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

my Halloween costume this year -

Nyx, Greek diety of the night

complete with metabolic network diagrams of the human circadian rhythm
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 👍)

"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"

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”

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

https://twitter.com/relic_radiation/status/1505879720344309762?s=20&t=YyUCv2dvyjcileNHHzeKGw

"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.

"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.'