About me
2023-06-07 |
Last modified: 2023-07-12 13:58:31 -0700 (PST)
Hello, I've been posting here (Mastodon: @persagen@mastodon.social about a week now, rather prolifically. 🐘
I am purposely and intently pursuing news, information and knowledge about wealth, power, and influence, so much of what I post is accordingly rather dark and heavy. 🌩
The "good" will take care of itself.
With the dramatic increases in social friction, identity politics, culture wars, and divisive rhetoric I believe that as first step to depolarization and meaningful change, it is important to understand the sources of that discord.
Being trans (read about me here: here | personal | professional) the anti-LGBT and anti-trans movements are of particular interest. Persagen.com is - in part - my way of understanding and sharing knowledge that shapes and affect our lives. 📖 💻 📊
Those movements and activities are funded somehow - by persons and groups with deep pockets, each with multiple agendae (neoconservatism; neoliberalism; Christian fundamentalism; ...).
As always, "follow the money."
Fundamentally, I am an optimist. 🌞 🌻 🌎
While the social, environmental and ecological perils we all face are significant, I think in the long-term (centuries) - if we make it - we will find a utopia of sorts (idealized in Star Trek or Iain Banks's Culture series. 🖖
Current challenges include erosion of rights, liberties, and freedoms; inequality; global warming and climate change; pollution and ecological destruction; corporate greed; disruptive emerging technologies (artificial general intelligence); ... 🤔
Emerging technological innovations offer some respite; for example, low- or room-temperature superconductors would enable enormous savings from power transmission loss; high-density batteries might enable atmosphere-sparing air and sea transportation (militaries are major polluters); mRNA vaccines and other molecular biology / genetic engineering technologies offer solutions to inherited and age-related disease (cancer; ...) ... 👍
Namaste, 🕊
Victoria
Dr. Victoria A. Stuart, Ph.D.
Hashtags
First thing each morning I post a calm start to the day, a song / music video (if available):
Sunday mornings I also read papers, articles that I set aside:
The following hashtags (subset of much broader set) indicate topics and areas of interest I regularly follow and/or are relevant to my Persagen.com @persagen@mastodon.social account.
CANADA
#BritishColumbia
#Canada
#Vancouver
PERSAGEN
#CuratedDatabase
#database
#graphs
#InternetSearch
#KnowledgeEngine
#KnowledgeGraph
#OpenSourceIntelligence
#OSINT
#Persagen
#Persagen_com
#PropertyGraphs
#relationships
#SearchEngine
#SemanticGraphs
#semantics
PERSONAL
#PhD
#VictoriasJourney_com
#VictoriaStuart
PERSAGEN - WEB DEVELOPMENT
#ApacheSolr
#CSS
#DOM
#JavaScript
#PHP
#Python
#Solr
#WebDevelopment
KNOWLEDGE
#epistemology
#informatics
#InformationTheory
#ontology
MACHINE LEARNING
#AI
#AIrisk
#ArtificialIntelligence
#ChatGPT
#CostFunctions
#ExistentialRisk
#GPT
#GPT3
#GPT4
#LanguageModels
#LargeLanguageModels
#LinearAlgebra
#LLM
#LossFunctions
#MachineLearning
#MathematicalOptimization
#matrices
#MatrixMultiplication
#ML
#NaturalLanguageProgramming
#NeuralNets
#NeuralNetworks
#NLP
#OpenAI
CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChangeDenial
#ClimateDenial
#enviromentalism
#FossilFuels
#FossilFuelsLobby
#GlobalWarming
#HeartlandInstitute
LGBT
#BlackTransLivesMatter
#homophobia
#LGBT
#LGBTQ+
#SOGI
#transgender
#TransLivesMatter
#transphobia
ANTI-LGBT | CULTURE WARS
#A4C
#ActionForCanada
#AllianceDefendingFreedom
#CultureWars
#deception
#disinformation
#FakeNews
#M4L
#misinformation
#MomsForAmerica
#MomsForLiberty
BLACK LIVES
#BlackHistory
#BlackLivesMatter
#BLM
#CriticalRaceTheory
#CRT
#DefundThePolice
#MilitarizedPolice
#police
#PoliceState
#racism
#StopCopCity
#StructuralViolence
#SystemicRacism
BIOLOGY
#ageing
#aging
#bioinformatics
#biology
#biotechnology
#CalorieRestriction
#deoxyribonucleic
#DietaryRestriction
#DNA
#EvidenceBasedMedicine
#GeneticEngineering
#genetics
#genomics
#immunity
#inflammation
#IntermittentFasting
#medicine
#microbiolgy
#MolecularGenetics
#mRNA
#mRNAvaccines
#PersonalizedMedicine
#proteins
#proteomics
#RNA
#SyntheticBiology
SCIENCE - MISCELLANEOUS
#amplituhedron
#cosmology
#EmergingTechnologies
#EnergyStorage
#engineering
#LinearAlgebra
#MaterialsScience
#mathematics
#ParticlePhysics
#physics
#QuantumComputing
#QuantumFieldTheory
#QuantumMechanics
#QuantumWavefunction
CULTURE
#anthropology
#archaeology
#ethnobotany
#OralHistory
#OralLegends
#PeoplingOfAmericas
DARK MONEY
#CitizensUnited
#DarkMoney
#DonorAdvisedFunds
#DonorsTrust
#lobbyists
#MitchMcConnell
#RandPaul
CHRISTIAN RIGHT
#ChristianRight
#DominionTheology
#MikeFlynn
#MikePence
#theocracy
DISCRIMINATION
#discrimination
#ecosocialism
#equality
#hatred
#HumanRights
#inequality
#justice
#SocialJustice
#truth
FAR-RIGHT POLITICS
#FarRight
#GOP
#GregAbbott
#HeritageFoundation
#IdentityPolitics
#ideology
#incel
#neoconservatism
#neoNazi
#neoNazism
#NewRight
#politics
#ProudBoys
#RepublicanParty
#RonDeSantis
#supremacism
#supremacy
#WhiteSupremacism
LEGISLATION
#ALEC
#AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil
#ModelActs
#ModelBills
JUDICIARY - U.S. SUPREME COURT
#AmyConeyBarrett
#ClarenceThomas
#FederalistSociety
#HarlanCrow
#LeonardLeo
#PaulSinger
#SamAlito
#SamuelAlito
#SCOTUS
#SupremeCourt
#USSupremeCourt
NEOCONSERVATISM
#ConservativeParty
#ConservativePartyOfCanada
#DanielleSmith
#DougFord
#MaximeBernier
#neoconservatism
#PeoplesPartyOfCanada
#PierrePoilievre
#UCP
#UnitedConservativeParty
NEOFASCISM
#autocracy
#CNP
#CouncilForNationalPolicy
#DefundBillionaires
#DonaldTrump
#GinniThomas
#JulieFancelli
#neofascism
#RebekahMercer
#RichardUihlein
NEOLIBERALISM
#CharlesKoch
#IncomeInequality
#KochIndustries
#meritocracy
#neoliberalism
#plutocracy
#wealth
#WealthInequality