This adorable cat has to hunt for food.

This cat has to "hunt" to get some food. 

We used to hunt for food too, we used to walk for miles and outrun animals to get some meat.

This seems to be the first method of hunting for us humans. 

Walking and running is an essential part of our physical and mental health.

It improves our mood and memory. 

Now most of the physical exercise we use to do is replaced by exercises in a gym. 

Te difference between the gym and the exercise outside the gym is that it is uneven, unregular.

Running happens in the gym on a flat band, outside the terrain is uneven in many places.

You can run on asphalt or a somewhat flat road but it is healthier to run on an uneven terrain. 

Unregularity and randomness keep us sharp and healthy.

Everything that is too regular can make our health more fragile.

Have a great unregular day. 

Too much gratitude can kill you.

Thank God!

The first response you get when something gets fixed that seems very important to you.

We should be grateful it gets fixed and that they are willing to help us.

But sometimes the problem was caused by the people who are now offering the fix....at a cost of course. Nothing is for free.

Oh and you can't have what we originally agreed on but you get something that on the surface seems to offer the same but is, in fact, nothing like it at all.

But hey, be grateful you get what we offer you.

We are going to stab you but be happy we are not going to stab you in the stomach.

We are going to screw you over but trust us we had no choice, just be grateful we didn't take everything you have.

Be grateful we didn't take all your data.

Be grateful we don't control all your money.

Be grateful we don't do it more often.

Be grateful we kept that information from you, you couldn't handle it anyway.

Be grateful we f*cked things up so bad there had to come change that is eventually good.

Well, guess what. The curtains up. The show is over. We aren't gonna take it anymore.

Time's up!

Support the organisations that demand change:

Wikileaks, Someofus, DemocracyNow, Diem25, Freedomhouse, Represent.us, Muckrock

Anonymous (which doesn't seem to be an organisation according to one of them)

To keep to the internet free and for all of us there is:

Webfoundations and EFF

To lend money to people who need it there is Kiva.

Browse categories of borrowers— people looking to grow businesses, go to school, switch to clean energy and more.

Support minorities in need. #Blacklivesmatter.

Be a voice for those suppressed and silenced.

Let use our privilege to help those less privileged.

Support artists that create change. 

What do you stand for? What will you not stand for?

What organisations are important and are missing in the list here. Let us know.

We are not powerless!

Have a great day. 

Why we need to reevaluate how we design our technology before its too late.

Technology has given us so many great inventions that can improve our lives.
Many of these inventions that we use today we take for granted.

Some inventions aid us to get things done and others help us to find answers we need.
Take for instance a calculator. A calculator helps us find mathematical answers but does it make you understand math better?

No. The more we depend on using calculators the more we become dependent on calculators.

I see the same thing when I am copy-pasting words that I have to Google, because English is not my native language. I forget the words more easily.

We program computers to become smarter but most of the time we don't think about making computers that make us smarter. This is te difference between A.I, artificial intelligence and I.A Intelligence amplification.

This reminds me of a question about war that was asked to Neil DeGrasse Tyson:
Is it possible to create super soldiers and what research is there done?
He answered that any time a change needed to be made in order to improve survival chances  in space those changes were made external by engineers instead of biological.

Which means that spacesuits were made and improved, The space stations were improved, the way a space shuttle take off, travels and lands are improved. All external to the body.

Why? Because when something happens the health risks are smaller and easier to repair.

So in some situations externalizing aid is not only optional but essential.

  Nevertheless outside of matters of life and death, many of our external aids make us more dependent and the skills we have to do it ourselves are diminishing.

Maybe it is a better idea to design our technology to enhance our skills and intelligence instead of outsourcing it everytime.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Have a great day.

How to get the best out of Pokemon Go ... if you're NOT playing it.

Hi there people,

You have by now been swallowed by the Pokemon Go hype and have chosen to play or not.
No matter what you have chosen to do you will have seen it on social media and on the streets.

I can imagine it might be somewhat irritating if you have friends or colleagues keep talking about it or when they don't pay attention and are focused on their game instead. 

Some people are getting upset and post on social media how these Pokemon Go players are 

childish and how adult they themselves are. Other people are posting how Pokemon Go players get in trouble sometimes to show how "dumb" they are. 

Other people just don't want other people to have fun. 

You can be upset all the time or you could get the best out of this situation too.

Some shops are using it to attract more clients.

come shop at JCP to get 15% off your purchase if you mention Pokemon :-) pic.twitter.com/OZxc8aV1hM

— hals (@hallie_wolfe) 23 juli 2016

Another successful Pokemon find in Partridges by @buchan_josh 1/2 price tango blast for catching it pic.twitter.com/OwhU5qaVF8

— Partridges (@Partridges_Shop) 22 juli 2016

If you are a creator and sell on Etsy or another site you can make stuff for Pokemon players if you want.

A personal favourite from my @Etsy shop #etsychaching #TeamInstinct #PokemonGO #etsysocial #craftshout #craftbuzz https://t.co/qJsY3uLocK

— Diana Sian Crafts (@74_bilverstone) 23 juli 2016

The San Diego Zoo uses the hype to educate people. 

What would you call this Pokémon? (📷 by Todd Lahman) pic.twitter.com/3tVo1OhqqJ

— San Diego Zoo (@sandiegozoo) 14 juli 2016

The Maryland Zoo is attracting more Pokemon in the game and attracting more people to visit the zoo.

There are #pokemon all over the #Zoo, so we're joining the fun & activating lures between 10-11am Thurs, Fri & Sat. pic.twitter.com/41k3v4vlW4

— Maryland Zoo (@marylandzoo) 12 juli 2016

The Toronto Zoo made a map so players can find the Gyms more easily in the zoo.

Here's a map of Pokegyms and Pokestops at the Zoo with a few you'll need to find for yourself 😉 #PokeTOZoo pic.twitter.com/JtwHSGBXmi

— The Toronto Zoo (@TheTorontoZoo) 16 juli 2016

These people utilised the hype to their benefit maybe you can utilize it too.
Maybe you can use something that you first thought was hindering you to your advantage.

Sometimes it's all about how we look at a situation and how we look at the things that happen in our life. Maybe you will find even more situations in your life that you can utilize.

Have a great day.
Enjoy.

Controlling the chaos in magic.

Seriously, what gave you the impression you could bargain with Cthulhu?
What makes you think that you can control all the vibrations in Indras net when you step right in.

Every nervous system has its limits to the range of sensory perception.
What lies in the ultraviolet light?  What lurks in the frequencies that we can't tap into?

"You look more radiant every day madam Cury."
How many sacrifices did it take to learn about radiation what we take for granted today?

Even when you stretch your perceptual acuity and your sensibility there are always limits.

There is always more we don't know than that we know.
There is always more happening than that we can comprehend.

Dynamic systems have chaotic solutions in a universe that is fractal with exponential growth.
Now , I know this is a sentence with a lot of big words but this isn't' a Deepak Chopra quote, Understanding the basics of dynamics systems and cybernetics, chaos theory, fractal math and exponential growth is cruel in working with chaos.


Many people who are into Chaos magic also have shown much interest in the work Nassim Nicolas Taleb did into living in a world of incomplete information, chaos, antifragitlity and black swans.

"The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on an ancient saying which presumed black swans did not exist, but the saying was rewritten after black swans were discovered in the wild."-wikipedia.

We often tend to explain non-linear unpredictable things in hindsight as linear and predictable.
This is best to keep in mind when working with magic it seems to me because magic is (thinking that we are) making linear connections with "forces" in a non-linear universe. 

Ofcourse Chaos magicians know that you can use anything to make a meaningful connection as long as you make it meaningful. This is the benefit of a fractal universe, everything reflects everything else. As explained in my other post about magic, anything can be used as a source of a greater "power".  It are the connections that give it power, how you connect to the item you are working with and how that item is a part of, is related to, something bigger than itself. 

Yet, even when we have the wanted result in magic it would be unwise imo to think that the results are restricted to what you can perceive or that when a ritual or other magical working fail that therefore nothing happened.  

But what does this mean practically? What does this change for me practicing magic? 

It may seem reasonably abstract at first but changing understanding changes the boundaries of the concepts we can work with and it changes how we relate to things. 

It can be that you are accumulating small undetectable changes in a vast network that could suddenly give exponential results. 

It can be that what the spells you left unfinished keep reverberating and that what you delete sends out a signal from the beginning of time to infinity. I am using exaggeration to make you stretch your imagination of possibilities. 

Train your peripheral thinking and understanding of the world.

We can learn where our functional fixedness lies and soften or remove those boundaries. 

No matter how much we learn there is always more to learn. No matter how much you control don't get cocky and overreach. 

About reach of power, Nicolas Taleb had the following to say, that the control of power should be given to the smallest unit that can handle it. That way the bigger system can gain from the failure and/or fragility of the smaller. Small conflicts between smaller parts give more resilience to the bigger unit. When a too big part takes control of power it can damage the resilience of the smaller parts and therefore make the larger system more fragile in the end. 

So who are you trying to summon and for what goal and ends? What is it reach and where can it overreach? 

How much are you in control of your magical  practise and how much is in your control of you? 

Micromanaging does more damage than that is beneficial to the system. 

So where do we need to draw the line? It comes back to the smallest manageable part again. 

Maybe it can help to think in terms of min-maxing. 

May the For... Chaos... entrance you and inspire you to learn more. 

Have a great day. 

The police response on the 3 dead policemen in Baton Rouge was great and here is why.

After the Baton Rouge shooting  a police officer responded to the situation with:
"Were not sure of anything right now. All we do know is..."

Wonderful!

How many times have you heard somebody trying to be smart by trying to come up with an explanation on the spot?

Even when there is information to base a conclusion on it is important to acknowledge when you have too little information to come to a conclusion. Guessing what something could be in such situation can create confusion that can escalate faster than we can comprehend.

Clarity in communication is essential in dangerous and risky situations.
It is also very important when emotions are getting stirred up in a group.

Stating that you don't have all the information does not make you dumb,
the best scientist will answer: "I don't know." in a Q&A when they don't know the answer.
It's a sign of greatness.

Recognizing the boundaries of our knowledge makes us more alert and critical of how we come to know things, how we learn and how we process information.

Once we know what it is we don't understand or know yet we can begin to learn.
Until we have recognized what it is we don't know enough of we can't see with clear eyes, we can't learn.

Another great way of creating clarity is sticking to the facts without coming to a conclusion.
Many people think that a person who doesn't come up with conclusions on the spot is indecisive or even maybe dumb; Maybe this happened to you too.

In fact, people who are slower to come to conclusions often are more critical and understand that not everything is like it seems at first sight. They will often look for underlying reasons and systems that could change what appears to be. They will often be more careful when making a decision and care about the sustainability of a change they want to make instead of going for the first thing that pops in their head.

That does not mean that this is a better strategy all the time. There are times when it is better to just go for "good enough".

In the case of the police responding on the Baton Rouge shooting, the answer of the policemen was exactly what was needed.

Well done.

World Emoji Day - Fun Facts.

With so many emojis you could say almost anything in pictures. Before you know it we are back to using hieroglyphs like in ancient Egypt. That's not a fact of course, but what well is, is that:

We process emojis with the same parts of the brain that process facial expressions wich means that our brain responds the same to emojis as to facial expressions.
For more information on facial expressions, check out: Paul Ekman.

Every language how complex it may be at first becomes simpler over time.

Emojili was a network that uses emojis only. Emojli was set up as a joke by two people in their spare time and despite the occasional call from confused investors, it isn't a startup. Over 60,000 of you may have downloaded the apps, but very few people actually used it. It closed 30th July 2015.

Link: http://emoj.li/

One of those friends who started Emojili is Tom Scott, who became rather accidentally a emoji expert suddenly.


This is my opinion but I am still gonna give it: Tom is a very smart and funny guy and you might learn a thing or two from him. He has a youtube channel.

Have a great day now. :D