evanovich
@evancm
Nerdy yet sturdy, a gay elder millennial at play,
respect how design and tech intersect, programs and projects I direct each day.
I chase personal grace, laced with insight in every space,
as nature’s hidden rapture captures my artful embrace.
Ecology of power structures in science, social and environmental ecology and the direct impacts on our lived experiences.
A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example:
I ate my friend's lunch.
I ate my friend's colon.
More from the lightcone group about a possible AI future, but taken with a grain of salt because it's written solely by Western-educated white men.
Dear Beatriz and Brendan,
About twenty-five years ago, I made an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was no malice intended, it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off. I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irr
... See moreThe thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Creating and blaming an enemy is a vicious, inescapable spiral of doom. It made me blind to my personal agency. It stunted my ability to act on my own behalf.
Instead of feeling empowered, I came to believe that if THEY don’t change, I can’t be happy. I’m stuck, and it’s their fault. I must sit here and tap tap tap at them until they acquiesce and hand me happiness.
This paradigm is the lifeblood of social media.
Without it, the addictive dopamine/adrenaline high attained from reading and replying to our side and attacking their side doesn’t have the same payoff. But it’s terrible for us.
Truth!