monochrome scarab lineart

2026-05-30,
of binary and hidden options

Strawberry, Saturday, 30 May 12026 HE
2026-05-30 | 26E30 | 2026-150 | 2461191
2026-W22-6 | Q2 | Estate

rocks, sticks, and a creek, Soquel, California

2013-10-06 – Sigma DP2
rocks, sticks, and a creek, Soquel, California

Mode-One – “The Angel is Crying” ↗

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yesterday, Mx. Aria Stewart posted a thread on noticing the “greyed out options” – western thought has been thoroughly shaped by Aristotelian logic (A or ¬A), binary thinking that was only reinforced by the rise of binary digital computers (0 or 1) – we can easily see two of the choices for any situation, but we ignore any other choices, the “greyed out options” that disappear from our thoughts the same way our eyes skip over a greyed out button – how much would our thinking and our society have changed if we had followed the path of ternary computing? – instead of answering “yes” or “no”, we could now answer “yes”, “maybe”, or “no”?

I really like the concept of noticing “greyed out options” ↗

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