#connected systems

[ahom-technologies]

Explore how IoT connects the dots between software development, web development, and machine learning, driving innovation across industries with smarter, interconnected systems and real-time data solutions.

[marthajefferson]

human brain angiogram / young bare-branched oak /

[anndezann]

Synka's Corp: Something Mindful

Object: Watch and Chair

Archetype: Hygiene

Action: Ponder or Process

Attribute: Listen

In the bustling world of 2050, a small international company- Synka Corporation emerged as a beacon of well-being and rose to the top in months. Urban India's chaos reached unprecedented levels, Synka unveiled the SensorySync Watch and SensaSeat, an IoT marvel designed to rejuvenate the soul that would take people through a mindful cleansing journey.

In this fast-paced cityscape, people, overwhelmed by the daily grind, discover the transformative power of Sensory Serenity .The sleek SensorySync Watch and experience an instant connection with the SensaSeat, strategically positioned in unexpected urban sanctuaries.

With a simple touch, the SensorySync Watch triggers a harmonious symphony of scents and sounds. In minutes, the once chaotic surrounding sounds transform into an oasis of calm. As people weave through crowded roads, the SensorySync System becomes their silent companion, offering moments of serenity and peace. They sold it as a way of gaining Mental Hygiene. Cleansing the mind from all the hustle and bustle to gain sanity.

Word spread swiftly, and soon every office in town had its Synka integrated into their workspace. Synka's rival company Bornjaj started working towards dethroning their competition by introducing more such IoT-based products. However, In their research process towards bettering their products, they stumbled across something they couldn't believe. Synka had secretly developed a dark side. Beneath the façade of well-being, the corporation has harnessed the technology to subtly manipulate mental peace for corporate gain creating a loop of need and use of their products. As users engage the SensorySync System, Synka collects data, subtly nudging perceptions and influencing decision-making. Synka's watches were like full-time must-have wearable by all big shots constantly supplied data to data miners which was an additional income to Synka.

Seizing the opportunity, Bornjaj revealed Synka's darker side to the world, emphasizing the need for simpler, authentically Indian products. Bornjaj's message resonated, and they gained customers by aligning with true Indian values, breaking free from Synka's deceptive loop. The revelation triggered a shift in consumer consciousness, as people began to prioritize authenticity over manipulation, marking a turning point in the city's approach to well-being technology.

[arinrowan]

The thing you have to remember about PTSD is that it's never just the traumatic event. Everyone across their lifetime will experience some degree of trauma. What makes someone susceptible to PTSD is the inability to connect with a support network and community about the trauma. Shame and isolation are as crucial to the formation of PTSD as the initial traumas. Talk to anyone with PTSD and one of the first things they'll do is downplay their trauma and emphasize how much worse it could have been. This is the shame speaking, an internalized shame from the idea their community expected them to be better, be stronger, be less vulnerable. This shame, ironically, is the same thing that prevented the individual from asking or receiving the support they needed in the wake of trauma that resulted in the formation of PTSD, and what has to be targeted in order for the individual to process the unresolved trauma now encapsulated by shame.

[bunnieswithknives]

Mephone takes the Operational out of Operational System.

[haberdashing]

Musings on the "depose" part of "deny, defend, depose":

When I first read those words, my mind, like most people's I think, read "depose" in the sense of "overthrow". Like how you'd depose a king, kicking him out of his position of authority, in a way that may or may not involve him losing his life as well as his power over others.

But when I mentioned it to a friend, that friend brought up that the word has a second meaning that might be relevant here as well.

In the legal field, "depose" is the verb form of "deposition". Deposition itself is one of the ways you can go about getting evidence from somebody. A deposition is when you get someone to swear that they're telling the truth, and you ask them questions, or ask them for explanations, and they have to answer truthfully. Documents might be part of a deposition, but it's not about the documents themselves, exactly; it's about what they mean, the essential truth behind what the documents describe.

(In my line of work, this might be something like, "Does that income amount listed on your court filing include this bonus listed in your bank statements?" but with a lot of questions leading up to that one to establish things like the bonus being from their employer and deposited into their bank account.)

In a way, it's like the cross-examination part of a trial isolated. (Assuming that it's the other side being deposed; it could also be a witness or third party, but almost by definition you only do depositions on a party that isn't your own client in the case.) One side asks the hard questions, and unless those questions break rules, the other side has to answer them. And like cross-examination, if someone's not truthful in a deposition, that can cause them to face all sorts of sanctions for perjury.

Now, it's very probable that the assassin in this case meant the word only in the more commonplace sense of the word, comparing the CEO to a ruler that needs to be removed from power. But when you consider the legal definition of the word, it seems almost like an ultimatum:

Tell the truth about your unjust business practices, or else lose your power to enact them.

Be deposed, or else be deposed.

[iambrillyant]

“may you never hesitate in cutting ties with someone who isn’t good for your nervous system out of fear that you might need them someday, may you operate from a place of abundance instead of lack, knowing that whatever you release is only making space for something better.”

— billy chapata

[the-barefoot-hatter]

Pyramid Steve's favourite treat is pre-1982 pennies

(Ford slooooowly starting to realize his muse of infinite knowledge might, in fact, be a dumbass.)

[toastytrusty]

i think it finally clicked what about cassian and luthen's relationship i find so compelling. when cassian officially joined the rebellion at the end of season one, he effectively surrendered all of his autonomy to luthen. "kill me or take me in." he literally put his life in luthen's hands. he clearly had very little will to live, and beyond giving luthen the choice to kill him, he gave luthen the choice to give him purpose again. and not Just purpose, either, but full control over the rest of his life, as well. he became part of the cause because he felt he had nothing else left, and was either going to effectively kill himself, or let someone else dictate every single thing he does until he dies anyway, now with a reason behind it, now able to plausibly deny it being wanted. it's simultaneously an admittance of defeat, where he is telling luthen that he won, and an act of defiance, where he is challenging luthen to discard him rather than use him. and obviously luthen would rather use him.

but then there is the bix aspect. cassian's hopelessness at the end of s1 implies that he did not, at that point, see bix as an adequate reason to keep going. not as a reason to stay alive, not as a reason to stay present in anyone else's life. it was not worth remaining an individual, for her sake or his own. and obviously a lot of that is from the insane depressive grief that the whole Ordeal of s1 + losing maarva was. but still. he was very closed off, and singlemindedly thinking about his own ability to give himself to the rebellion. which makes his protectiveness over her in s2 all the more compelling. he is repeatedly getting worked up over her well-being, and acting out in ways that are possibly jeopardizing to the rebellion. it's such a fascinating transition, and regardless of how they got there again, i think in season 2, cassian sees bix as his last place to be human. the one person in the galaxy he can be an individual with, rather than a tool. which is why, in my current, ever-evolving understanding of these characters, i think he gets so contradictory and confused about what he wants from her. he wants her to be strong and a soldier so they can go to war together, because the war is so terribly important to him, but he also wants her to prioritize her own safety over anything else and never put herself at risk, because if he loses her he loses himself. this is necessarily the conflict between them.

which comes to the incredible exchange between cassian and luthen about bix in episode 6 of s2, where we can see how much this conflcit is affecting cassian. he can't stand that luthen is potentially putting bix in danger, and can't stand that luthen is treating them like droids, rather than people. but then. then luthen Reminds cassian. he reminds cassian that he already surrendered his autonomy. he already surrendered his individuality. "we're not who we were when we started." cassian chose this; chose to change for this, chose to give up being a person for this. he doesn't get to now choose to put bix, his one haven, over it. she needs to be able to handle herself, because cassian asserting himself by worrying about her compromises their entire system. "you will have to decide when it becomes too large a problem." but cassian's response is the most important part: "no. that's gonna be up to you." he's essentially turning it back on luthen. if luthen expects him to remain compliant in the way his role calls for, then luthen needs to be fullfilling his side of it, and making sure cassian has an environment that he Can remain compliant in, without compromising anything. "you want my blood? you help me solve this." he is finally standing his ground on something to luthen, asserting himself in a way that is basically begging luthen to let him submit again. he wants to be part of the cause; he still wants to be able to lose himself in it, but he also needs bix, and will not give up the life he knows is possible to share with her.

[7empesticide]

saw au where everything is the same except hoffman isnt an apprentice hes just really fucking weird so strahm is stalking this regular ass guy

[serpentface]

Here's what typical vestment for The Odomache looks like.

The pelt of the lion that was originally sacrificed and worn raw for her incarnation is retained throughout the years of service, preserved and fashioned into a headdress and cape (obscuring a helmet). This can get dreadfully hot in the summer but no one ever said that being a hollowed out pathway for God's spirit was easy.

The body is always obscured near completely, barring the hands, feet, and parts of the face (philosophically, these are the body's least vulnerable parts as its modes of Action, though this is in large part a practicality). This is partially a matter of psychological enforcement that this person is not Just a human, and partly a matter of protecting the part of God's living spirit that's in a wholly human body. Conceptually, the Odomache Enables tremendous power rather than being intrinsically powerful in of herself, so all manners of protecting the metaphysically vulnerable human body are of tantamount importance in her case.

The complete obscuring of any identifiable feminine form is also notably important to the underlying philosophies and biases involved. It is necessary that she is female, a condition ascribed a unique malleability to change and transformation (for good or harm), but the act of female/non-male sex and gender assignment also serves to uphold an underclass in a patriarchy that she By Necessity must be distanced from. This extends beyond the masculinized social and dress performance of Odonii to a masculinized social performance with dress that utterly obscures any part of the body that could be gendered, and dress that is not gendered in of itself (women do wear less revealing clothing than men and skirts of similar length, but the act of Fully covering the body in this form exists outside of the bounds of gendered dress).

[[It should be noted that on a historical level, this role is largely a descendant of a variety of 'celibate and/or masculinized female religious authority' figures in pre/proto-Wardi societies stretching back centuries, rather than an emergent property of contemporary religion and philosophy. This is an adaptation of older roles and worldviews to securely fit the contemporary zeitgeist, and that's part of why many aspects of this role Superficially clashes with said zeitgeist.]]

The relatively undecorated white cloak and robes in comparison to culturally favored displays of color and opulence further emphasizes a sense of the Odomache's separation from humanity. The Wardi image of God is not a human lord, but rather the world itself and the functions of the world distilled into the forms of animals. Human hierarchies exist Within God rather than God having a place within human hierarchies, so in this philosophy it's natural for this particular person of high authority to not closely resemble a Human Authority.

This is still ultimately a human body existing at the top end of a human hierarchy (and in the dimension of religious thought, it a human body holding aspects of God most specifically concerned with maintaining concepts of 'right' civilization and hierarchy), so public-facing garb like this will still include a few mundane trappings of lordship such as this fancy gold khattanocuy displaying an image of an enemy being trampled by the Face Odomache as the guardian lion. Purely ceremonial garb for the Odomache hides the body in its entirety beneath the white cloak and forgoes all decoration save for the obligatory weaponry.

A sword and dagger is worn at all times as a matter of being the ultimate physical bastion of her society's military might, and she is always accompanied by a retinue of 'lieutenants' (Extremely elite servants/squires) who carry whatever other elements of her perpetual armament are not currently in use. These weapons are Completely ceremonial in nature (to the point that they're made or plated with gold rather than anything like, durable) and there is absolutely zero expectation that the Odomache will ever directly engage in combat (the times this has happened historically have been when things have gone horribly wrong).

Her face is usually masked in public, though this is not a strict necessity of the role and is forgone for some ceremonial purposes. On these occasion, it's standard to paint the face red to still partly obscure human features in the same fashion of battlefield Odonii. As the color of blood, it positively evokes bodily vitality and strength, the living spirit of the world itself and the mode of connection to God (and will also be reminiscent of the rite of incarnation during which she is Actually covered in blood)

[findmeinthefallair]

Mindscape, based on this post I made weeks ago

The yellow light is Flapjack's life force 😭😭😭😭

[scumvillainess]

au where shen qingqiu makes the mistake of telling ning yingying that he used to be engaged prior to joining cqms, and like all things related to shen qingqiu everyone in the sect ends up hearing about it.

the problem is that they have all unanimously come to the conclusion that the person that shen qingqiu was engaged to is none other than the sect leader of cqms himself, yue qingyuan.

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

rip secunit 3 😔😔😔 you're not dead but you would have loved saving the lives of a whole colony of innocent humans by making a factually honest and emotionally compelling documentary 😔😔😔