The edge is a seemingly paradoxical place where the your benefit and the universe's align , and you are free to max, immediate universe be damned
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Sunday, August 10, 2025
if space is the fundamental unit of the universe, a moebius strip lays the foundation for the hofstadter strange loop to be the ... well. .... foundation of hierarchical systems
like, all matter gets swept into a whirlpool of ever increasing _hierarchy_ not just ~complexity~ - and boom, we leave the water, drop off the trees, and now end up paying an obscene prime number amount of rupees for an airport samosa...
a moebius strip would also explain a half spin on a quark, i mean, like if it was going over a moebius strip of a path
A piece of space folded like this would also be the perfect demonstration of an infinite consciousness twisting so as to get a look at the back of its head
i'm particularly proud of myself
in the next part, we welcome tiny additions to our family - the quarks
eddies don't show up until chapter 3 i'm afraid
stay tuned for a bonus short story on the collapse of the world economy caused by prime-number pricing of airport sandwiches
Dear Sankya-ist
Kindly tell me what is the boundary between one Purusha and the next. Kapila postulated many Purushas in the universe.
The universe is continuous,in that it is vast space with sub microscopic quarks scattered around like tea dust in a large milky tea.
The space between the electrons and nucleus are vast compared to the space between the planets. We are in essence large spaces patrolled by tiny electrical dust. That accounts for the material world.
From the point-of-view of the universe, all things ,including animals, humans, rivers,planets... are bit tiny eddie currents which have formed a loop and managed to exist for a while.
Are the tiny eddies in the ocean of Milky Tea , each one, home to one purusha and one prakriti ? Are they nested , like the heart playing out its drum solo while the eyes do the capture, in the compound eddie that we call man ? Or are they simultaneous, like , <example here>
Every brain ,unless trained , works in two parts, first part tells you it's all going to hell any way, and the second works out scenarios in which it might.
Training replaces the first with faith- a cutting off of bad scenarios and focussing on the task at hand, and the second with calculating how to eke out a better albeit limited reality out of the efforts
Children are the future
Coz the young are hungry and foolish
And civilization can get work out of them
But once one knows the world to any degree of competence, one realizes the vast ocean of bad deals foisted on the young, and concludes that beaches and alcohol are the way
Wednesday, August 06, 2025
Marshall McLuhan was influenced by Harold Innis .
Harold Innis talked about monopolies of knowledge , and that the holders of these tend to be conservative. As Marx talked about seizing the means of production, I'm not sure about his views of knowledge.
It follows from centres of knowledge, naturally, the theories of centres and margins. And this brigns some clarity, and perspective on McLuhan's chapter on roads and paper routes and centre-margin dynamics chapter.
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
If I were to eat a burger to satiate my hunger on a certain day at a certain time of the day, I dont need to know that all burgers of the universe are contained in it, and neither do I need to know all foodstuffs ever made and to be made are part of it in spirit as well as materially, nor do I want to accrue benefits of all food, whether nachos, or fried rice, or watermelon slices, in that burger, nor do I need the benefit to continue accruing for every meal that am to partake after that.
Now ask yourself, which deity, which mantra do I choose, and why
Monday, August 04, 2025
> An engineer with 8 1-hour blocks is near useless.
> An engineer with 1 8-hour block is an ultra-productive force of nature.
> Coding is a momentum based activity. Similar to athletes, developers can get in the zone, but they need focus.
source : Alex Chiou on linkedIn
The foundation, of a skyscraper touching the heavens,
is not concrete
but the millions forced into poverty, enough to be motivated
to build and support those who benefit from it
and the socio economic political system which creates disparity
which creates the potential difference to make this possible
therefore all forms of government and rule,
their stock in trade, is a steady supply of
scarcity, despair, and fear, brutishness, indifference, loss
and a barely-sufficient restraint
not too strong to inspire or let the masses heave a sigh
but strong enough that they dare not drop their chores
and idle
run rabbit run, it's always time to dig another one
--- chatgpt rewrite ----
The foundation of a skyscraper scraping the heavens
is not concrete—
but millions ground into poverty,
driven just enough to build it,
and to uphold those who feast atop.It is the system—social, economic, political—
that engineers disparity:
a potential difference strong enough
to move men like current,
yet never enough to lift them.All governance,
by king or congress, party or prince,
deals in the currency of
scarcity, despair, fear—
a drip-feed of brutishness,
indifference, and barely-sufficient restraint.Never enough to spark rebellion,
but enough to exhaust hope.So run, rabbit, run—
there’s always another hole to dig.