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Hi! I'm...

daytura (he/him), a 23 y.o. GRADUATED!!!! from UC Santa Cruz w/ my Cognitive Science B.A.

THANK YOU Dr. Adriana Manago, Georget Ammari, labmate E.G., and the rest of the Culture and Tech Lab for giving me hands-on experience with developmental psychology research!

(The cognitive science program doesn't cover dev. psych or qualitative methods much at all.)

I am interested in...

Refining my understanding of cognition and behavior in "Helios", my public notes

2nd-order cybernetics, psycholinguistics, embodied cognition, sociocognitive development

Ergonomics, human factors, skill acquisition/learning, and augmented (cognitive) work with digital technologies

Photography, creative and technical writing, sitcoms, and casual gaming

Meeting other people interested in some of the above!

You should also know...

Current self-posts are under the "morning mail" tag — older ones are under "homegrown by day" and "homegrown by postie"

Yes, this is the person "behind" @roxytonic (2021-22), and I own the imperfect fieldwork and shoddy methodologies from that blog. However, I strongly favor my LGBTQ+ adolescents, antifragility, and identity coherence poster with E.G. and Georget to be my first proper foray into research with online communities. Following my 2025-26 work with the Culture and Tech Lab, I would say my current understanding of social media and online fandom is informed by ingroup-outgroup differentiation, contemporary media and fandom as digital hermeneutic, and my personal experiences with social media as a stage for my identity development when I was a teenager and now as a young adult.

I used to be REALLY interested in personal knowledge management (early 2021 to late 2022), Homestuck (mid 2016 to early 2023), Adventure Time (April 2020), consumer technology (2015-2021) -- but feel free to ask about these topics!

I'm available on Bluesky, a microblogging social network

If you're in the San Jose Bay Area, feel free to reach out! I'd love to meet new people

#morning mail #about page #cognitive science #human factors #ui ux design #santa cruz #ergonomics #ucsc

petaltexturedskies

Mary Oliver, from "The Pond" in Felicity

#current events #making my pilgrimage to the Taylor Swift lyric vid for the 6th time fr

bimstown

jimothy my cryptid son

#art #design

wyrm-hlaf

I wrote a script to make a rudimentary predictive text generator for Worm:

It's not an ai or LLM, it's just a Markov chain that I built by splitting all of Worm into a list of words, then saving it as a dictionary of each one, two, three, four and five-word sequence that appears in worm, overlapping (the dict is 5M items long) along with each word that comes after each sequence. Then I just use that to generate probabilities and it can spit out something that's almost coherent!

It can (sort of) do dialogue because when parsing the text I had it look for words wrapped in quotes and mark them with a special character. When generating text it removes the character and adds the quotes back in. This means that technically, "the" and "the"(spoken in dialogue) are two different words from the script's point of view (RIP file size)

#art #writing #design

vineboom

#morning mail #sent from sunny ios 6 on iphone 4s #photography

ozempicofficial

#alpha!rose momlonde and roxy lalonde fr fr #meme

valtsv

spend long enough being an OC Guy and you will eventually inevitably become a sincere recreation of the gregory berrycone 4chan bit

valtsv

this is what i sound like to other people

#soteriology of the coherent 3.0

charlesoberonn

You can't understate the profound effect these Natasha Allegri drawings had on an entire generation

#art #adventure time #design

mircalla

you've been summoned for july duty

#current events

daytura

Hi! I'm...

daytura (he/him), a 23 y.o. GRADUATED!!!! from UC Santa Cruz w/ my Cognitive Science B.A.

THANK YOU Dr. Adriana Manago, Georget Ammari, labmate E.G., and the rest of the Culture and Tech Lab for giving me hands-on experience with developmental psychology research!

(The cognitive science program doesn't cover dev. psych or qualitative methods much at all.)

I am interested in...

Refining my understanding of cognition and behavior in "Helios", my public notes

2nd-order cybernetics, psycholinguistics, embodied cognition, sociocognitive development

Ergonomics, human factors, skill acquisition/learning, and augmented (cognitive) work with digital technologies

Photography, creative and technical writing, sitcoms, and casual gaming

Meeting other people interested in some of the above!

You should also know...

Current self-posts are under the "morning mail" tag — older ones are under "homegrown by day" and "homegrown by postie"

Yes, this is the person "behind" @roxytonic (2021-22), and I own the imperfect fieldwork and shoddy methodologies from that blog. However, I strongly favor my LGBTQ+ adolescents, antifragility, and identity coherence poster with E.G. and Georget to be my first proper foray into research with online communities. Following my 2025-26 work with the Culture and Tech Lab, I would say my current understanding of social media and online fandom is informed by ingroup-outgroup differentiation, contemporary media and fandom as digital hermeneutic, and my personal experiences with social media as a stage for my identity development when I was a teenager and now as a young adult.

I used to be REALLY interested in personal knowledge management (early 2021 to late 2022), Homestuck (mid 2016 to early 2023), Adventure Time (April 2020), consumer technology (2015-2021) -- but feel free to ask about these topics!

I'm available on Bluesky, a microblogging social network

If you're in the San Jose Bay Area, feel free to reach out! I'd love to meet new people

daytura

Updated 28 June 2026 in light of recent developments! What a brilliant, messy, challenging, and DAMN WELL WORTH IT 2 years this has been! :D

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As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles.

on the one hand this is probably very bad but on the other, lmao. "noooo you weren't supposed to actually shut down our deployments, we hadn't finished our regulatory capture yet, no fair"

#current events