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• August 31, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Monoliths of self: human vs internet memory.

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  "And so, like looking at the memory shortly after whatever the event was versus a few years down the line, or a few decades, the lenses that we're using to look at those things is entirely different. So we might change who's the villain? Who's the hero? What was actually quote unquote bad or quote unquote good, or any of these other ideas? Right. Those things shift, however, when we're talking about the Internet, this curated monolith of self."

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• August 23, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Interneural synchronization aka "being on the same wave length" is a real thing.

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  "And what's interesting is, when I was talking about some of this with them, is that we realized we don't do, okay, well, here's the first example. So when allistics are talking about the weather, you might say, oh, it's a hot one out there, right? Or can't wait until it rains or whatever the script is of the season, right, for your geographical location."

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• August 12, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Convos around destigmatizing autism, giftedness, etc.

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  "So you'll see in the second slide, it's another post where someone put forth an idea that perhaps a late diagnosis of autism or ADHD later in life is as a result of quote unquote gifted burnout. And to me, this is another example of not destigmatizing, but instead perpetuating ableism. That when our resources are plentiful and we have what we need, how we need it, then we can thrive."

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• August 07, 2024@SeekingPlumb | If age is important to you, let it be for substantive reasons.

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  "A wee rant. The topic of age is a fascinating one, and yet it's mind boggling. So I get that there is a time and a place when age is relevant, rather, and it serves utility, right, of whether someone is capable of being able to do a job either old enough or young enough, depending, right? And then there's another facet of age that's really about constructs."

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• July 29, 2024@SeekingPlumb | The impossibility of "nailing down" language & meaning in AI? ๐Ÿค”

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  "I muff two minds about this. That's a really weird phrase, and they're sort of polar opposites. On the one hand, I think there's something to this, and on the other hand, it seems like utter bullshit. I've been thinking about AI, these large language models that coders are attempting to wrangle, if you will, like. Language is so fluid and is not at all written in stone and continues to morph."

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• July 23, 2024@SeekingPlumb | The power of names in political discourse; a request.

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  "The thing is, though, is that when we shorten things and we strip away titles and we strip away last names to refer to the women by their first names, it's the way we speak about women in so many other places that haven't worked as hard or climbed as high, especially when we're talking about the different hierarchies within the us political system, right? Think about it. Reality tv characters, I'm sorry, personalities we refer to by their first names, right?"

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• July 04, 2024@SeekingPlumb | The "immortal" "dung cannon"? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿค”

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  "When it's ready to reproduce, it shoots these little cannons and those little black specks there they go flying off at like 56 miles an hour, or 90. Shoot about 3 meters or 10ft away towards the light. It looks for the light and then it shoots towards the light because that's away from the feces, because animals don't like to eat near feces, right."

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• July 03, 2024@SeekingPlumb | The "block feature" that doesn't.

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  "I don't know if that means that there's a way for us to be able to find an alternative solution that gives the users the tools that we want and need, as well as giving to swell the creators what they want and need out of their goals. But I would really like for us to be able to have a conversation around what are our options and what can we move towards, because right now, this is not effective."

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• June 29, 2024@SeekingPlumb | The "gender superiority" goggles blind & hurt us all.

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  "And what they ultimately found that was that instead of much to do with hormones or differences between the sexes, there were more differences because of personality. If you want to read more about that. That is in the study again, that I'll link below something else I learned first."

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• June 23, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Deconstructing the ideal of "who am I?"

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  "So here's how I frame it, and this is the analogy, okay, is that we know we have a DNA made up of ridiculous number of genes, and some turn on, some turn off. Let's pretend you can dial some up or some down. We don't even know the ins and outs of it, right? And if you use that kind of analogy, kinda, and mix it with, like, a buffet table. Everything is spread out on the buffet table."

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