#projection — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #projection, aggregated by home.social.
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2026 NBA mock drafts: Post-lottery projections for OKC Thunder https://www.rawchili.com/nba/734397/ #Basketball #KarimLopez #LAClippers #Michigan #MorezJohnson #NBA #NbaDraftLottery #Oklahoma #OklahomaCity #OklahomaCityThunder #OklahomaCity #OklahomaCityThunder #projection #Thunder #TylerTanner #YaxelLendeborg
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⛵️️🇵🇸 sam 16.05 #BRIANCON 05 ! #Projection #1000Madleens le #film + discussion, stands solidaires, bonnes choses à boire et à manger
à partir de 17h30 au Chapoule, tout en haut de la vieille ville
Tout est prix libreL’argent récolté sera utilisé pour soutenir la campagne #LibérezAli : https://www.liberezali.org/quiestali
🎦 Le film " Madleens " en accès libre : https://www.youtube.com/@ThousandMadleenstoGaza [ activez les sous titres pour la FR ]
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Remember kids, Imperialism only counts if it's from the West!
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Remember kids, Imperialism only counts if it's from the West!
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Remember kids, Imperialism is only when West!
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2047420/remember-kids-imperialism-is-only-when-west
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Remember kids, Imperialism is only when West!
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2047416/remember-kids-imperialism-is-only-when-west
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A Foggy Tale (大濛)
Film de Chen Yu-hsun (陳玉勳)
Projection et débat le 12 mai 2026Au-delà du devoir de mémoire à l’occasion du 19 mai, Journée Mémorial de la Terreur Blanche, c’est avant tout un grand moment de cinéma. Lauréat de 11 nominations aux Golden Horse Awards 2025, il a remporté cinq prix prestigieux, dont Meilleur film, Meilleur scénario original, Meilleure direction artistique et Meilleurs costumes.
Ce long-métrage marque le retour du réalisateur Chen Yu-Hsun après cinq ans d’absence. L’histoire se déroule dans les années 1950, sous la Terreur blanche à Taïwan : une jeune fille, armée de son seul courage, monte seule vers le nord pour récupérer la dépouille de son frère. À travers son périple, nous découvrons les portraits émouvants de gens ordinaires luttant pour la survie et le changement dans une époque trouble (...).
Ce road-movie en pousse-pousse vous fera passer du rire aux larmes, vous offrant une réflexion profonde sur l’histoire et la nature humaine.
Débat : Rencontre et analyse après le film avec Marie Holzman, sinologue, écrivain et journaliste, consacre à la défense des droits de l’homme depuis longtemps.
Soirée organisée par l’association Formose en France.
https://www.helloasso.com/associations...Mardi 12 mai 2026 – de 18h50 à 22h15
Forum des Images, 2 Rue du Cinéma, 75001 Paris#Taiwan #cinema #film #projection #TerreurBlanche #Dictature #RepublicOfChina #ROC #ChineNationaliste
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🎥 Projection du film Forêt Rouge
🗓️ Jeudi 7 mai
⏰ 19h30
📍 Studio - 2 rue des Ursulines, ToursLe CNP projet Forêt rouge, un film de @Laurielassalle qui revient sur l'aventure de Notre Dame des Landes.
Le film sera suivi d'une rencontre avec Benoît Feuillu, l'un des porte-paroles des @lessoulevements
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A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
[He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness
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A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
[He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness
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A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
[He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness
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A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
[He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness
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A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
[He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness
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Personally, I won't be convinced that any assassination attempt against Trump is real until it succeeds
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Delivery robots as evocative objects
I came across these delivery robots on Sunday morning, clustered in the corner of a park. One had been covered in graffiti, two had their flags snapped and a third one was covered in some strange green slime. It looked like Saturday night had been tough.
I find it hard not to anthropomorphise these robots. I heard the way they crossed the road described as ‘scrabbling’ yesterday and it’s the perfect adjective for how they appear to look left and right, before accelerating out into the traffic. People interact with them, talk about them, respond to them. In many ways the vandalism is the flip side of the anthromorphism. They are evocative objects in Sherry Turkle’s sense of provoking responses in the humans who encounter them. You might find them cute, you might have the impulse to cover them in graffiti, you might want to help them cross the road, you might want to block their path to see if they do.
The key thing is that they are evoking a response from you. If their design enables them to do that reliably then they are likely to be normalised, even if the economic model might not currently work in its current form. The real significance of them is how they become evocative features of the urban landscape and what that means for the political economy of the city.
It occurs to me that if we are projecting into these robots, which we clearly are because they obviously do not feel anything, it raises the question of what we are projecting. My hypothesis is that when I saw them on my run this morning, feeling sad about the vandalism and exhibiting a spatial sense of having retreated into a corner of the park, I was doing something with my own insufficiently acknowledged guilt about the gig economy. I’ve stopped using delivery platforms but I still end up taking Ubers regularly, even if I’m slowly tipping the balance to black caps.
When I feel vaguely sympathetic for these robots (while recognising how absurd that reaction is) am I expressing in an alienated form my own desire to demonstrate solidarity with gig workers, which is being subordinated to my own convenience in a way that provokes guilt in me?
I wanted to add that I think vandalism against delivery robots can be a political act. There are clear examples of this in vandalism against robo-taxis for example. I’m just not sure this particular vandalism can plausibly be read in those terms, though perhaps I’m wrong.
#anthropmorphism #deliveryRobots #evocativeObjects #gigEconomy #gigWorkers #labour #projection #robots #SherryTurkle #urbanism -
Delivery robots as evocative objects
I came across these delivery robots on Sunday morning, clustered in the corner of a park. One had been covered in graffiti, two had their flags snapped and a third one was covered in some strange green slime. It looked like Saturday night had been tough.
I find it hard not to anthropomorphise these robots. I heard the way they crossed the road described as ‘scrabbling’ yesterday and it’s the perfect adjective for how they appear to look left and right, before accelerating out into the traffic. People interact with them, talk about them, respond to them. In many ways the vandalism is the flip side of the anthromorphism. They are evocative objects in Sherry Turkle’s sense of provoking responses in the humans who encounter them. You might find them cute, you might have the impulse to cover them in graffiti, you might want to help them cross the road, you might want to block their path to see if they do.
The key thing is that they are evoking a response from you. If their design enables them to do that reliably then they are likely to be normalised, even if the economic model might not currently work in its current form. The real significance of them is how they become evocative features of the urban landscape and what that means for the political economy of the city.
It occurs to me that if we are projecting into these robots, which we clearly are because they obviously do not feel anything, it raises the question of what we are projecting. My hypothesis is that when I saw them on my run this morning, feeling sad about the vandalism and exhibiting a spatial sense of having retreated into a corner of the park, I was doing something with my own insufficiently acknowledged guilt about the gig economy. I’ve stopped using delivery platforms but I still end up taking Ubers regularly, even if I’m slowly tipping the balance to black caps.
When I feel vaguely sympathetic for these robots (while recognising how absurd that reaction is) am I expressing in an alienated form my own desire to demonstrate solidarity with gig workers, which is being subordinated to my own convenience in a way that provokes guilt in me?
I wanted to add that I think vandalism against delivery robots can be a political act. There are clear examples of this in vandalism against robo-taxis for example. I’m just not sure this particular vandalism can plausibly be read in those terms, though perhaps I’m wrong.
#anthropmorphism #deliveryRobots #evocativeObjects #gigEconomy #gigWorkers #labour #projection #robots #SherryTurkle #urbanism -
Delivery robots as evocative objects
I came across these delivery robots on Sunday morning, clustered in the corner of a park. One had been covered in graffiti, two had their flags snapped and a third one was covered in some strange green slime. It looked like Saturday night had been tough.
I find it hard not to anthropomorphise these robots. I heard the way they crossed the road described as ‘scrabbling’ yesterday and it’s the perfect adjective for how they appear to look left and right, before accelerating out into the traffic. People interact with them, talk about them, respond to them. In many ways the vandalism is the flip side of the anthromorphism. They are evocative objects in Sherry Turkle’s sense of provoking responses in the humans who encounter them. You might find them cute, you might have the impulse to cover them in graffiti, you might want to help them cross the road, you might want to block their path to see if they do.
The key thing is that they are evoking a response from you. If their design enables them to do that reliably then they are likely to be normalised, even if the economic model might not currently work in its current form. The real significance of them is how they become evocative features of the urban landscape and what that means for the political economy of the city.
It occurs to me that if we are projecting into these robots, which we clearly are because they obviously do not feel anything, it raises the question of what we are projecting. My hypothesis is that when I saw them on my run this morning, feeling sad about the vandalism and exhibiting a spatial sense of having retreated into a corner of the park, I was doing something with my own insufficiently acknowledged guilt about the gig economy. I’ve stopped using delivery platforms but I still end up taking Ubers regularly, even if I’m slowly tipping the balance to black caps.
When I feel vaguely sympathetic for these robots (while recognising how absurd that reaction is) am I expressing in an alienated form my own desire to demonstrate solidarity with gig workers, which is being subordinated to my own convenience in a way that provokes guilt in me?
I wanted to add that I think vandalism against delivery robots can be a political act. There are clear examples of this in vandalism against robo-taxis for example. I’m just not sure this particular vandalism can plausibly be read in those terms, though perhaps I’m wrong.
#anthropmorphism #deliveryRobots #evocativeObjects #gigEconomy #gigWorkers #labour #projection #robots #SherryTurkle #urbanism -
Delivery robots as evocative objects
I came across these delivery robots on Sunday morning, clustered in the corner of a park. One had been covered in graffiti, two had their flags snapped and a third one was covered in some strange green slime. It looked like Saturday night had been tough.
I find it hard not to anthropomorphise these robots. I heard the way they crossed the road described as ‘scrabbling’ yesterday and it’s the perfect adjective for how they appear to look left and right, before accelerating out into the traffic. People interact with them, talk about them, respond to them. In many ways the vandalism is the flip side of the anthromorphism. They are evocative objects in Sherry Turkle’s sense of provoking responses in the humans who encounter them. You might find them cute, you might have the impulse to cover them in graffiti, you might want to help them cross the road, you might want to block their path to see if they do.
The key thing is that they are evoking a response from you. If their design enables them to do that reliably then they are likely to be normalised, even if the economic model might not currently work in its current form. The real significance of them is how they become evocative features of the urban landscape and what that means for the political economy of the city.
It occurs to me that if we are projecting into these robots, which we clearly are because they obviously do not feel anything, it raises the question of what we are projecting. My hypothesis is that when I saw them on my run this morning, feeling sad about the vandalism and exhibiting a spatial sense of having retreated into a corner of the park, I was doing something with my own insufficiently acknowledged guilt about the gig economy. I’ve stopped using delivery platforms but I still end up taking Ubers regularly, even if I’m slowly tipping the balance to black caps.
When I feel vaguely sympathetic for these robots (while recognising how absurd that reaction is) am I expressing in an alienated form my own desire to demonstrate solidarity with gig workers, which is being subordinated to my own convenience in a way that provokes guilt in me?
I wanted to add that I think vandalism against delivery robots can be a political act. There are clear examples of this in vandalism against robo-taxis for example. I’m just not sure this particular vandalism can plausibly be read in those terms, though perhaps I’m wrong.
#anthropmorphism #deliveryRobots #evocativeObjects #gigEconomy #gigWorkers #labour #projection #robots #SherryTurkle #urbanism -
Just a little tease of some of our methods. If you have some mental technique, that you want to share with our digital brotherhood of mystical anarchists, or you want more info about our methods - PM this account.
Turn your mind into a weapon, join our brotherhood!
Psychic vision – brief description.
Psychic vision, or extrasensory vision, or third eye etc. – is one of the “classic” occult or esoteric phenomena. Here we present a remastered light variant, which proved to be useful in an open field operations. This technique has an essential difference from remote viewing, and that is more flexibility. That makes it more appropriate to use on a whim – when needed without much preparation.
For activists or revolutionaries it will be beneficial to use this method - to look far from your original location to a place of your interest, that is obscured by some obstacles or long distance. This technique may give valuable information about potential threats or targets – for example police forces in an area.
Science behind the process, in our opinion – is precognition process. By using this method, you are glimpsing into the future events that are connected with you personally through your perception. Be mindful of this fact, because some of your presumptions may influence the results.
We describe 2 variants of this method – one is for training, and the other one for use in the field. Difference is some preparation steps and speed. However, it is necessary to regularly do training sessions at least 1 time in 2 weeks in order to use fast field variant effectively.
Psychic vision technique. Training variant algorithm:1. Relax and breathe a little bit.
2. Remember something from your past.
3. Close your eyes and imagine that you are underwater.
4. Scenes of your memories is playing like a movie inside this “water”.
5. Concentrate on feelings in your body – notice how “water” is creating pressure on it
6. Notice that pressure is different in different parts of the body. And if some object is closer to your body – then the pressure of “water” is stronger
7. Send the ‘shadow’ (how to imagine - it is like a shadow, that you can use how you want) or projection of your own body to an object you want to ‘see’. Then start touching this object with your projection – carefully noticing all the sensations. (How to use projection – if you send a “shadow” of your hands – then all the sensations of the projection will be in your hands)
8. You may actually ‘touch’ letters and symbols with it, not only objects itself.
9. When you ended – remember how you started the process (1-st step). It is needed to end the process properly, so you will not get any random sensations without your wish.
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#occult #anarchy #anarchism #parapsychology #magic #occultism #intuition #left #struggle #paranormal #projection #mind -
As someone who spent many years routinely administering Rorschach Tests and TAT cards (pictures to elicit stories, "associations") I see this unfiltered response by Sir #TrumpVirus as being a textbook example of #projection, #denial, contamination, confabulation, and "all sorts of mean nasty things", which would raise some red flags, whether in a clinical setting or psych ward. #psychopathology
Thin-slice - A near-80-year-old adult is playing with fantasy AI "art" & being so proud he posts it.
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#Projection #denial #psychopathology Blame Biden. Rinse/repeat.
Well, at least he's stopped "joking" about being Dr. Jesus... So much winning.
Well, now he's busy blowing up any ship near his blockade of a blockade, and trying to paint granite buildings with 'magic' paint. (From his 'thinking' bucket?)
Well, at least everybody is talking only about him... & not much about #Epstein.
#madness #enablers #denial #coverup #EpsteinTrumpFiles #treason #nepotism
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#Projection #denial #psychopathology Blame Biden. Rinse/repeat.
Well, at least he's stopped "joking" about being Dr. Jesus... So much winning.
Well, now he's busy blowing up any ship near his blockade of a blockade, and trying to paint granite buildings with 'magic' paint. (From his 'thinking' bucket?)
Well, at least everybody is talking only about him... & not much about #Epstein.
#madness #enablers #denial #coverup #EpsteinTrumpFiles #treason #nepotism
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#Projection #denial #psychopathology Blame Biden. Rinse/repeat.
Well, at least he's stopped "joking" about being Dr. Jesus... So much winning.
Well, now he's busy blowing up any ship near his blockade of a blockade, and trying to paint granite buildings with 'magic' paint. (From his 'thinking' bucket?)
Well, at least everybody is talking only about him... & not much about #Epstein.
#madness #enablers #denial #coverup #EpsteinTrumpFiles #treason #nepotism
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#Projection #denial #psychopathology Blame Biden. Rinse/repeat.
Well, at least he's stopped "joking" about being Dr. Jesus... So much winning.
Well, now he's busy blowing up any ship near his blockade of a blockade, and trying to paint granite buildings with 'magic' paint. (From his 'thinking' bucket?)
Well, at least everybody is talking only about him... & not much about #Epstein.
#madness #enablers #denial #coverup #EpsteinTrumpFiles #treason #nepotism
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#Projection #denial #psychopathology Blame Biden. Rinse/repeat.
Well, at least he's stopped "joking" about being Dr. Jesus... So much winning.
Well, now he's busy blowing up any ship near his blockade of a blockade, and trying to paint granite buildings with 'magic' paint. (From his 'thinking' bucket?)
Well, at least everybody is talking only about him... & not much about #Epstein.
#madness #enablers #denial #coverup #EpsteinTrumpFiles #treason #nepotism
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Vendredi 17 avril 20h | FAKE! CINE-CLUB #08 REAL REELS
#radio #pinode #mulhouse #projection #ciné #concert #performance -
https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/72857/ « Bruxelles au cœur du noble art » : l’acteur José Garcia a fait le show pour la bonne cause en Belgique #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #boxe #bruxelles #Celebrities #Celebrity #Cinéma #Divertissement #Entertainment #évènement #Festival #invité #JoséGarcia #LaBoxeFaitSonCinéma #people #projection
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https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/87358/ « Bruxelles au cœur du noble art » : l’acteur José Garcia a fait le show pour la bonne cause en Belgique #Boxe #Bruxelles #Celebrities #Celebrity #Cinéma #Divertissement #Entertainment #événement #Festival #invité #JoséGarcia #LaBoxeFaitSonCinéma #People #projection #Suisse
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Vendredi et samedi, ouverture du #Vidéo #Mapping #Festival à #Lille.
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“For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason.”*…
A “theory of everything” (a Grand Unified Theory on steriods)– a (still hypothetical) coherent theoretical framework of physics containing and explaining all physical principles– is the holy grail of physicists. Natalie Wolchover checks in on the most recent front-runner in the hunt…
Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe. This is much to the chagrin of its rather vocal critics. “String theory is not dead; it’s undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people’s brains,” the former physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said on her popular YouTube channel in 2024.
String theory is a “failure,” the mathematical physicist and blogger Peter Woit often says. His complaint is not that string theory is wrong — it’s that it’s “not even wrong,” as he titled a 2006 book. The theory says that, on scales of billionths of trillionths of trillionths of a centimeter, extra curled-up spatial dimensions reveal themselves and particles resolve into extended objects — strands and loops of energy — rather than points. But this alleged substructure is too small to detect, probably ever. The prediction is untestable.
A further problem is that uncountably many different configurations of dimensions and strings are permitted at those tiny scales; the theory can give rise to a limitless variety of universes. Amid this vast landscape of solutions, no one can hope to find a precise microscopic configuration that undergirds our particular macroscopic world.
These issues are profound indeed. Yet in my experience, the typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between those who deem it worth studying and those who don’t.
Recently, a new angle of attack has opened up. An approach called bootstrapping has allowed physicists to calculate that, under various starting assumptions about the universe, a key equation from string theory naturally follows. For some experts, these findings support the notion of “string uniqueness,” the idea that it is the only mathematically consistent quantum description of gravity and everything else.
Responding to one bootstrap paper on her YouTube channel, mere weeks after the “undead” comment, Hossenfelder said it was “string theorists do[ing] something sensible for once.” She added, “I’d say this paper strengthens the argument for string theory.”
Not everyone agrees, but the findings are reviving an important question. “This question of ‘Does string theory describe the world?’ has just been so taboo,” said Cliff Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the paper discussed by Hossenfelder. Now, “people are actually thinking about it for the first time in decades.”
Getting wind of this work, I wanted to drill down on the logic and examine how the string hypothesis is faring these days…
And so she does: “Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?” from @nattyover.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.
Compare/contrast with: “Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals.”
* Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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As we grapple with Godel, we might spare a thought for Hermann Rorschach; he died on this date in 1922. A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, his education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject’s personality. Rorschach knew the human tendency to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli and believed that the subjective responses of his subjects enabled him to distinguish among them on the basis of their perceptive abilities, intelligence, and emotional characteristics. His method has come to be known as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders.
Perhaps his insight that we humans tend “to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli” can inform our understanding of physicists trying to construct mental/conceptual models of our reality, which they’ve been doing for a very long time, and of the limitations of that quest.
#bootstrapping #conceptualModels #culture #Godel #HermannRorschach #history #interpretation #KurtGodel #mentalModels #Physics #projection #RorschachTest #Science #stringTheory #theoryOfEverything -
“For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason.”*…
A “theory of everything” (a Grand Unified Theory on steriods)– a (still hypothetical) coherent theoretical framework of physics containing and explaining all physical principles– is the holy grail of physicists. Natalie Wolchover checks in on the most recent front-runner in the hunt…
Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe. This is much to the chagrin of its rather vocal critics. “String theory is not dead; it’s undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people’s brains,” the former physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said on her popular YouTube channel in 2024.
String theory is a “failure,” the mathematical physicist and blogger Peter Woit often says. His complaint is not that string theory is wrong — it’s that it’s “not even wrong,” as he titled a 2006 book. The theory says that, on scales of billionths of trillionths of trillionths of a centimeter, extra curled-up spatial dimensions reveal themselves and particles resolve into extended objects — strands and loops of energy — rather than points. But this alleged substructure is too small to detect, probably ever. The prediction is untestable.
A further problem is that uncountably many different configurations of dimensions and strings are permitted at those tiny scales; the theory can give rise to a limitless variety of universes. Amid this vast landscape of solutions, no one can hope to find a precise microscopic configuration that undergirds our particular macroscopic world.
These issues are profound indeed. Yet in my experience, the typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between those who deem it worth studying and those who don’t.
Recently, a new angle of attack has opened up. An approach called bootstrapping has allowed physicists to calculate that, under various starting assumptions about the universe, a key equation from string theory naturally follows. For some experts, these findings support the notion of “string uniqueness,” the idea that it is the only mathematically consistent quantum description of gravity and everything else.
Responding to one bootstrap paper on her YouTube channel, mere weeks after the “undead” comment, Hossenfelder said it was “string theorists do[ing] something sensible for once.” She added, “I’d say this paper strengthens the argument for string theory.”
Not everyone agrees, but the findings are reviving an important question. “This question of ‘Does string theory describe the world?’ has just been so taboo,” said Cliff Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the paper discussed by Hossenfelder. Now, “people are actually thinking about it for the first time in decades.”
Getting wind of this work, I wanted to drill down on the logic and examine how the string hypothesis is faring these days…
And so she does: “Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?” from @nattyover.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.
Compare/contrast with: “Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals.”
* Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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As we grapple with Godel, we might spare a thought for Hermann Rorschach; he died on this date in 1922. A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, his education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject’s personality. Rorschach knew the human tendency to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli and believed that the subjective responses of his subjects enabled him to distinguish among them on the basis of their perceptive abilities, intelligence, and emotional characteristics. His method has come to be known as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders.
Perhaps his insight that we humans tend “to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli” can inform our understanding of physicists trying to construct mental/conceptual models of our reality, which they’ve been doing for a very long time, and of the limitations of that quest.
#bootstrapping #conceptualModels #culture #Godel #HermannRorschach #history #interpretation #KurtGodel #mentalModels #Physics #projection #RorschachTest #Science #stringTheory #theoryOfEverything -
“For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason.”*…
A “theory of everything” (a Grand Unified Theory on steriods)– a (still hypothetical) coherent theoretical framework of physics containing and explaining all physical principles– is the holy grail of physicists. Natalie Wolchover checks in on the most recent front-runner in the hunt…
Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe. This is much to the chagrin of its rather vocal critics. “String theory is not dead; it’s undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people’s brains,” the former physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said on her popular YouTube channel in 2024.
String theory is a “failure,” the mathematical physicist and blogger Peter Woit often says. His complaint is not that string theory is wrong — it’s that it’s “not even wrong,” as he titled a 2006 book. The theory says that, on scales of billionths of trillionths of trillionths of a centimeter, extra curled-up spatial dimensions reveal themselves and particles resolve into extended objects — strands and loops of energy — rather than points. But this alleged substructure is too small to detect, probably ever. The prediction is untestable.
A further problem is that uncountably many different configurations of dimensions and strings are permitted at those tiny scales; the theory can give rise to a limitless variety of universes. Amid this vast landscape of solutions, no one can hope to find a precise microscopic configuration that undergirds our particular macroscopic world.
These issues are profound indeed. Yet in my experience, the typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between those who deem it worth studying and those who don’t.
Recently, a new angle of attack has opened up. An approach called bootstrapping has allowed physicists to calculate that, under various starting assumptions about the universe, a key equation from string theory naturally follows. For some experts, these findings support the notion of “string uniqueness,” the idea that it is the only mathematically consistent quantum description of gravity and everything else.
Responding to one bootstrap paper on her YouTube channel, mere weeks after the “undead” comment, Hossenfelder said it was “string theorists do[ing] something sensible for once.” She added, “I’d say this paper strengthens the argument for string theory.”
Not everyone agrees, but the findings are reviving an important question. “This question of ‘Does string theory describe the world?’ has just been so taboo,” said Cliff Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the paper discussed by Hossenfelder. Now, “people are actually thinking about it for the first time in decades.”
Getting wind of this work, I wanted to drill down on the logic and examine how the string hypothesis is faring these days…
And so she does: “Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?” from @nattyover.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.
Compare/contrast with: “Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals.”
* Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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As we grapple with Godel, we might spare a thought for Hermann Rorschach; he died on this date in 1922. A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, his education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject’s personality. Rorschach knew the human tendency to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli and believed that the subjective responses of his subjects enabled him to distinguish among them on the basis of their perceptive abilities, intelligence, and emotional characteristics. His method has come to be known as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders.
Perhaps his insight that we humans tend “to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli” can inform our understanding of physicists trying to construct mental/conceptual models of our reality, which they’ve been doing for a very long time, and of the limitations of that quest.
#bootstrapping #conceptualModels #culture #Godel #HermannRorschach #history #interpretation #KurtGodel #mentalModels #Physics #projection #RorschachTest #Science #stringTheory #theoryOfEverything -
“For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason.”*…
A “theory of everything” (a Grand Unified Theory on steriods)– a (still hypothetical) coherent theoretical framework of physics containing and explaining all physical principles– is the holy grail of physicists. Natalie Wolchover checks in on the most recent front-runner in the hunt…
Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe. This is much to the chagrin of its rather vocal critics. “String theory is not dead; it’s undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people’s brains,” the former physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said on her popular YouTube channel in 2024.
String theory is a “failure,” the mathematical physicist and blogger Peter Woit often says. His complaint is not that string theory is wrong — it’s that it’s “not even wrong,” as he titled a 2006 book. The theory says that, on scales of billionths of trillionths of trillionths of a centimeter, extra curled-up spatial dimensions reveal themselves and particles resolve into extended objects — strands and loops of energy — rather than points. But this alleged substructure is too small to detect, probably ever. The prediction is untestable.
A further problem is that uncountably many different configurations of dimensions and strings are permitted at those tiny scales; the theory can give rise to a limitless variety of universes. Amid this vast landscape of solutions, no one can hope to find a precise microscopic configuration that undergirds our particular macroscopic world.
These issues are profound indeed. Yet in my experience, the typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between those who deem it worth studying and those who don’t.
Recently, a new angle of attack has opened up. An approach called bootstrapping has allowed physicists to calculate that, under various starting assumptions about the universe, a key equation from string theory naturally follows. For some experts, these findings support the notion of “string uniqueness,” the idea that it is the only mathematically consistent quantum description of gravity and everything else.
Responding to one bootstrap paper on her YouTube channel, mere weeks after the “undead” comment, Hossenfelder said it was “string theorists do[ing] something sensible for once.” She added, “I’d say this paper strengthens the argument for string theory.”
Not everyone agrees, but the findings are reviving an important question. “This question of ‘Does string theory describe the world?’ has just been so taboo,” said Cliff Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the paper discussed by Hossenfelder. Now, “people are actually thinking about it for the first time in decades.”
Getting wind of this work, I wanted to drill down on the logic and examine how the string hypothesis is faring these days…
And so she does: “Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?” from @nattyover.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.
Compare/contrast with: “Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals.”
* Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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As we grapple with Godel, we might spare a thought for Hermann Rorschach; he died on this date in 1922. A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, his education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject’s personality. Rorschach knew the human tendency to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli and believed that the subjective responses of his subjects enabled him to distinguish among them on the basis of their perceptive abilities, intelligence, and emotional characteristics. His method has come to be known as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders.
Perhaps his insight that we humans tend “to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli” can inform our understanding of physicists trying to construct mental/conceptual models of our reality, which they’ve been doing for a very long time, and of the limitations of that quest.
#bootstrapping #conceptualModels #culture #Godel #HermannRorschach #history #interpretation #KurtGodel #mentalModels #Physics #projection #RorschachTest #Science #stringTheory #theoryOfEverything -
“For what man in the natural state or course of thinking did ever conceive it in his power to reduce the notions of all mankind exactly to the same length, and breadth, and height of his own? Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason.”*…
A “theory of everything” (a Grand Unified Theory on steriods)– a (still hypothetical) coherent theoretical framework of physics containing and explaining all physical principles– is the holy grail of physicists. Natalie Wolchover checks in on the most recent front-runner in the hunt…
Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe. This is much to the chagrin of its rather vocal critics. “String theory is not dead; it’s undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people’s brains,” the former physicist Sabine Hossenfelder said on her popular YouTube channel in 2024.
String theory is a “failure,” the mathematical physicist and blogger Peter Woit often says. His complaint is not that string theory is wrong — it’s that it’s “not even wrong,” as he titled a 2006 book. The theory says that, on scales of billionths of trillionths of trillionths of a centimeter, extra curled-up spatial dimensions reveal themselves and particles resolve into extended objects — strands and loops of energy — rather than points. But this alleged substructure is too small to detect, probably ever. The prediction is untestable.
A further problem is that uncountably many different configurations of dimensions and strings are permitted at those tiny scales; the theory can give rise to a limitless variety of universes. Amid this vast landscape of solutions, no one can hope to find a precise microscopic configuration that undergirds our particular macroscopic world.
These issues are profound indeed. Yet in my experience, the typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between those who deem it worth studying and those who don’t.
Recently, a new angle of attack has opened up. An approach called bootstrapping has allowed physicists to calculate that, under various starting assumptions about the universe, a key equation from string theory naturally follows. For some experts, these findings support the notion of “string uniqueness,” the idea that it is the only mathematically consistent quantum description of gravity and everything else.
Responding to one bootstrap paper on her YouTube channel, mere weeks after the “undead” comment, Hossenfelder said it was “string theorists do[ing] something sensible for once.” She added, “I’d say this paper strengthens the argument for string theory.”
Not everyone agrees, but the findings are reviving an important question. “This question of ‘Does string theory describe the world?’ has just been so taboo,” said Cliff Cheung, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the paper discussed by Hossenfelder. Now, “people are actually thinking about it for the first time in decades.”
Getting wind of this work, I wanted to drill down on the logic and examine how the string hypothesis is faring these days…
And so she does: “Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?” from @nattyover.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.
Compare/contrast with: “Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals.”
* Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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As we grapple with Godel, we might spare a thought for Hermann Rorschach; he died on this date in 1922. A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, his education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject’s personality. Rorschach knew the human tendency to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli and believed that the subjective responses of his subjects enabled him to distinguish among them on the basis of their perceptive abilities, intelligence, and emotional characteristics. His method has come to be known as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders.
Perhaps his insight that we humans tend “to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli” can inform our understanding of physicists trying to construct mental/conceptual models of our reality, which they’ve been doing for a very long time, and of the limitations of that quest.
#bootstrapping #conceptualModels #culture #Godel #HermannRorschach #history #interpretation #KurtGodel #mentalModels #Physics #projection #RorschachTest #Science #stringTheory #theoryOfEverything -
A narrow swath of deep #psychology and #psychoanalysis on a #bookshelf - chronicling it now, as once again all is at risk of #SpringCleaning
Seen/posted while awaiting a national address by a poster child for #delusion, #psychopathology, #megalomania, #BrainSpurs, #projection & #denial.
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Going to force money part of a report to be small and focus entirely upon #rational #projection of #ancillary #but #huge results due to end of #homelessness. We will count the number one time. Then the picture of a future, a future of #creation not elimination. A future of solution, not disillusion.
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Le Cheylard: Projection - Débat - Disparaître, sous les radars des algorithmes, Le mardi 31 mars 2026 de 20h00 à 20h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34875 #libreEnFete2026 #projection #débat #logicielLibre #viePrivée #linux07
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Projection du documentaire "La bataille du libre"
27 mars 2026, 20:00:00 UTC+01:00 - UTC+01:00 - Maison des Association (Jean Le Coutaller), 56100, Lorient, Francehttps://mobilizon.defis.info/events/de6ab744-f261-4fcb-9f8c-b4f1e409f411
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Where does Deyvison De Los Santos go from here? – Miami Marlins Minor League Videos https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/626433/ #Baseball #DeyvisonDeLosSantos #hitting #Marlins #Miami #MiamiMarlins #MiamiMarlins #MLB #projection #prospects
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Where does Deyvison De Los Santos go from here? – Miami Marlins Minor League Videos https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/626433/ #Baseball #DeyvisonDeLosSantos #hitting #Marlins #Miami #MiamiMarlins #MiamiMarlins #MLB #projection #prospects
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Limoges: Projection de courts métrages libres, Le samedi 7 mars 2026 de 15h00 à 16h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34441 #bfm #bibliothèqueFrancophoneMultimédia #moisDuLogicielLibre #mdll #libreEnFete2026 #projection #courtsMétrages #blender #logicielsLibres
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Limoges: Projection de courts métrages libres, Le samedi 7 mars 2026 de 15h00 à 16h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34441 #bfm #bibliothèqueFrancophoneMultimédia #moisDuLogicielLibre #mdll #libreEnFete2026 #projection #courtsMétrages #blender #logicielsLibres
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Limoges: Projection de courts métrages libres, Le samedi 7 mars 2026 de 15h00 à 16h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34441 #bfm #bibliothèqueFrancophoneMultimédia #moisDuLogicielLibre #mdll #libreEnFete2026 #projection #courtsMétrages #blender #logicielsLibres
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Limoges: Projection de courts métrages libres, Le samedi 7 mars 2026 de 15h00 à 16h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34441 #bfm #bibliothèqueFrancophoneMultimédia #moisDuLogicielLibre #mdll #libreEnFete2026 #projection #courtsMétrages #blender #logicielsLibres
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Limoges: Projection de courts métrages libres, Le samedi 7 mars 2026 de 15h00 à 16h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34441 #bfm #bibliothèqueFrancophoneMultimédia #moisDuLogicielLibre #mdll #libreEnFete2026 #projection #courtsMétrages #blender #logicielsLibres
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An odd mixture for The Onion - topic and author.
Usually The Onion has short satire/parody quips. Without celebrity authors.
Hmm - But point taken (?!)
> Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
By Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
#TrumpVirus #Mindfulness #TrumpEpsteinFiles #evil #GQP #ContextAndPerspective #history #SamAltman #AI #projection ?
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@MatWright he's doing it because he knows the armed forces has an unfortunate habit of harbouring alt-right/neo-nazi worshippers.
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À l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de l’Institut du radium, l’arrondissement de Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (MHM) présente IRRADIUM : archéologie des mémoires, une projection participative sur la façade de la Bibliothèque Maisonneuve.
https://estmediamontreal.com/mhm-centenaire-institut-radium-projection-irradium/
#Montrél #MHM #bibliothèque #irradium #cancer #histoire #patrimoine #activités #célébration #AHMHM #INICI # ChicRestoPop #art #architecture #culture #MEM #industries #familles #archéologie #projection