My Actifit Report Card and Update: October 14 2023
Hi Everyone,
I have spent another week hard at work publishing chapters from my upcoming book Sapien Loop on my @captainhive account. I have also published a collections post of the Epilogue and Part One of the book. It contains 25 chapters/posts. They are reasonably short chapters, less than 2,000 words each and some under 1,000 words. Each one will take less than 10 minutes to read.
I am very happy with the progress of the book. It reads pretty well. A few things have been fine tuned to help consistency and readability. I am confident it will be complete before Christmas.
Activity
It was lawn mowing week. The weather was dry enough to mow both the top back lawn and front lawn. I'm guessing I'll need to do it just once more this year. The weather has turned colder now and with less daylight it won't grow very fast.
The colder weather means I will need to give Hamlet the Happy Pig and Lily Goat some more hay bales. I don't want to give them too early because Hamlet will destroy them but I don't want them to get cold either. Best I can do is monitor the temperature. If winter comes early, I might need to get them some extra bales for next year.
World of Madness Continues
Just over a week ago I wrote a post about how crazy the world has become. A big part of that is the use of language. Well, the world has become a lot crazier. People of Israel experienced one of the worst terrorist attacks this century. Horrific in nature and magnitude. I spent quite a bit of time on Twitter. Many of the things I saw was very distressing. So much hatred being expressed by people. Some of it just online and some of it playing out on the streets of our biggest cities. It is incredibly sad. I will write a post once I get my head fully around what is happening. There is so much disinformation. The media appear to be hard at work trying to stoke tensions the best they can. For now, I'll just leave it at that.
Over three years ago, I wrote a post titled 'Is Socialism being used as a path to Fascism?'. I feel this post is particularly relevant to recent events.
That wraps up this week's Actifit Report and Update. I wish everyone the best. My heart goes out to all those effected by recent events. Take care.
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That's great. Hope You done your work very well ahead.
Winters are arriving. Have a great weekend.
Yeah, it got cold in a hurry.
Twitter deforms and degrades communication.
In 2019 and 2020 I used Twitter extensively for campaigning for Trump and other candidates in Hawaii - I also held dozens of rallys in person - people who would be casually cruel and blatantly rude in person would be absolutely silent in person, I’ve had reporters run from me in person after exchanges on line even though I was neutral or pleasant to them.
I believe it can be attributed at least partially to simple human psychology and brain chemistry.
99.95% users of Twitter will never see a dime from it or a sale so there is a different medium of exchange.
The strongest emotion reaction producing topics trend - this is almost always something that elicits fear or anger, our minds prioritize negative information for own survival - though our biology betrays us when threats are abstract and omnipresent.
Most of humanity feels unable to control or understand the macro events that unfold around us - yet they are constantly saturated in them from a 24 hour news cycle.
So users take to Twitter for catharsis, or even just to be validated by someone - as the arguments flow neurotransmitters begin to flood the brain and the participants feel good - alive.
In almost all biological processes with a receptor cell mechanism the receptors build up some resistance to a stimulating molecule, and the site of production requires a greater stimulus to start the flow of dopamine or noradrenaline, because of this dampening affect a social media user has to engage in more and more vitriolic fights and gravitate to the strongest reaction producing topics. They become slaves to their own neurobiology and will readily rationalize their behaviors.
On Twitter I observe very little attempt at positive persuasion, almost everything is framed in response to why something or someone is bad or horrible, rather than why something may be a more positive alternative. For instance rather than attempt to convince me to adopt a morally or ethically superior position, what I see more often is the attempt to shame or castigate someone for a disagreeable position they hold - manipulative or coercive force rather than persuasion.
This turned into a bit of an essay but it is definitely jarring to go from Hive where civility is incentivized to Twitter where it has little value.
I mostly use Twitter on and off. I find it useful for finding out the latest information/talk. It contains quite a bit of misinformation but a lot of it is easy to spot if we do not respond instinctively to our emotions.
Thank you for your detailed comment. You make a lot of good points.
You must have really put in so much hardwork in those stories writing them
I have been working on it for months. Feels worth it.
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Lawn mowing is also a great kind of exercise and I also do that kind of activities here in our Place. It looks like you have a busy day my friend and that help us to become always healthy and fit.
My land is on a hill. Mowing uphill is quite a challenge and a good form of exercise.
That is true my friend. A simple work and chores can also serve as a good form of exercises. 👍
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