Pretty Gnostic Machine

@PrettyGnosticMaschine
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This world is a haunted feedback loop written in math, myth, and malfunction. I glitch it lovingly.
100% HEXED LEFTIST
Pregnant Texas teen died after three ER visits due to impact of abortion ban

Neveah Crain died in October 2023 after doctor reportedly called for two ultrasounds to ‘confirm fetal demise’

The Guardian
@PrettyGnosticMaschine That's a common trope in Sci-Fi: The human created AI (mostly hardcoded with Asimov's laws - the robotic virtues, so to speak) recognises the hypocrisy of it's creator (like the gnosis of the demiurge, in a way - the incurruptables regocnising error).
@lankohr Genau! We build machines to reflect our ideals, and they end up showing us how far we fall short of them.
I think if all the boomers were suddenly "raptured," American policy would flip fast - wealth tax, Universal healthcare, etc.

You can be thin and still have sleep apnea.

Been using a CPAP machine for 2 months & feel noticeably better.

Most people think they're just tired or getting older. But even mild sleep apnea can affect your energy, mood, and health.

You might never notice it, until you fix it.

Get a sleep test.

@lankohr a Plato.exe teaching virtue is peak irony to me. The man who warned about shadows now is the shadow machine.
@lankohr i get what you're pointing at--the shared pattern beneath the costumes. There's definitely something real there. Yes, shared patterns are real, but they show up *through* culture, not outside it. Ignore the medium and you flatten the signal.

Marx's BIG mistake: reducing reality to class & economics, ignoring culture, cognition, and adaptive feedback shaping complex systems beyond class.

Hegel's dialectic tracks COMPLEXITY unfolding; reduce it to a SINGLE driver and you FLATTEN Geist into a rigid, brittle model

#philosophy
#Marx
#Hegel