https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_Us

for - adjacency - existential isolation - footprints in the sand - noone will care for us a thousand years from now - Milarepa - alone vs loneliness - Donald Hoffman - I've often thought about this on walks in nature - plants sit next to each other, - some just sprouting, - others in full, vibrant maturity, - some withering, - and others dead and decayed - life and death are juxtapositioned - A blade of grass may live and die without the rest of the world knowing anything about it - When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? - To live a life embodying the sacred, it doesn't matter if no-one knows anything about you - and yet, in contrast, biology and psychology tells us e are social beings, INTERbeings by nature - How do we reconcile these opposites? - Milarepa - the yogi living in solitude mountain retreat - in a yogic song I wrote, there's a difference between being alone and loneliness - How do we flip the loneliness of existential isolation of being human - to the fullness of the boundless wisdomin the aloneness of one particular headset in this lifetime?

New meme - the fullness of being alone - the Fullness of Emptiness

for - Science/evolution/Darwin/perception/ not the truth/but only to help us succeed at reproducing

for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman

for - comparison - emotional - vs intellectual - belief in the ideas - vs embodiment of the ideas - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - Christian teaching - infinite intelligence - loving God - loving your neighbor - loving yourself - all the same - Donald Hoffman

for - A Answer - the infinite knows itself though infinite number of perspectives - Donald Hoffman

for - Q ? - What is the meaning of life - Donald Hoffman

for - quote / key insight - consciousness has created the brain as an icon to describe how it's creating this headset - Donald Hoffman

for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.

adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species

for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.

• adjacency - poverty mentality - ego - problems of the world - samsara - nirvana - hologram model - Alan Watts - God playing hide and seek - Donald Hoffman
• When we don't believe we can be this, we limit ourselves
  • That is, we suffer from self-inflicted poverty mentality
• When he says we are the one same reality,
  • he is echoing the common spiritual teaching of the holographic metaphor where
    • the one nameless is distilling itself in so many separate identities to know itself,
  • Similiar to many spiritual teacher's teachings
    • Alan Watts referred to it as God playing Hide and Seek with itself

for - the map is not the territory - don't mistaken the finger for the moon

for - example - jewel beetle - simple hacks over seeing the truth - jewel beetle tries to mate with dimple on glass beer bottle - it doesn't use any other signals to help it distinguish between - the beer bottle dimple and - a real female jewel beetle

for - research output - the truth requires too much energy

for - youtube - Just have a think - new paper - new metric for measuring emissions - ERF - to - paper - Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy - https://hyp.is/CUcbhF2TEfCn1ieAeq73JA/iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2 - climate crisis - carbon emissions - agriculture has the highest of all - AgroSphere Technologies - cite this paper

for - AgroSphere Technology key research paper - carbon emissions - paper claims agriculture is the highest summary - The paper cited here is very important for AgroSphere Technology because - It shows how critical a role regenerative agriculture plays in mitigating the climate crisis - The claim of the paper is that carbon emissions from Agriculture are the biggest emissions of all

'Breathes there the man' by Sir Walter Scott<br /> by [[Sir Walter Scott]] in Scottish Poetry Library<br /> from ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’, Canto sixth<br /> accessed on 2025-08-25T11:04:25

https://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/pages/the-pad

also see Peter Tork at it <br /> via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1myf9js/whats_he_typing_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1muy8n1/an_olympia_sg3_makes_an_appearance_in_mi_the/

for - youtube - BBC - AI2027 - Futures - AI - progress trap - AI - to AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/0VHJqH3cEfCm9JM_EB3ypQ/ai-2027.com/

summary - This dystopian futures scenario is the brainchild of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, - It is premised on human behavior in modernity including - confirmation bias of AI researchers - entrenched competing political ideologies that motivate an AI arms race - entrenched capitalist market behavior that motivates an AI arms race - AI becoming embodied, resulting in Artificially Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AEAI), posing the danger to humanity because it's no longer just talk, but action - Can it happen? The probability is not zero.We don't really understand the behavior of the AI LLM's we design, they are nonpredictable, and as we give them even greater power, that is a slippery slope - AI can become humanity's ultimate progress trap, which is ironic, because the technology that promises to be the most efficient of all, can become so efficient, it no longer need human beings - Remember Jerry Kaplan's book "Humans need not apply"? - https://hyp.is/o0lBFH3fEfC1QLfnLSs5Bg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiP5ROnzw8 - This dystopian futures scenario goes further and explores the idea that "humans need not exist"!

question - What about emulating climate change gamification of "Bend the Curve" of emissions? - Use the AI 2027 trajectory as a template and see how much real-life follows this trajectory - Just as we have the countdown to the https://climateclock.world/ ( 3 years and change remaining as of today) - perhaps we can have an AI 2027 clock? - What can we do to "bend the dystopian AI 2027 curve" AWAY from the dystopian future?

for - youtube - Google Talks - Humans need not apply - Jerry Kaplan - 10 years after the book "Humans need not apply - the AI 2027 project - https://hyp.is/kWXQ0n3cEfCIUz_j42HHiA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg

for - Epstein scandal - fox guarding the henhouse - Who is the fox? - The fox is one or all of the below: - rich men who secretyly abused underage girls - intelligence - politicians - When the fox is in charge of the henhouse - they get to control the narrative

for - article - Substack - Michel Bauwens - title - The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (I)

summary - A nice summary of the geopolitical implications of a cosmolocal future and the main obstacles that must be overcome to turn it into a reality

for - definition = pulsation of the commons - Michel Bauwens - Throughout history, - in periods of dark ages - capitalism (self interest) rules - in times of civilizational degradation - even commons institutions can be compromised

https://youtu.be/qhD9XzCJCCw?si=sHmdHCS_3ifLd8pg&t=167

for - from - youtube - Just have a think - A controversial new paper challenges established emissions accounting criteria - https://hyp.is/9AQ6VF2SEfCsW8_68Y6AUA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9f16OTL1Lg - climate crisis - ERF - agriculture 60% - fossil fuels 18% - agriculture is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions summary - This paper uses Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) as a metric to measure global carbon emissions instead of the traditional Global Warming Potential (GWP) - It points out the problematic nature of GWP and how ERF provides a more accurate picture - Using ERF, the most surprising result of this study is that agriculture is the leading sector causing global warming - Measured from a baseline of emissions since 1750, - agriculture contributes 60% while - fossil fuels contributes 18% - Projects like Project Drawdown already prioritize agriculture, this gives even more validation and priority on transforming the agricultural sector - This also increases importance on efforts in: - regenerative farming - bioreginalism - permaculture - agroforestry - rewilding

Great Book of Western World 10 Years Reading Plan<br /> by [[zhex.dev]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-09T10:50:17

found via https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicalEducation/comments/1mgclv1/a_resource_for_edition_choice_of_books_from_gbww/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1041040904881350/

Coco's Brother Coco gets a visit from his older brother Snap, who lives with his cousin Rocky in the big city. He can eat Coco Pops with the loudest CRUNCH ever. In fact, his crunches are so loud even Crafty Croc is scared!

The year 2001: International Rescue Day on Disney Channel, Thunderbirds, Danger Mouse & The Magic Roundabout on Boomerang, 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows, Power Rangers Time Force, Digimon, Pokemon, Up On The Roof

Coco's Chocolate Milk * Inspired by how Coco Pops turn the milk chocolatey, Coco sets out to Choco Falls to take a drink of some chocolate milk. He then bottles some up and takes some back to the cabin where he lives with the gang.

The Blissful Ocean * When all of Marineville gets too noisy for Marina and Oink, they retreat to the beach and go for a swim in the ocean, encountering all their fish friends and meeting dolphins and whales, diving with them.

Venus & Zoonie's Adventure * Venus and Zoonie go on an adventure across the misty mountains to set up camp for the night.

When a favourite show goes off the air, this isn't goodbye. The characters you love will still live in your heart and stay there forever. Especially Lady Penelope. Goodness knows whether she's still alive or not, however, I think something like a good hello would do good...right?

Mimeo-Can! The Tin-Can Wonder!

In The House of Flame, Chaucer complains of "looking at screens all day" as if he were an office worker in 2025.

"Making all the accounts" here is akin to staring at an accounting spreadsheet all day.

oops, Allen accidentally spills this note twice!

Allen, Roland. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. United Kingdom: Profile Books, 2023. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebook-rolad-allen/6331084.

Keeping Notebooks Could Change Your Life by [[John Dickerson]]

Opinion: This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education by [[Jennifer Frey]] 2025-07-17 in New York Times

Frey argues that it's college administrators who are killing off the idea of a liberal arts education. In her experience, students are thrilled to be in these programs and participate in them.

Me: Some of the pressure, also indicated here, is from toxic capitalism which is pressuring students to be only career-focused in their educational journeys. This pressure leaves much less space for the humanities.

Read: Fri 2025-07-18 7:13 PM Updated: 2025-07-19

The power of contrasts. The only way for hell to work is for its inhabitants to have hope; if they had no hope, torture and suffering is pointless. Without hope, hell loses its power.

Watching this three days after it aired and reading headlines like ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Is Being Canceled by CBS, it would seem obvious why they're not continuing...

Paramount’s Trump Settlement: A Big Fat Bribe - Jeffrey Epstein Never Dies - FIFA Trophy Row

question by u/OkGreen7335 at https://reddit.com/r/math/comments/1m0qe7f/how_can_you_tell_when_someone_has_real_potential/

The same way the music teacher in Liverpool who had half of The Beatles in his elementary school music class knew they had music potential—you can't possibly.

Potential is by definition the unknown part. The rest of it is interest, desire, enthusiasm, and time working at the thing itself over long periods which slowly unleashes that potential. You don't know until you try, so quit worrying about it and enjoy the area, even if it's just as a hobby you do on the side. There are garage bands that hustle on the side, why can't you be a garage mathematician?!?

Most of the smart, talented university professors in mathematics are there because they had the passion and (often had the luxury to) spend the time. Nurture your own passions and those of your students and encourage them to spend the time.

How many parents unabashedly encourage their kids to become international superstar musicians? I'll bet The Beatles' parents didn't. I'll also bet that number is close to the numbers of parents who encourage their kids to do the same thing in math.

for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein

for - David Boie - lawyer for Epstein victims - Epstein compensation program - lawyer David Boy - victims must sign NDA not to disclose any other perpetrators - to - Business Insider - News Inside the messy effort to compensate 225 Jeffrey Epstein accusers - https://hyp.is/qCXM_mMMEfC1a_NlKIJWAg/www.businessinsider.com/inside-jeffrey-epstein-victims-compensation-program-fund-2022-1

for - child abuse - why the American public will not let it go

for - book - Franklin Scandal - to - book - The Franklin Scandal - https://hyp.is/HY_CnmMGEfCIO0dovGj0wg/www.amazon.com/Franklin-Scandal-Story-Powerbrokers-Betrayal/dp/1936296071

for - book - The Franklin Scandal - from - youtube - internview Chris Hedges - interviews - Nick Bryant - https://hyp.is/HY_CnmMGEfCIO0dovGj0wg/www.amazon.com/Franklin-Scandal-Story-Powerbrokers-Betrayal/dp/1936296071

for - from - LinkedIn post - What if Artists Were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/BXB-XmGvEfCJvBfKjwObTQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/tijntjoelker_art-creativity-systemschange-activity-7350396135213088768-imLO/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - to - substack - What if Artists were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/5NVKlGGuEfCGlnei6XLPog/ourmanifesto.substack.com/p/what-if-artists-were-your-strategic

for - paper - the Role of Artists in Societal Change

for - adjacency - Euler's Identity - book - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - to - Google Books - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - https://hyp.is/62BFDGCrEfCrMjc4k92e5g/books.google.com/books/about/Why_the_World_Doesn_t_Seem_to_Make_Sense.html?id=tMDvKl8anacC - This book takes a similar approach and makes use of duality represented by real numbers on the real number line, embedded within the complex plane

for - question - why does the GHG accounting convention have this inconsistency in the first place?

for - goal of the study - update GHG accounting with these recent discoveries

Sottsass, Ettore, and Perry King. Valentine Portable Typewriter. 1968. Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plastic, synthetic chloroprene rubber, metal, 2017.169a- typewriter: 3 7/8 × 12 3/4 × 13 1/2 in., 9.3 lb. (9.8 × 32.4 × 34.3 cm, 4.2 kg)2017.169b- cover: 4 3/8 × 13 1/2 × 13 7/8 in., 2.4 lb. (11.1 × 34.3 × 35.2 cm, 1.1 kg). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/739409.

for - Indyweb dev - finding the salient other

for - typo - the - should be "they"

for - definition - Chamber of the Commons - integrating commons with generative businesses

for - definition - assembly of the commons - unite citizens

for - scaling the commons - support - There is a real need for support here. - There is a huge population of idling resource in the commons waiting to be supported and unleashed

The Making of Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Epstein_(writer)

The Point of a College Education by [[C-SPAN]]

Orson Welles quote about so many of him and so few of you at a lecture to 3-4 people in a snow storm.

statistics about the drops in humanities (~42:00)

consumerist spirit in higher education (45:00)

student evaluations (47:00)

education is a buyer's market now instead of a seller's as it had been in past generations

grade inflation

consumerism with respect to feminism and women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, multiculturalism in higher education

radical education as "going to the root"

in short, "let us entertain you" as consumerist education

"The job o education is never finished."

The hidden point of a University of Chicago education: Be an artist, be a scientist, be a statesman, be a teacher of artists, scientists, or statesmen.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487130

Henry Dreyfuss designed a thermos bottle and cups for The American Thermos Bottle Company (Norwich, CT) ca. 1933. An example of them is on display at The Met.

Philip, Rey (Editor)1 Description This interdisciplinary essay explores a forgotten hypothesis at the intersection of physics, philosophy, and fiction: that consciousness is not a byproduct of matter, but its ontological foundation. Tracing this idea from Heraclitus and Plato to Schrödinger and Penrose, the article integrates metaphysical traditions with quantum models and critiques of materialist reductionism. It introduces the Theory of Ontological Consciousness (TOC) — a literary-philosophical framework proposing ψ̂–Φ interactions as the generative basis of spacetime and form. The essay also reinterprets empirical anomalies, such as those documented by the Global Consciousness Project, as potential signatures of an underlying field of universal consciousness. For more on the Theory of Ontological Consciousness, visit www.toc-reality.org and follow new updates via Medium - https://medium.com/@philiprey.org

for - paper - climate crisis - rebound effect - paper - title - Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications - from - post - LinkedIn - rebound effect - https://hyp.is/yz4m_ldBEfC18Bfg0RPf2w/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7346027213776953344/

"Fridays TV Show" (1981) [Show L-03] "The Masked Magician" [04 of 12]

1981 Bob Zmuda as the Masked Magician was showing the "secrets" of magicians before many others....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling by [[Robert McCoy]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

https://www.uppercasetypewriter.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@dr.michaelsugrue/playlists

Michael Sugrue, 66, Dies; His Talks on Philosophy Were a YouTube Hit by [[Trip Gabriel]]

for - question - where is the plan that tells embryonic stem cells to form a specific morphological body? - not the DNA, that only specifies the molecular hardware

for - quote - we try to understand the large scale utility of these patterns - Michael Levin - implicit and embodied demonstration - of higher scale intelligence - communicating with - lower scale of intelligence

quote - we try to understand the large scale utility of these patterns - Michael Levin - This is an implicit demonstration or embodied demonstration of interscale communication - The higher level agent (Michael Levin's consciousness) - is attempting to understand the functioning of his own lower scale intelligence

for - adjacency - brain - learned from ancient cells (the body) - ion channels - gap junctions - ancient bacterial biofilms - the brain is built upon these and they are ancient and found in all cells, developed billions of years ago in bacterial biofilms

for - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - to - book - Brain Abstracted https://hyp.is/Pk3pylG9EfCJA-ent0tk-g/watermark.silverchair.com/book_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAygwggMkBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggMVMIIDEQIBADCCAwoGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMix-FIpy8sXHtTbl9AgEQgIIC20RZIlS1yaYHB2ymjcscJUN46IGDRankNDC3fCPGeuff7MJ6ZcjlCyNRQpGDkd5wZ1HO6ekLFmAxDsOGnaz_3SLpDgkqXGRWVLn7Y1cDpcZ3TQV_nQBTX4Fcj3iYzdmqq2kFoxlqaPOts563eydXLxsCIa7S8FbSBhqdvQgCg1lk0QBImp-SyWKLV5scbXV0FaAbRJmJeFCUKfANHsGfnSVzKvDWx77_lTh__SzxgxAqC74SKR4361Fy2I287u5plBQJwOXqbypumMnJIg_wiTzmhit6OLZhfoXMd84w5sYsCl7gnicPcWi48HzbqxD6WQyIjfNJRG2fBxJTMfq5ORFRVB7Cyfj0qhHG_9y0bxlsF9H5xNbRHyBfpttmxiPpikfi5y2j2FSu4PF4qtzQME_wtqJepiy_6cIA8PHX117aCQRHW2o4BJYq1WkERZcQta7-mNR8vDFUwV0dV3wDJazXVVG3sHhxjR1AyI8edOrM_00Og8-HUCtsNuzv_Swks1T3QsYMgwkCSX6u8RIPUbSEbzfcOXLN_KQy23lRf_zmCjRaj9EyxOPul9t0qADWkhwxlnlZ477xtPz7ePqYfCTLId5aMdSYHVBw-aYL874blz4mbgz-BXpjfni0pNpeAePVVQWRC16k6xpDHtyOpVix4nb8-SazTQuQEKRBLQgmmf76Z_oVmAtuG_Cnex0cM8G-GATTlL7hq_v7E0X5UQfnLli1tu7KHI9qY68ymaSKZXHhII5u3rQ6z7XtJxLDsEAEc9LiMRb-pC7ssE_BI6C37_6G1SvZBp0A3FKjIJ57tjM6Oku3mmvoCLDBs7DxoGMPn-EWEwDXBwGQXYOfkVUC66K-qRXp7hG8YCtztv_4CL5HxynskORGznC1y0B0IvBxCVHkWgMuBKgLOPOTzzMZVU32XZVdXy_WdKuw02k6nUhbMvH0TOvKZv1QLWypzMU0HlWuPbGttUX6

https://www.foothillcatalog.org/

https://foothillcatalog.stonehillnews.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lj4jqh/only_sterlings_in_the_building_lol/

for - quote - right in what is affirmed, wrong in what is denied - John Stuart Mill - adjacency - worldviews - metaphor - blind men and the elephant

for - projection - mechanics of - exploit partial truth of the other - to create the bigger lie

for - definition - projection - Freud - disowning the internal

for - definition - the shadow - Jung

for - book - Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America - James Davison Hunter

for - book - The Protestant Ethic - Max Weber - adjacency - worldview - Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic

for - book - The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber - adjacency - worldview - Max Weber - The Spirit of Capitalism

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/DeTroyesPercevalPartI.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvfEHFvTeJc<br /> The Typewriter (In the 21st Century)

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1lbsu6s/need_help_to_identify_a_typewriter/

Screencapture of a typewriter from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<br />

My impression:<br /> The hood profile shape says Royal while a lot of the body says '49/50s Remington (maybe the All-New), but the scoop in the hood says Rheinmetall Gs all the way. For comparison: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Rheinmetall.Gs.62.bmys

Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone frontman, dies at 82 by [[Kiki Intarasuwan]]

斯巴达借联盟间接控制盟邦Historical Context: The league allowed Sparta to control allies without direct annexation, using collective security to suppress helot revolts and deter rivals like Athens.

Col Joye & The Joy Boys - Oh Yeah, Uh Huh (1959)

USA economy - gap between revenue and expenditire - Warren Buffet says is Congress's job, Contress is not doing that job, and its a job he Warren Buffet does not want

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

80 Years Later, Are We Still on ‘The Road to Serfdom’? by [[Rainer Zitelman]]

Ref. by PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/AYearOfMythology/comments/1k4rhj8/translation_guide_the_history_of_the_kings_of/

Coincidence that actress Valerie Mahaffey, who portrayed a Republican member of the Appropriations Committee in The West Wing "Gone Quiet" (Season 3, Episode 7), dies of cancer on the same day that Elon Musk leaves the White House in disgrace?

Perhaps it's fate's way of saying that democracy may recover?

Pfft. Lame.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1kunlxr/the_rules_of_typewriter_club/

Just like most areas of life relating to expertise, it's nice to have a broad set of rules when you start out. Then as your knowledge of the arts and sciences grow, you can begin to "paint outside the lines."

Once you've used, tinkered on, collected, repaired, or restored more machines than there are rules, then you can consider them more like guidelines and feel free to experiment more freely. By that point you'll have enough experience to be a true typewriter artist. ⛵🧑‍🎨🎨🏴‍☠️

via u/leapwolf at https://boffosocko.com/2025/05/17/acquisition-1966-underwood-touch-master-five-standard-typewriter/

reply to u/highspeed_steel at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1krspvh/im_totally_blind_and_new_to_typewriters_wax/

Your question is a great one, but I'll go another direction since I'd dug into some of the history and details of Helen Keller's mid-century typewriters a while back. You can find some details and descriptions here (and in the associated links which includes an accessible video of Ms. Keller using a solid and sexy black Remington Noiseless standard typewriter): https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ihot96/helen_kellers_typewriters/

She managed on both her Remington as well as her brailler as well as any sighted person, though obviously had someone to check her printed work.

I recently saw another heavily modified midcentury typewriter for someone who, if I recall correctly was not only blind, but had no arms. It was set up so that they could move a selector and type using a custom chin rest. Sadly, I didn't index it at the time, but it's interesting to know that such things existed for accessibility reasons.

As for Braillers, you might appreciate this recent article about a repairman in Britain who was retiring: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/02/wed-be-stuck-alarm-as-uks-last-braille-typewriter-repairer-ponders-retirement

I've got my own brailler, which is a sleek-looking art-deco industrial piece of art with the loveliest shade of dark shiny gray paint I've ever seen on a typewriter. (I'm both a mathematician and information theorist into the areas of coding and cryptography, so Morse code, Braille, etc. are professionally fascinating to me.) I still need to take it apart and repair a few portions to get it back to perfection, but it generally works well.

As for the aesthetics, I personally enjoy the solid industrial look and feel of the machines from the 1930s-1960s. The early 30s and some 40s have glossy black enamel and machines like the Corona Standard/Silent from the 30s are low slung with flat tops that sort of resemble small pianos and just scream out "I'm a writer" with a flair for dark academia and just a hint of classical Roman design. Many of these machines come with gold tinged water-slide decals which really set themselves off against the black enamel, though on the majority of machines the gold is beginning to dim from time, wear, and uncareful application of cleaning solutions.

I love the Royal KMM, KMG, and the Remington 17, Standard, and Super-Riter for their industrial chonkiness and (usually) their glass keytops. One of my favorites is the Henry Dreyfuss designed Royal Quiet De Luxe from 1948 which always gives me the feel of what it would look like if a typewriter wore a tuxedo or the 1948 gray and chrome model which is similar but has the feel of a sleek gray flannel suit on a 1950s advertising executive prone to wearing dapper hats, smoking cigarettes, and always with a cocktail in his hand. Into the 50s and 60s almost everyone had moved to plastic keytops which I don't think are as pretty as the older glass keytops with the polished metal rings around them.

At the opposite end of that spectrum are the late 50s Royal FP and Futura 800s which have some colorful roundness which evokes the aesthetic of the coming space age. They remind me of the modern curves and star shapes of the television show The Jetsons. Similarly space-aged are the sexy curves of the silver metalic spray paint on wooden cases for the Olympia SM3 from the same period. These to me are quintessential typewriter industrial design. In gray, green, maroon, brown, and sometimes yellow crinkle paint with just a hint of sparkle in their keytops I really love the combination of roundedness and slight angularity these German designed machines provide. They have a definite understated sort of elegance most other typewriters just miss. I suspect that late-in-life Steve Jobs would have had an Olympia SM3.

There's something comforting about the 40s and 50s sports-car vibe of the smaller Smith-Corona portables of the 5 series machines in the 1950s with their racing stripes on the hood. They feel like the sort of typewriter James Dean would have used as a student—just hip enough to be cool while still be solid and functional.

Sadly into the 70s, while machines typically got a broader range of colors outside of the typical black, gray, and browns things became more plastic and angular. They also begin to loose some of the industrial mid-century aesthetic that earlier machines had. They often feel very 70s in an uncomplimentary way without the fun color combinations or whimsy that art and general design of of that period may have had in the music or fashion spaces. They make me think of politics and war rather than the burgeoning sexual revolution of the time period.

Interestingly, for me, I feel like most typewriter design was often 10-20 years behind the general design aesthetic/zeitgeist for the particular decades in which they were made.

Good luck in your search for the right typewriter(s) for your own collection.

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for - eating - life - death - incorporation of the other - example - kleinian dynamics - eating - life sustaining - coexists with - life taking - life = death - you must die so that I may live - When I eat you or you eat me, - You transform what was once a part of my body into your body, taking from me what you need, and getting rid of the rest - So in essence, we destroy others so that part of them can become part of us and vice versa

for - timebinding - Karl Abel - Sigmund Freud - Gebser - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words] - language construction - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

for - key insight - language - unanswerable questions of the experienced language user - we learn to apply language long before we know what it is.

analysis - Language allows us to ask questions about our reality, but there are certain questions that are intrinsically unanswerable - As an experienced language user, we cannot know what our experience of reality would be like had we not learned a language

for - poem - William Blake - Auguries of Innocence - To see a world in a grain of sand - unus mundus - the hole in the whole - adjacency - Koan - the elbow does not bend backkwards - Willliam Blake - To see a World in a Grain of Sand - Indra's net - Carl Jung - Unus Mundus

for - definition - unio mentalis - Car Jung - first coniunctio - union of opposites - subject and object - masculine and feminine - the "HOLE" in the "wHOLE"

for - book - The Ever-Present Origin - Jean Gebser - to - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - https://hyp.is/gnHv-izuEfCCBZObkKymvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXf2jtl0ndc

comment - I hadn't heard of Gebser before and found this chapter difficult to understand - I found a good introductory video on Geber's work, especially the 5 stages and their meaning - Click on the youtube link above for a good introduction to Gebser's ideas

for - meme - use the ladder to see beyond the ladder

for - adjacency - embracing paradox, evolving language! - Jung - integrating the shadow

for - book - The Thunder, Perfect Mind - reminds me of Thich Nhat Hahn's writing, or Rumi's poems

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for - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa E. Maroski - https://hyp.is/_Omm2iwzEfCfBt9GThVUqg/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy