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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 21h

Neurotechnology is the use of light, sound, vibration or ultrasound, electricity or magnetism (as in EEG, tDCS, or TMS), and plant compounds (including psychedelics), sometimes combined with feedback or digital control systems, to measure or modulate activity in the brain, nervous system, and body.

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 3d

There was a time when I did not exist.
Now I exist.
There will be a time when I do not exist.

It only makes sense that I will exist again —
as a person, an animal, a tree, a rock, perhaps.
Somewhere nearby, or on another planet,
in the future, the past, or even beside me now.

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 3d

Every organism lives in its own bubble of perception — its umwelt.
A bee lives in sunlight and scent.
A tick in heat and butyric acid.
A bat hears with sonar, in echoes.
A human reads meaning in words, in design.
What is the umwelt of machines — in service?

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 5d

thank you for this expansion

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 5d

Umwelt is One of Those Words that Quietly Changes Everything

My first project is to launch a free, weekly, online Meditation Community

#umwelt #meditation

Umwelt is One of Those Words that Quietly Changes Everything

My first project is to launch a free, weekly, online Meditation Community

johnmiedema.substack.com

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 9d

For Ted Smith, and for his Children, now Adults
Divine is a short work with a larger story before its publication — and a tender real-life epilogue

johnmiedema.substack.com/p/for-ted-sm...

For Ted Smith, and for his Children, now Adults

Divine is a short work with a larger story before its publication — and a tender real-life epilogue

johnmiedema.substack.com

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 16d

Say, what is the name of our universe?

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 17d

In these challenging political and economic times, it’s good to know that Snail Books is proudly and entirely Canadian. #booksky #bookbloggers #smallpress #publishers #ebooks #canada #freebies

Introducing Snail Books 🍁 A New All-Canadian Publisher

Wave your maple leaf by downloading our free fun fantasy e-book for a limited time

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 18d

After years of fighting the Keystone pipeline along with progressive Americans, Carney is going to resurrect it to win a concession from Trump?! Where is our climate leader? #cdnpoli

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 18d

#freegaza #cdnpoli

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 21d

After decades in information technology and research, John Miedema is returning to his first love—writing. Living in Alcove, Quebec, he has launched Snail Books, a small press devoted to thoughtful, independent works created at a human pace.

johnmiedema.substack.com/p/about-john...

About John Miedema, Author and Publisher

The story behind Snail Books and a life of writing at a human pace

johnmiedema.substack.com

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 24d

Compared to the Internet TV was literary. Go watch TV, it's good for your brain.

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 25d

Smart glasses hint at a return to presence. Instead of bending our heads toward a slab of glass, we lift our eyes to the world and let information drift lightly across it.

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 26d

A stone waits longer than we do. When we call it dead, it only smiles at our impatience. Trees, rivers, clouds — all of them carry time differently. To see them as mute is our failure of hearing. To them, we are the brief ones, flickering, noisy, soon gone. The world is alive everywhere ...
#animism

A stone waits longer than we do – John Miedema

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 28d

Fans of Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, or C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters will feel right at home here. The Divine Mind by John Miedema is a theological fantasy with a satirical edge: reverent, witty, and full of flawed gods, earnest monks, and cosmic riddles. #booksky

Launch of the Divine Mind on Snail Books

Download the ebook for free

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 25

Very happy to announce that my first book has been published on Snail Books. My fans can get the ebook of The Divine Mind for free -- click here, enter zero (0) for the price, and get the email to download it. More news to come.

#booksky #books #ebooks

The Divine Mind

The Divine Mind is a witty and wondrous theological fantasy from John Miedema. A sacred manuscript compiled by Merrick of the Pious Order of Wujec, the book charts a cosmos of spiraling consciousness ...

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 22

Kimmel returns! Guess his ratings weren't so bad after all, eh T?

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 19

Faux centrism. A surface neutrality that accepts the party line. It feels kind of normal and safer than the darkness that comes with calling a spade a spade.

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 19

🖕 Pete Hoekstra 🍁

#cdnpoli

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 18

Wordies, help me out, what's the term for right-wing cancel culture?

#kimmel #colbert #kirk

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 12

Climate Collapse, Fascism, and a Chance to Evolve with AI
The race between destruction and renewal, and the power still left in our hands
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/climate-co...

Climate Collapse, Fascism, and a Chance to Evolve with AI

The race between destruction and renewal, and the power still left in our hands

johnmiedema.substack.com

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 11

"I’ll tell you everything I’ve learned,
And ‘love’, is all he said"

~ Yusuf / Cat Stevens, The Boy With A Moon And Star On His Head

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 11

Visualize yourself in this present moment 🤔

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 9

Seekers of the Glimmer
Reading as hunger, vision, and the path to knowledge
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/seekers-of...

#books #booksky #reading #seeking

Seekers of the Glimmer

Reading as hunger, vision, and the path to knowledge

johnmiedema.substack.com

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John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bohemian Rhapsody is the human anthem. Change my mind.