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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It is the same corporate fuelled slop. Starting a community via Activity Pub might be a way forward.

https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

@rjwatt42.bsky.social Greetings. Across your research into spatial cognition, did you examine how Coulomb’s law might be implicated in the cognitive construction?

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Because that isn’t how the retina works. Many papers, but an introductory might be: Westheimer, Gerald. “The ON–OFF Dichotomy in Visual Processing: From Receptors to Perception.” Progress in Retinal and Eye Research 26, no. 6 (November 2007): 636–48. doi.org/10.1016/j.pr....

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thank goodness we don’t have any discrete scalar measurement biological capabilities, then! WRGB has the added accidental upside of taking poorly formed pictures and creating a less busted up presentation out of them.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

Duane Puryear holding the AIDS quilt panel he completed before his death. It reads "MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGONISED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT. I AM DEAD..."

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 has "a magic to it i haven't felt before." I'm reminded of Peter Nagy and Gina Neff's article about "the conjuration of algorithms—a strategically deployed narrative device that uses the principles of magic to manipulate the public perception of technologies."

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Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians - Peter Nagy, Gina Neff, 2024

In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I post over on Mastodon because I’m reluctant to labour for free for yet another bunch of tech bro billionaires. I also respect that not everyone will use Fediverse apps. bsky.app/profile/troy...

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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ottawa fans booing the American anthem is what we all need.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

How on earth do you trust the assembled viable sequences *in research*? It’s made up!

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I am incredibly skeptical that *you* want a computer to generate content slop for you? It’s like the worst DnD random dungeon.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Assembled Statistically Sequenced shit is so fucking dull and worthless. It’s like a fucking budgie mirror for idiots.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The fascinating part is that even when you understand what is coming, the meaning is impenetrable. And likewise, once you’ve heard the meaningful representation, it is impossible to hear it naively again. users.sussex.ac.uk/~cjd/SWS/ind...

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Sine-wave speech demos

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Indeed. And the decoding of air waves to sound is at least as complex as pictorial depiction decoding of stimuli into forms. It just drives me to distraction that folks have this myth of “idealized pictorial depiction is a simulacrum of the stimuli” forced upon them, reinforced by the seduction.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“Filmic”, or more accurately, the unique relationship between total energy within a given region and the interrelationship of chrominance to luminance, is akin to a grammatical writing tool. Without it, we have a higher cognitive tax on the interpretation of the forms within a pictorial depiction.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Bingo. And the deeper problem is that there is the incredible cognitive mechanisms that decompose and segment stimuli into forms that no one realizes without paying close attention. The “essence” of the all-too-abused “filmic” term is what we all ought to realize as *a cognitive text*.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We are *so* brain wormed by the legitimated orthodoxy that no one has stopped to ask what we are trying to do. There’s also a founding myth prevalent; that a pictorial depiction is idealized when the stimuli is presented as it was in front of the camera. This brain worm needs to stop.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Indeed. Ekroll was involved with a wonderful paper on the subject of techniques to avoid “Illusory Essences”. doi.org/10.1177/1745....

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hence why undermining the language is important to create a friction between what folks *believe* they comprehend, and what is actually happening when we shape and form pictures from sensor energy catches.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Expected. It doesn’t exist as a construct beyond a few folks who have thought this through. I’m sort of wrestling with a post on this subject, hence why I wanted to borrow the quotation. Pictorial depiction is something folks need to focus on. Not the bullshit of “scene” and “display” rubbish.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Someone gets it. In fact, calling the picture formation a “tone mapper” or “display rendering transform” is obfuscating nonsense. It is quite literally the algorithm that crafts the pictorial depiction. I’ll be long gone before folks abandon Giorgianni-Kodak’s bullshit ideology.

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Paradox @ctcwired.paradoxwolf.info · 15/01/2025

"how do I match these cameras" "why do smartphones look like this" "why are these skin tones different" "how come these PTZ cameras have weird contrast" "why do broadcast cameras use these charts" the real question: where is the tonemapper?

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

And a complete biologically untenable pile of nonsense. Vendor endorsed widget selling rubbish.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

And here I was thinking the United States second amendment was potentially an anachronistic clause…

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Try it. The Boys is a nice sort of riff that reminds me of Boris the Bear.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This is key because several logical questions flow from this fundamental, biological entry point. 1. If the signal is a *gradient* relation, it requires multiple samples across the spatial frustum. 2. If the signal is a *gradient* strength signal, why does what we think we “see” seem different?

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Why is this crucial to deconstruct as a myth? Because the “optic signal” is not a discrete scalar value of the spatial frustum. It’s in fact a complex overlapping of inhibitory signals; it’s a *gradient* signal. *There is no “picture”* as we think of a moving picture “frame”.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A key part of this myth is the *absolutely false* belief that the cones “measure” the electromagnetic radiation they are sensitive to. This is *outright false*. In fact, we can attribute so much of our misunderstanding around colour cognition to this origin story myth.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A key part to dismantling the notion around stimuli - the electromagnetic radiation - as *colour*, is to focus on a multi-pronged assault on the myths we’ve been sold. The first, pervasive myth, is the “Eye as a Camera” myth. Gilchrist has called this the “Eye as Photometer” myth.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

(The stimuli in the interior “rectangle” region is identical in both cases, yet most folks have a higher than average probability of *not* cognizing a “hue drift” in the second example.)

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

How can we prove this? Quite simply; design a demonstration that is reasoned and logical that pushes back against this “stimuli as colour” nonsense myth. Ok. Enough for BlueSky. Anyone interested in the mechanisms can be pointed in the right direction by way of reliable papers.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

the “middle” region of the “rectangle” has a probability of being cognized as “drifting to a mauve-purple”? Now the CAM / UCS foolishness would try to “unbend” that. But of course that’s a bogus approach. Why? Because the effect is: 1. Cognitive. 2. Emergent from the articulation of the stimuli.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Models” can exist as Cartesian transformations of stimuli *is outright lying to you*. The key? Gradients. This means the *articulation* of the stimuli is absolutely critical to wrap our collective heads around how we’ve all been conned for decades by scientism. First up… the classic. Notice how

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ok… one for BlueSky. Everyone talks about “The Abney Effect”, right? The truth is, few realize that it’s not a single effect. This false myth stems from our misunderstanding of stimuli *as* colour. Always remember: Anyone who tries to tell you that “Uniform Colour Spaces” or “Colour Appearance

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Lots of familiar faces. Would like to see more folks embrace the social media protocols that cannot be hijacked, like so much of our crucial cultural surface, by billionaires.

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Did you end up getting the new soldering station from a ways back? I had a colleague show me this unit and… uh… store.metcal.com/en-us/shop/s...

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https://bsky.app/profile/troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @troy-s.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

How the heck does one control the notifications on this app?!

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