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Funky Afro-American Woman In Black & Grey By Funk Tha World.

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Image id under ther cut. I didn't get as much art made for thunderpride last month as i was hoping to. but I was determined to do a least one peice for disability pride month, even if it's not thunderbirds. Also Did you know commander shore is one of the earliest depiction/representation of an adult wheelchair users in children's and family television? I mean it's a hover chair but shh. Still counts.

(If some one could message me the creator of the flag I'd be really grateful.)

[Image id. a mixed media illustration featuring commander shore and his daughter Atlanta from TV show, Stingray. The background is yellow and the floor is brown. The commander is a older man with grey hair in a large green scifi hover chair that encases his legs. Atlanta is a young woman with jaw lenth auban hair. She knelt in profile behind his seat and carefully painting the start of a disability pride flag on the back of his chair. There's a second paintbrush stuck in her hair and she has her tounge out in concentration. The commander is turned in his seat holding Atlanta's paint pallet for her and smilling fondly back at her. Both are wearing grey silver uniforms with red cuffs and collers, and yellow shoulders. The commanders also has a white belt. A jar of water with paintbrushes is resting on the table bit of his chair.

There is another completed disability pride flag and "in it for the parking" decal has been added to the front of the chair. A sticker is on the floor by atlanta’s knee that says "dont make me run you over". the chair is parked on top of some paint stained paper stencils and tape. End id.]

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Background art from Dave Willis and Jim Fortier’s Squidbillies. done by Ben Prisk

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The Frankenstein of Tomorrow

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala

Ink in the Internet

I recently read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The introduction by Shelley is so sincere and authentic in describing her inspiration, and the fact that all stories have to be based on something real. For inspiration does not transpire from a blank void.

Many consider Frankenstein to be the first science fiction book. It was published on January 1, 1818.

There could be millions of adaptations and references of the story, and deservingly so as the book is remarkable in style of storytelling as well as the imagination.

The reason I'm mentioning Frankenstein is not only because of how captivating I found the story to be. But because I found it to be the perfect metaphor to describe some of the dark traits of the human psyche, and how man can be driven by emotions - such as pride, curiosity, over-confidence, or thoughtlessness, to his own destruction and that of others.

Mary Shelley chose Prometheus very wisely, as according to Greek mythology he tricked Zeus, the chief god, even though being lower in ranks and power, and was the creator of man. Since the story of Frankenstein is about constructing a living undead man from the organs of deceased men, the inspiration of Prometheus makes sense.

Shelley does narrate in the introduction that any attempt at creation of a living entity by man can never replicate the beautiful and perfect creation of the Lord, but would only yield something frightening and terrible.

The myth of Prometheus is recorded in the 8th century BC, that's almost 3000 years ago. Prometheus was punished by Zeus for making a fool out of him, and so was tied to rocks, and an eagal would everyday eat his liver, and then the liver would regenerate itself. In Greek mythology there is another myth that also describes the ability of the organ to regenerate itself. This has been confirmed by modern science in 1931. The myth indicates that the ancient Greeks knew this scientific fact. However, the records show it mentioned in mythology and not in ancient books of medicine or anatomy. The myth as a whole is idiotic, as Zeus, a so-called god is tricked by a lower ranking god. So this contradiction in logic and intelligence, is an indication that the scientific information about the liver is not of the time, but has been passed down by an even older civilization who knew it as a scientific fact, which as the centuries passed got entwined into mythology, and was narrated by people who did not know its scientific significance, if they did there surely would have been ancient Greek records of medical or autopsy studies. As there are records of Greek philosophers, and of Plato and the story of Atlantas ‐ which makes me wonder if it was the advanced civilization that passed down the scientific fact of the liver.

Shelley refered to Frankenstein as a modern creation of horror, and this was in 1818. So what do we have in the 21st century that could be a modern Frankenstein. Well if we were to think of the psychological manesfeststions of Frankenstein monsters, that would be an endless story. So we shall not, instead I'm writing about the dark turns in science, driven forward by man's obsession with testing how much science he can aquire and what it can propel to its most extreme horizons.

Presently there is good and improving quality of life advances in prosthetics.

For example, they are being made to look aesthetic, and amputees suffering from phantom limb pain, are getting treated through Brain-Computer Interfaces using electrodes, to send signals through Peripheral Nerve Stimulations, this is also restoring close to natural sensations in amputees, and according to tests they were able to describe the size of the things they touched using prosthetic limbs.

Note: Haptic feedback is a general term for artificial sensations, the simplest of which is the vibrations on cell phones, however, other complicated versions of haptic feedback uses patterns of vibrations, including weak to strong, and has many applications in the medical field.

In this age of science, new fields that combine multidisciplinary sciences are emerging. Artificial Intelligence and highly sophisticated equipments have made this possible. Amongst such sciences is the study of Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology.

Scientists and researchers are studying biological circuits, that is to say; molecular and cellular architecture and its principles and functions, and finding analogues to electronic circuits.

These biological circuits are such extraordinary works that they have been described as "miracle devices."

Coming back to Shelley's words that nothing conjures up out of the thin air.

Scientists of different disciplines are studying each others fields to combine electronics, biology, artificial intelligence, mechanics, physics. Of course these are crude terms I used to give a brief idea of very complicated sciences.

In the study of biological circuits, the simplest things to describe is that: "Feature X enables Function Y." These features are each studied separately as a biological circuit, that has a specific function and principles to how it operates.

However, despite volumes of research and new circuits, and their principles being perpetually discovered, scientists still don't know what exactly programmed the circuits and what causes them to know which features to use at a specific time, in a specific environment, for a specific function.

And unlike electronic circuits that are static in their programming, and can be turned off. Biological circuits have "noise" that is they can communicate with other circuits and form multi-connected networks, and they cannot be turned off, in the sense that constant mechanisms switch on and off for "inverting," functions." This is why over time the circuits become too exhausted to function properly (old age.)

Biological circuits in addition to calculated functions with principles, are time watches as well. They have time regulation as noted by scientists.

Note: By the way I think this is a field of great interest and is expanding, so it has abundant career opportunities.

We have reached significant milestones in science, and I think scientists should ask themselves if they want to test these capabilities by pushing the science of robotics into making androids powered by superintelligence and synthetic biology, connected to electronic circuits. I'm afraid if this science fiction scenario turns into reality, we will be facing a tyrannical Frankenstein monster, with intelligence that will surpass that of the majority of humans on earth, and we will not be able to control it but it will control us.

I titled this article 'The Frankenstein of Tomorrow' because what we do today will determine what will happen to us tomorrow, and it's a term that will not end till the end of the world.

Copyright ©️ Arjuwan Lakkdawala 2024

Arjuwan Lakkdawala is an author and independent researcher.

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Email: arjuwan.writer@gmail.com

Sources:

Frontiers  - advances in prosthetic technology: a perspective on ethical considerations for development and clinical translations, hayden gavette, cody l. mcdonald, kristin kostick-quenet, ashley mullen, bijan najafi, m.g. finco

www.biocircuits.github.io - biological circuit design

Precision micro drives - introduction to haptic feedback

Brain stimulation journal - peripheral nerve stimulation enables somatosensory feedback while suppressing phantom limp pain in transradial amputees, gurgen soghoyan, artur biktimirov, yuri matvienko, ilya chekh, mikhail sintsov, mikhail a. Lebedev

Acp journals - annals of internal medicine, whither prometheus' liver? greek myth and the science of regeneration, carl power, phd, john e.j. rasko, mbbs, phd

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Gengar Tattoo My client brought me this design of Gengar allowing me to do my first Pokémon in color. I love psychic 🔮 Pokémons. What's your favorite? . . . . . . . #gengar #pokemon #tattoo #ink #asian #hmong #tattooartist #darkiztlght #Atlanta #Greenville #Spartanburg #Charlotte (at Greenville, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CooCg0Aug19/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Quick lil sketch of Katslly

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“Atlanta showed me my first pig carriage in flames. I am learning how to pour gasoline on discourse.” - Mohammed al-Kurd

"atlanta taught me a poem’s a dead man walking, that wordy flesh is already dead by the time it hits your hands. atlanta taught me what it iz, what it ain’t, and what it’s gon’ be: chalky hands tie tight strings at the rib cages, through ankles and fingertips, just behind the neck up through the forehead, and with puppet master precision sit back and enjoy the show. glass all under my eyelids from staring at storms through the window. glass under my gums from them days chewing on history. atlanta pulled up its shirt and showed me a bruise shaped like a grave. atlanta peeled back its skin, sat me down, crunched the numbers, explained that child murders have turned a profit since ‘79, and ‘79 before that, and ‘79 before that, and so why would they stop grinding the bones now? i didn’t know a death more intimate than witnessing a chameleon impaled mid color change. some called it a tragedy, others called it casual and made dua in lemon pepper wet. there’s stammered memory in the water here. atlanta taught me to teach my damn self. taught me to sell a dream, steal a hope, and buy a buck. that angels got good aim, too. this city eats its martyrs, celebrates when they let go of its teeth. it teaches its young to fake life and hide all that dead in their eyes if they want to survive. that highways are rest stops for crowds of protested bones and a city can be a company’s personality trait. that an acquaintance is an acquaintance, and you ain’t no friend until you’re dead. i place the microphone to the grave and shrug. the crowd uncontrollable as it laughs its way through another death called tuesday blues. the dirt has seen this all before, the laughter masking tears, and asks if we’ve seen the gas prices lately."

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A screenshot redraw and a work-in-progress of the alternative cover for Unshackled

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I love this crop top and I hope you like it too. The illustration is hand-drawn with acid free permanent inks.

Still available!

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“𝑰𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆.”

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