TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Banal
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UNHELPFUL CONTEXT
Which oppressive, limiting, and incomplete social construct do you wish to possibly falsely identify as in order do little more than ease the temporary discomfort of strangers you'll likely never see again, risking deep dysphoria, misgendering, and repeated trauma to do so?
UNHELPFUL CONTEXT
wut r u??
UNHELPFUL CONTEXT
On some days, like today, I feel more "masculine" because we've associated and connected strength and suits and self-assuredness with that word, but on other days I feel "feminine" because we've associated and connected vulnerability and dresses and makeup with that word.
...Does that help?
Going to the restroom without an identity crisis is a privilege.
I'm privileged to present as a gender not antithetical
to who I am
I don't often experience
gender dysphoria
I don't believe in the gender binary
I identify as a
gender non-conforming person
I also identify
as a woman
Something that I have to use 10x* times a day shouldn't
give me an identity crisis
* lol
Non-binary/gnc/ agender people are mythical creatures
You don't care
about my gender
Nonbinary and trans people are literally spliced?
What does gender have to do with the bathroom at all?
Why do you have to make everything about gender?
Overdesigned
solution to a non-existent "problem"
PROBLEM
Is that a room I can
release some
[soft | hard]ware" in?
"
HELPFUL CONTEXT
Will I be able to change a baby there on something other than the ground?
Will everything be accessible to me?
SOLUTION
WC / Restroom / Toilet / Potty
Binary
Us
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Banal
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https://v.gd/BanalBinary
@TatianaTMac
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a division into two groups or classes that are considered diametrically opposite
binary
a number system based only on the numerals 0 and 1 : a binary
Llull
1232-1315
1646-1716
Leibniz
1815-1846
Boole
"The Guy-naries"
Ramon, 83
Likes:
⛪ Catholicism
🧮 Math
😘 Writing romance
👑 Supporting royals
✨ tl;dr-ing Truth
Dislikes:
🕌 Islam
🕍 Judaism
Ars Magna
a universal model
to understand reality
| B | Goodness | Difference | Whether? | God |
| C | Greatness | Concordance | What? | Angels |
| D | Duration | Contrariety | Of what? | Heaven |
| E | Power | Beginning | Why? | Man |
| F | Wisdom | Middle | How much? | Imagination |
| G | Will | End | Quality? | Senses |
| H | Virtue | Majority | When? | Vegetation |
| I | Truth | Equality | Where? | Elements |
| K | Glory | Minority | How/w what? | Instruments |
Quality
Comparative
Interrogative
Entities
| B | Goodness | Difference | Whether? | God |
| C | Greatness | Concordance | What? | Angels |
| D | Duration | Contrariety | Of what? | Heaven |
| E | Power | Beginning | Why? | Man |
| F | Wisdom | Middle | How much? | Imagination |
| G | Will | End | Quality? | Senses |
| H | Virtue | Majority | When? | Vegetation |
| I | Truth | Equality | Where? | Elements |
| K | Glory | Minority | How/w what? | Instruments |
Quality
Comparative
Interrogative
Entities
| E | Power | Beginning | Why? | Man |
symbology
code
combinatronics
Llull
banish all erroneous opinions*”
“
To Llull, this was Judaism and Islam
*
(~300 years later)
Gottfried, 70
The universe is incredible. I study it through math, philosophy, science, and language. Friends call me the 'universal genius' lol
Want Platonic friends for science societies!!!
When one compares the talents one has with those
of Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
“
Denis Diderot
The Father of Binary System
symbols
code
arithmetic
Leibniz
1656–1730
Bouvet
Louis
XIV
1643–1715
I Ching
Yin
Yang
Yang
Yin
Broken
Unbroken
Yin
Yang
Dude this I Ching is a legit framework
What's that?
it's this code thing where these symbols have meanings and they explain life 🤯
can u airdrop it 2 me?
lmao when did airdrop start working??? ... here
thanks i got an idea!1 brb
Yang
Yin
Zero
One
dude this is sick! tl;dr this basically proves God exists
check this out
Explanation of Binary Arithemetic
George, 41
You'll either love me,
or you won't.
Boole
algebra
datatype
lunar crater
Mary Everest Boole
parapsychology
self-taught mathematician
married to George Boole
George Everest
(eev-rest)
Everest never saw...Everest.
Indian atomism
dyad 😉
triad
atom
Laws of Thought
Boolean
Binary
operators
+ -
* /
AND,NOT, OR,XOR
Boolean
Binary
variables
0,1
TRUE,
FALSE
Boolean
Binary
result
n
TRUE/
FALSE
true = !
= !false
p = !q
truth
treowð
West Saxon
📍
West Saxon
treowð
fidelity
loyalty
veracity
truth
fidelity
loyalty
veracity
faith
social
technical
truth
veracity
technical
truth
logical
Truth
fidelity
faith
Truth
philosophical
Boole
Leibniz
Llull
truth
Truth
↓
Human existence has, is,
and always will be about the
search for meaning
truth
→
Truth
philosophical
logical
p,q...n
AND, OR...
The meaning of life
Humans determine the variables
p,q
abcdefghijklmnop,qrstuvwxyz
p,q
Humans assign meaning to
p,q
p = dogs are good
q = racism doesn't
exist
Humans determine
the expressions
p = true;
If p, then q
Computers execute variables, functions
p = true;
So, q = true
Humans are complex, computers are not
| B | Goodness | Difference | Whether? | God |
| C | Greatness | Concordance | What? | Angels |
| D | Duration | Contrariety | Of what? | Heaven |
| E | Power | Beginning | Why? | Man |
| F | Wisdom | Middle | How much? | Imagination |
| G | Will | End | Quality? | Senses |
| H | Virtue | Majority | When? | Vegetation |
| I | Truth | Equality | Where? | Elements |
| K | Glory | Minority | How/w what? | Instruments |
Quality
Comparative
Interrogative
Entities
linear
geometric
exponential
linear
geometric
exponential
super
exponential
Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP)
Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city and returns to the origin city?
📍
Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP)
truth
→
Truth
philosophical
logical
p,q...n
AND, OR...
The meaning of life
truth
→
Truth
philosophical
logical
Must be persistently true ∀ p,q
Variable,
undefined
simple
→
complex
imagine
the retro!
Find meaning, truth
OVERDUE
Eliminate Judaism, Islam
INVALID
Invent binary
OUT OF SCOPE
The binary was
an accident
helpful
Gordon, 96
I find transistors irresistable
ps: I'm really into silicon 😉
1
Impact
Ferdinand Saussure
1857–1913
structuralism
methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader, overarching system or structure
binary opposition
the means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined in reciprocal determination with another term
Signifier
Signified
Good
Evil
Good
!Good
Our tongues are better suited to writing than speaking, and there is more pleasure in reading us than in listening to us.
“
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The words do not convey half the meaning; all the effectiveness is in the tone of voice. Judging the Orientals from their books is like painting a man’s portrait from his corpse.
“
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1
Impact
Power
>
Land acknowledgement
the empire on which
the sun never sets
British Empire has held
23% of population and
24% of total land
Big Coloniser Energy™
Colonisation is our context
1232-1315
1646-1716
1815-1846
Boole
Leibniz
Llull
1907-2003
Teal
Columbus' Colonisation Tours™
Mercantalism
Industrial Revolution
Stocks
Spanish Colonisation
Contemporary
Coloniser
Colonised
Coloniser
Colonised
Humans determine the variables, functions
Colonisers
Coloniser
Colonised
Everything has, is, and
will always be about
power
Binarism reinforces individual power
#NotAllIndividuals #YMMV
WHITE
CIS MALE
ABLE-BODIED
PROTESTANT
WEALTHY
HETERO
AMERICAN
NEUROTYPICAL
white
wealthy
abled
hetero
cis male
citizen
neurotypical
Black
poor
disabled
queer
trans nonbinary
immigrant
neurodivergent
white
wealthy
abled
hetero
cis male
citizen
neurotypical
Black
poor
disabled
queer
trans nonbinary
immigrant
neurodivergent
Good
Bad
Binarism reinforces systemic power
👑
⛪
♟️
🛡️
Monarch
Clergy
Commoners
Nobility
👑
⛪
♟️
🛡️
Monarch
Clergy
Commoners
Nobility
Media
🗞️
👑
⛪
♟️
🛡️
Monarch
Clergy
Commoners
Nobility
Media
🗞️
Science
🧪
Technologists provided power
to politicians
(We still do.)
Even if we our technology carries intent to help,
if it is used to harm, we are
complicit
👑
⛪
♟️
🛡️
Monarch
Clergy
Commoners
Nobility
Media
🗞️
Science
🧪
👑
⛪
♟️
🛡️
Wealthiest
Clergy
Commoners
Nobility
Media
🗞️
Science
🧪
11
Tomorrow
Question
the binary
Opt for additive over reductive
just
unjust
Try the ternary
Use and
instead of or
yes
no
maybe
Leave space for
the unknown
State fewer facts, more curiosities
If Binarism is the problem...
And for the
devil's advocates 🥑
...what about non-binary computers?
Qubits
Complexity is the problem
Technology is not our answer
husband walks in the rain
EXT. ENGLAND 1864
gives a lecture, drenched
wife douses him in water
husband dies of pneumonia
the thing that
harmed to heal
Technology cannot solve human problems without also causing them.
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Roman Empire
Today
agriculture
irrigation
conquest
big data
We're already stolen from future generations—
ones already alive.
Efficiency is not our answer
Jevons Paradox
availability
efficiency
consumption
Efficiency is a capitalist tool
An efficient Cybertruck still contributes to
an anti-environmental infrastructure
Do we really want to allow a white able-bodied man who has created exploitative technology and grew up complicit under Apartheid to colonise Mars?
Learn how
to unlearn
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nonbinary
lack of something
non
what they aren't
not enough
binary
Binary Thinking
Us
Spectral Thinking
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Reject the
binary within
Good
Evil
Inheritence of original sin
Thou mayest
You're not
a bad person
But sorry, love, you're not a good person either
Cost of a bad act?
Value of a good act?
What's the statute of limitations?
Who is the judge? Jury? Executioner?
Bad act
Good character
Consequence?
Or Fate?
Good act
Bad character
Redemption?
Or Fate?
Character is mutable
Separating art from artist
We need hold space for people
to change
Connect the art
to its context
Words are
fleeting
Actions are countable
Actions are
our context
Embrace most important binary
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
“
Angela Davis
white
wealthy
abled
hetero
cis male
citizen
neurotypical
Black
poor
disabled
queer
trans nonbinary
immigrant
neurodivergent
racist
classist
disableist
anti-queer
anti-trans
disableist
anti-immigration
anti-racist
anti-classist
anti-disableist
pro-queer
pro-trans
pro-immigrant
anti-disableist
individual
anti-racist
anti-classist
anti-disableist
pro-queer
pro-trans
pro-immigrant
anti-disableist
community
society
Binarism reinforces individual power
#NotAllIndividuals #YMMV
It's not about giving marginalised people power
It's about taking power from centred people away
It's about taking power from centred people away...
...and dismantling the system that values power
racist
classist
disableist
anti-queer
anti-trans
disableist
anti-immigration
input
methodology
structural
Evolution, including genetic progress in human nature and human capacity...
“
...will be from now on increasingly the domain of science and technology tempered by ethics and political choice...
“
Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
“
E.O. Wilson
Morality mustn't be
the currency of others
We can't force others,
but we can inspire them
This will not
be easy
Unlearning is work; we will mess up
Resistance
must be resilient
This will not
be easy
Timshel
[sic]
Thou mayest
We mayest—together
Our Banal Binary
By Tatiana Mac
Our Banal Binary
Binary code is the axiomatic core of computing. From ones and zeros, we built magnificent inventions that visualised black holes and cup-winning football goals. Our reliance on the binary has a cost. Our language, laws, and technology build upon reductionist Boolean thinking: true and false, good and evil, black and white, just and unjust. The binary that gifted us could also become the most monolithic harbinger to developing nuanced solutions for social change and innovation. We will fracture the spokes of this axiomatic wheel, exploring a new model that encourages a more intersectional and inclusive way to build for all.
