Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
I'm thinking about going through my bookmarks and organizing them into HTML and putting them online. Then I'd just have a place to put random stuff I find interesting.
Esme Povirk
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Last boost: I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you love movies you need to have Kanopy. The film selection is excellent and you'll probably watch a few flicks you might not think of watching.
@mavica_again Based entirely on extrapolation from the proliferation of web apps, I assume HTML5 will grow until it takes over the entire desktop and kernel and x86 is a legacy compatibility mode.
@Sophie We think that not having others in our brain would feel lonely regardless of what external connections we have.
@hollie I mean, it kinda is that at least in our case, but the concepts of having separate identities, fronting/switching, and a headspace to interact in really work well for us.
Kinda wish there were a "hobbyists messing with their brains" wiki, encompassing meditation, hypnosis, psychedelics, magic systems..
@hollie I try to warn anyone who's questioning plurality and asking me advice that reaching out is likely to disrupt their life.
I don't think the idea that this is a goal of meditation is mainstream, but anyone teaching it with that goal should warn about the disruption IMO, especially if they're teaching it to people who aren't in a retreat environment and have responsibilities they need to keep up with. (2/2)
@hollie I suspect meditation circles would frame systemhood differently, and I only encountered those ideas because of the communities I was in. I also occasionally find stuff like this which to me sounds very plural: https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=953
I know that when system members discover themselves, it tends to lead to a short-term lack of function as they adapt to their changing dynamic. (1/2)
@hollie Come to think of it, all of the adverse effects for us related to being a system and not knowing that.
@hollie Notes might help. I just watched through most of it.
I have little direct experience with meditation but I feel like it falls in a more general category of "brain hacking" which I do have experience with (mostly via hypnosis). I expected that to have risks, it did have (thankfully relatively brief) adverse effects, it's greatly improved my life now and don't regret any of it but there are a few things I wish I'd been specifically warned about.
@hollie Decided to scan through. The details that are interesting to me seem to start at around 17:00.
@hollie Kinda wish there was a form I could just read because I'm interested but I don't want to sit through a long video..
(I/we also have a very weird perspective on meditation, not sure how aware you are of that.)
@hollie This did not show up in my feed.
@hollie Actually I'm gonna use this thread to test out something silly, hang on.
@hollie Only if it's a reply to someone you're also following, I think.
@hollie Maybe after doing the first one you can reply to the bot's reply to you so at least there's just one thread?
@hollie And I just tried a DM and it turns out you can't. So I don't think there's any work-around.
@hollie Were you intending for this to show up in my timeline? Might want to DM the bot in future if not..
Joined Aug 2018
