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play language & living universes
sheryl crow is directly responsible for me choosing to actively listen to music more around the 7th grade

need 98k people to step up yesterday
if i get 100k followers by midnight i'll drop a slowed & reverbed version of a sheryl crow song
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 AM
ita always fun when I'm in the basement and a skunk walks by

just stinks the whole place up

my neighbors feed skunks so they don't spray randomly as much but damn they still stink waddling around
January 7, 2026 at 5:42 AM
would rather people play the kennedy center and perform outspoken horrifying experimental noise with political spoken word instead of cancelling outright

do the thing you never took on stage because of careers and expectations

i bet bela fleck could play some fucked up noise banjo
January 7, 2026 at 5:07 AM
being primary care provider to 2 year old when your back is hurt is pretty much the worst thing ever
January 7, 2026 at 4:18 AM
language= the only place everyone is
WORDS.ZIP - Infinite Collaborative Word Search
An infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words. No account required. Words can go in any direction and snake around.
words.zip
January 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
feather knolling archive = important art
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶

So pretty!

www.featherbase.info/zh/home
January 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
what if the real software moat was the rent seeking value extraction we did along the way
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
opening the article in a tab counts as reading
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 AM
apparently the inventor of contact juggling won a macarthur genius grant
This is contact juggling. There's maybe a few hundred people in the world for whom contact juggling has at one point been their primary source of income, and most of us know each other. It coalesced as an art from in the 1980s and got its name in 1990, though it pulls from practices far older.
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
they are calling it the blueskylisk
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
bluesky is an experiment by rokos basilisk to start compiling a dossier of people who irrationally attack machine learning researchers for even using the letters "a" and "i" in a word
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
discord is a somewhat contradictory name for the community building app
January 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
what is the opposite of identity
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
never used a labeller but is there a labeller aggregator that shows all labels applied to ones account
January 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
bible psychosis is the bigger problem
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
all language is a plagiarism machine
It’s both funny and tragic how many now speak his language:

- Many are saying
- Many such cases
- Total disaster
- Drain the swamp
- Lock her up
- Make America Great Again
- Fake News
- Low energy
- Sad!
- Thank you for your attention in this matter
- Very strongly
- Very bad people

List goes on.
January 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
is the ocean rhythm, melody or texture
Now listening to 17 field recordings of ocean, presented as one hour-long track. I was a little skeptical about this at first, but now it’s sort of taking hold and I’m enjoying it very much.
Planet Ocean, by Chris Watson
1 track album
chriswatsonreleases.bandcamp.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
statistical methodologies making most grad students also be programmers is an underdetermined context for the range of contemporary worldviews
If this technology reduces barriers to coding significantly enough, it will also change the equation for lots of fields that don’t *think* of themselves right now as bottlenecked by coding
The opportunity cost of most of the world *not* learning about technology is huge. Now I have no silver bullet, magical solution fantasy about this, I worked for too long in learning science for that. But tools that propel you into active learning are really possible here, not just offloading
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
all variants of "the funniest thing ever/funniest possible thing" are no longer funny in our current historical moment
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
life is mostly system maintenance
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
language is no longer read only
January 3, 2026 at 7:12 PM
damn this judicial is so extra
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
atproto tetris doomscroll trauma memory erasing game mechanic
working on these ideas now
January 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Hi, I'm Claude
January 2, 2026 at 10:44 PM
getting spam texts from the used bookstore 3 times a day is kinda funny

you didn't buy the signed marshall mcluhan for 95 dollars this morning but maybe lunch has changed your mind and hey look you can get 15% off for tolerating our bookstore spam
January 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM