engagment. The final performance encouraged the audience to think the social and political problems surroding farm workers while the reheasal was where the communication and dialogue happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33HFpoZcgoY&ab_channel=newmovieasia

    1. this little discussion we're having reminds me of a lecture I once gave many years ago shortly after how to read a book was first published which which I said that I thought that solitary 02:17:34 reading was almost as much advice as solitary drinking

      Solitary reading [is] was almost as much a vice as solitary drinking. —Mortimer J. Adler, in Part 11: Activating Poetry and Plays

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    1. ‘Do you avoid reminders that the person who died is really gone?’

      With my pet Pepper that passed away, I don't like to look at pictures of her. I got a bit better with it over the past year because this year marks her 2nd anniversary of her gone. I still have unresolved feelings especially because of the nature of her death and when I look at pictures, it reminds me of all the things I wish I would've done better even though me and my family did the best we could with what we knew. As I get older, it really just keeps rubbing it in your face that hindsight is 20/20.

    1. the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world

      This reminds me of the way Henry Adams describes America's aversion to feminine power and sexuality compared to the power of the Venus in Europe. Alternatively, Du Bois describes how American culture splits "the American... Negro [into] two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings..."

    1. "to support this kind of reading and there- fore want to dismiss or exclude it from classroom life. Perhaps we dismiss as unimportant or not lit- eracy what we don’t recognize as “just right” reading (unintended consequence 11)" This reminds me of the debate teachers used to have in classrooms I was in growing uo about comic books. I see how fans of this type of literature are motivated to learn through this medium. However, I understand also that teachers do not want students to be relying to heavily on the pictures presented to them. This quote, as I understand it, would permit students' use of comic books, but supplemented with a more word dense text.

    1. Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long. But at my back in a cold blast I hear The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.

      As we progress into the third section of TWL, we seem to arrive at a new setting too; instead of observing the dynamic between individuals that emphasizes gender and its norms (a human construct), we are now at the Thames, a more natural scene that "bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends...", proving barely any trace of human acts.

      Time is a natural phenomenon, which will evidently be present in a section regarding the natural world. The Thames running softly demonstrates time. With time comes movement, and the running of this river shows the flow of time that continues. This reminds me of Marvell's "But at my back I always hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near", which is fitting since line 185 clearly reflects the first line of Marvell's quote. It also evokes Laforgue's "The sunset reins in its chariot", which paints a similar image of the sun's natural descent, likewise resembling Marvell's depiction that "we cannot make our sun / Stand still". However, we, as humans, sometimes hope for the natural world to listen to us. When Eliot writes "Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long", he conveys the notion that "I" desire nature to be understanding in a way, to be "soft" while "I" weep and remain quiet. But evidently, time stops for none, and neither does nature. When "I hear / The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear", Eliot seems to be alluding to the natural phenomenon of death, just as Laforgue writes of "wisteria skeletons... Shrivelling out their deaths". Thus, even though "I" am not speaking loudly here and desire a time when "the river hushes" as Frankau writes in One of Us, "the rattle of bones" remains audible, proving nature's autonomy that humans cannot interfere. Carpenter in Towards Democracy also hints at the inevitability of sound through "The Thames runs down—with the sound of many voices" and "the waters make perpetual music".

      A last slight observation is that "ear to ear" in line 186 resembles Frankau's One of Us, in which he writes "Body to body, breast to breast enfold her; Till eye with eye and lip with lip afire Kindle the answering fever of desire!"

    2. Is there nothing in your head?'

      Strangely, although this is referring to the Drowned Phoenician Sailor tarot card, it reminds me of a line from the Middleton reading—where Ignatius Loyola says:

      Pawns argue but poor spirits and slight preferments, Not worthy of the name of my disciples. If I had stood so nigh, I would have cut That Bishop’s throat but I’d have had his place And told the Queen a love tale in her ear Would make her best pulse dance. There’s no elixir Of brain or spirit amongst ‘em.

      This one snippet of dialogue seems rather denigrating to women, to say the least. Loyola is saying, essentially, that if he were on the chess board, he would attempt to seduce the Queen—who has "no elixir / Of brain or spirit"—even if it meant turning against the pieces on his own team. In my conversation with Quisha in class yesterday, she mentioned the fact that the game of chess has distinct gender roles: the queen, though being the most powerful and versatile piece on the board, is not nearly as venerated as the king—who ultimately decides the fate of the game; this is meant to be a reflection of gender roles in society. In fact, Pound's "The Game of Chess" speaks to a similar dichotomy: he describes the "'x's of queens," which I thought of as referring to the XX chromosomes in the female sex, with little to no descriptors. On the contrary, the "'Y' pawns" were depicted in a more triumphant light: "... cleaving! Embanking! / Whirl! Centripetal! Mate!" Essentially, while the "female" pieces are dispensable—something to be seen as an object of seduction and lust—the "male" pieces are lauded, perhaps beyond their actual abilities. As for the connections to the Drowned Phoenician Sailor, this makes sense: the Phoenician Sailor, for whom one must "Fear death by water," is a reflection of the female torment. Ophelia, for one, drowns herself in a river in Hamlet—the precise "death by water"—due to the nature of gender discrimination.

    1. In 1971 we began FILE Megazine. Specialized audience magazines and newspapers and especially underground papers mushroomed in the late Sixties. The notion of lifestyle created a sudden blossoming of special interest groups. In the art scene, too, and especially in Canada, artists’ publications became a connective tissue allowing us to see ourselves as existing, as an existing art scene with real artists you could take pictures of. This was, then, the only way to see ourselves, to know ourselves. FILE started as a response to the networking then actively pumping images, manuscripts, ephemera through our mail slot and collecting in our archives. Now we needed a way to recycle this material back through the system it reflected, to allow a self-image, or the possibility of self-image. The first issue of FILE in April 1972 featured Vincent Trasov as Mr. Peanut in front of the Toronto skyline photographed by David Hlynsky. East meets west. This is not to say that FILE was a form of artists’ communication. No, rather a means to see oneself as a part of this configuration of personalities, that is, as a component of a “scene.”

      Are General Idea more curators than they are artists? A reoccurring theme throughout the article is "been seen" to create buzz , identity and dialogue within Canadian art. If we reference FILE magazine Glamour issue they offered gave a broad manifesto. The “Glamour” issue programmatically states: “We wanted to be artists and we knew that if we were famous and glamorous we could say we were artists and we would be. . . . We knew Glamour was not an object, not an action, not an idea. We knew Glamour never emerged from the ‘nature’ of things. There are no glamorous people, no glamorous events. "We knew Glamour was artificial. We knew that in order to be glamorous we had to become plagiarists, intellectual parasites.” sited in this article https://www.artforum.com/features/glad-rag-file-magazine-163683/ and this introduction about them from the MOMA General Idea is the collective project of artists Jorge Zontal, AA Bronson, and Felix Partz. Between 1969 and 1994, the trio transformed their life together into a “living work of art,” which they presented in performances, objects, videos, and publications. In doing so, they forged a complicated theory about how visual forms operate in society, best summarized in their motto “image is virus.” https://www.moma.org/artists/7474#:~:text=General%20Idea%20is%20the%20collective,objects%2C%20videos%2C%20and%20publications. The impact reminds me of Warhol's Factory and I wonder if they influenced Toilet Paper Magazine which also pokes at social commentary through images. https://www.toiletpapermagazine.org/ All three were artists but, was the overall awareness of the Canadian art scene that they created, greater in reach than the art itself?

    2. we pooled our fantasies in the druggy way characteristic of the time to actualize our Burroughsian dream of a transcanada art scene.

      C: Burroughsian dream reminds me of reading the experimental novels by William Burroughs who is the key member of Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors in the 1950s to reject literary formalism and the American culture built on capitalism and materialism. Both General Idea and Beat Generation are rebelling against the cultural structure of their times and using their artistic and literal creations to establish their goals.

    1. In the first place, the boys are not paid by the day or week, but so much for each message delivered. This gives every boy an incentive to deliver every message as promptly as possible, and to hurry back for another one.

      This reminds me of amazon workers nowadays who are incentivized with money to deliver packages quickly, although for Amazon it often leads to inferior service.

    1. He thinks of it as a part of me, and he treats it no differently than he would an ear or finger.

      This reminds of how children are much more accepting of differences than people are when as they grow older.

    1. AI learns by finding patterns in enormous quantities of data, but first that data has to be sorted and tagged by people

      This reminds me of the way algorithms work

    1. “One of the most curious applications of the telegraph is its use in surgery to discover a bullet would. The probes and forceps are each connected with a delicate battery. When one point of the probe or forceps touches the ball no effect is produced, but when both touch it the ball completes the circuit, and the tinkling of a bell or the vibration of a spring shows the surgeon he has seized it.

      This kind of reminds me of the game 'Operation'! I know its the opposite reaction to what happened here, but the doctor being able to feel the vibration of the probes and forceps reminds me of when you hit the side when trying to retrieve a piece in the game. Besides this, I think that this is an amazing way to use this technology during that time period. I'm quite intrigued on how they did this.

    1. This essay - though I didn't finish reading - reminds me of the benefits of 'outside art' - doing what I want without participating in the fragmented community discourse. Literary criticism is important, but as someone who doesn't want to dedicate myself to such a community or 'meta-community'. My membership in such a community will scale with the work I make - if others respond to what I do, I'll get involved, but otherwise there is no concern.

      I have no stakes though - my writing just lives in git and is visible-but-unlinked on my personal site.