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| Monday, April 24th, 2023 | |
| 4:53 pm | pa glāzei Alkoholu nevajag lietot. Tā jums nav nekāda spēļmantiņa! Alkoholu ir jābauda. |
| Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 | |
| 3:02 pm | ciniskie humānisti No iecietības līdz neiecietībai ir viens solis. Un otrādi. |
| Friday, April 21st, 2023 | |
| 10:27 am | this too shall pass Ciba reiz mirs. |
| Monday, March 13th, 2023 | |
| 8:23 am | čuguns un piķis Pirms apmēram gada nopirku čuguna pannu. Bija apnikuši visi šitie lētie teflona varianti, kur kaut kas lobās nost no virsmas jau pēc mēneša, nemaz nerunājot par to, ka tādas pannās sanāk vairāk sautēšana, nevis cepšana. Esmu dziļi vīlies. Nu labi, atzīstos, paņēmu nevis kaut ko no paša dārgākā gala, tobiš "īsta" čuguna pannu, bet gan drusku lētāku variantu, kaut kādu vieglo čugunu. Lai nu ko tas nozīmētu. Vienalga diezgan dārgi. Tā panna šausmīgi ātri uzkarst, vienkārši nav nekādu viduspārēju or something. Te bija pavisam auksta, nu jau eļļa dūmo tā, ka pažarnieku mašīnas brauc šurp. Un piecepas, līp klāt pie tās pannas! Pat kartupeļi parastie... Es to pannu saudzēju, cītīgi mazgāju tikai ar rokām, nekādās trauķenēs neesmu bāzis un tā. Tagad domāju pirkt riktīgu čuguna pannu, bet bail, ka atkal neiegrābjos kaut kādā ne tādā variantā. |
| Monday, March 6th, 2023 | |
| 11:16 am | ahujs Es nezinu, kurā brīdī ciba sasniedza šito kūts līmeni, ka te sūdzas par klavierspēli 8 no rīta daudzdzīvokļu mājā. Tiešām cilvēkiem galīgi nav ko darīt? Un paši vairs nesaprot savu pseidoproblēmu absurdumu un bērnišķīgumu (negatīvā nozīmē)? Ja nu kāds vēl to krietni pieaugušā vecumā nav pieredzējis, tad es nezinu, kas un kā tādam indivīdam izskaidros, ka 8 no rīta daudzi cilvēki jau atrodas savā darba vietā, pārējie ir ceļā uz darbu. Nu un ja no atlikušajiem dīkdieņiem viens spēlē klavieres, otrs vēl čuč, tad tur neko nevar padarīt. Life is life. |
| Sunday, March 5th, 2023 | |
| 4:32 pm | Mastodons Visiem iesaku reģistrēties Mastodonā. Ja neko diži negribat ķēpāties ar sev īpaši piemērotas instances meklēšanu, tad vienkārši dodieties uz toot.lv un dariet to, kas jādara. |
| Friday, February 10th, 2023 | |
| 6:39 pm | ghosts again Depešu jaunā dziesma ar tādu patīkamu atsauci uz Ingmāru Bergmani. Mārtins gan dikti novecojis izskatās... |
| Monday, February 6th, 2023 | |
| 10:32 am | SDA Poll #21586 Būtiskas izvēles Open to: All, results viewable to: All Ko darīt ir svarīgāk - rakstīt vai dzēst? View Answers Sūds jautājums - rakstīt, protams! Dzēst. Un izdzēs šito pollu, ja! Vispirms rakstīt, tad dzēst. Vispirms dzēst, tad rakstīt. Pilnīgi vienalga - ja vien dzer alu! |
| Friday, February 3rd, 2023 | |
| 10:46 am | singularitāte Mahājānas budisms laikam ir viskrutākais. |
| Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 | |
| 4:05 pm | (ne)karjerisms Reti sastopu jēdzīgus padomus karjerai un darbam, bet te John Evans bliež ļoti labi. 1: Act your way into a new way of thinking and being. You cannot wholly discover yourself by introspection because you need experimentation and feedback. 2: Stop trying to find your true self. You are, after all, seeking to pivot so focus your attention on which of your many possible selves you want to test and learn more about. 3: Allow yourself a transition period in which it is okay to oscillate between holding on and letting go. Better to live in the contradictions and explore options than to come to a premature or stultifying resolution. 4: Resist the temptation to start by making a big decision that will change everything in one fell swoop. Use a strategy of small wins, in which incremental gains lead you to more profound changes in the basic assumptions that define your work and life. Accept the crooked path. 5: Identify projects that can help you get a feel for a new line of work or style of working. Try to do these as extracurricular activities or parallel paths to begin with so that you can experiment seriously without making a commitment. After this, deliberately opt to use a new style of working to stretch yourself and seek out some feedback from those who excel in this new (to you) way of getting things done. Keep a journal to force you to notice and record changes as you go. 6: Don't just focus on the work. Find people who are what you want to be and who can provide support for the transition or pivot you want. But don't expect to find them in your same old social circles. Push into new ones. 7: Don't wait for a cataclysmic moment when all truth is revealed. Use everyday occurrences to find meaning in the changes you are going through. Practice telling and retelling your story. Over time, it will clarify. Your journaling will become your friend in this. 8: Step back. But not for too long. 9: Change happens in bursts and starts. There are times when you are open to big change and times when you are not. Seize opportunities. |
| Friday, January 13th, 2023 | |
| 12:53 pm | kveščens Te kāds vispār vēl tusē, vai visi jau Mastodonā? |
| Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 | |
| 3:49 pm | par nacistiem The Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durutti said: "The only church that illuminates is a burning church." He was right, though not in the anti-clerical sense his remark was intended to have. Religion only arrives at its truth through its self-cancellation. In "The Intellectual Beast Is Dangerous," Bertolt Brecht asserts: "A beast is something strong, terrible, devastating; the word emits a barbarous sound." Surprisingly, he writes: "The key question, in fact, is this: how can we become beasts, beasts in such a sense that the fascists will fear for their domination?" It is thus clear that, for Brecht, this question designates a positive task, not the usual lament on how Germans, such a highly cultured people, could have turned into the Nazi beasts. "We have to understand that goodness must also be able to injure - to injure savagery." It is only against this background that we can formulate the gap that separates oriental wisdom from Christian emancipatory logic. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-onl |
| Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 | |
| 11:12 am | krionika - sektantu fantāzijas? Vēl viens pierādījums tam, ka transhumānisms ir reliģija - tās fanātisko adeptu piesauktā krionika tiek uzskatīta par pseidozinātni. Paldies jūzerim snauts par šo info Tagad man ir skaidrs, kāpēc šie fanātiskie transhumānisma adepti nesteidzas krionēties. Viņi paši labi saprot, ka krionēties faktiski nozīmē veikt pašnāvību. Un to viņi nevēlas. Kāpēc? Jo mīž no nāves. Nevar neko daudz pārmest, visi mēs kaut kādā mērā mīžam no kaulainās, tomēr labāk ir pieņemt nāves eksistenci un dīlot ar to, nevis dzīvot fantāziju pasaulē un ārstēt citus, kas vēlas dzīvot reālajā 'pasaulē, nevis pievienoties ilūziju vergiem. |
| Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 | |
| 10:59 am | vēl drusku par transhumānisma baznīcu Transhumanists used to repudiate any suggestion that their movement is a form of, or substitute for, religion. But in recent years, that denial has worn increasingly thin. For example, Yuval Harari, a historian and transhumanist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told The Telegraph, “I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering by the creation of cyborgs, part organic, part non-organic.” According to Harari, the human inventions of religion and money enabled us to subdue the earth. But with traditional religion waning in the West – and who can deny it? – he believes we need new “fictions” to bind us together. That’s where transhumanism comes in: Religion is the most important invention of humans. As long as humans believed they relied more and more on these gods, they were controllable. With religion, it’s easy to understand. You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee Heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will. But what we see in the last few centuries is humans becoming more powerful, and they no longer need the crutches of the gods. Now we are saying, “We do not need God, just technology.” Ha! The old stereotype of the bearded Christian fanatic in robe and sandals carrying a sign stating, “The end is nigh!” has been replaced by transhumanism proselytizers like author Ray Kurzweil (of Google fame) whose bestselling transhumanist manifesto is titled, The Singularity is Near. https://www.acton.org/religion-libe |
| Monday, October 10th, 2022 | |
| 11:02 am | transhumānisms kā ideoloģija, iespējams, pat reliģija Transhumanism is an ideology according to which we *should* use “person-engineering” technologies to radically enhance ourselves: to make us superintelligent and immortal, and to give us perfect control over our emotions (seriously). This could enable us to create a superior species of “posthumans” living in a techno-utopian paradise, as Bostrom notes in his “Letter from Utopia.” The transhumanist ideology itself has roots in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition, and in fact the term “transhumanism” was popularized by Julian Huxley, who was president of the British Eugenics Society from 1959 to 1962. There are also strong parallels between transhumanism and religion; in fact, Huxley’s 1927 book in which he advocated for a version of transhumanism was revealingly titled “Religion Without Revelation.” Later, in the 1999 Transhumanist FAQ put together by Bostrom, transhumanism is described as a replacement for religion. https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1 |
| Friday, October 7th, 2022 | |
| 12:54 pm | transvaldība Vai valdības sastāvā būtu jāiekļauj transhumānistus? Vai jaunajā valdībā tādi būs? |
| 10:03 am | laif iz laif, end it gouz on end on... No tiem mediju tekstiem izklausās, ka Ingus Bērziņš dosies pensijā. Nu vai arī izveidojis baigi kruto F.I.R.E. plānu, kas nu ir realizēts, tad tik dzīvos nost. |
| Monday, September 26th, 2022 | |
| 10:59 am | lūk, kāpēc ne visi transhumānisti ir zemē metami Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. (Alan Watts) |
| Monday, September 19th, 2022 | |
| 11:14 am | izcila ilustrācija  |
| Friday, September 16th, 2022 | |
| 3:59 pm | Transhumanistic Tarot Symbolism plays a large part in human life. Through symbols, humans can communicate and codify their culture. If transhumanism is to survive and expand, we have to create new symbols which conform to our views and are able to convey them. This is a half serious, half joking attempt to sketch a transhumanistic tarot deck. The Tarot cards are loaded symbols, which with surprising ease can be modified to reflect our views. I would not be surprised if many people would understand them better than any verbal explanation. Note: these descriptions become much easier to understand if compared to the cards. I have mainly based them on the Rider-Waite deck, available at ftp://lysita.lysator.liu.se/pub/magick/T and other places on the net. The Major Arcana: The Fool: The Normal Human. Shows an ordinary person walking towards a busy street, holding a shopping bag. He is reading a tabloid and listening on his walkman, completely unaware of the danger. A doomsayer tries to warn him while holding forth his hand for payment. The Magician: The Transhumanist. A man with an infinity sign above his head stands behind a table. He points upwards with one hand, and with the other he shows the tools on the table: a computer, a credit card, a chemistry set, a book and a mirror. The High Priestess: The Environmentalist. Shows a woman sitting between two trees, holding a petition against pollution. Empress: The Media. Shows a female talk-show host, sitting with a microphone in a studio, looking at the camera. Emperor: The Politician. A man in suit stands behind a podium with lots of microphones, making a forceful speech. Hierophant or Pope: The Fundamentalist Preacher. A priest blessing kneeling believers, who offer money. Lovers: Cooperation. A man and a woman exchanging goods. Chariot: Boundless Expansion. Shows a man sitting in the cockpit of a small spacecraft plotting his course on a holographic screen. Strength or Lust: Dynamic Optimism. Shows a man controlling his fears in the shape of a lion (just like the original card). Hermit: Self Transformation. A man in lab coat stands inside a cold storage room, holding a piece of DNA and looking at a test-tube Wheel of Fortune: Intelligent Technology. Shows the Net expanding, with symbols flowing along the lines. Different beings (agents, experts and AIs) circle it. Justice: Spontaneous Order. An empty seat, above which hangs a pair of scales in balance. Hanged Man: Bureaucracy. Shows a man hanging in red tape in front of a imposing office building. Death: Cryonic Suspension. Shows several people being frozen by cryonicists. Temperance or Art: Rationality. A scientist carefully mixing two substances and observing the results. The Devil: Irrationality or Atavism. Shows a man/animal hybrid wielding a club, and a man and a woman chained by DNA chains to its feet. The Tower: Crisis. An downward-pointing arrow from a statistical diagram hits a skyscraper. A man and a woman in suits fall out from the windows, spreading papers and documents into the air. The Star: Nanotechnology. A woman pours a solution of nanomachines into a polluted lake, cleaning it, and onto the ground, making flowers bloom. In the sky great diamond structures shine. The Moon: The O'Neill colony. The inside of a K3 colony, with hills and buildings along the curved horizon. In the foreground a cat, a dog and a lobster look up towards the crescent of the Moon seen through one of the windows. The Sun: The Dyson Sphere. A blazing sun partially surrounded by a Dyson Sphere. In the foreground a small robot moves a piece of solar collector towards its position. Judgment or Aeon: The Singularity. Shows people being awakened from cryonic suspension. In the background is a huge bush-robot. The World or Universe: Reality. Shows a person floating in space with virtual reality gear. Minor Arcana: The minor arcana correspond to different sciences or disciplines. I would like the court cards to be represent central scientists or phenomena, while the lesser cards show different applications (like two of swords as Encryption and two of cups as medicine). Wands: Philosophy, Psychology and Cybernetic Enchancements. Also corresponds to the Strong Force and Self Transformation. Cups: Complexity Theory, Biology, Economics and Artificial Life. Also corresponds to the Weak Force and Spontaneous Order. Swords: Cognitive Science, Information Theory, Computer Science and Mathematics. Also corresponds to Electromagnetism and Boundless Expansion. Pentacles: Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Physics and AI. Also corresponds to Gravity and Intelligent Technology. |
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