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But also, I think about what my face, which I know and like might look like... processed. With the edges smoothed off, with the faces of other people and other ideas of what is "good looking" imposed on it might be.
I do not want to see that.
Tried one of those "digital makeup" apps years ago, and it was pure body horror.
I couldn't recognize myself, but I could. I hated it.
Never again.
I think a lot of people are attracted to "Sora" the AI video and server use generating application because it will put your face in a video.
But, I'm terrified of this for a few reasons. There is a privacy angle. It wants to scan your face from every angle which I assume they will sell to the cops.
As I explained it is for my husband who needs special hot sauce since he is from CT where they are very sensitive to hot things.
Rudi of Manitoba?
TBH it's my husband's favorite not mine, as it is very mild and the only one he really likes.
So now he will need to adapt to hot sauce from the south.
I just feel like someone should be mad about it on behalf of the fallen.
My favorite Canadian hot sauce won't ship to the US anymore because of tariffs and they hate us. 
are you OK? Do you need some help?
I'm not the biggest fan of primates generally... creepy fingers? Look at you eyes? It's scary.
Maybe... but they weren't furry, didn't have ears. How did it work?
What is that stubby tail even FOR? Pug ugly stubborn survivors.
I'm scared to get in a time machine because I have a reoccurring nightmare about being mauled by Lystrosauruses who found some of the mean things I've written about them.
Could a computer network provide a way for collective dreaming? Could computer networks be the essential tool of the next level of colony intelligence?
The ants will use the internet to dream. That is what I'm working on in the story today.
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Dreaming is an essential feature of intelligence. It seems that all creatures with memories and complex minds will dream.
Many people are surprised to learn that bees and ants may dream. We have evidence of this based on micro-movements of their legs and antennae detected in sleep. RAM (Rapid Antennae Movement) sleep may be a counterpart to REM sleep.
But, what about the mind of the colony? How can a whole colony of ants dream, if dreaming is essential for intelligence?
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I love the textures of this ant.
I always wonder what the textures are for. I assume the color serves as a warning. Textures like this are often on ants with very tough exoskeletons. Maybe it's about strength?
I'm not saying it's bad. I was curious and read everything I could find about it and the results are deeply mixed.
What it isn't is a solution. It's something that might help. For some people more than others.
And it's not incidental or meaningless that it helped me to get through the long healing period by being something I could "do" ... the real cure being slow boring PT and time.
