Dialogue With The Stars

Anarchism, veganism, assorted noisy music, math/physics/other sciences.

[electronicgallery]

Bioluminescence series by Rob Rey

(Rob Rey’s Tumblr)

[1five1two]

[transmechanicus]

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

[vmprblood]

this doesn't apply to jobs like childcare

[transmechanicus]

If i worked in childcare and my 6 hours were up i would start putting babies in ziploc bags and shipping them to Turkmenistan listed as endangered fruits and vegetables

[japaneseaesthetics]

A Bronze Koro [Incense Burner]  Muromachi-Momoyama period (16th century) , Japan Cast in two sections and hinged, as a long eared hare looking upward with a bell around its neck 17cm. high .  Christie’s

[sreegs]

[sreegs]

[cryptotheism]

This email could have been a flayed screaming man

[contemptible-scoundrel]

the only way to become truly punk is to render oneself blind, deaf, mute, and completely numb, and then to seal oneself within a concrete slab deep underground. only conformist normies and posers experience stimuli

[traumatised-mum]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

[anisetheapothecary]

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

[malcolmcooks]

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

[queeranarchism]

Some extra things:

Trauma isn’t necessarily ‘stored in the body’ and doesn’t necessarily have triggers. These are common experiences but not universal. The 'encoded in the limbic system’ theory has been disproven. Traumatic memories are re-experienced physically mainly because remembering causes our system to flood with stress hormones. There it also no evidence that trauma is stored in our 'ancient animal brain’. (The body keeps the score is a bad pseudoscience book)

'Repressed memories’ don’t really exist. There are memories that are difficult to remember because they happened a long time ago and there are memories that you’ve systematically trained yourself to avoid thinking about because they upset you, but they are still accessible to you. But if a therapist says you need hypnosis or some shit to 'recover’ memories: run. That’s dangerous quack science and is likely to result in false-memory recovery which can really complicate existing trauma.

Intrusive remembering is a more common trauma-response than memory avoidance.

You can forget and then later remember genuinely huge things like your brother’s wedding. You can also forget them entirely. It doesn’t mean you have 'repressed memories’, it doesn’t mean that you’re traumatized and unless it happens frequently it doesn’t mean that you have cognitive problems. The brain as a memory tool is just incredibly flawed.

[aqarititss]

[zegalba]

Nam June Paik: Candle TV (1990)

[springbreak1984]

[rejoice-in-moribund]

Visit Original Link

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[ot3]

grabbing people by the shoulders and shaking them. just because you hate ai and want their companies to die doesn't mean you should be pro the music industry's copyright lawsuit apparatus. the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend!!!!!! please!!! for the love of god

[ot3]

i know im just preaching to the choir by posting this on my tumblr blog but bluesky is obsessed with celebrating the music industry taking suno and its ilk to court. this article has been going around there with commentary like this:

but it's just fundamentally incorrect. "the point" of lawsuits like this is not to "destroy the perpetrators", it's to bring them to the bargaining table. the linked article is less than 600 words long but i can guarantee you almost nobody sharing it is reading it, because they wouldn't be able to make claims like this otherwise. here's a pretty important bit of text

wuh oh!!!! doesn't look like they're very destroyed here!!!!! you'll notice how these contracts are about compensating rightsholders, not artists. as will be the case for all of these trojan horse copyright victories you have the temporarily embarrassed vivziepops of the world rooting for.

copyright law is not your friend. copyright law will not save you or anyone else from the continued gutting of the creative sector. copyright law will make sure that the profits that come from this gutting will go to the same titans of industry that the profits from creative labor have already been going to. im begging everyone to stop falling for it over and over again.

at the very least if you're going to share celebratory articles about supposed wins for the anti AI crusade, please actually read to see if the thing you're celebrating has actually, like. happened! come on! this is embarrassing!

[emolgana]

thought abt how big ℝ is for a sec n got scared

[eiramew]

Birthday commission 🤍🐍

[strangememories]

The Mechanic (1972)

[that-dinopunk-guy]

“Hey guys, check this out!”