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Held in Motion

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Held in Motion: Breaking boxes, blurring lines, & imagining the possibilities. These recordings are my sense-making explorations of humans & their systems. Think, the multidimensional intersections of things like science, tech, psychology, sociology, language, the practice of philosophy, etc. No expertise, here. Just a curious mind that thrives on wrestling with the complex whys, because anything else isn"t nearly as fun. If this sounds interesting, welcome! Hear something you"d like to chat

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3:45

"Mice turned see-through…" (No mice were harmed in...

Held in Motion ·

2024/09/07

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Okay. I find this fascinating but also hilarious because I really want to know, like, how this was discovered. You know, how sometimes just, like, an innovation or a discovery, and it wasn't intentional and it was done by accident? Yeah. I want to know the story is behind this one, because I feel like it could be a really good one."

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35:11

Out with the "destination"; in with the journey of...

Held in Motion ·

2024/09/05

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "You know, for the longest time I wondered if it was just in my imagination. And then I wondered, well, maybe I'm just getting quote unquote old in my thinking, you know, a bit of a curmudgeon or something. And then I was reading an article recently where a professional in the tech industry talked about how the results of search engines have never been worse than they are now. And then I felt completely and utterly validated."

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5:00

Monoliths of self: human vs internet memory.

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2024/08/31

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And so, like looking at the memory shortly after whatever the event was versus a few years down the line, or a few decades, the lenses that we're using to look at those things is entirely different. So we might change who's the villain? Who's the hero? What was actually quote unquote bad or quote unquote good, or any of these other ideas? Right. Those things shift, however, when we're talking about the Internet, this curated monolith of self."

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4:57

Interneural synchronization aka "being on the same...

Held in Motion ·

2024/08/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And what's interesting is, when I was talking about some of this with them, is that we realized we don't do, okay, well, here's the first example. So when allistics are talking about the weather, you might say, oh, it's a hot one out there, right? Or can't wait until it rains or whatever the script is of the season, right, for your geographical location."

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5:00

Convos around destigmatizing autism, giftedness, etc.

Held in Motion ·

2024/08/12

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So you'll see in the second slide, it's another post where someone put forth an idea that perhaps a late diagnosis of autism or ADHD later in life is as a result of quote unquote gifted burnout. And to me, this is another example of not destigmatizing, but instead perpetuating ableism. That when our resources are plentiful and we have what we need, how we need it, then we can thrive."

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4:33

If age is important to you, let it be for substantive...

Held in Motion ·

2024/08/07

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "A wee rant. The topic of age is a fascinating one, and yet it's mind boggling. So I get that there is a time and a place when age is relevant, rather, and it serves utility, right, of whether someone is capable of being able to do a job either old enough or young enough, depending, right? And then there's another facet of age that's really about constructs."

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4:59

The impossibility of "nailing down" language &...

Held in Motion ·

2024/07/29

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I muff two minds about this. That's a really weird phrase, and they're sort of polar opposites. On the one hand, I think there's something to this, and on the other hand, it seems like utter bullshit. I've been thinking about AI, these large language models that coders are attempting to wrangle, if you will, like. Language is so fluid and is not at all written in stone and continues to morph."

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3:46

The power of names in political discourse; a request.

Held in Motion ·

2024/07/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "The thing is, though, is that when we shorten things and we strip away titles and we strip away last names to refer to the women by their first names, it's the way we speak about women in so many other places that haven't worked as hard or climbed as high, especially when we're talking about the different hierarchies within the us political system, right? Think about it. Reality tv characters, I'm sorry, personalities we refer to by their first names,

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2:46

The "immortal" "dung cannon"? 🤣🤔

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2024/07/04

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "When it's ready to reproduce, it shoots these little cannons and those little black specks there they go flying off at like 56 miles an hour, or 90. Shoot about 3 meters or 10ft away towards the light. It looks for the light and then it shoots towards the light because that's away from the feces, because animals don't like to eat near feces, right."

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4:58

The "block feature" that doesn't.

Held in Motion ·

2024/07/03

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I don't know if that means that there's a way for us to be able to find an alternative solution that gives the users the tools that we want and need, as well as giving to swell the creators what they want and need out of their goals. But I would really like for us to be able to have a conversation around what are our options and what can we move towards, because right now, this is not effective."

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4:54

The "gender superiority" goggles blind & hurt us all.

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/29

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And what they ultimately found that was that instead of much to do with hormones or differences between the sexes, there were more differences because of personality. If you want to read more about that. That is in the study again, that I'll link below something else I learned first."

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4:58

Deconstructing the ideal of "who am I?"

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So here's how I frame it, and this is the analogy, okay, is that we know we have a DNA made up of ridiculous number of genes, and some turn on, some turn off. Let's pretend you can dial some up or some down. We don't even know the ins and outs of it, right? And if you use that kind of analogy, kinda, and mix it with, like, a buffet table. Everything is spread out on the buffet table."

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4:11

"Climate Loss & Damage Fund"

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/17

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And it would also be a great incentive, right, for anybody who's not moving things along at a good pace to decrease the carbon footprint and the damages that they're doing, then a hefty tax would incentivize people to do things more quickly and to focus on solutions rather than capitalism. But again, how do you enforce that? I don't think you can."

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4:59

Stop 🫵🏻, start recognizing "we are still cave people...

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/16

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So when you have a generation or more that's being brought up, that can identify their own emotions and in others and recognize pain and the toxicity of these things, and you're telling them, just get over it. Well, no wonder they're going to be having mental health difficulties. I'm not a parent, but I get sick and tired of things like this being blamed on parents. This is not parents fault, nor is it."

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3:59

"Magenta is not a real colour." What is it, really? 🤔

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/15

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But I'm curious of, like, if it's not magenta, if there's another way we can actually pick up what this is giving off this flower. So, for example, I wonder if there's. There probably is a device of some kind that can pick up the wavelength and frequency of colors. Maybe. Let's pretend there is. So if you were pointing it at this flower, like, what would it tell us?"

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4:44

Communication: shorthand vs subtext. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/11

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So although I could interpret it in many ways, I'm supposed to somehow pick out the right interpretation and then do the same thing for each of the different answers, and then somehow pick the right ones to fit together. And depending on how I interpreted the question, I could come up with a different answer. I would go to the teacher, and I'm like, well, I'm not sure what's meant by this. And they would always have the same answer."

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3:14

The chaos of time travel "soup". 🤪

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/11

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And my knee jerk response was like, well, I think when we first gained access to time travel, we would be addressing the big things, right? Or we'd want to anyway. And then, you know, the more comfortable we became with it, we would address the little things. But then I was thinking about it some more, and I was like, who am I kidding? This would not be accessible for all."

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2:41

"Empathy for all is not empathy." 🤔

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/09

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So then, when I looked back at the AI, who is coded to express empathy, I'm thinking empathy for all is not really empathy, right? From that perspective. But then I was like, well, let's flip it on its head and look at humans. If humans showed empathy for all, we would say that is empathy, right? Because choice. But if we're showing it to all, is there really a choice?"

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5:00

Tomorrow is here, & now I'm a Luddite? 🤖🐌

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/06

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And like, all of the questions around empathy and humans and AI and relationships and to, and like, we haven't even figured out some of these things on all of these different levels, and yet we are like, full steam ahead. How fast can we get there? And I'm like, technology is amazing, but I just wish we would slow it down and do it more intentionally, and that is just not going to happen."

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4:58

The "game" of morality vs living morally.

Held in Motion ·

2024/06/02

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But actually, it's morally reprehensible. I had somebody in the past, actually, I've run into many people that do this, that will claim this sort of thinking and will say, I'm not a liar, or I don't lie, or I, you know, whatever the claim is, generally speaking, right? And the way they get around this are things like leaving things open to interpretation."

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