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Jonathan Hartley's Bio
Made out of meat.
Class III sentience. Singular biological manifestation. Mortal. Human. He/him.
Computer programming sparks joy. Linux lover. Test obsessed. Mostly wrangling Python.
Loving the current discourse in the science fiction scene, of a critical need for metamodern myths to rally around, provide meaning, and heal the culture wars, by integrating the best of the ancient, modern and postmodern views of the world and our place in it.
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Hobbyist vector graphic Missile Commander. Still have to add a few features but it's playable. #ScreenshotSaturday #Godot
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My second shift knocking on strangers' doors in Rochester MN, to campaign for a local ballot measure to fund public schools.
If passed, it would prevent school closures, and stop class sizes growing significantly as other schools absorb the resultant influx, and prevent the cutting of services for both gifted and struggling students. The money would come from property taxes, an extra $29/mo on a house of $350k.
I've now hit close to 100 houses. Some things I've learned 1/...
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The myth of Sisyphus sees him angering the gods for cheating death, and being condemned to eternally push a boulder up a hill only for it roll back down again, repeating the process eternally.
In modern Western progress-oriented nations, this punishment is interpreted as symbolizing laborious and futile work. But is that the intended meaning?
The origin of the name Sisyphus may be onomatopoeic, imitating the susurrant sounds of the breath. This suggests a very different interpretation. 1/
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The heroes' journey is a central component of mythical and modern stories. Often represented as a circle, it represents a journey in the literal sense - a foray through the dangers of the forest and back again, as humans have done for food and water, quite literally almost every day since long before we were human at all.
But also it represents a figurative journey, in which the hero is changed - undone and then reformulated - by their experiences. 1/
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Jonathan Hartley
Hobbyist vector graphic Missile Commander. Still have to add a few features but it's playable. #ScreenshotSaturday #Godot
Tags: #ScreenshotSaturday #godot
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Jonathan Hartley
The heroes' journey is a central component of mythical and modern stories. Often represented as a circle, it represents a journey in the literal sense - a foray through the dangers of the forest and back again, as humans have done for food and water, quite literally almost every day since long before we were human at all.
But also it represents a figurative journey, in which the hero is changed - undone and then reformulated - by their experiences. 1/
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Jonathan Hartley
The myth of Sisyphus sees him angering the gods for cheating death, and being condemned to eternally push a boulder up a hill only for it roll back down again, repeating the process eternally.
In modern Western progress-oriented nations, this punishment is interpreted as symbolizing laborious and futile work. But is that the intended meaning?
The origin of the name Sisyphus may be onomatopoeic, imitating the susurrant sounds of the breath. This suggests a very different interpretation. 1/
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Jonathan Hartley
My second shift knocking on strangers' doors in Rochester MN, to campaign for a local ballot measure to fund public schools.
If passed, it would prevent school closures, and stop class sizes growing significantly as other schools absorb the resultant influx, and prevent the cutting of services for both gifted and struggling students. The money would come from property taxes, an extra $29/mo on a house of $350k.
I've now hit close to 100 houses. Some things I've learned 1/...
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