leif erikson
@leaf.bsky.social
Little Shop of Horrors was just foreshadowing; you’ve been warned.
The Semifinals are here, what a rarified group winners but only can win! Get in here and cast your vote for the finals.
ok folks i'm going to start the polls, opting for a straight head to head bracket this time. I will thread the polls under this post so I don't need to endlessly repost 8 polls tomorrow. Seeding was done by goodreads average rating with all flaws and caveats of such a system.
can you wait anon? . . . do you have . . . the .. .. patience . . . to wait for your opportunity? . . . . do you have the courage .. .. .. to act . . despite the chance of . . . failure?
has anyone ever solved the general problem of going soft once you win?? perhaps michael jordan model: ignore everyone else; love the game; relentlessly improve and be your own harshest critic down a less psychotically focused path, creating artificial challenges to keep skills sharp seems fruitful
@yashkaf.bsky.social has a great tweet abt how the brain has been compared to a book, then a machine, then a neural net. each analogy is imperfect, but progressively has a greater degree of accuracy. [neuromancer]
i'm back in my hometown and there was a december party where i felt, within a couple hours, intensely, anger desire sadness and it was good. i was plugged back into a social network where consequences of actions mattered. i felt so alive and motivated
ok lets get real and talk feelings for a second. case warming himself w anger is so fucking real. intense emotions feel amazing because you are certain there's stakes. instant cure for vague feelings of purposelessness and wandering [neuromancer]
bruce and cath just wanted to fuck and have fun leave them alone
it pulls me out of the world a bit when buildings are described in cyberspace; there's gotta be a better abstraction visualization for it all flying around glorious 8k rez buildings unburdened by all construction limits would be glorious tho reminds me of Ra and the magical realm [neuromancer]
Dear Julius Deane is the platonic ideal of a doomsday prepper polite wily willing to put a slug in ur head if u look at him wrong knows what he wants (sucking bonbons noisily) may his neuromancer spirit and the Chiba clinics help him live on for another 10,000 years
gravity came down on him like a great soft hand with bones of ancient stone fighting his ascent to divine
rastafarian culture seemed really out of place; maybe it was the blend of woo and space stations/technical competence? ig makes sense if that tech is mundane in the neuromancer world OR OKAY here's the 5head take WM was intentionally utilizing undervalued ppl/groups
me n the homies spinning up an industrial clan in zero g gonna make the neuromancer orbital structures look like tinker toys
history seems to trend in the direction of ppl allowing what was previously private to be public and to a lesser extent what was under one's own control to be controlled
WHO IS THE NIXON OF THE BCI AGE WHO APPEARS CHARISMATIC ON VIDEO BUT THEIR MIND REMAINS IMPURE
Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social · 3y agoIt’ll be like the transition to talkies where a whole generation had a voice for silent film, psychos who can’t actually feel it need not apply
WARNING: THREAD RANT the threat of surveillance is one of my primary concerns wrt widespread BCI tech. i find it morally important that data going in and out remain transparent and consensual at the individual level 1/x
Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social · 3y agoIntimate moments, never quite sure they are yours alone I think streaming implies recording too, sell tickets to real romantic love, played at 3x speed
having love + worthy crusade is everything i want rn could be an artifact of me being in my 20s
sensorium streaming is gonna be SICK, especially if paired with thoughts/emotions hey dude i'm in hawaii no i'm not gonna send you pics, come SEE THE SUNSET AND FEEL THE BREEZE [neuromancer notes chap 1-7]
it seems like the internet had a wild west period; could BCI tech go through a wild west? if so, where and under what conditions? (doesn't seem like USA to me; FDA is SLOW) [neuromancer notes chap 1-7]