Ian
@brocktoon.bsky.social
Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication.
https://stuckness.ghost.io/what-this-is-who-i-am-who-i-am-is-what-i-am-is-who-i-am-context-collapse/
https://stuckness.ghost.io/what-this-is-who-i-am-who-i-am-is-what-i-am-is-who-i-am-context-collapse/
As one does during a Warhammer weekend, we actually just hung out on the porch smoking and talking about philosophy. And this sort of thing came up, that all of this is an attempt to rectify the language as prison problem and the subject/object divide.
Humans often say: It's hard to find the words for it. So when comparing "us" with AI and LLMs, we need to start to acknowledge: language is just a small communicative layer in human experience; actually, it is a bottleneck. So no LLM could ever cover the entirety of being human.
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
As one does during a Warhammer weekend, we actually just hung out on the porch smoking and talking about philosophy. And this sort of thing came up, that all of this is an attempt to rectify the language as prison problem and the subject/object divide.
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Kepa voluntarily goes off after being subbed in a cup match. That's character development.
February 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Kepa voluntarily goes off after being subbed in a cup match. That's character development.
ALERT: ARSENAL PLAYED SOME ONE-TWOS
February 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
ALERT: ARSENAL PLAYED SOME ONE-TWOS
Arsenal should be beating Wigan but this is an ass beating.
February 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Arsenal should be beating Wigan but this is an ass beating.
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Most of them come from the computer industry, but we’ve been deeply acculturated into holding tech to a lower standard, and accepting “user error” vs bad design. It’s dogma of the tech industry: endless special pleading for failures we as a society did not previously accept from any other industry.
February 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Most of them come from the computer industry, but we’ve been deeply acculturated into holding tech to a lower standard, and accepting “user error” vs bad design. It’s dogma of the tech industry: endless special pleading for failures we as a society did not previously accept from any other industry.
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Watching pro AI people in Reddit discussions about slop PRs (code edit submissions to open source public software projects) complaining "What's the problem just review the PRs, if they're good merge them" really underlines a lot of the problematic way that AI boosters devalue respect for labour.
February 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Watching pro AI people in Reddit discussions about slop PRs (code edit submissions to open source public software projects) complaining "What's the problem just review the PRs, if they're good merge them" really underlines a lot of the problematic way that AI boosters devalue respect for labour.
Kind of want to learn curling.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Kind of want to learn curling.
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Asleep on my lap I can't move
February 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Asleep on my lap I can't move
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"We have, in any case, become `just anyone' today."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
February 14, 2026 at 1:25 AM
"We have, in any case, become `just anyone' today."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
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Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
Ordered Jamaican ox tails and fried plantains, about to collapse
February 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Ordered Jamaican ox tails and fried plantains, about to collapse
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I teach a lot of working class first generation students at Nicholls in South Louisiana. I will never give up my conviction that my students deserve Homer and Sappho and Sophocles and Ovid and Dante too. It's not too good for them.
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I teach a lot of working class first generation students at Nicholls in South Louisiana. I will never give up my conviction that my students deserve Homer and Sappho and Sophocles and Ovid and Dante too. It's not too good for them.
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Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
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That is an incredible pull quote from Meta, jesus. Masks fully coming off.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:52 PM
That is an incredible pull quote from Meta, jesus. Masks fully coming off.
I read all those Atlantic headlines as them getting out ahead of the impending shift so they can always be centrist. Less triumphalism, more "told you what would happen always come back here when you leftoids overreach again so it's not a repeat"
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I read all those Atlantic headlines as them getting out ahead of the impending shift so they can always be centrist. Less triumphalism, more "told you what would happen always come back here when you leftoids overreach again so it's not a repeat"
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i hope the last couple decades of kick ass hope punk post apocalyptic media isn’t a presentment of things to come the way disaster movies presaged 9/11
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
i hope the last couple decades of kick ass hope punk post apocalyptic media isn’t a presentment of things to come the way disaster movies presaged 9/11
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5. The real hack to getting into college is fully funding public schools, moving away from an emphasis on test scores, lower teacher-student ratios, trusting teachers more, more parental involvement, and less screen time in the classroom.
1. No it doesn't give you an edge
2. There is no such thing as a hack for getting into college. Why is NYM doing Buzzfeed journalism?
3. F*ck your careers, women, just go home & teach algebra to your kids & make a sandwich
4. Even if you have a PhD in something, you are not equipped to teach it all.
2. There is no such thing as a hack for getting into college. Why is NYM doing Buzzfeed journalism?
3. F*ck your careers, women, just go home & teach algebra to your kids & make a sandwich
4. Even if you have a PhD in something, you are not equipped to teach it all.
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
5. The real hack to getting into college is fully funding public schools, moving away from an emphasis on test scores, lower teacher-student ratios, trusting teachers more, more parental involvement, and less screen time in the classroom.
Watch WBD's proscription on Fuck ICE chants via banning Brody King spill over to WWE. Then, good luck.
February 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Watch WBD's proscription on Fuck ICE chants via banning Brody King spill over to WWE. Then, good luck.
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Congrats to AEW on creating a super baby face
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Congrats to AEW on creating a super baby face
Bad run of X Files season 7 episodes ends with Hollywood AD
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Bad run of X Files season 7 episodes ends with Hollywood AD
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Well my name's John Keats and I'm here to say / that Beauty is Truth, in a major way
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Well my name's John Keats and I'm here to say / that Beauty is Truth, in a major way