Masthash

#reality

Tero Kankaanperä
3 hours ago

I think all in all I've watched maybe six episodes of Amazing race but that's it. I've always found reality shows dumb and dumbing, an appalling concept. It seems it's also an industry of exploitation with serious ethical problems too.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/11/contestants-sleep-deprivation-reality-tv-apprentice-love-island-squid-game-celebrity
#reality #ethics #sleepdeprivation #torture

NGRippel
22 hours ago

There will be times when it is not possible to live up to what is expected.

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Die Letzte Website
1 day ago

Was kommt nach #Sommerhaus & #Promibüßen? Der Kaffeemann & Daniel konzipieren eine Zukunft von #Reality im deutschen #Fernsehen, welche nicht nur brutale Quoten, sondern auch die Eroberung des begehrten Planeten #Mars bescheren wird!

https://www.dieletzte.website/podcast/2023/12/10/438

#DerLetztePodcast #Podcast #Podcasts #TV

Marsbewohner kämpfen um ihr Überleben auf dem Cover von Der Letzte Podcast Folge 438.
Alexf24
1 day ago

It's a slippery slope!

#Cartoon #Reality #Medical #USA #Sarcasm

Cartoon:

It's a slippery slope!
You let one woman not die and pretty soon all women will want not to die.
Alexf24
1 day ago

I'm sorry you can't afford to be alive and other stories from America

#Book #Reality #USA #Medical #Sarcasm

A Muppet in surgeon garb as an illustration for a book titled:

I'm sorry you can't afford to be alive and other stories from America
Wisdom in Space
1 day ago

Any sufficiently advanced render is indistinguishable from reality.
-- Anonymous (The Archillect)

#Quotes #Anonymous #Computers #Reality

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

photo by richard rathe
Wisdom in Space
3 days ago

Any sufficiently advanced render is indistinguishable from reality.
-- Anonymous (The Archillect)

#Quotes #Anonymous #Computers #Reality

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida

photo by richard rathe
The Bingeful
3 days ago
Reality Shows Like Jersey Shore
NGRippel
3 days ago

paranoia is a powerful intoxicant

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

WIST Quotations
3 days ago

A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

«
Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/5522/

#quote #quotes #quotation #adulthood #freedom #maturity #necessity #needful #reality #adult

WIST Quotations
3 days ago

A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

«
Well, my own fine words notwithstanding, life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for their praise. No time at which we step behind the stage, to see the actors changing their wigs, and painting their faces, and muttering their lines.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/10698/

#quote #quotes #quotation #life #meaningoflife #purpose #reality #stage

Sandman 75 p30
NGRippel
4 days ago

evil defiles & threatens
good benefits & enhances

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Curtis
4 days ago
NGRippel
4 days ago

Isn’t it strange that so many humans choose to take their political & ideological advice from grifters?

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Delphi
4 days ago

Oh no! #Laundry hasn't gone well. I checked the pockets more than once but there was a bloomin' #TissueInTheWash. Honestly you'd think I could be better than this after decades of doing the #washing. Still I know I'm not alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqEToDgCJ9w
#Life #Reality

NGRippel
5 days ago

reality often becomes lost among the details

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
5 days ago

after our planet and solar system are gone, the universe will carry on

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Yusuf Toropov
5 days ago

Sitting it out=a vote for Trump. Voting for someone other than #Biden=a vote for Trump. Normalizing apathy=a vote for Trump.

That's #reality. Perfect? Nope. Real? Yep.♥️

“The only thing I bring to this career after my age — as you can see how old l am — is a little bit of wisdom. | come to the job with more experience than any president in American history." - #PresidentBiden

#bidenharris2024
#Democrats

“The only thing I bring to this career after my age — as you can see how old l am — is a little bit of wisdom. | come to the job with more experience than any president in American history." - President Biden
Yusuf Toropov
5 days ago

Yeah, so not just #vote ♥️, but, more important, vote #BidenHarris2024 ♥️. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SAY THAT PART.

"But [reasons]..."

Got it. Aaand vote for #JoeBiden ♥️ and get others to commit to doing that.

"But [reasons]..."

Mmm. Aaand vote♥️ for #PresidentBiden ♥️ and get others to commit to doing that.

"But [reasons]..."

Sitting it out=a vote for Trump. Voting for someone other than #Biden=a vote for Trump. Normalizing apathy=a vote for Trump.

That's #reality. Perfect? Nope. Real? Yep.♥️

Are we listening yet? <Kash Patel says, as Trump's next CIA Director, he will lead an all out effort from “patriots” appointed by Trump to jail people in government and media: “We will find the conspirators in government and the media. Yes, we are going to come after people in the media.">

Vote!
NGRippel
5 days ago

truth should override that which we wish to be true

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
6 days ago

eternity is as unfathomable as infinity

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
1 week ago

existence is not a competition
existence is a survival process within an ever-changing ecosystem

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

ZZ Bottom
1 week ago

#Poldark #Tvshows #Reality
One can not but feel like #England is still the place where a few, the rich and powerful, regard everybody else as in the XVIII century.
I truly advise any to watch this excellent #tvSeries

José Manuel Barros
1 week ago

"REALITY LOST. Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation" by Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard (Springer Open, 2019)

#Books #Libraries #Misinformation #Reality #Manipulation #OpenAccess #Sociology #Politics

@academicchatter
@bookstodon
@politicaltheory
@politicalscience
@sociology

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0

Cover of the book "REALITY LOST. Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation" by Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard (Springer Open, 2019)
NGRippel
1 week ago

the course of a human existence can change in an instant

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Shell Sheddy
1 week ago

A distinct flaw in Trump's immunity claim would be that--if he,as President has total immunity;then, @POTUS Joe Biden has "total immunity "also...& #MAGArepublicans can't impeach Biden,either(moot,anyway,as GOP have nothing upon which to impeach him)
#wtpBLUE #Reality #FraudTrump

facebook、REALITYの大阪駅うめきたワールドへのリンクもスパムとして削除対象だった! #META #facebook #REALITY - げろみ日記
https://geromi.hatenadiary.org/entry/2023/12/03/225932

NGRippel
1 week ago

Do we exist within the shell of what once was a black hole?

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

https://www.ngrippel.com/science-rant.html

NGRippel
1 week ago

look beyond yourself

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

lobster
1 week ago

Dear Fans and #Friends of others #bubbles,
As we may have #gathered, everyone's #experience, #priorities and view of #reality is VERY elephant ... eh wait ... #different. Despite this, we have a #commonality of #interchange, widely #accepted and #comprehensible.
Despite:
- #Different ages
- Many #languages
- Biases
- #Affiliations
- #Regional #Socialisation

AI (Awful Imbecility) is just a data sorting. Useful and also impractical for critical widened models of #context. Who knew that? Not #CheatGPT for Far Shore.

NGRippel
1 week ago

we will only advance as far as adaptation to this universe is able to take us

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
1 week ago

beyond survival, unraveling the universe’s mysteries is one of the main challenges

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
1 week ago

Singularity to expanding Universe.
All within being in its own stage of existence.

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

https://www.ngrippel.com/science-rant.html

NGRippel
2 weeks ago

Humanity.
Is.
Was.
May be.

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Farage, who is reportedly being paid £1.5 million (approximately $1.9 million) to appear on #ITV’s #reality #show, "#ImACelebrityGetMeOutofHere!," has reportedly recorded more than 4,000 #Cameos at 75£ each since March 2021.

NGRippel
2 weeks ago

The Universe.
Is.
Was.
Will be.

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Are We Living In A #Simulation ? Is #Reality An Illusion ? Maybe. But don't stop brushing your teeth. Or taking out the trash. #Causality isn't going away anytime soon .Many of the contexts in which those are valid questions to ask have nothing to do with what your going to do when you find that empty roll of toilet paper staring back at you
🤣☕🐾🤘

NGRippel
2 weeks ago

the quest to learn what is true is neverending

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Two main #Sufi philosophies prevail on this controversial topic. waḥdat al-wajood literally means the “Unity of Existence“. On the other hand, waḥdat ash-shahood, meaning “Apparentism” or “Unity of Witness“, holds that God and his creation are entirely separate. Some Islamic reformers have claimed that the difference between the two philosophies differ only in semantics and that the entire debate is merely a collection of “verbal controversies” which have come about because of ambiguous #language

According to this school, the #reality and #existence are identical which means existence is one but graded in intensity. This methodology was given a name of tashkik al-wujud and it thus explains that there is gradation of #existence that stand in a vast hierarchical chain of being (marāṭib al-wujūd) from floor (farsh) to divine throne (ʿarsh), but the wujūd of each existent māhīyya is nothing but a grade of the single reality of wujūd whose source is God, the absolute being (al-wujūd al-mutlaq). What differentiates the wujūd of different existents is nothing but wujūd in different degrees of strength and weakness. 
wiki
#UrduLanguage

NGRippel
2 weeks ago

the universe is the ultimate mixing bowl

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Steve Dustcircle 🌹
2 weeks ago

How did #conspiracytheories become #mainstream?
#NaomiKlein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFcf3GMiPis

Naomi Klein joins us at #Penguin to answer some big questions on the #reality-distorting #algorithms, #socialmedia regulation, and the true threat of #AI.

Lobster
2 weeks ago

Dear #Believer Friends,

When we watch a #film, on some #level we #believe it is #true. We suspend disbelief. It is #exactly the same with Atheists, I suspend my disbelief that they are for real. 🤣

#Fortuitously I am an #Atheistic #suspension. In other #words, I don’t believe in #Reality. :black_block_blob: In fact #experience seems more like a #dream, created by a #fantasy, told to #Idiots, as #Shakesspear said in some play or not.

“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.” ~ William Shakespeare
https://www.azquotes.com/author/13382-William_Shakespeare

Image prompt: authentic
Dall-e2 output description: In the heart of authenticity, even the trees dream in colors unseen. 🌈🌳✨

"Authentic" is the top word of 2023, according to America's oldest dictionary.

My thought on "Embracing Tradition in a Digital Age"

In a time where our lives are increasingly connected with digital advancements and #AI, Merriam-Webster's selection of "#Authentic" as the word of the year resonates deeply. This choice reflects a substantial increase in online searches, underscoring a collective need for genuineness amidst a sea of #digital transformations, #virtual experiences, and let's face it: a ton of made up stuff.
 
As a #society, we stand at a pivotal crossroads, navigating through layers of #propaganda and fabricated realities that span the globe. In my #Podcast Redefining Society, I often explore the necessity of #progress in all forms and shapes, while emphasizing the importance of grounding our society in #reality and staying true to the core values that define our #cultures, #traditions, and most of all our humanity, or what makes us human anyway... which is now more than ever a topic for profound ethical conversations.

Today, "Authentic" is not just a word; it's a testament to our collective desire to maintain a connection with what is real and tangible. In these times of profound digital change involving generative AI and virtual experiences, the prominence of "Authentic" is a reminder of our innate need for truth and sincerity.

There's a beautiful harmony in embracing both worlds – the exhilaration for what's digital and #futuristic, and the appreciation for what's analog and, yes, perceived as more authentic (up for discussion 🤔). It's about finding balance and ensuring that our digital advancements enhance rather than replace the authentic experiences that form the essence of our human experience.

As we continue to explore this intersection of technology and society, let's remember the value of authenticity. It's more than just a word; it's a guiding principle that can help us navigate the complexities of our modern world.

Read more about the significance of this word choice here.
https://lnkd.in/gRPajsXn

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Sincerely, 
Marco Ciappelli

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#digitalart #reality #dream

This is not a rhetorical question anymore.
This is not a poll because I’d rather 'hear’ people's answer.

Let's say, in an instant, the world suddenly decided to stop using fossil fuels. Everything using fossil fuels burned its last tank and that was it. Done. Forever. All consequences ensue…

Would you be more comfortable with that happening today during a climate that is (debateably) recognizable to the climate pre-Fossil Fuel use and that may return closer to that pre-fossil fuel climate in future generations.

Or

Having the last drop some day in 2050, or 2100, or 2110, when the climate has shifted to something utterly unrecognizable. There is (even more) mass chaos in the world due to all the impacts of climate change, and we have added yet more CO2 to the atmosphere and oceans that will take eons to return to, if it is at all possible.

#climateAction #reality #COP28 #EndFossilFuels

Cees Grootes
2 weeks ago

More than argument, logic is the very structure of reality

The patterns of reality

Some have thought that logic will one day be completed and all its problems solved. Now we know it is an endless task

https://aeon.co/essays/more-than-argument-logic-is-the-very-structure-of-reality

#logic #reality #argument #arguments @philosophy #philosophy @philosophie @philosophyofmind

The patterns of reality

I will state ahead of time that I do my very best not to cross post from the various sites but, this video is IMPORTANT and the discussion I've been trying to have with people for a few years now. People are so unwilling to process the discomfort of reality or even look at it face on. Please give it a watch if you value the voices of disabled people and the longevity of your loved ones.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz-MIQDRktn/

#disabilityRights #longCovid #Covid #historyRepeatsItself #eugenics #fear #reality #covidPolicy

@erincandescent I love a #nondual perspective to subsume a view which engages the construction of oppositions.

There are means to transcend the divisions of #dualities of the mind that the humankind oft confuse for a fundamental #reality.

The opposition of those complimentary parts of any pair appear illusorily within the #aesthetic #judgement(s) of the mind.

To peer beyond the (dualistic) #constructs by which humankind passes down our relative knowledge is to loose one's bondage to dissonant aversions in the face of cognitive complexity.

The #dialectic is helpful with this: neither does the sun set that Earth not revolve about it, nor does Earth revolve about the sun that the sun not set, but so sets the sun and also revolves Earth about it.

When I engage my #metacognition, I understand "recognized reality" to be constructed by an internal #dialogue along an #Identity-#Environment axis that synthesizes a (re-)projection around pardox: awareness includes phenomena only unique to itself (awareness does not commute or permute except locally) whilst embedded within a a common substrate (the universe, not necessarily matter) _and_ the collective of which one is part is extensibly indefinite and conformally diffuse (I.e., at/to what extent is one separated from one's predecessors? From one's mother? From one's morning meal, the sweat [sic] on one's breath, or the roles played out in sleep with which one recalls no association?)

I used to #joke that "I am g-d, and you are too!" in a trans-solipsistic way, because I see the embedding of our Beings in a cross- and self-referential reality as the #divinity of what #mundaneity might else lead to hopelessness in #nihilism, though that joke usually left my audiences scratching their heads or scoffing at me in #misunderstanding (for surely I am not a primagenitor of all the squiggliness in life, but some of it for those after me and, by internalized self-projection, "All [Most of]" the squiggliness within my 1st Person PoV).

Stitch Media
2 weeks ago

Banning books teaches youth from an early age the closed-mindedness and intolerance of adults. The best argument for banning books is that it teaches the truer reality of adulthood: the banning of other perspectives and denials of history. It is preparedness for what to expect of the world to come.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/11/25/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-ban-students-critical-thinking/71667587007/

#StitchedInkMedia #Books #bookstodon #bookBans #writingcommunity #Creativity #Intolerance #Reality #Adult #artists #Writing #writinglife #World #Understanding #Perspective

This tweet from John Ivison is a great example of Canadian Media's naïveté refusing to believe that, like Americans with Trump, Poillievre ripping reporters is exactly what a large number of Canadians want to see. Especially the *imagery* of a strong, well dressed man-figure, flanked by two subordinates behind him alongside two Canadian flags, speaking forcefully back to questioning.

Doug Ford creates exactly the same scenes for himself. He's been Premier of Canada's most populous province for 5 years.

Yes, believe it or not, 30-35% of people in Canada really want --whether through unintentional conditioning or not -- to see that and it's more than enough in our voting system to lead to majority power. In order to stop Poillievre's rise, other party leaders need to either present a much more compelling vision and advertise it relentlessly or Poillievre has to do something historically bad to take himself out of the race.

As it stands now, he will be our next Prime Minister and no amount of tutting or navel gazing by media personalities will change that. It may accelerate it.

The video is linked. It has been viewed 300K times and is rife with supportive comments. No doubt many are "boughts", but not all. https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=jUvn-yDDak2FZTmI&v=i9hB0LJ-Dlo&feature=youtu.be

#cdnpoli #canpoli #politics #reality #realpolitik #CPC #NDP #LiberalParty #media

John Ivison tweets a link to a youtube titled "CAUGHT ON CANERA: Poillievre rips CP reporter for falsehoods" and says: "He could lose this thing yet if he keeps behaving like this.
A screenshot from youtube with the same title aa before. Poillievre is standing at a microphone. He is wearing a tight fitting blue suit with a button up blue shirt and light blue tie. Behind him to his right is a woman in a dark suit with her hands clasp in front of her. She is standing just to the inside of a Canadian flag which frames the video shot. To Poillievre's left is a man in a dark suit and tie with hands clasp in front of him and standing just to the side of another Canadian flag framing the right side of the video frame. The video was posted by the Toronto Sun 1 day ago and was viewed 323K times as of the time of the screenshot.

#Trump's #Similarities to #Hitler Prove It Certainly Could 'Happen Here'

There are few #Americans alive today who remember Hitler, and for most of us the details of his #risetopower are #lost to the mists of time. But Trump is bringing it all back to us with a fresh, stark splash of #reality

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/adolf-hitler-and-donald-trump-comparison

Why we can’t #normalise #farright #figures like #NigelFarage on #cosy #RealityTV

But even before this year’s #outing of the #ITV #reality #show hit screens, it faced intense #scrutiny for including Farage in the line up – a year after #MattHancock likewise used the #show to #sanitise his #image at lightning speed.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Hate #Bigotry #Extremism

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/20/nigel-farage-im-a-celeb-boycott-itv/

Paysages Mathématiques
3 weeks ago

"Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality [...]." – Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math #reality

Michael Fenichel
3 weeks ago

In a week where #truth is trying to emerge...

Despite it being Kryptonite to "terrific" criminals & psychopaths like #TrumpVirus & #GeorgeSantos, some #reality & #history does get through the distraction & #disinformation filters.

Look: #Fascism
#vermin in our midst - mostly from the #GQP #cult & #media

Textbook. "Perfect".

Trump stands at a podium before a hate rally, gesticulating, mouth open, looking rageful. He says to the masses:

"I WILL ROOT OUT THE VERMIN WHO ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY FROM WITHIN!  ....  SAY, IS THERE AN ECHO IN HERE?"

Behind him is a big-screen display with two dictators. #1 says "I will root out the vermin who are destroying our country from within!"  #2 (Hitler) says "I will root out the vermin who are destroying our country from within!"
Jason Stiff
4 weeks ago

60s in Montana in mid-November are a "raritea"! Enjoy it now... "realitea" is coming! I'll have your 7-day weather forecast at 4-thirtea, 5-thirtea & 10pm!

#Montana #Billings #Q2 #KTVQ #MTN #Wyoming #licenseplate #funnylicenseplates #rarity #reality #Wednesday #Thursday #weather #wx #mtwx #wywx #MastodonWeather #MastodonWX #weatherMastodon #wxmastodon

Einfach immer wieder gut: „The four stage strategy“ 😂

#thefourstagestrategy #comedy #reality #funny #Politics #Economy

Nando161
1 month ago

I have a major issue with #idiots who think someone by the last name #anderson from a #dystopian #movie called #thematrix is going to save them from all things #fascist.... in #reality it doesn't #work like that. Your #delusions are pretty #funny.

#Organising with comrade #antifascists #locally is the only way out of this #fascism.

You don't need a degree in #physics to #understand this. :antifa_100:

#ausgov #politas #classwar

Arthur Charpentier ⏚
1 month ago

#reality (Calvins and Hobbes)

Steve Henderson Fine Art
2 months ago

I enjoy reading history, although I am not remotely interested in which king did what, or how they performed in their mighty wars. I like learning about ordinary people -- what they ate, how they lived (generally under that oppressive king), the day to day things they did.

Chimu art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/chimu-steve-henderson.html

#peru #pottery #history #southamerica #art #artwork #stevehenderson #mastoart #fediart #humanity #buyintoart #ayearforart #stilllife #oil #painting #life #reality #world

Art print of an original oil painting by Steve Henderson depicting a series of Peruvian pottery water pots in a still life arrangement.
Sampath Pāṇini ®
2 months ago

Deepfakes will be the cause of multiple October Surprises in 2024. The post-truth era meets manufactured consent meets reality distortion fields at the scale of SaaS.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/machine-augmented-humanity

#deepfakes #ManufacturedConsent #reality #election #misinformation #disinformation #MisinformationCountermeasures

@TheOldCheese

Hey. I hear you and I am a tenant on #Country, so forgive me if I don't believe I need an #education on that bit of the program.

My question related directly to an #OAM being returned to the #crown by the recipient.

My sense of his point is and was then, that if OAMs represent the crown spilling #nuggets on the #floor around the table to keep the #Blackfellas quiet, then #returning it in recognition of the nuggets was the correct thing to do. I agree with him.

Did you know that fat #Clive was made a #national living #treasure? So was #Dr #Karl.

Were I Dr Karl, I would have asked to be removed from the list of people so honoured, since if Clive could get one, they were meaningless.

Are you with me so far?

Anyone given an honour by the crown, is meaningless unless the crown accepts the fact that the land was not #conquered nor ceded by the #people who were here, leaning on #spears, watching the #invasion and having no idea what it meant, until the #muskets and #canon and #ropes and #gibbets began to take their toll.

I don't disagree that many Blackfellas have had a good run and ended up with #doctorates and so on, but they are precious few and far between.

Prof #Langton for example could not be considered an #exemplar of our #First #Nations in general. Wonderful #representative, but not a great example of Blackfellas #reality.

For that you'd need to visit a #prison, find a 40 year old #Blackfella with 20 years jail behind him or her. That is your example of Blackfella reality.

So, I agree with you that we have lots of Blackfellas who have done well. The fact that they are so #celebrated should give you a clear idea of where I stand.

Address the issue of the #OAM mate. The rest is seriously #irrelevant in the moment.

Have a great day.

Hedgewizard
2 months ago

@noondlyt
#GeorgeSantos is here to challenge our mortal misconception that there is such a thing as objective #reality

Shane O'Mara
2 months ago

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds is a bestseller today and on kindle special offer
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Praise-Talking-Shane-OMara-ebook/dp/B09X99TWLS
#sociology #kindle #talking #conversation #shared #reality

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds is a bestseller today and on kindle special offer
Damon Thomas
2 months ago

Have you ever wondered how the world got to be this way? Well! #pain #reality

Slashdot headline: New study shows that people prefer physical pain to thinking too hard
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
3 months ago

After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up to teach it because Black history is American history. (Plus it’s #factual, part of #reality, and the church has always taught it.) #education

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/24/florida-black-history-churches-teaching/

Amster
3 months ago

A month after I posted thoughts about #consciousness I sit here reading Scott McCloud's classic: "Understanding Comics." In it is totally a nod to how the brain constructs reality through a set of comic panels. Each panel represents a moment in time, and the brain fills in the gaps. This totally aligns with the idea the brain has a model of #reality and uses your senses to correct its understanding of the state of the world.

Nona Rose
3 months ago

Friends with benefits might seem like a good idea but it rarely works long term, whether it’s in real life or virtually.

Having said that, when two naturally flirty people find each other it can be amazing.

Unfortunately, the people I seem to find all live on the other side of the planet making anything other than a virtual flirt (or more) impossible.

One day, I will meet someone who lives not only in the same time zone as me, but in the same country, maybe even the same city!

Until then … good thing my virtual game is pretty good 😉😈😂

#flirting #reality #VirtualRelationships #FriendsWithBenefits

Carlo Zottmann
3 months ago

A couple of years ago I read the short story "A Full Life” by Paolo Bacigalupi.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/24/135741/a-full-life/

“A science-fiction story about [life] in the age of climate change.", told from the POV of a 15yr old girl named Rue. It's quite poignant. Read it. Pass it on.

I think about it roughly once per week.

#ClimateCrisis #Reality #ShortStory #Science #Fiction

Carlo Zottmann
3 months ago

The #FridaysForFuture strikes get harder and harder each time. It's wearing me down, all of it. The science is there, the news reports (burning, flooding, devastation) are there, yet so many people choose to ignore it. I mean, honestly, to a degree: I get it. That shit is overwhelming AS FUCK.

Not participating is not an option, though.

I often wonder what I’d do if we had kids. How can you carry on #YOLO’ing your live with your offspring right there with you‽

#ClimateCrisis #Reality

Luke Dorny
3 months ago

My left arm for my brain in an inky snow globe:

https://youtu.be/4Stzj2_Rlo4

#math #reality #simulation

Jan's insights
3 months ago

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 has some suggestions for improving the #G20 #statement.

“Ukraine is grateful to the partners who tried to include strong wording in the text… This is how the main elements of the text could look to be closer to #reality.”
#MFA Ukraine

#RussianWarOfAgression
#RussianInvasion
#RussianWar
and #RussianWarCrimes

Janice Selbie
3 months ago

WHY FORGIVENESS IS THE F-WORD:
-Hijacked by religion
-Weaponized by abusers to enforce compliance
-Victim blaming "Why can't you just forgive?"
Instead, ACCEPT REALITY by asking:
What happened? Who did it? Is it a pattern?
Then use that knowledge to make appropriate choices - including whether to give the guilty party continued access to your life. #forgiveness #abuse #ReligiousTrauma #wisdom #reality #criticalthinking #exchristian #psychology #counselor

Yahia Lababidi
3 months ago

'The actual has taken on a tense, trembling quality.

Everything is poised for dissolution.

Yet never in my life, so it seems, have I been so close up to the very stuff of the world, even as the world itself shimmers and turns transparent before my eyes.'

— Banville

#books #quotes #reality

Roger Ward
3 months ago

If you are a TV exec, or know one, please, please, please make this happen.

#reality #TV #TVshow

I generally follow back, and often follow bossters.

Screenshot of a social media post by Eddie Schneider @eddieschneider

Text reads:

Eddie Schneider
@eddieschneider
The 11-year-old came up with a TV pitch that is stone cold genius:
A reality show, in the vein of The Amazing Race, that follows a group of Flat Earthers trying to travel to the edge of the world
78,680 likes

‘Everything is better’: #Teacher shows #reality of #genderneutral #bathrooms in #schools, 'It is so much #safer, so much #cleaner.'

The #restroom has a see-through glass partition that looks out into the main hallway and private #lockable #stalls with #room for #students to hang their backpacks. The public areas are #monitored by #video to ensure the #safety of all #students.

#Women #Nonbinary #GenderNeutral #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Education #Bathrooms #Inclusion
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/gender-neutral-school-bathroom/

The common picture of atoms as tiny balls with orbiting electrons is incorrect and misleading. According to quantum theory, atoms are more like fuzzy clouds of probability, challenging our intuitions and assumptions about reality. Due to the limitations of our language and logic in describing the atomic world, we need to embrace uncertainty and paradox. #atoms #quantum #reality https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

Steve Henderson Fine Art
3 months ago

What absorbs us, catches our attention, causes us to stop and completely focus? Is it a thought of our own, a moment of imagination and play? May it be so -- may we be enchanted and entranced by nature and life.

Boy in the Rhubarb Patch canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/boy-in-the-rhubarb-patch-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#green #earth #nature #boy #child #play #art #artwork #artist #mastoart #mastodon #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #stevehenderson #buyintoart #ayearforart #plants #joy #reality #forest #summer #life #live #oilpainting

Canvas print of an original oil painting by Steve Henderson depicting a young boy standing in the midst of a field of rhubarb, set in a deep forest. The boy is holding over his head a large leave of rhubarb, and he is leaning back and smiling, intent on his pretend and play.
Amster
3 months ago

What’s the practical use for people though? The world around us are just #icons (as #DonaldHoffman puts it) for things and agents. So if you mimic the right properties of another icon, then other agents assume you are a different. i.e. cosplay. It applies to products. It applies to memes. And when it comes to #AI it means the better computer should be more goal-driven. An AI should also be able to transform itself into a different “icon”. #DeepThoughts #Consciousness #Reality

Amster
3 months ago

Some interesting thoughts in "The Case Against Reality", Donald Hoffman, 2019. #DonaldHoffman #Perception #Reality

Dark Kassandra
4 months ago

#sci-fi #reality #present #Huxley #Orwell #bradbury

Reality sometimes is worse than science fiction

Duke
4 months ago

Seems appropriate, as I sit here in the desert awaiting a hurricane. 😶 No idea of author/artist.

#ClimateChange #Caturday #Humor #Reality

Cartoon cat shopping at a catnip dispensary, choosing the strain that'll make them forget everything.
Dave Mackey
4 months ago

PKD writing presciently about our current information age?

"It is like information theory; it is noise driving out signal. But it is noise posing as signal so you do not even recognize it as noise...If you can float enough disinformation into circulation you will totally abolish everyone’s contact with reality, probably your own included."
- Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

#quotes #AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #dystopia #reality #PKD

Damon Thomas
4 months ago

"I'm free — and freedom tastes of reality." — The Who ("I'm Free", 1969) #quotes #lyrics #reality

Steve Henderson Fine Art
4 months ago
Canvas print of an original oil painting by Steve Henderson depicting a rural landscape. A narrow country road cuts through recently harvested wheat fields, and the road leads toward a small town in the back of the image, nestled amongst the hills and a small clump of trees. It has recently rained, and the road is dark grey from being wet. Two large deciduous trees are on either side of the road.
Damon Thomas
4 months ago

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." — Philip K. Dick ("How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978) #quotes #reality

Sampath Pāṇini ®
4 months ago

@memeorandum @NoahH
“As one GOP state legislator recently said on a leaked conference call, ‘The left wants Tennessee so bad because if they get us, the Southeast falls and it’s ‘game over’ for the republic.’”

#reality #Tennessee #LoyalMountaineers

think what's interesting in America is in the
US and we've told this oversimplified story that the racism of America primarily existed in the South.
But the truth is, when you look at our history and the the racism was everywhere, here in Seattle, no one could, that wasn't white, could live in this neighborhood 60 years ago, less than that probably.
And, of course, it was enormously central to the South. But then when I talk to people in Virginia or Louisiana, and you talk to people about race and race issues, you might find the most overtly secessionist or whatever.
But you also find, in my opinion, the most aggressively progressive people in the country.
Down there is the front line. So that's where you find the people that have changed the country.
'Cause that's so much of where it happened. Of course, it happened everywhere, but it really happened there.
A lot of the hopes of that we have for resolving the problems in this country will be found in the Southeast." - Dave Matthews
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
4 months ago

You might say the fight over Florida’s African American history #curriculum is about minor, #semantic differences. But it is also about the difference between a modern, more accurate depiction of enslavement than a tendentious approach grounded in white supremacy. And w/new examples to prove that point. #language #education #facts #reality https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/desantis-slavery-florida-curriculum-history.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Jane Rosenberg LaForge
5 months ago

Note to Florida and DeSantis: Africans were already skilled boatbuilders, blacksmiths, rice farmers, & the equivalent of civil engineers—building levies and irrigation systems—before they were abducted and brought here. So they didn’t need training they could later use for their own benefit. They needed not to be enslaved. #education #facts #reality #curriculum

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/24/florida-slavery-history-ron-desantis/

Quantum reality is not what we think it is, according to a new experiment. The experiment shows that two observers can disagree on the outcome of a quantum measurement, even if they share all possible information. This challenges the assumption that there is a single objective reality. #quantum #reality #experiment https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/quantum-reality/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FFlipone

The Progressive
5 months ago

What would happen if FBI agents showed up at your doorstep, photographed your books and belongings, and accessed every website, tweet, and text message on your phone?
#reality #HBOMax #whistleblower
https://progressive.org/latest/interrogation-reality-winner-cords-230721/

Jane Rosenberg LaForge
5 months ago

Florida’s plan to #censor and dilute the horrors of slavery and engage in historical counter arguments that don’t really exist (or make sense) should alarm Americans everywhere. #education #facts #reality

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/23/florida-new-school-curriculum-slavery/