Kryptos
Skeptic, secular humanist, aspiring philosopher. Exploring anthro-complexity, narrative research & sense-making. Theoria, poiesis, praxis, logos.
Joined Dec 2021
While on the subject, I highly recommend Stephen Mumford’s book “Absence and Nothing — The Philosophy of What There is Not”.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/absence-and-nothing-9780198831532
As an amateur philosopher, I’ve long been interested in the concept of nothing.
Some time ago I wrote down some thoughts on the subject.
How anyone in their right mind, with even a shred of moral fiber and a sense of decency could even consider voting for Republicans these days, is almost impossible to comprehend.
They're just evil. Racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, steal-from-the-poor-and-give-to-the-rich, theocratic loons.
It truly boggles the mind.
”Inception”
Photography by Mika Latokartano (@Kryptos)
#CoSoPhotography #Photography
https://flic.kr/p/SnEXsc
If it wasn’t clear enough already what the Muskrat’s motivations were, buying the birdy place, he just made it perfectly obvious.
"I drink champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty." -Lily Bollinger 🍾
Made butternut squash soup for lunch today, with fried bacon, parsley, and grilled country bread on the side.
Roasted onions, carrots, a few cloves of garlic, and the squash in the oven, then added chicken stock, blitzed it with a blender and added some flavourful Finnish cheese (Koskenlaskija, if you want to google it up).
Delicious!
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We feel it may be beneficial to illuminate a crucial difference between CounterSocial and [insert other social media here]:
On CounterSocial, you must curate your experience yourself. No one is going to do to it for you.
There is no algorithm manipulating what you see. There is no means of importing your contacts. There is no backend working to determine what you like or don't like.
It is on YOU to manage your experience with the abundance of tools that we have given to you. #CoSoTips
So, CoSoNauts — if you’re interested in smart sci-fi movies, I highly recommend “Primer” (2004) by Shane Carruth.
If you can follow and understand the plot to the end, you’re a savant.
But you don’t have to understand it all after the first watch. Just enjoy an intellectually stimulating movie that doesn’t think the audience needs everything spelled out to them.
One of my favourite movies.
Don’t read the plot before you watch the film! 😎
Well, Star Wars: Andor is bleak. I’m ok with a bit more serious tone in SW, but this show is just depressingly dark.
Still, much better than the very uneven The Book of Boba Fett, and the outright rubbish Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Geeking out! A courier just delivered my World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Epic Edition Collector’s Set.
Strawberries picked from our garden in the #Finnish #Archipelago, on October the 30th.
October is not the season for strawberries in Finland.
Literally the best news... in the world! Clarkson's Farm has been renewed for 3rd season! 🚜
https://youtu.be/fqpB6nYsgSo
What the actual fuck? The Witcher replaces Henry Cavill with Liam Hemsworth for Season 4.
Now, that sucks.
One of the most fascinating books I've read is David Chalmers' "Constructing the World", which is based on his 2010 John Locke lectures at Oxford.
In "Constructing the World" Chalmers addresses "many issues in epistemology, the philosophy of language and mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and metaphilosophy."
I've read the book and listened to the podcasts many times over. Highly recommended to those interested in #philosophy
https://consc.net/constructing-the-world/
https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/john-locke-lectures#collapse386406
My profile picture is a #photograph of mine, or rather, it is based on a photograph of mine, made using a so-called "tiny planet" or "little planet" technique in #Photoshop, involving the use of the Polar Coordinates filter.
Here are some of my "Tiny Planet" pictures on #Flickr.
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Can a good mobile phone camera be used for serious landscape #photography - yes.
https://mccormickphotography.com/2021/06/10/blog-samsung-galaxy-s10-plus-a-year-later/
Nerd as I am, I've been looking forward to the new World of Warcraft expansion Dragonflight.
Decided that perhaps this would be the right time to upgrade my venerable ~10 yo gaming PC (I use Macs for everything else), so I bought a Lenovo Legion T5 R7, 16GB, NVIDIA 3060 Ti LHR 8GB GDDR6.
Holy carp! What a difference! 😮
I just donated a little extra to CoSo.
I think this place has great potential and I'd like to see it become my new haunt, as it were.
Rather unsurprisingly, CounterSocial has experienced a considerable influx of new Cosonauts today, and there has been a hiccup or two to the service.
I've subscribed to Pro, to pitch in a little bit, but I'm going to make a small extra donation to help keep things going.
I'm sure that the cost of maintaining CoSo isn't exactly peanuts, and this is a rather unique place with great potential. So -- #donatetoCoSo
Kryptos
Skeptic, secular humanist, aspiring philosopher. Exploring anthro-complexity, narrative research & sense-making. Theoria, poiesis, praxis, logos.
Joined Dec 2021