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Downy Thornapple

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Jun 13

I've been getting these weird glitches on my computer tonight. Just odd behaviors I'd never seen before, bugs that don't make any sense. Like, just now, Twitter showed new tweets at the top, and scrolling made it, like, shake, like a jump cut. Like there are elves in the machine.

"Huh. That never happened before."

I remember such bugs occurring a lot, in the past. Computers would just act 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 when I was using them. It has to do with either the quantum nature of probability within electronic circuits or my vibratory power interfering with them.

𝘖𝘳, invisible particles emanating either from or 𝘢𝘵 my body (perhaps from a certain location about 238,900 miles from Earth that I can't name) are 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 with the 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘴 inside the volatile memory, as occurs on spaceships in orbit! I'm an electric eel!

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Downy Thornapple

@ToolTrackers

Jun 13

#ADVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: Do you want to make money, be creative, study stuff, or invent things? If you can answer that, you'll have any easy choice of what to study in college. 🧵

The first two years of college is core classes at most schools, and you only have to take the general prerequisite courses in your area of study. If you change your mind, it's no big deal; your first choice of major is now your minor!

An undergraduate degree is not going to be your golden ticket to easy street. I didn't have a degree for years. Then I finished my degree, and it made absolutely no difference. Nobody gives a shit. So, don't stress about it. Think about what major will be most fun for you.

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Downy Thornapple

@ToolTrackers

Jun 11

There was an early MMO 2D space shooter that was a lot of fun. I wonder if that's still around. I learned how to use computers when I went to college where they had a 24-hour computer lab and I saw people playing that game overnight. It blew my mind that games were really online.

I'd only used a C64 and word processor at that point, had no idea how to use a mouse or anything. (I did know some BASIC.) That pretty much informed my entire philosophy of how computers should be used, learning by figuring out how to install games against the computer lab rules.

I pretty much always try to break or at least hack computers/software all the time since then. "Hmm. So that's how it's supposed to work. Let's see what happens if I do it wrong." I loved newbie shit like "progz" and the movie Hackers, because I was in fact a n00b at that time.👩‍💻

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Downy Thornapple

@ToolTrackers

Mar 12

I've got an idea for a Quantum Leap reboot. This is my second one, but that other one had a lot of offensive jokes and would probably be unproducible anywhere outside Japan. I might talk about it if Shinjuku Sex Wars is ever published, but it's pretty echi, worse than Future Man.

In this Quantum Leap remake, the Department of Defense of the future creates a loop in time by sending a time traveler back to teach himself everything he needs to know, and then to walk into the machine so that he can teach the next version.

Inspiration:
imdb.com/video/vi116488…

Could the inevitable conclusion of this Quantum Leap Remake be the new "Sam" become like He Who Remains in Marvel comics?

The stories go like: Young Sam wakes up in his room, to be faced with Old Sam from the future, saying, "Oh boy," every time.

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Downy Thornapple

@ToolTrackers

Mar 11

In a quantum brain there's no invisible dark matter pulling the living cells around. The galaxies appear to move against the will of gravity because they are alive. The brain can compute possibilities so fast, it runs into the infinite and enables ALL possibilities to manifest.🧘‍♀️

The universe appears to be structured like a brain because the quantum computer inside that generates consciousness is so powerful it drifts into introspection because it's exhausted all other possibilities. As the POV of the universe, it's like in a ball infinite from outside.🌀

As we look out from the living center of the eye, what we see dissolves into abstraction about abstraction and we begin to perceive the structure of the tools themselves. Continue onward toward the edge of infinity, you will zoom in on the universe until you realize it's an atom.

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Downy Thornapple

@ToolTrackers

Mar 11

I didn't know enough about politics at the time to understand how Republicans in the 90s were much worse than the ones who came before. The norm-breaking and constitutional hardball of the time was unprecedented; both the speech and methods were harbingers of the GQP to come.🙍‍♀️🪧

We need to accept that the Republicans are not going to stop or calm down. They forgot caring about the rules a long time ago. Democrats have to take them out. Abolish the Republican Party like the Union destroyed the Confederacy.

Allow Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and others . . .

...to form a new party, which will remain a minority but still be allowed a voice in the Socialist controlled government, whereas the Republicans will be permanently banned from politics, and their place as conservative opposition party will be taken by the surviving Democrats.🇺🇸

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