Ärvinski The Ephemeral
@arvinski.bsky.social
Quantum hairsplitting. Epistemology. Thought crimes.
Just passing through.
• not leading • not following •
• not getting out of the way •
lift yourself, you lift the world
try to lift the world,
you'll break your back
~a parsasarathy
Just passing through.
• not leading • not following •
• not getting out of the way •
lift yourself, you lift the world
try to lift the world,
you'll break your back
~a parsasarathy
Typos are killing me tonight, but at least I’m not being dragged from my home and disappeared.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Typos are killing me tonight, but at least I’m not being dragged from my home and disappeared.
BREAKING:
GELATINOUS BLOB LARPS AS COALITION
GELATINOUS BLOB LARPS AS COALITION
Major Republican pollster warns that digging in on anti-Nazism will fracture their coalition
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
BREAKING:
GELATINOUS BLOB LARPS AS COALITION
GELATINOUS BLOB LARPS AS COALITION
Pigments 1 (2018) was my first synth, and dynamic parameters spoiled me for life. Its utilitarian interface + functionality is an evolving work of art, a testament to the brilliance of Arturia's strategic planning. Every update feels like a gift. It’s Version 6 now. The only cult I refuse to leave.
Went a *little* long yesterday reviewing/touring Pigments, but in my defense:
1) It's a BIG, complex synth
2) I really love the hell out of it and have a lot to say
Anyway, if you have 90 minutes and want an intro to your next favorite synth, here ya go:
www.youtube.com/live/slcMpsD...
#Synthsky
1) It's a BIG, complex synth
2) I really love the hell out of it and have a lot to say
Anyway, if you have 90 minutes and want an intro to your next favorite synth, here ya go:
www.youtube.com/live/slcMpsD...
#Synthsky
Arturia Pigments 6 Tour + Review
YouTube video by Ether Diver
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Pigments 1 (2018) was my first synth, and dynamic parameters spoiled me for life. Its utilitarian interface + functionality is an evolving work of art, a testament to the brilliance of Arturia's strategic planning. Every update feels like a gift. It’s Version 6 now. The only cult I refuse to leave.
Hard times for procrastinating day-traders.
remember the salad days of [checks notes] this morning, when Nvidia was on top of the world?
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Oops! Nvidia's Stock Is Falling Again After Its "Blowout" Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.
futurism.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hard times for procrastinating day-traders.
This song is cool enough to make an atheist an agnostic - or, yes, even a Christian - and there is a virtual certainty it happened more than once and probably still does. I mean, come on. Minor notes on a fuzzed-out Telecaster? Anything can happen.
Born 20 Nov 1942 - Norman Greenbaum, singer/songwriter, guitarist, and 1 hit wonder with the single 'Spirit In The Sky'. Reprise released the record in late 1969, and it skyrocketed to #1 in almost all worldwide markets. It sold 2 million copies in 1970, and received a gold disc. #NormanGreenbaum
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This song is cool enough to make an atheist an agnostic - or, yes, even a Christian - and there is a virtual certainty it happened more than once and probably still does. I mean, come on. Minor notes on a fuzzed-out Telecaster? Anything can happen.
This takes “terracing” to a whole new level. New to us, anyway. Our ancestors were well-acquainted with it.
Can we do this to all of the golf courses here as well please? kottke.org/25/11/footba...
Football Stadium Turned Community Garden
As part of a city-wide urban greening program, Taipei turned an abandoned football stadium into a community garden. Here’s
kottke.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This takes “terracing” to a whole new level. New to us, anyway. Our ancestors were well-acquainted with it.
The Information Age includes ubiquitous misinformation and disinformation largely because Humanity's greatest conceit lies in the presumption we understand what intelligence is.
Intelligence is no longer tied to the ability to get informed. It’s drifting away from truthfulness. We’re told the issue is stupid people being misinformed. It isn’t. When intelligent people are widely misinformed, the culture is in deeper trouble.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Information Age includes ubiquitous misinformation and disinformation largely because Humanity's greatest conceit lies in the presumption we understand what intelligence is.
My Dutch genes are singing.
A bit late here this day here is a wonderful stature near science centrum for cancer from the VU in Amsterdam. More in the Alt.
#UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #mobilephonephotography
#UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #mobilephonephotography
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My Dutch genes are singing.
Generalism and metaphors have their limitations, but good luck finding them here.
These people combine the competence of a concussed ferret with the ethics of a rabid one.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Generalism and metaphors have their limitations, but good luck finding them here.
It wasn’t long ago referring to conservatives as “Nazis" elicited scowls and howls from party loyalists on both sides of the political spectrum. Of course, “both sides" isn’t much of a spectrum, is it. Institutionalism has its drawbacks, institutional collapse being the most conspicuous.
WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It wasn’t long ago referring to conservatives as “Nazis" elicited scowls and howls from party loyalists on both sides of the political spectrum. Of course, “both sides" isn’t much of a spectrum, is it. Institutionalism has its drawbacks, institutional collapse being the most conspicuous.
Maybe Democrats won’t censure Al Green for doing what they refuse to do: uphold their oath of office. Don't count on it, though.
Al Green just announced he’ll be introducing articles of impeachment to the House on this shortly.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Maybe Democrats won’t censure Al Green for doing what they refuse to do: uphold their oath of office. Don't count on it, though.
Supporting human rights does not pose a moral, political or spiritual dilemma for anyone who understands their own humanity.🌏🕊️
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Supporting human rights does not pose a moral, political or spiritual dilemma for anyone who understands their own humanity.🌏🕊️
Senator Wyden’s “EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL” thread, and no doubt the report from which it is derived, begs the following [compound] question: WHAT DID THE SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE KNOW, AND WHEN DID IT KNOW IT?
Don’t just settle for the low-hanging fruit. See the evidence through to its logical conclusion.
Don’t just settle for the low-hanging fruit. See the evidence through to its logical conclusion.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Senator Wyden’s “EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL” thread, and no doubt the report from which it is derived, begs the following [compound] question: WHAT DID THE SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE KNOW, AND WHEN DID IT KNOW IT?
Don’t just settle for the low-hanging fruit. See the evidence through to its logical conclusion.
Don’t just settle for the low-hanging fruit. See the evidence through to its logical conclusion.
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I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
you are
the universe
in ecstatic motion
~rumi
the universe
in ecstatic motion
~rumi
Young Choreographers by Jack Mitchell, January 1969:
Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Don Redlich & Twyla Tharp
Choreographers seem to be long-lived: Monk is 83, Rainer is 90 & Tharp is 84. I couldn't track down much information about Redlich, but he was born in 1933.
Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Don Redlich & Twyla Tharp
Choreographers seem to be long-lived: Monk is 83, Rainer is 90 & Tharp is 84. I couldn't track down much information about Redlich, but he was born in 1933.
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
you are
the universe
in ecstatic motion
~rumi
the universe
in ecstatic motion
~rumi
People come & go, but Culture is not so easily or readily dismissed or changed. This is something to bear in mind when The Dictator and The Regime are no longer in power. United Statists have demonstrated precious little courage in evaluating the conditions which led to a White Ethno Terror State.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
People come & go, but Culture is not so easily or readily dismissed or changed. This is something to bear in mind when The Dictator and The Regime are no longer in power. United Statists have demonstrated precious little courage in evaluating the conditions which led to a White Ethno Terror State.
An ubiquitous hazard in the Information Age - one Humanity is obviously not navigating it well.
There’s a moment in every party’s governing term when realisation slowly dawns that it has lost any agency it once had with those who put it in power.
#nzpol
#nzpol
National missing the message by only listening to those it wants to
OPINION: There’s a moment in every party’s governing term when realisation slowly dawns that it’s lost any agency it once had with those who put it in power.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
An ubiquitous hazard in the Information Age - one Humanity is obviously not navigating it well.
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happy bday Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, b.1858, first woman to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
happy bday Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, b.1858, first woman to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden....
“With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
Reposted by Ärvinski The Ephemeral
Revealing comments, too. Trees do not get the respect they deserve.
As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf.
Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.
Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Revealing comments, too. Trees do not get the respect they deserve.
Technology facilitates exploitation, not because technology is inherently exploitative, but because, absent Awareness, human beings are.
The greater our disconnection from Nature, inside and outside, the more tragic the result. The World as we know it - and are it - is a testament to this dynamic.
The greater our disconnection from Nature, inside and outside, the more tragic the result. The World as we know it - and are it - is a testament to this dynamic.
It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Technology facilitates exploitation, not because technology is inherently exploitative, but because, absent Awareness, human beings are.
The greater our disconnection from Nature, inside and outside, the more tragic the result. The World as we know it - and are it - is a testament to this dynamic.
The greater our disconnection from Nature, inside and outside, the more tragic the result. The World as we know it - and are it - is a testament to this dynamic.
Reminiscent of “Check's in the mail,” and “Can’t guarantee I remembered the stamp."
So per NVIDIA's earnings, it appears that NVIDIA has *agreed* to invest in Anthropic, but its investment in OpenAI is a "letter of intent with an opportunity to invest." Very strange!
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Reminiscent of “Check's in the mail,” and “Can’t guarantee I remembered the stamp."
Robert George’s cognitive dissonance is deeply disturbing. This is a man who doesn’t know who or what he is; one ill-equipped to distinguish between Power and Truth. His “philosophy” and “scholarship” serve powerful institutions - the ones crumbling all around us as they invalidate themselves daily.
Prominent Catholic philosophical and legal scholar Robert George has resigned from the board of the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Catholic scholar quits Heritage over its president's defense of Tucker Carlson interview
Prominent Catholic philosophical and legal scholar Robert George has resigned from the board of the conservative Heritage Foundation, saying he "could not remain" without its president fully retractin...
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Robert George’s cognitive dissonance is deeply disturbing. This is a man who doesn’t know who or what he is; one ill-equipped to distinguish between Power and Truth. His “philosophy” and “scholarship” serve powerful institutions - the ones crumbling all around us as they invalidate themselves daily.
Appropos of nothing, I think a 6 to 12-month moratorium on plugin purchases is in my best interest. Novelty rarely works to greater effect than Limitation. Interesting paradox. Besides, I don’t have money to burn, but I do have a Behringer Neutron, Model D and other hardware awaiting reignition.
🎹👨🚀✨
🎹👨🚀✨
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Appropos of nothing, I think a 6 to 12-month moratorium on plugin purchases is in my best interest. Novelty rarely works to greater effect than Limitation. Interesting paradox. Besides, I don’t have money to burn, but I do have a Behringer Neutron, Model D and other hardware awaiting reignition.
🎹👨🚀✨
🎹👨🚀✨