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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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10:15

Canada & The US; "How did they/we not know?"

Held in Motion ·

2025/02/10

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "If you ask fellow Americans, like who, who is Canada, who are Canadians? You'll often hear messages like, well, Canada is like U.S. light. They're like the younger sibling, or they don't really have culture. They're super polite and super nice and super vanilla. Right. And there are multiple issues with this one. It's super reductive and not at all true, but it then blinds you to the reality. So I don't know how long ago this was."

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14:51

Putin's "Masterpiece Theatre", decades in the making.

Held in Motion ·

2025/02/07

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I think it was around 2016, a quote unquote bestseller that is apparently not known in the west, but came out in Russia was a sci fi novel called the Third Empire. The author of that bit of that book, they believe was also one of the authors that was a part of Project Russia. Now, the sci fi novel takes this to the nth degree. And so this might be the end point that I refer to as being completely and totally outlandish."

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12:57

Cognitive empathy for the villain, deity, AI robot,...

Held in Motion ·

2025/02/02

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But we're using our human lens and overlaying it onto entities or beings that do not, will not in any way shape or form really mirror humans. So, for example, we have finite lives, and so the brevity of our lives impacts the things that we're concerned about. Or if you think about at this moment in time, we cannot regrow limbs. But an AI robot will be able to transfer their data consciousness from one location to another."

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8:55

The bisexual, master swordswoman, lawbreaker, & opera...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/31

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And made her an offer to sing at the opera. So she became an opera singer. And so now she has the pardon, right? So she can do this. And she doesn't have to use a fake name or anything. She performs a number of different roles and sometimes takes them to the nth degree."

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10:47

Moral relativity is an observation, & thus morally...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/30

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Right? And, and then future generation, there's just so much there. So how do you moralize anything to do with food or weight? You can no longer assume that what a person is or isn't doing is evident by looking at the body. Another great example of the flashlight versus the spotlight is when it comes to conversations around, there are only two sexes, XX and xy. Actually, if you pull out that spotlight, you'll find there are more chromosomal pairings than just

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10:23

A retraction, of sorts. 🤔 • Fact, fiction,...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/22

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Some of it can be innocuous. You just don't want to talk about something and so you're slapping a smile on to sort of just create some distance. It's not anything nefarious. And then you have all the way to the other extreme of where it is nefarious. So, like, I know how it feels personally. And then to experience this on this larger scale, and I can only imagine that this, this is kind of like gaslighting, right? Not kind of. It is."

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7:26

NOW PLAYING, but NOT in the US: "…they rigged the...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/21

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "So when he blamed Democrats for rigging the election and that's why he lost, it's because he wanted to rig an election. When he talks about no more censorship, it's because he wants censorship."

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24:51

Starving the algorithms may slay the irresponsible...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/20

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "This was done by three different universities, two in Australia, one in Ireland. They created brand new accounts on these platforms, brand new phones, brand new phone numbers, brand new email address, brand new names, and made them all mail to see what the algorithms would do and what they would feed them. In one example, they gave them videos on the Office and Star Wars. By day three, they were starting to see radical, radicalized videos and highly misogynistic

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14:40

Diversity is survival; in nature AND in the systems...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/15

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I will attempt to put her screenshots below. Okay, so what does all of this mean in my mind? Let me back up. I remember coming across someone saying once, maybe a couple of years ago, how, you know, there's always put a lot of blame on women, and because we're, quote, unquote, too emotional, then we shouldn't be leaders. However, every war we've ever been in has happened because men have been in charge."

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4:57

Transmuting empathy 👉🏻 compassion; healthy? Maybe AND...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/12

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And I don't think that that's entirely accurate, but I can appreciate the nuance of some facet of empathy requiring not only what we are observing. So putting cognitive empathy aside, the kind of using your imagination, but when you are with someone and you see them either experiencing incredible joy or experiencing them in anguish and pain, you can't help but."

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4:59

Unpacking "the bill of goods" we were sold.

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/11

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I wanted to unpack a bit further the bill of goods that we were sold in reference to the previous episode, rather than recap it if you missed it, the link is below. I'm still boggled by some of these things, right? If economists know that capitalism is designed to destroy itself, sociologists know that democracy and capitalism sort of work hand in hand and the inevitability if these things are not structured well is to lead into authoritarianism."

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4:57

Feeling helpless? The breadth & depth of the bill of...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/10

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But these ideas of for the people, by the people are still perpetuated. But it's a lie, right? It's, it's to keep us rocking and rolling along as if we can still achieve the American dream, as if these things still matter. But it's all misdirection, smoke and mirrors. The scales are being lifted from our eyes."

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5:00

The human "purr" heals. 🤯 You, too, have...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/09

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "He touches on this in the video, but I had forgotten. And so I look up humming and allergies, sinus infections, asthma, okay? And it turns out that one of the benefits to humming is to impact these things. So apparently we have nitric oxide that, when you are breathing through your nose, flows naturally the nitric oxide, and it acts as a bronchodilator. So basically, it keeps all the bronchial tubes open in your lungs so that you can breathe well."

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4:57

⚠️ An atheist ponders: If "God is love", what does...

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/07

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "If this is seen as the epitome of wow, I'm going to let it sit there. And I realize that there may be many of you that want to jump in. If you're coming here to preach or to give me scripture references, or to explain the frameworks or the way this all fits from a believer's perspective, there's no need, really. I've been there, done that."

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5:00

To be a thermometer or thermostat; #NotMyMonkey.

Held in Motion ·

2025/01/05

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "We we're told that we need to align all of those things according to neurotypicals. So, for example, I can experience a 0.7 degree difference in temperature from one room to the next. I can also tell you even if all four tires on a vehicle are within the normal range of air pressure, I can tell you which one has less air in it. And then yet I'm told over and over again, you couldn't possibly sense that temperature or see that air pressure difference."

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4:55

The more subtle & normalized forms of "violent"...

Held in Motion ·

2024/12/27

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "I also can recognize that I have autism, and there's a profile called pathological demand avoidance or persistent drive for autonomy. And there's also often this need, this drive for a sense of justice. And so if you combine perhaps trauma, the profile, need for justice into this, like, cauldron of whatever, Christina. Right."

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5:00

Capitalism left unchecked is like a virus. Where are...

Held in Motion ·

2024/12/26

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Anyway, what's funny is that, like, if economists know that capitalism has this late stage, that it will consume itself, you would think that there would be more policies or structures put into place to mitigate or somehow redirect. And I don't even know if any of this is possible. Right? But I'm just thinking it seems funny that monopolies are supposedly not legal, right?"

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4:59

"Violent communication"; laying the groundwork....

Held in Motion ·

2024/12/22

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "Let's continue to plumb the depths of violent delights by laying the groundwork for the topic of violent communication. The way that I want to do this feels a little quote, unquote, backwards, but at the same time sort of explains my journey and feels more organic."

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4:59

Shame: an effective tool for control but not for...

Held in Motion ·

2024/12/18

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "This episode, I'm taking a bit of a detour. I still have a lot I'm pondering around violent communication and plumbing the depths of violent delights. But I want to just sort of share this because it was an aha moment that I had recently that I sort of want to document. I was having a conversation with someone and we were talking about the topic of shame. I don't remember the context, and I knew that we had different definitions of the word shame and guilt."

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4:59

Remembering we ARE animals… #PlumbingViolentDelights

Held in Motion ·

2024/12/13

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "And when people are already uneasy and afraid and concerned, then it's easy to latch onto the inflammatory idea rather than digging for knowledge or leaning into the knowledge that contradicts the narrative that fits how we're feeling, right? And then you look at an aspect of human behavior where certain things will cause a relief of tension. So, for example, comedic relief, right?"

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