by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2023 | Status Update
It is fascinating to observe, with a healthy dose of wonder, the implicitly »predictive nature of human communication behavior. ‘Politeness’ isn’t just a series of explicit protocols, rather it involves intuiting the possibility landscape of...
by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2023 | Status Update
“People don’t realize how dangerous it is to ask how I’m doing. The other day I was on mushrooms editing a biomed science paper on titanium bone implants. Right now, my brain is approximately like a seven-thousand year old cat having an uproarious...
by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2023 | Status Update
“I’ve always thought that Edward was the 3rd direction. You got forward, backward and … edward.” — Bobby Yingo at the Compass
by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2023 | Status Update
“Every three or four days, for three years, they met, and made love. Never once did either of them speak. They literally didn’t know each others’ names.” — infraheard
by orchaeus | Nov 29, 2023 | Status Update
“As a computer professional who witnessed the birth and expert counterfeiting of ‘the internet’, I watched with trepidation as rapid-fire communication often laid waste to… infested and compromised our personal relationships. I resisted...
by orchaeus | Nov 28, 2023 | Status Update
“Silence is often profound, especially in wise relation with self and others, in part because it naturally includes all that cannot be (or should not, situationally) ‘spoken’. In a sense, to speak is to lie, in part due to the fact that declarations...