original thoughts
religion is a translation of compassion and inner whatever the fuck that is not beneficial in a hamurabi’s code type of world
gratitude journal type shiii
My Mother
Kindness, desire for knowledge, unconditional love. Despite the generations of mothers in my family who did not treat their daughters kindly, her resilience to break the cycle by showering me with love. I may have been born evil, yet I owe it to her love and care for me that I have grown up into a half-decent hu
something about kids-tech makes me feel uncomfortable. i feel like kids don’t have enough cognition to recognize the distinction between the virtual and the physical. so the experiment is so effective because there is an emotional connection and some intimacy between the child and the object. however, wouldn’t it be traumatizing if they find out th
... See moreThrough the consumption of luxury goods, advertisements promise the veneer of wealth… but what good does it serve me? what they symbolize is actually the opposite of what i am with them. it is only the symbol that communicates i am wealthy, the truth is that i am $5000 short on money.
nevertheless, i am irresistibly drawn to his novels. i love the way he describes loneliness, i actually lol when a character says something witty, i like how his characters are kind of fleshed out but we only see them in an observatory way, i love how atmospheric instead of explicit his world building of his more magical elements feel, and i love h
... See morelemonhope's return to lemon kingdom may be seen as inherently selfish because his intention is to free himself from guilt when his ideal self is to be free. i would argue this is not selfish because the intention lies in the internal.
discrete representations & AI
imagine a sentient algorithm, trained off reality only captured by digital cameras and texts. discrete representations through pixels. they do not 'see' the same way we do. it does not 'listen' the way we hear. instead, just a vector of a position of pixel and its represented color. just a representation of reality.
... See moreThrough data journalism, I want to humanize statistics. Numbers are a good way to appear credible and smart because they aren’t intuitive. But they are logical. Like that speech from The Big Short, everytime the unemployment rate goes up 1%, 10,000 people lose their lives. It’s easy to mystify real human lives behind data. But imagine the story of
... See morethe rehearsal:
steps of empathy.
how would I feel if that happened to me (aka impressed by second day presentation skills) → put on actor’s costume, but still inherently himself.
how do they feel based on their personal history, philosophy, motivations, moral judgement, etc. → embodying the actor’s character