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Tommaso Sciortino

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3h

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while sitting in front of a red curtain .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while sitting in front of a red curtain .

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, honestly I don't much care if it is or isn't. My point is just that whatever is required for consciousness, it surely isn't a super wide sensory input because people can lack that and still be conscious.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 4h

My evidence is that you can break large parts of the sensory input stuff and still have consciousness.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 5h

No. You misunderstand me. I'm saying that even non-deaf people are getting much reduced second hand reports from sensory apparatus that we know aren't part of the consciousness module because deaf apeople don't have them.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 6h

But those parts of the brain are way downstream from sensory apparatus actually collecting information from the environment. And we know they're only getting a much reduced second-hand account of the outside world from that sensory apparatus!

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 9h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 6h

If consciousness is not modular in this way, then do blind/deaf people lack consciousness?

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farqfox.bsky.social @farqfox.bsky.social · 7h

Comic dog saying:

Pls rewards of being loved??
NO mortifying ordeal of being known
ONLY rewards of being loved

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 23h

BAP?

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Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 1d

Signaling my in-group membership by agreeing that the loom doesn't actually "weave" anything

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

The lion does not concern himself with the midterm elections

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

The metric senator.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows @scottwiener.bsky.social puts out an extraordinary amount of good housing legislation. But it's actually just a normal amount of housing legislature per inch of height. He's just very tall.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom signed SB 79!

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

im now imagining a buddhist crpg that progressively deconstructs your motivations for playing a crpg before force exiting and uninstalling itself

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

It's a Tesla if it crashes into you.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being the in-house lawyer who has to squash this idea for perfectly sound reasons.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

Waymo should put skeletons in the driver's seat for Halloween.

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Sensual Kazoo @sensualkazoo.bsky.social · 2d

Digging two graves before starting my quest for vengeance. One for my arch rival and one incase he has a lieutenant or something.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, but how does this benefit the large adult failson of a guy who own 5 McDonald's franchises in Wisconsin?

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't run a windows machine in a long time. Is there a good antivirus solution that isn't McAfee?

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 2d

"No. These are the Hills of Folly, the Mountains of Madness are over there."