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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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12:35

@SeekingPlumb | The disservice of the suffix -est....

Held in Motion ·

2025/07/15

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like, if we don't acknowledge how these things go hand in hand, then we can set ourselves up for trouble down the line, right? Because either we're ignoring the emotions and feelings. I'm using these words interchangeably and I know not everybody does, but that's what I'm doing. Then we will not take the time to learn about what they're informing us of or how to regulate those emotions and feelings. Right. It's."

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12:39

@SeekingPlumb | Is morality really for everyone? Or...

Held in Motion ·

2025/07/08

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And really like recognizing for me, it seems like it's a tool of control because it's not about, it's not about harm or flourishing of relationships. It's more of how we police ourselves and how we police one another. Now just think, right?"

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4:51

@SeekingPlumb | Will we write new stories in the...

Held in Motion ·

2025/07/06

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It all depends on where we are, right? But those constellations won't exist elsewhere. And it's really kind of cool when you think about humans at some point being space, faring and going from planet to planet. And each time you land, essentially you're seeing a new sky with all of these stars and all of these opportunities to create new stories, new images, to draw association between certain stars, to say, oh, this is now the kitty cat. I don't know."

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12:06

@SeekingPlumb | Spacetime memory & being products of...

Held in Motion ·

2025/07/01

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So to give an example, like dark matter, what we can't actually see or explain may actually be because a lot of things happened in that part of space. And the information has weight, so it has gravity, so it influences how sticky and how close things stay together and so on. Anyway, that's as much as I'm going to get into the science of it. That's very fascinating. I'm so intrigued by this."

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11:58

@SeekingPlumb | "Careless People" | When war is seen...

Held in Motion ·

2025/06/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And because there's these different pockets of how they want to organize humans, they can do it. And when they're doing it for the purposes of others who have intentions of gaining power, intentions of gaining money, and it benefits Facebook, why in the would they stop? And if we don't recognize that this is what's happening, then we can't stop it from happening. Right?"

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14:54

@SeekingPlumb | The lie: "Social hierarchies are just...

Held in Motion ·

2025/06/19

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "They are interconnected, overlapping, and they reinforce one another. And so really it's those, those reinforcements, those similarities that I want to zero in on, because whatever this, I don't know what I want to call it because and apparently there is no formal term for these dynamics of control and power, of oppression, of. And sometimes, you know, some of these words are not quite right. So I'm still working on some of my language to describe this overall

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15:00

@SeekingPlumb | Reimagining (& barely scratching the...

Held in Motion ·

2025/06/14

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But it was something about their recognizing that how humans organize themselves could be detrimental if it was done this way. And we've seen that, right? And us versus them is a dynamic that has existed long before the US ever did and how polarizing it can be. And also then it becomes about my team versus your team rather than let's get things done for all of us. Right? So I would love to do away with political parties."

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14:58

@SeekingPlumb | Change is coming. Could redefining...

Held in Motion ·

2025/06/10

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And then we've got some more subtle ways of compartmentalizing. These are our children and those are their children. Those are your cousins, but these are your siblings. Right. In the matrilineal society, they have what they have called walking marriage. I won't get into the ins and outs of that, but basically all of the children stay with the. The woman with the mother. So it's her home. And the men will come to her home at night and then leave in the

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14:34

@SeekingPlumb | Magpies & Humans: "Friendship",...

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2025/06/06

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "She squawked whether it was last year, this year. And, you know, you can always interpret it in your own human lens, but I'm sure it was just territorial. So, anyway, before I continue. So last year I had seen some video online where someone had created this charcuterie board for birds full of fruit. And I thought, that's really cool. And so I started giving. I tried blueberries, raspberries, pieces of strawberries."

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14:38

@SeekingPlumb | AI, AI Agents, the Future; Minus a...

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/30

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I finished listening to a two and a half hour episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast about AI, AI agents and the future. And although it was interesting, I will have to say that it was rather disappointing because there were major gaps in the conversation that would have been filled in a nuanced and interconnected way if there had been more of a diverse panel and to be explicit, if women, and particularly black women, women of color had been present."

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14:47

Obedient Does Not Mean Moral

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/23

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It wouldn't matter. Someone wouldn't have to justify that they're disabled enough. They wouldn't have to justify that they deserve support. We would just recognize and support one another. But we don't. Instead be obedient. Then maybe otherwise. Yeah."

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8:10

The "authenticity" of authenticity; "Be authentic!...

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/20

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I'm just thinking, for example too, when I go to the doctor, I have chronic illnesses and it is a regular thing. It almost doesn't matter what country you are in. I'm only speaking about two that I've been in with respect to doctors. But if you don't, and this comes even culturally too, if you don't, quote, unquote, perform suffering, disability pain at the right ways, then you're not taken seriously. Right?"

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14:54

White supremacy is born of "grief"?!!?!!

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/19

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Okay, now you want to talk about humans as a group who have created systems to rank humans and their worth and then went into other spaces that were not where they were from to infiltrate, inject into those spaces these new framings from language to systems of how to do governing, how to do education, whatever it might be an individual trying to remake another individual in their image, let alone entire populations, cultures, languages and systems trying to make

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14:36

Trying to understand hatred… 🤔

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/17

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "It's a lot of different things. Our taxes may be different, but we also get more out of it. But what is it really about the societal ideologies, the narratives that make things different? And I suppose not so surprising is that we haven't done nearly as much research into hatred, it seems, as we have into love of like what. What is the biological, physiological, neuro. Like, what's going on to make this happen? Like all of the different. That's."

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12:46

Housekeeping: More access, new name, my philosophy,...

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/15

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I know a lot of the times when we hear the word podcast, it sounds very compartmentalized, and it's like someone on an island or on a stage, they are saying their piece, and all the rest of us are the audience. That is not how I think about this space. While it's nice to have the number of follows or likes or reviews or what have you in a typical podcast, it's more, for me about the ideas, about the refining of my thinking."

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14:42

Rinse Repeat: It's easier to "create"/foster hate,...

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/12

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Like I think I mentioned this, I think I mentioned this somewhere here that the US government is a good example of attempting to create checks and balances for knowing that humans are not all going to operate good or in, in, what's the word? Collaboratively. That's the word I want. Together. Right. And so then you have to create because everyone's going to have different ambitions."

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6:08

"No true Scotsman…" is more about protecting a story,...

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/09

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But I think it's not that simple, actually. I think I've taken some external ideas, but I've rewritten those stories and then interlaced and interwoven them with myself. As in the labels are descriptors, but they're not definitive. Hmm. Maybe that's why I am not a fan of labels. Because when other people use them, they use them definitively and try to use broad strokes to understand me. To like use something completely innocuous."

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14:47

An intentional, evolving "immune system" for the...

Held in Motion ·

2025/05/08

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And that divide is growing wider and larger as time goes by. You now give AI and depending on how someone approaches this tool, if they are using it from a mentality of democratizing access, rather than using it to hone their thinking, hone their ability to create, even their emotional intelligence, there's going to end up being those who. There's apparently a new term now called Vibe coding. And basically you just tell the AI I want you to create this

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14:07

Help, please? How to navigate specific conversations...

Held in Motion ·

2025/04/30

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Not from a white woman asking for you to do the hard work and educate me and teach me, but from a perspective of I'm an autistic trying to navigate an alien species that operates so very differently from me that I want to meet you where you're at. And I don't know how to do that in these particular contexts because it's not a script I have heard or seen enough to be able to pick up on my own of, I'm sorry you're feeling that way."

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14:48

The biggest lie; morality is the primary driving...

Held in Motion ·

2025/04/29

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I think instead it's these baser desires, instincts, needs of the animal that is human that prevail. So there's a need for identity, there's a Need for belonging and constructs of what manhood are. And this phrase in particular, help to create the in group, help to create the identity."

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