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2022-10-06
Date: 6 October 2022
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2022-10-05
Date: 6 October 2022
Ate Two Tomato Mozzarella sandwiches and a lot of coffee.
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Graphwiz Testing
Date: 6 October 2022
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2022-10-03
Date: 3 October 2022
2:55am
Going to bed.
Today I Ate/Drank: Pot of Coffee w/ Sugar
Steak, w/ Butter, Salt
Apple Tea
11:50 am
Good Morning, I had to eat a pint of Ice Cream because this airbnb doesn’t have a freezer.
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2022-10-02
Date: 2 October 2022
10am
Learning to use Exocore is doing something to me, working as an artist especially on dealing in lighter tone, its interesting to try put words in place for why i love these things so much. Its harder to praise and hope in words to yourself.
I think I would like to daily or at least frequently write short notes about images from auctioncore or that have been included in works that have become important to me. Here’s the first.
This asset is one I made from the below image of an Armored Core game. A recurring thing that would happen with these assets is that the backgrounds would become more important to be than the subjects. Auctioncore photos have two authors, the Company behind the consumer object being sold and the Person behind the Camera controlling everything else. This image I impressed with the texture of the scratches on the background, suggesting a hobby or other passion, so i worked to redraw the image with the scratches over the whole white body, leaving an emboss to remember the CD and also moving its position to more closer reference Malevich’s White on White a funny high/low similarity I noticed when helping 01 put a emojis on its secret server, and then showed.
3:35pm
thinking about this today It really is completely alien, to my critics too, that i could just actually like making these things. that there’s no hidden wolf whistle, that SS Tier is because I love pachinko-core card pull gambling and its the nearest thing with a white heart to nft lucky dip mints. That Milady isnt some wicked cynical re-purposeing of anime aesthetics but an attempt at refuge.
5:15pm
This is really funny, i thought this was a about Film01 for a moment, that it was about the 80 hour’s compression into 1 hour.
11:25pm
I screened my Saikano Recut finally. I think it was well received, im really grateful to be able to sit down and work on something for an evening and then have an audience that wants to watch it. I dont know if ill ever get over that. Im excited for more evenings of work and more showings to the world.
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Praise Folder
Date: 2 October 2022
i do this thing where i can buy something or get something and just tuck it away, ready to be enjoyed, in a corner of my mind and life.
i knew i would love wong kar-wai for like 3 years before i did.
ill buy a coke and put it in the fridge and totally out of mind, and be totally blessed and surprised when i find it.
past me becomes a lovely benevolent force in my life, he’s kept some of the very best things from me and is constantly giving them back as gifts.
i think i lost all of them, i never actually looked at them anyway, i just liked knowing it was there
the praise folder is a great example of this, it was real and on my desktop but it was more this mind-folder in a mind-PC.
its been a great way to have some of the truly beautiful things said to me by truly beautiful people constantly bubbling to the surface, i feel like have prayers are being made for me.
thanks to all of you guys :D
imported from Substack, orginally published Jun 24, 2021
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Phantom Bonkler
Date: 2 October 2022
Bonkler with the New Phantom Armor asset, Head of Flame, Skeleton Face, Phone Charm Flail, It’ll All Be Over Background, Cased Figure Body and One Day At A Time Coin Shield.
Its been a Year since Bonkler and Bonkler Will Run One a Day for a Year after this. Bonkler was put together as a practice in finding meaning a form in a shape made of other things, a form clothed entirely in curation and citation. The popular tech of Image Generation used in NFTs at the time is a natural fit for this, it naturally allows you to “roll the dice” on the a series of assets and find not just new combinations but a wealth of similar images. “Bonkler” as a concept then becomes the midpoint of 365 bonklers, a bonkler simply being an example of a archetype, this is true for many works made with Generational software
01 said it pretty well, “Reading one text, know the basic space of all texts. Reading one poem, know the basic space of all poems. Seeing one film, know the luminous clear light dynamic seeing of all films.”
For example, via generation and edits and derivatives, the archetype of a Milady is strengthened.
The thing is, this True Bonkler or this archetype doesn’t exist especially pre-release, nevertheless its still become a aesthetic profile thats recognizable to people both internal to Remilia and externally to dedicated fans. A Phantom Limb that is almost entirely functional. It’s a Phantom occupying space in my personal aesthetic structures. Still even in this form, the idea of something Being like a Bonkler, or like a Bonkler asset has been helpful to me as a way to see new things and to more freely appropriate them in turn.
Bonkler is The Hero of Auction Core .
I made a project with this lens that essentially ended up being the “Bonkler of found photography”, and its made me wonder if the framework could be extended, if I could make the Bonkler of Clothing labels, the Bonkler of film and so on and so forth.
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Kaomoji Weaponry
Date: 2 October 2022
Rifle ︻デ═一 sniper rifle ︻┻┳══━一 shotgun ︻┳═一 minigun ✴️==≡눈 gun ￢ laser ・・・——–☆ chain ○∞∞∞∞ bow D・・・・・—— → bomb (((((((((●～* syringe ―⊂|=0 pepper spray 占~~~~~ jo-jo ~~~~~~~~~~◎ boomerang (( く ((へ spear ―――→ grabber ――――C sword _／ or ¤=[]:::::> boxing gloves QQ.
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Chise
Date: 2 October 2022
Saikano, or The Last Love Song on this little Planet
a meme that I made with the intention of sending to space. Its text references Saikano (aka The Last Love Song on This Little Planet), a show whose main character Chise I reference heavily. The elements of the meme (a 981.jp landscape, urbit’s “Angel wings’ ‘ and a snow Scene from Frame Gride, a box blurred image of Yukari.) reference the angelic extinction duty of Chise and the cold setting of the show. The meme has also been bent into shape to provide a backdrop and a surface like the auction sellers often do
Chise is an amazing character i think about a lot. Her role in the show (Saikano isnt even good outside of Chise) is that she is in Love and also that she is a weapon of mass destruction that she must use to defend her nation from attack. She’s a great example of this tragic hopefulness i love in characters, She has to keep Fighting to save what she loves. I feel like her sometimes
Another honest depiction of Otaku’s workspace. I imagine this is a cheap laminate desk with its contents pushed to the side to get one last photo of the precious Chise figure before it is sold. The Chise figure that was central to the image is also one of the few items I can verify the current whereabouts of, as I brought it and its sitting just below my monitor.
Chise Chain, One of the best depictions of Chise ive found in auctions. Chise I love for her standout design amongst a generic cast, as well as her Angelic and Exitinctionist role in the series, a Girl who ascended into a Weapon.
Saikano was also very special to me because me and Mara Barl just both parallel decided to watch it at the same time. without communicaiton, a little timeline sync back in the day of explosive posting
There was also a Brief period where I made an alt and named it Chise. i posted to see if i could make the same friends again, got added to the chat as the alt, played the role for a while. I then revealed the trick and absorbed the friendships even stronger
And finally the Saikano Recut I made out of: Wim Mertens - close cover Wim Mertens - birds for the mind Wim Mertens - struggle for pleasure Saikano Ep 1,2,3,6,10,11,12,13
and referenced in this 2022 10 02
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Auction Core Thread
Date: 2 October 2022
Auction Core as an Ethos and an Aesthetic bleeds through a lot of work, especially all of mine at Remilia Collective. Auction Core can be described as a modern practice heavily related to the Found Photography tradition of elevating “non-art” or “anonymous” photography to the level of Art. Auction Core finds its Artistic raw materials in the documentation of someone’s collection, often at the time of sale.
Sites and Collections of note to my specific usage of Auction Core are: Yahoo! Japan Auctions, Mandarake and Rakuten for Manga, Figures, Sportswear and 981.jp in Nagano or Hokkaido and Zillow in Arizona for Land and Homes.
The Moment of Sale reflects a specific point in someone’s relation to the collection, a point whereby their relation to the object is as mature as it will ever be, the apex of their familiarity. These conditions produce photographic results that range from the quick-capture of an object by an outsider, for whom the product is a fleeting moment or a final loving documentation of a cherished item by a personal collector. Both are very beautiful to me, and can be understood as two enjoyments of the same flower driven past at speed or grown from a seed.
Auction Core also defines a curational sensibility when zoomed out; looking at the rough scattershot selection of auctions when searching and browsing via machine translation, you often get a selection that consists of a few seemingly unrelated elements.
This curational spirit was what was explored in Bonkler. The one shown here as example features, A Beauty:Beast runway Soundtrack, Fod Korp Kaomoji Face. Runescape Bronze Armor, WoW Staff of Jordan, Harajuku Stickered Flip Phone, Twitter Emoji Swirling Star and El Nast Maplestory background. These objects were pulled together from various peoples personal “collections” and in a way that is both shocking and coherent, Bonkler is used here as the conceptual element of Auction Core itself. Auction Core has been very useful to me in this way. I can include images in my work that I have carried with me forever, or that I only just found today, and both are canonized and beautified equally.
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2022-10-01
Date: 1 October 2022
Today I went to the zoo and I saw:
bearded Dragon, Giant Panda, Red Panda, Leopard, Polar Bear, Penguin, Siberian Tiger, Lion, German People, Japanese People, Rhino, Gibbon, Bison, Horse, Chicken, Cow, Zebra, Antelope, Tahr, Raven,Coati, Rabbit, Gazelle, Flamingo, Pelican, Capybara, oh and a Pig Arctic Wolf, Elephant Owl Duck
I had to eat: Coca cola Pretzel
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Greetings
first article test
Date: 1 October 2022
HELLO???? IS THIS THING ON???
Greetings
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Jade post
Date: 12 May 2022
Cyber Asiatic Mystic Synthesis Return Eastern Technomarket Hegemon… Jade McDonalds Sun Poem… Pacific Ocean Disappear… (30 billion Eagles XxX 991hz) Platinum Prison Duplication Facility… Astral Screen-Cheating Marble Moon Wire Theft. Jade Dragon Million Sex Control Dollars Professional Power. Luxury Million Yen Diamond Power (Exit Enclave) POLICE STATE BATH HOUSE™ Holding Corporation. Yin Massage Hot Egg…
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The Exocore Workflow
Date: 22 April 2022
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The Exocore Workflow
Date: 22 April 2022
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Predictive Processing and the Free Energy Principle
Date: 20 April 2022
Terms:
- Active inference
- Predictive Processing/Predictive Coding
- Free Energy Principle
- Markov Blanket
- Model of Action
Classical model of action:
- Optimal action depends on state of the world
- Therefore, first step of action is to (1) form a belief (analyse surroundings/prospects)
- (2) imagine a value function of next state brought about by action
- (3) optimise action that maximises value of the next state
Model of action
- Classical model doesn’t work when the best next thing to do is to search for/resolve uncertainty
- Optimal action depends on beliefs about the world, and subsequent action
- Further, it’s a function of the order in which you interrogate the world
- Therefore the functional (function of a function) to be optimised is a function of beliefs
- Optimal action therefore is optimising sequences or policies of actions
- To be optimised: a function of a belief, integrated over time
Free Energy Principle:
- The goal of a self-organising (eg biological) system is to minimise prediction error (surprise), also called ‘free energy’, by forming continually-updated beliefs/inferences about the world from which to form policies of action
- Friston considers this an organising principle of all life and intelligence
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To be alive (to be a system that resists disorder and dissolution) is to act in ways that reduce the gulf between your expectations and your sensory inputs (AKA, to minimise free energy)
- If a prototypical agent, or a ‘good agent’ minimises free energy (thereby minimising ‘surprise’), they must believe that the actions they take minimised expected free energy
- expected free energy associated with a policy of action is minimised
Markov Blanket:
The Markov Blanket is a concept in machine learning which is essentially a shield that separates one set of variables from others in a layered, hierarchical system. The blanket defines the boundaries of a given system. That is, in cognition, a cognitive version of a cell membrane shielding states inside the blanket from states outside. This is the schema by which surprise is minimised— the Markov blanket is a set of variables sufficiently complete that another random variable can be inferred from it . If a Markov blanket is minimal (parsimonious) (cannot drop any variable without losing information), it is called a Markov boundary.
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usufruct
Date: 28 February 2022
Usufruct
Usufruct is a legal concept referring to a right in property which confers on the holder the right to use and benefit from the property without altering, damaging, or destroying it. A usufructary does not own the property but does have a legal interest in it which is sanctioned or contractually allowed by the owner.
A usufructary has two of the three civilian property property interests in the property, usus and fructus— they do not have the interest of abusus, which entitles them to alienate, destroy, consume or sell the property.
The three civilian property interests:
- Usus: The right to use or enjoy a thing posessed, directly and without alteration
- Fructus: The right to derive profit from a thing possessed, eg. by lease, cultivation, taxing on entry, etc. Fructus (from ‘fruit’) allows a person to benefit from the sale of renewable commodities of the property.
- Abusus: The right to consume, destroy, or transfer the property. This interest is not conferred upon the usufructary.
Notes:
- Roman law considered usufruct a type of personal servitude, where the usufructary had no posession of the property. Under a rental agreement today, a person has even more restricted rights over a property than did a usufructary in Rome, but is yet not considered a personal servant.
- The Law of Modes directed owners of productive property not to harvest the edges of their fields so that the poor may collect the gleanings. This confers a kind of usufructary right by default onto the poor.
- “Earth belongs – in usufruct – to the living.” (Thomas Jefferson).
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L-Dopa
Date: 28 February 2022
Dopamine, L-dopa and Pattern Detection
Production of neurotransmitter dopamine is stimulated by novelty, and it facilitates learning, information storage and pattern-recognition, as well as regulating emotion. Pattern-detection is important to learning, because the brain is able to compress complex raw data by identifying repetitious elements and storing information in association with the pattern, rather than making space for each node of information to be stored separately. For example, there is no need to memorize 1000 patterns of digits in order to count from 1 to 1000; the pattern is regular enough that the brain can derive each integer from a pattern it has stored, without storing each data point that the pattern produces.
However, patterns are not pure representations of the world, or even of the data being apprehended by the brain— they are mnemonic data structures which necessarily reduce the complexity of information in order to store it more efficiently. Pattern-matching is generally considered to be helpful for learning, and this may be true is learning is equated with remembering. However, is learning-as-remembering conducive to understanding? Sensitivity to pattern-detection can be alternately phrased as tendency to apply narrative. Humans cannot resist but apply narrative to phenomena, and it seems that a compulsion to apprehend data in a logical or causal sequence is deeply ingrained in the human brain, ported over from a form of intelligence that evolved to understand the physical world, where causality is a ubiquitous feature. For this reason, making judgements on inert data is a human default, and takes serious conscious effort to avoid.
It is therefore unsurprising that dopamine also lowers skepticism. If logical sequences (patterns) appear more readily, an inflated subset of chaotic phenomena appears to ‘make sense’, and so the suspension of belief is more easily overcome. L-dopa, a drug which is metabolized as dopamine and used to treat Parkinson’s, makes people more vulnerable to pattern-detection, and has a notable side-effect that causes some patients to develop sudden gambling additions— patients see clear patterns in random phenomena, leading them to believe they will be more successful than they will be in reality.
Summary: Pattern detection is conducive to memorization, but not necessarily to clear thinking; in many instances apprehension of a pattern is a reduction of phenomena too complex to be faithfully reduced. Heightened dopamine can bolster addictive compulsions and increase credulousness, as patterns are more readily detected and chaotic sequences of action appear to make more sense. Pattern-detection is enhanced by dopamine production, and tendencies to compulsive action can result.
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Samgyetang Ginseng Chicken Soup (Korean Style)
Date: 9 February 2022
For one serving:
- Cornish hen/spatchcock
- quarter cup (ideally short grain) rice, soaked for 15 minutes in hot water
- Ginseng root
- large dried jujube (red date)
- 8 garlic cloves
- Spring onions, chopped
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
Prepare:
- Wash and salt hen, and rinse rice with cold water
- Stuff with rice, 1 ginseng root, 1 jujube, 8 cloves of garlic
- Boil from cold water, then simmer for 1.5 hours
- Occasionally ladle any settled broth over hens
- Serve Hens whole in a bowl and pour over broth
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Sprinkle spring onions and pepper
Compare with [[Ginseng Chicken Tonic Soup (Chinese Style)]]
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Ginseng Chicken Tonic Soup (Chinese Style)
Date: 2 February 2022
10 min preparation, 1-4 hrs cooking
Spices:
- Huang Jing (Siberian Solomon’s Seal)
- Cosmic Qi, Yang power, tonifies all Three Treasures. Makes the body light and clears the eyes.
- Goji Berry (Fructus Lycii)
- Vision, liver and kidneys, neuroprotective
- Dang Shen (Codonopsis pilosula)
- Enhance Qi and improve digestion, nourish blood, tonify lungs, boost vitality.
- Chinese Yam
- Ginseng Root
- Manifold benefits
- (Huang Qi) Astragalia
These can usually be found in a Chinese grocer as a single mix, but buying each separate and in bulk avoids packing markup— you can store a giant glass jar of this for years, cheaply, and only have to buy fresh chicken.
Any kind of chicken is fine, but chicken with bones, like a Maryland or a whole spatchcock (small chicken) works best.
Prepare:
- Rinse, dry and salt chicken. Let sit for 30 minutes.
- Place herbs, water and chicken in a pot and bring to a boil, then reduce to simmer.
- Occasionally check in to remove solids from surface of soup or add water if needed.
- Cook for 1-4 hrs — 50% reduction is ideal.
- Remove chicken and chop to serving size. Season soup with salt and serve in a bowl.
Compare with [[Samgyetang Ginseng Chicken Soup (Korean Style)]]
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Notes on Remilia’s New Internet
Date: 26 January 2022
the vision
um um u um uh hhhhhh
the visionis the new internet
the visiton is . remco
the new internet is realtim e( meguca) (s0machat )
the new art is remilia ( milady ) *( bonkler)
this is what. I beleive in . when I said Ibelieve in the vision
spider im so drunk incoehrent righr t now you will have to forgive m e for mty terseness
the new internet is digial dovertnty . exocore. realtime chat. OpenBSD
tiling window manager .terminal .
the new internet is network spirituality
“It is Okay CCCCAA I just Saw this as an Opportunity to get your drunk answer, I’ll ask again when you’re sober.”
the new internet
haha
I understand
it all made sense to me
right now . is like a drea m for me. im rdreaming
the new internet is a reevaluation of our social interaction with each other . and a reformation of our dynamic with each other as USERS
the new internet is whit e hearted ( light hearted)
you have to think about this ,.
the real time chat BSD exocore digital sogivern homestead terminal tiling window manger are the aestehtic surface level
the deeper level is the metaphyiscs of the internet and how we interpret the virtual world
the rleationship betwene user interfaces with our mental spatiotemporal matrix of virtual reality
the relationship of social interfaces with our sociocultural development
digital culture is in turmoil as ou r third spaces are full y owned by pltaforfmrsd . w e are fully plugged in to .
eletronic womb . fetus . umbilical cord (100GB ETHERNET ) Into the SPINE
next stage o f humanutiy . traditionalism ( VAT) (susptended . sensory deperevation) / ( retrun)
3 monitors
112wsx . socio temporal nexus
cxomputer hell
the user interface will stop existing once the machine learning models fully understand us
the syncreticism between the old and the young. the tools to make computers approachable for the old are the fundemental primitive that the young understand comptuers throguh . its ahoreseshi ( horse shoe)
xcomputers must be increasingly MORE addictive . fqast . emotional . no response time given . immediate off th
e cuf f answers . full information throughput betwene interlocutors
charles has not adjusted his body to the netwrok . he is still getting “carsick “ becauyse his body has no t adapted to its new organs
having a new monitor added is like getting a new limb stitched onto your bodyt . conversely. I was mutilated when my diamondtron 2060u broke
stock traders with 30 monitors a re like the hindu dieties