Welcome!

That’s awesome!!!

How’d you get into that career path?

Was it more of a calling or a journey of exploration?

Yumm

CapCut is still banned and I am now mourning my productivity as a content editor.

Any recommendations? 😭

I’m trying out Veed right now.

Canva is too slow.

Premiere Pro doesn’t have enough special effects.

🧠💪 Brain Train #Checkpoint 💜

Pick one of the following:

👉 Does propaganda ever have a place in society?

👉 Should we seek to let it manifest naturally as a product of society, or abolish it altogether?

👉 What do you personally consider to be modern-day propaganda?

Sounds great! Where will the show be streamed?

Really intrigued to know more about your project!

Are you looking at a specific political systems? A certain country? Or politics as a whole? Are you going to weigh out various political structures to see which types yield higher benefits and assess those benefits from the perspectives of both the leaders and the populace? Are you looking into other answers aside from money?

Looking forward to seeing your content!

How much of my life have I spent avoiding pain?

/rhetorical 😭

🌿 Thoughts on Nuance 🌿

In the order of how I am most notably perceived, I am:

-Biologically Female

-Hispanic

-Indigenous

-An Immigrant

-Genderqueer

-Autistic

-ADHD

-Queer

-Disabled

-etc

Left-wing perspectives often emphasize the importance of embracing all identities. Yet, I’ve noticed that the only voices truly elevated are those that fit one, maybe two labels.

The algorithms of most social media platforms are designed to deliver content as relatable to you as possible. In their effort to retain engagement, many of these left-wing creators end up producing content geared toward a single label, effectively tokenizing themselves.

When you think about what these labels are and begin to deconstruct their value in our world, each label is a dimension of a social reality that allows people to categorize you.

This has a useful function: it creates expectations for how you’re supposed to perceive and react to the world and it allows for a social cohesion in the form of solidarity.

However, creators have a pressure (social or economic) to deliver what the algorithm demands, often by exclusively focusing on how one dimension can robustly define them and their target audience.

This practice further entrenches the stereotypes associated with that label, reducing those it describes to a monolith online.

In the end, this lack of nuance becomes strikingly similar to how right-wing creators reduce the world into rigid categories. Both sides flatten complexity, creating echo chambers that perpetuate oversimplified narratives.

I suppose that’s why I have always struggled to find community. I grew up in a town that was primarily affluent and white. I was neither, and that brought me a lot of strife. I had difficulty making friends, and each time I made a social misstep, my mother would remind me that I had to be a good representation of our race.

Later in life, I was diagnosed with autism, which gave me a new dimension to perceive the social challenges I experienced as a child. That’s just one example of the interplay between two of my identities, race and neurodivergence, which underscores the importance of intersectionality.

However, these are merely the apparent dimensions: those that can be seen and categorized immediately. There are many more subtle dimensions to the self, such as your interests, aspirations, the empathy you carry, the trauma you hold, the relationships you nurture, the values you uphold.

All these identities shape who you are.

Yet who you are is intangible, undefinable.

You are a collection of your past and how that past shapes your present, where every single moment of your past was once your present.

Labels are useful for making sense of the world and for finding community within an SEO click, but they often become a veil that hides the essence of the person inside.

We are complex beings and yet so simple.

We are logical beings and yet so emotional.

My hope is that, as we progress as a society, we learn to embrace nuance, not just in how we see others but also in how we see ourselves.

Then, we can move beyond shallow representations and create a culture that truly celebrates the depth of human experience.

I have always been so hyper-aware of the constraints, censorship, and surveillance of social media.

For that reason, I have always been afraid to be myself online.

I’m glad to have been recommended this platform that embodies true freedom.

They know the stock market is as subjective as culture itself so they see the parallels in crypto.

If you control the narrative, you control the culture. If you control the culture, you control the perceived value of that narrative.

If you have all those elements, you know exactly when to profit because you’re the one calling the shots.

I’m very new to Bitcoin. How do mining computers work?

I semi understand how the blockchain works, but how do people set up the mining computers?

Does it connect to your desktop?

Does it run in the background?

Is it something you buy or make?

If you buy it, is it just set it and forget it?

Do you have to know a programming language to set it up?

How do people access this information?

Is there a YouTube tutorial?

If Bitcoin halves, does your mining efforts halve as well?

What’s the trade-off like? Aka how much bitcoin you mine versus how much it adds to your energy bill?

Thanks in advance for any responses!

🌿 Thoughts on Relaxation 🌿

Tonight while I was on VR with my partner, we meditated on finding a balance between work, play, and relaxation.

We were in a cozy cave world, mirror dwelling with some lovely music playing in the background.

My stomach hurt, my joints hurt, everything hurt. He asked me if I was tired, but I wasn’t mentally, only physically.

I said to him how ever since I started working from home, I’ve been feeling more energized mentally. I have the energy to play more in VR, which I’ve actually noticed has boosted my productivity at work by finding creative ways to be more efficient.

But physically, I am still tired from my disability.

So I brought up how I had been considering the concept of relaxation: how the body stores stress physically by tensing throughout the day, how we carry that within our muscle memory and our connective tissue, and how, if I really take a moment to consider, I’ve never truly allowed myself to just relax.

I’m really trying to deprogram all of what I have been taught on what it means to exist as a human being. It’s the reason why it took me over a decade to get my joint problems diagnosed: ‘pain is normal, stop complaining, focus on your work,’ among other things.

“When was the last time you just listened to music?” I asked.

“This morning.”

“Yes, but, when was the last time you listened to music and just let yourself experience the music?”

“I guess… a long time.”

So I proposed that we try to relax by listening to the background music of the cave world and letting that consume our mind instead of anything else going on in the world or in our lives.

As I listened, my mind relaxed and so did my muscles.

And then, I pictured my body swaying with the music.

And then… I did sway.

Normally, movement takes a large toll on me. But with a relaxed mind, the movement was intuitive. My arms, then my shoulders, then my neck, my breath, my abdomen, my hips, my knees…

It was lovely to dance so uncoordinated with traditional dance structures yet so coordinated with what my body craved.

It couldn’t have been more than 3 minutes before my body requested to lay down again. After that, for the next 15 minutes or so, I felt a sort of primal high.

One of extreme relaxation.

We both felt it, even if he didn’t move. He listened to his body as well.

I’d love to incorporate that kind of relaxation into my routine to find that balance.

I’m thinking: each time I need to transition into a new task at work, I ought to reward myself with that kind of full-body relaxation for completing a task and have the peace within myself as a means to begin a new one.

Even if it doesn’t involve movement. I felt the urge to dance while my partner didn’t. Yet we both felt that high. All it must include is that intuitively relaxing experience that encompasses the present moment.

My work may exist within a computer, but I exist within the universe’s computations.

I have all the programming I need within me to know what behaviors I should and shouldn’t be doing.

I ought to remind myself of that more often.

Connection —> Balance

Thanks for introducing us to this app! I’m certainly intrigued!