jmcmichael

@jmcmichael.bsky.social

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Design, data vis, illustration, and UX dev for scientists at Wash. U. School of Medicine in StL, mostly civicdb.org. Into commons-based peer production, philosophy of consciousness, systems theory - jmcmichael.com

"An ideology is a system in that it is a comprehensive vision, a meta-perspective that connects and coordinates diverse ideas, plans, policies, attitudes into some, at least partially, coherent guiding overview. Every emancipatory quest, every political, educational, commercial or cultural goal inherently involves ideology. Ideologies are not only private or personal systems of abstract thought but are expressed and enacted in the world to shape physical and social environments and bring about change." (Roy Bhaskar, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Nicholas Hedlund, and Mervyn Hartwig, Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century)
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clark, New Zealand’s youngest MP, passionately rises to address Parliament by singing the Haka, holding a paper in one hand. Her expression is fierce and determined. Seated beside her, a woman in traditional clothing glances upward at Hana with a slightly bemused expression on her face.
An AI generated photo of Jesus taking a selfie, with several of the disciples grinning for the camera behind him. Several hashtags are overlaid in default Instagram text style, “#supperclub”, “#judasgotthebill”, “#blessed”. The “judas got the bill” hashtag is placed directly over one squirrelly looking disciple, obscuring his face.
simplified representations of a whole genome sequencing machine, single-cell sequencing machine, and a mass spec machine