Squirrel

@squirrel

Lifelong creative, insatiably curious & compulsive puzzle solver. My passion = open source intelligence (OSINT). Fascinated with mysteries of the brain & the intersection of technology.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines… - J Winterson

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whenever societies develop writing, oral storytelling initially intersects with writing technologies to produce foundational texts.

Sally Mallam • The Written Word

Storytelling

copyrighted material being hoovered into large language models to help AI chatbots simulate human speech. If you’re a screenwriter and would like to see which of your work has been appropriated to aid in the effort, click here; he has assembled a searchable database of nearly 140,000 movie and TV scripts that have been used without permission.

Art in Meta

Foucault's point is rather that, at least for the study of human beings, the goals of power and the goals of knowledge cannot be separated: in knowing we control and in controlling we know.

https://plato.stanford.edu/archivES/FALL2017/Entries/foucault/

Panopticon

Studies from California to New Zealand have shown that certain whale species, such as blue whales, stop singing when heat waves disrupt their food sources.

Diffcult things that make me ponder

killing journalists is what happens when every other attempt to silence them has failed. And these are deadly times.

Carole Cadwalladr • How to Speak Truth to Power

Diffcult things that make me ponder

One study compared subjects’ brain activity while reading two types of written material: technical passages and folk tales. There was no change in the level of activity in the left hemisphere, but the right hemisphere was more activated while the subject was reading the stories than while reading the technical material.

Sally Mallam • The Science of Storytelling

Storytelling

Technical material is almost exclusively logical. In stories, on the other hand, many things happen at once; the sense of a story emerges through a combination of style, plot, and evoked images and feelings.

Students who were guided by an Indigenous Educator through a landscape-based narrative outperformed those who were taught the memory palace technique and untrained controls (Figure M.9). These results show that the incorporation of spatial memory skills into education could help improve memorization, because they take advantage of our natural... See more

Introduction to Psychology & Neuroscience – Simple Book Publishing

Storytelling

Foucault particularly emphasizes how such reform also becomes a vehicle of more effective control: “to punish less, perhaps; but certainly to punish better”. He further argues that the new mode of punishment becomes the model for control of an entire society, with factories, hospitals, and schools modeled on the modern prison.

Panopticon

https://plato.stanford.edu/archivES/FALL2017/Entries/foucault/

This is a playbook. Journalists are not just facing litigation and lawsuits. It’s that plus online abuse, doxxing, threats, online mobs. And what we see is that these two things enable and amplify each other. And it’s a weapon that we’ve seen being overwhelming directed at women journalists. It’s what happened to Maria Ressa, the Nobel Prize... See more

Carole Cadwalladr • How to Speak Truth to Power

Diffcult things that make me ponder