Brian Burns

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

It's an important realisation that nobody is without shadow: no individual, no group or tribe, no nation. This must be faced and confronted before any change can take place and before a more profound dialogue with another can begin.

— Murray Stein, The Mystery of Transformation

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.

And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

- Carl Sagan

Surprising finding could pave way for universal cancer vaccine - UF Health GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An experimental mRNA vaccine boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy in a mouse-model study, bringing researchers one step…

Mrna vaccines have been researched since the 60s, big breakthroughs being made - even in cancer. This guy is a clear and present danger to medical research
ufhealth.org/news/2025/su...

The reason it’s so powerful is that it turns /your body/ into the factory that makes the drug. It’s so exciting that the US not working on it will be seen as one of the biggest self-owns in history.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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this is the greatest sign of all time no notes

What's next? A giant statue of himself?

awesome paintings!

idea - make a tribe of wise and peaceful people with ai. give each a unique personality. talk over issues. trauma is overwhelm with no connection or repair. every person needs access to this, cos our society is fucked up. help pull us into a more harmonious future.

amazing!

but I guess it's not illegal to cancel programs?

This psychological mechanism of projection has been the cause of many brutalities throughout the centuries. Religious persecutions—inquisitions, pogroms, and crusades—have been carried out by men who believed themselves to have all of the truth, with the consequence that the enemy had only its opposite, all the error. Such a one-sided and fanatical attitude always denotes complete ignorance of what lies in one's own unconscious. By Jungian, M. Esther Harding from her book, 'Psychic Energy: Its Source and Its Transformation'.

On projection.

The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives. For the manner in which we tell ourselves about what is going on is the genre through which events become experiences.

— James Hillman, Healing Fiction

idea floves - finger gloves - use stretchy knit fabric

Amazing pictures!

They should make modular cars - sell chassis, engine, and body separately - then can mix n match parts.

Great poem!

Most people confuse 'self-knowledge' with knowledge of their ego-personalities. Anyone who has any ego-consciousness at all takes it for granted that he knows himself. But the ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents.

— Carl G. Jung, CW 10

I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants— perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird failure in it. 'The Failure' by Kabir, translated by poet, Robert Bly.

Oh, how I adore this poem.

'The Failure' by Kabir [translated by Robert Bly].

People are more isolated than in the past though, which makes everything worse.

Well, it's either a (presumably) neutral algorithm, or a panel of bureaucrats deciding where the money goes...

You can also try menthol and other scents for now - www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cou...
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Thank you for sharing your story, Pam - I have mild CFS/PEM, mainly crashing out for a day or two if I overdo things - so I only know 1% of what you're going through. It sounds really rough. I hope they can find cures for all these things - maybe ai can put all the pieces together...