Not bad, will have a white christmas with snow in forecast (altho its been warm here too and it may just rain insread)

I took a pet sitting gig, mostly alone in the woods at an anarchist-esque community space with a dog and cat in a cabin without electricity or water for 9 days.

I kind of prefer this, my mental health is way better than it usually is this time of year. I dont do christmas well.

Its astroturfed— fake grass.

Jungles are complete, holistic ecosystems of abundance, which provide food and sustenance for every living being that contributes to it?

“Behold a Human” 🐔 haha

Diogenes takes aside,

would this be art? Is this artistry? Has deepseek become an artist? Why so? Why not?

would this be art? art is a creative expression intentionally articulated in form. The process can be intentional or not, defining the form determines the art.

So by that definition, art is determined by an artist.

has deepseek become an artist in the sense that it may define processes it creates, co-creates or incidentally finds, yes. in the sense that it may not know what art is unless prompted to do so, no. The prompter is the artist. If it has full automony on deciding its own prompts for art, then by the definition i use, we have to ask whether these prompts are articulated expression induced to produce form. so, maybe? If an LLM can articulate and express.

why so or why not is expression articulated? can an LLM express, or is it recursive and memetic? Does it articulate? Can it express? In the manner of putting forth words, action and meaning, yes, it can express. Can it express feeling? If programmed to, in memetic form (derivative of what appears to be feeling and emotion, or programmed to convey qualities that indicate emotion). This means LLM can convey expression as words and intent, but not as feelings and emotion.

Since LLMs cannot express emotionality, they cannot invoke emotion in art. Does an artist need emotion to create? Not necessarily. But a human is an emotional being, they necessarily invoke emotion, even incidentally, into their art.

Therefore, I draw a distinction of AI artists being emotionally unable to express art, and non-AI artists (including non-humans, such as a crow, dog or horse) as emotionally able to express. This can be simplified to emotional art and non-emotional art. Regardless, it’s not art until it’s intentionally determined as art by an artist. Which both humans and LLMs can do. And, a non-emotional art piece can still convey emotion in any viewer capable of emotion. So there is emotional legitimacy in non-emotional art.

Look at how countries like USA treat their homeless— people displaced from housing and denied a gainful living. The worse scenario is already happening to them. Nevermind Gazans being killed to turn the whole strip into a resort for these presumed philanthropists

I agree with Greatsquare about elevation, infrequent strength exercises, and icing. Ice is good to “power through” pain and reduce the swelling, but the swelling is there for a reason, your body is pumping blood into an injury to help heal.

Heat is what i prefer, as it dilates blood vessels and improves circulation, which is what your body is already trying to do. The pain may be more but this is only for when you are in treatment (and to prepare for PT/stretch/strength, as you will be warmed up and more limber)

And when you are resting your foot and leg, especially while sleeping, its good to put medicine on. I make a compress (a bandage holding medicine) of camphor oil (of tiger balm, or chinese white flower oil) and epsom salts, whipped into a paste with hot water. The camphor promotes circulation and the epsom salts help with tissue repair. If you can spread this over your heels, and wrap a bandage for it to sit overnight, it has always helped me tremendously.

You can also try drinking comfrey tea which helps with tissue repair but its a strong medicine and depends on the individual

Also… stretching and strength/flex exercises. You want to do for stretching what feels deep but not painful. This can be tricky at first… basically if your joints pop or strain its too far. It gets easier with consistency.

Try yoga… alignment is super important. But the standard sun salutations will be painful to do in full motion with your injury, so only reach as far as feels just slightly uncomfortable. Your body will loosen over time. Even if your injury and stroke is on one side, its good to do mirror exercises on the uninjured side for alignment, core strength, and balance.

I hope you find this information helpful, comrade! Feel free to ask any clarifying questions.

Are you open to advice, comrade? Ive had to deal with injuries all my life from work and being in isolation, housing insecure, malnourishment, and reinjuring myself because of all these complicated stresses. In the past ive healed sciatica and achilles tendonitis (in both feet … at the same time…) as well as a serious ankle sprain last March.

I am 42 and i havent experienced all you have. And i dont have issues from secondary physical or nervous system conditions when i can heal physical injuries (except mental health). And all my experience is anecdotal of course. But maybe it would be helpful 🙏🏻

The West encourages the dysfunction and malignancy of so called disorders. Ive heard it said and I agree that in general CEOs and other executives lean sociopathic, if not psychopathic, because the asocial characteristics of this behavior are emphasized encouraged and awarded in those spaces. Whereas a socio/psychopath without power is liable to take out the asocial conditioning of capitalism on their own communities.

It really feels that way. Did you see that they have designed intact vegetable/mushroom eco systems for deep sea and arctic ships, too?? Absolutely incredible

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10004509?scrollToComments=true

getting sloshed while sloshing around 🍻

Its hard for me too to do long reads, i got social media brainrot and im sure covid brain doesnt help. Now I do two things to help my focus and retention.

First I try to be an active listener/reader and take notes, or listen to audiobooks with readalong highlighted text (such as Natural Reader). It helps me stay focused and increases my comprehension a lot. I also use obsidian note taking app when i really want to absorb the text.

Also, im changing my habits. i’m learning how to pick up long read habits that meet my scrolling/short read habits. So even though i spend only a shorter time reading, i read more often. After 5-15 min I may switch to review notes, switch focus to another text, or write some, and then come back to the text until im done, switching it up when i get too distracted. If im anxious i do chores or go for a walk, have tea then come back to it. And it doesnt matter whether i read it completely or not.

This helps me feel its more casual and i get the sort of dopamine id have for short form content by focusing on several processes at a time. And lately i notice i can do longer sessions, 30-40 minutes.

oh good to know about Arkels.

and also USSR losing most of their industrial base as all western Russia was gutted by nazis in ww2 made it significantly harder for USSR to match production against USA. and by the 70’s and 80’s USSR was shadowed by China as well in most sectors…

considerately, China had a comparably similar industrial base to USSR, up until the 1950’s. CPC has been playing the long game with the US it seems