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Elena Lake 🌿 Profile picture
@relic_radiation
Nov 3, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
my Halloween costume this year -

Nyx, Greek diety of the night

complete with metabolic network diagrams of the human circadian rhythm Image
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how else to reconcile the part of me that loves latenight festivity, with the part of me that loves early bedtimes?

they’re both ways of honoring the night

(I attached the framed metabolic network diagrams to my bag, so it became a handsfree prop 👍) Image
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> holy nectars of the skull
I know less of Nyx’s story than I’d like, it sounds really interesting but I haven’t found good sources yet.

she was - maybe the second diety ever, after Chaos?

seems very foundational for how little reverence modernity pays to night nowadays

compared to sacredness of dark
another inspiration was a neuroscience student friend of mine

who totally stayed up late all the time

then learned some of the chemistry of the circadian rhythm and said “wow. ok I’m not messing with that ever again” and started sleeping much earlier

alas she couldn’t point me to the exact diagrams she saw! she says they were probably somewhere in MIT course number 9.15 dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/hand…
image citation is here; though this is but one piece of one piece of the whole human circadian rhythm

Cellular circadian metabolism of glucose and feedback of metabolism on the cellular clock - Crosstalk between metabolism and circadian clocks -

nature.com/articles/s4158…Image
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Elena Lake 🌿 Profile picture
Dec 3, 2024
today I met someone who's been programming for 25 years and specifically values "high-efficiency, low-tech" tech

tech that "gets people off of it, and back into the physical world"

and also "sustainable tech" - which anyone can easily fix, if it breaks
this was extra interesting because she apparently worked at one of the now-big AI companies back in 2017, until she realized its values were the polar opposite of hers.

they're going for "low-efficiency, high-tech" whose technical workings are inscrutable to the average user
I hadn't thought of those frames before, but they made immediate sense!

and gave me an inkling vision of tech that's patterned more in the shape of a balanced ecosystem.

which could look quite different than most of what we see now and take for granted as "what tech's like"
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Aug 22, 2024
"Tech Neck" is becoming a meme

so I asked @DrMylesDC about the organ-&-fascia perspective on it

> the fascia around the lungs and heart get contracted by head being down a lot
> this starts restricting airflow while upright
> releasing it creates literal breathing room
@DrMylesDC note, "flexion" here means "looking down" and "extension" means "looking up"
@DrMylesDC to be clear, I asked about the organs and fascia perspective because

along with tech neck becoming a meme, so are SO MANY extremely oversimplified answers for "fixes" to it

and I want the full nuance to be known.

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Mar 18, 2024
whole-plant medicines work as a whole network, pharmaceuticals work as an isolated molecule on one pathway in a network.

I learned this via learning mathematical network science & systems bio, but also @ArtirKel told me this great illustrative example of it:
he works at a bio company, and quoth him, “the traditional pharmaceutical approach is to pick one molecular pathway and hit it really hard.

but that’s not how plants work, which is interesting! turmeric is not the best at anything. it hits a whole bunch of pathways a little bit”
backing up - what are “molecular pathways” and “metabolic networks”?

basically, in your body all the molecules circulate and recombine with one another in complicated webbings that look like this. lots of fun math to be had on them

& lol, my math background took me to herbalism Image
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Aug 27, 2022
hey a worldly question - anyone in singapore who could mail a package to me?

there are these pants I love. they are the only pants I wear. they now have a hole in them. they are out of stock everywhere except singapore 💜

I will pay shipping and compensate u creatively, somehow
these pants. u can see em in most of the videos in this thread, tbh
even more specifically, they are these pants. black, size small uniqlo.com/ph/en/products…
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Aug 26, 2022
"Let's talk about the word 'belief' for a bit. That's a word you don't find a lot in indigenous cultures.

The word 'belief' assumes that there's an empirical material world, and then everything else exists as a set of abstract principles that you either consider valid or don't.
You 'believe' that chi or prana exist, even though you haven't felt it. You 'believe' that a nymph inhabits that spring, even though you haven't seen her.

You 'believe' through some set of inferences and abstractions, in unseen forces, even though you haven't seen them.
Of course, this view can only arise in an era already steeped in abstract thought - in what Henry Corbin called 'the dead body of an angel'.

It assumes a pre-existing separation between human beings and the natural world.
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Jul 13, 2022
"One of the defining aspects of colonialism as contrasted with traditional custodial culture is - the rush. The hurry.

In his book Wisdom Sits In Places, Keith Basso shares how his Apache guides doubted him at first because he hurried, and they didn't trust anyone who hurried.
In a famous interchange, native elder (Ochwiay Biano Mountain Lake) of Taos Pueblo speaks with Carl Jung about what he sees in the white colonists.

'They're always seeking something. What are they seeking? They always want something, they're always uneasy and restless.'
'We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think that they are mad.'
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