Jo
@jo_is_evil
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the poet makes himself a visionary by a long, immense and rational deregulation of the senses
Joined December 2023
how it feels to read greek
Your baby understands more than you might think. And this is especially true when it comes to language. I’ve written extensively over the years about the gulf between receptive language (that which we understand) and expressive language (that which we can speak), but I’m not
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seal of the massachussets bay company...reference to Paul's dream of the man from macedonia telling him to "come over and help us"
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One of my favorite paintings by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, “The Walnut Tree in Benevento,” 1826.
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its stupid that boeing is spending their contracts on stock buybacks while their airplanes are falling out of the sky but whatever i only care about ancient greece and krebs cycle now so they can do whatever they want...
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ive given up all hope of love or humaninty i just walk around the city at night (4:30pm) listening to the dune soundtrack, watching helicopters fly around and waiting to get killed
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all i want to FUCKING do it watch 7 hours of mormon and orthodox jewish tradwife content on tiktok but i FUCKING blocked the app from my phone. ohhhh lord jesus help me
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or a rephrase (courtesy of nick land): "Intelligence increase precedes intelligence preservation."
"the movement creates the form" is literally true, and its why a metabolism-first account of biology will always be better than a genes-first account. metabolism is the most obvious and literal explanation of abiogenesis and evolution. also why evolution is teleological and why
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that providence has given to the french the empire of the land, to the english that of the sea, and to the germans that of the air
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hydraulic tendency towards the dissipation of intensities
It’s so jarring to me that biology becomes increasingly machinic the deeper you look It starts feeling very biomechanical
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writing is so weird. i remember the ache in my wrist and arm as a child, after straining my hand practising cursive all day. the muscle had not yet developed. it was induction into an esoteric order by physical danger, making the body into a conduit for something unnatural
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from the formless water around it, did so by creating physical separation between itself and its environment, facilitating an electrical gradient. Thirdly, the emergence of language created a structuring of phenomenology previously free-flowing and formless. in each case,
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one cool thing about genesis is that the story of Gods creation of earth is true in many permutations - first, God literally hovered over the formless and empty waters and created the separation between light and darkness by his word. Secondly, the first cell to emerge, living,
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