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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 10h

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

Closing a loop: the difference between the information professions and the symbol-generation industry is whether you are trying to perceive edges that exist in actual reality, or make up virtual edges that exist in your mind. And everything we see in our current culture shift is downstream of that.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 11h

Oh this looks good. Maybe i’ll read this instead of anything horrible

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

Closing a loop: the difference between the information professions and the symbol-generation industry is whether you are trying to perceive edges that exist in actual reality, or make up virtual edges that exist in your mind. And everything we see in our current culture shift is downstream of that.

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 18h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

A really great book about this (not cockroach butts specifically, but the biological evolution of cognition) is Maturana and Varela’s The Tree of Knowledge

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

Information and knowledge is all higher-order perceptual edge-detection is how I think about it, and well

Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 17h

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Screenshot of a paper abstract:

“Core knowledge” refers to a set of cognitive systems that underwrite early representations of the physical and social world, appear universally across cultures, and likely result from our genetic endowment. Although this framework is canonically considered as a hypothesis about early emerging conception — how we think and reason about the world — here we present an alternative view: that many such representations are inherently perceptual in nature. This “core perception” view explains an intriguing (and otherwise mysterious) aspect of core-knowledge processes and representations: that they also operate in adults, where they display key empirical signatures of perceptual processing. We first illustrate this overlap using recent work on “core physics”, the domain of core knowledge concerned with physical objects, representing properties such as persistence through time, cohesion, solidity, and causal interactions. We review evidence that adult vision incorporates exactly these representations of core physics, while also displaying empirical signatures of genuinely perceptual mechanisms, such as rapid and automatic operation on the basis of specific sensory inputs, informational encapsulation, and interaction with other perceptual processes. We further argue that the same pattern holds for other areas of core knowledge, including geometrical, numerical, and social domains. In light of this evidence, we conclude that many infant results appealing to precocious reasoning abilities are better explained by sophisticated perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. Our core-perception view elevates the status of perception in accounting for the origins of conceptual knowledge, and generates a range of ready-to-test hypotheses in developmental psychology, vision science, and more.

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 17h

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

I knew a bunch of guys like this at one of the tech companies I used to work for, this is most certainly a type of Guy

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

There isn’t any kind of contradiction! They are incredibly consistent in what their politics consists of.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 12h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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heli rain @heli.pet · 14h

We released domesticated computers from captivity and they displaced healthy ecosystems

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

This is also a sign of the post-information society (and is very bad)

Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 13h

Not thrilled with this development. UNC’s School of Information and Library Science to be merged w/ the School of Data Science and Society.

#librarysky #libraries

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 14h

mmm 😵‍💫

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 13h

department of “justice”, department of “war” — these are just words, things we say. they don’t mean anything. language is what the meatgrinder says it is.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 13h

I’m back on board with this. I think the elementary concept of the “distinction” (i.e. a mark that distinguishes everything that is “this” from everything that is “not this”) is key to this particular understanding of information. Cf George Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 13h

I’ll have to look at it later, but weirdly Shannon’s information theory is the “this one is not like the others” concept of “information” that should really be renamed as something else (which Shannon himself later noted)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h

“Scott Leiendecker, the founder of a Missouri-based election technology company who previously served as the Republican director for the St. Louis City Board of Elections, purchased the company this week for an undisclosed sum, according to a press release.”

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 13h

Incidentally this paper I read in the first class of my MLIS struck me like a lightning bolt and really ties together what is meant by “information” running through this thread (and how it connects to systems thinking & design)

The Invisible Substrate of Information Science, Marcia Bates, 1999

pages.gseis.ucla.edu

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

Yeah that’s how I do a lot of my systems thinking work, which I think most people would refer to what I’m doing as design.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

The mass symbol generation industries and a widespread post-evidentiary post-reason participatory lying culture go hand in hand I think

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

I buy it.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

Which I guess makes LLMs the apotheosis and death-knell of symbol-generationism, which is being used to drown information work alongside it despite the latter’s attempts to save the former

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

Computer software is also a symbol-generation industry and not an information profession

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 14h

An aside take: the confusion of journalism (as an information profession) and media (as a symbol-generating industry) was a critical part of the post-informational turn

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