Sam Brown

But the idea is a network, not a linear chain. And through raw ADHD optimism, enthusiasm, and energy, the speaker is hoping they can spit it at you so fast that it reassembles itself in its original form in your own brain.

To get out of the mouth, ideas have to be serialized: introduced one part at a time, in a chain. Because that's how time works: It's one thing after another. And language bows to time.

It's an exercise in seeing how through the sheer glory of ADHD, a complete thought is trying to force itself out into the world through a mouth.

The thought exists as A connected to B and C and D all at the same time, but to say it, you have to introduce A and then start with either B or C or D first, and go back and introduce the other pieces and hope that it will get stuck in the listener's buffer so they see everything connected at once.

Writing the transcript, I got more and more aware that this was a mind map trying to escape out of a mouth, a sprawling connected thing trying to get ordered into serialized language.

Trying to decide where the sentence breaks, and even the paragraph breaks went in the above quote, was ... interesting.

Quote from Red, from the Overly Sarcastic Productions team. Actual words in her own voice in the clip up top.

'Separated by like centuries or even millennia, but you see them from the top down, and you’re like, “I can draw something here. I can draw a connection from point A to point B and make that into a story where there was no story before.”'

"And the more of it you understand, the more kinds of stories you start to see, the more threads you begin to see connecting things that were not actually connected."

"Storytelling is an interesting overlay onto the events of history, because again, history is not itself a story, but stories arise from it."

"The sum of its parts is less than the whole that you get by understanding the sum of its parts, because you start interpolating. You start seeing patters, and echoes, and, you know, poetry, and things that were previously just things happening."

History is not a story, but...

Red shares a downright Pratchettarian view of history, and imposing narrative structure onto "things that were just things happening."

YouTube video by Anton Petrov SETI@Home Has Finally Been Completed After 27 Years, Here's What Was Found

Summarized from:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07...

After filtering out literally billions of signals that looked like interference from earth, ~100 "signals of interest" remain.

Over 27 years, ~2 million people loaned their computer's processing power to analyze a collection of signals recorded at the Aricebo radio observatory.

Here's your good news for the day:
SETI@Home finished.

I mean, I feel sorry for _just_ _venting_ _on_ _social_ _media_ when every platform is already a cesspit of negativity.

I just feel like I need to reach out to my European friends and express how sorry I am that my president is a @#$%ing lunatic.

It's the rest of the insanity. I remember Trump's first term being rocky. This is straight up unhinged.

I'm not even complaining about the illegal seizure of Maduro. Maduro overturned a democratic election. He was entirely propped up by foreign powers who want to destabilize the Western Hemisphere, and were content to plunge a country into desperation just to get a foothold in the Americas. He can go.

He has charges brought against the chairman of the Fed.

The chairman was already due to step down in 4 months.

ICE officers are caught on video murdering a woman one mile away from where George Floyd was murdered. Protests redouble.

So he threatens to invoke the insurrection act.

Threatening unprovoked military action against a NATO ally?

This feels like the week that Dear Leader really lost it.

Autumn Sunset.
Downtown St. Louis.

Achievement Unlocked: Get told sending a package is impossible "because Trump".

Side Quest Complete: Read Jules Verne in a Paris cafe.

But I guess the guy knew there were German words that he didn't know the English translation for, ("train part" - sorry buddy, that's two separate words in English. And "debark" and "embark")

...so he asked for help.

Like, I don't know how anything that's so complex you need to understand it precisely wouldn't be better just ... speaking German directly? I don't speak Dutch; it sounds like slightly silly German to my ears.

Achievement unlocked: A German asked me to help translate something into English for a native Dutch speaker.