Weaponized Sacredness ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/wea ...in case you thought ritual was a fun and safe hobby
Sister Sarah
@sarahdoingthing
~cryptosalience~ ~~~~read Christopher Alexander, do rituals~~~~
Joined September 2013
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new by me - on the insidiousness of the unquestioning attitude
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I'm isolating with my husband, it's the cool and responsible thing to do ok! Good thread:
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The more people self-quarantine, the more normal it is, and the more normal it is, the more people will do it. Start if you can, and tell people when you do.
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unlike education, gene editing might actually work, and the tech for it could get cheap enough to be widely affordable
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kind of want to troll that if internet warriors who go hard against eugenics actually cared, they would be interfering with local families & institutions that give birth control to the people they take care of who have intellectual disabilities, but I'm worried someone might
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I wrote about Andrew Sabisky and the journalistic thirst for censorious pseudo-scandals.
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I've barely written about AN since 2014, so it's odd to me that people think this because I mostly stopped writing about other stuff too
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I talked with the very nice about whatever I thought was interesting while he politely listened and encouraged me to go off
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Thanks for the essay! Your emphasis on the source domain of Wittgenstein's metaphor, on actual spinning, got me thinking visually. This diagram came out :)
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the discussion of “wilderness comfort kit” can be nicely paralleled with “conceptual comfort kit”- having enough analytical tools on your belt to be comfortable with ambiguity even though they can’t save you
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Meaning as Ambiguity - new ribbonfarm by me, my farewell post as contributing editor (I’ll still post sometimes)
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remember when david brooks got too high and argued that we should drug war harder against weed
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another one for you
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Volaticotherium is an extinct gliding mammal with a remarkable resemblance to modern-day flying squirrels! They lived 130 MYA & may have glided before birds did.
(Credit: Sara Goudarzi)
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Would you like to read some things,
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From Sarah Perry @sarahdoingthing
Deep Laziness: ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/dee
Treasure Hunting: ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/02/tre
Luxuriating in Privacy
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Wow you guys bad news some writer thought of a counterargument that ruins everything and they definitely didn’t just fail to read Benatar
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Should I write a scare piece about the rising popularity of anti-AN scare pieces?
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New Ribbonfarm by me - metaphor therapy?
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I never said the state of florida was a conspiracy theory I simply observed that sandhill cranes are obviously CG
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But it isn't a conspiracy theory--other state courts don't open the records immediately after trial like Florida does.
This is proven fact. twitter.com/sarahdoingthin…
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my husband has a fan theory that they were always trying to rob him and only concocted the prank story because of subsequent paranoia
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I can’t believe you missed an opportunity to say “perhaps the real treasure is the friends we made along the way”
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Treasure Hunting - new Ribbonfarm by me, on complexity and the virtues of ignorance, gullibility, and shitty maps
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oh you like sarah perry name three of her
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Social Media Consciousness - new by me. Why the internet is a garment, and why the world got realer since 2006
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New by me - on boilerplate language, copypasta, literal boiler plates, and the tiling structures
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cults, teams, fandoms, politics. these things aren’t compelling just because they give you “purpose” or because they seem “important.” but also because being interested in something in a sustained way feels fuckin great. addictive.
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people seriously underestimate the degree of high that is obsession. it is, imo, basically the greatest high there is.
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“The experiments a man himself conceives and performs... are valuable to him who performs them, hence he follows them closely, and as they become familiar, so they strike him in different ways, and by increasingly stimulating his curiosity cause him to multiply his observations.”
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I believe demand for news demonstrates our very human need for a shared story. Reality is too complicated to be widely distributed so we substitute for fiction.
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