Ale×ey
@equalparallel.bsky.social
A friendly algorithm
Writing art theory, reading philosophy
at https://equalparallel.com/
Made art at https://vimeo.com/user1037543
Persisted as https://twitter.com/EqualParallel
And one foot always @Equalparallel@zirk.us
Writing art theory, reading philosophy
at https://equalparallel.com/
Made art at https://vimeo.com/user1037543
Persisted as https://twitter.com/EqualParallel
And one foot always @Equalparallel@zirk.us
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Ale×ey
@equalparallel.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Wrote 4k words on faith in a disenchanted world. On what faith means to me in the impossibility of theism. Where I'd go when there is nowhere left to turn. Don't know if this is philosophy exactly. Just thinking out loud about things I've never really thought about. equalparallel.com/void-cloud-l...
Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.
It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.
Guy who learns more about math just to find out what the aesthetic experiences of different maths are like.
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Guy who learns more about math just to find out what the aesthetic experiences of different maths are like.
Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.
On top of the great wall northeast of Beijing, a selection of tourist stereotypes: shy young russian couple quizzed by an Aussie about war, Americans discussing their bonuses while hiking, and a pair of young Germans filming themselves tearing off FUCK AFD stickers.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
On top of the great wall northeast of Beijing, a selection of tourist stereotypes: shy young russian couple quizzed by an Aussie about war, Americans discussing their bonuses while hiking, and a pair of young Germans filming themselves tearing off FUCK AFD stickers.
Mass use of genml in daily and professional lives seems like a social experiment to find a tolerable degree of noise injection into individual and social lives. And as with noise attack in charts, maybe it could bring clarity and make important things stand out against noise?
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Mass use of genml in daily and professional lives seems like a social experiment to find a tolerable degree of noise injection into individual and social lives. And as with noise attack in charts, maybe it could bring clarity and make important things stand out against noise?
Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.
Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.
Thinking of the optimism of past scifi and cyberpunk dystopias, of so called transhumanism seeing a future in which minds find a different form of life by being uploaded online, singularity etc. And the offer of our reality being uploading the online into the mind.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thinking of the optimism of past scifi and cyberpunk dystopias, of so called transhumanism seeing a future in which minds find a different form of life by being uploaded online, singularity etc. And the offer of our reality being uploading the online into the mind.
It's a funny coincidence that both "we're eating good" and "slop" have become widely used online lingo terms at roughly the same time.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's a funny coincidence that both "we're eating good" and "slop" have become widely used online lingo terms at roughly the same time.
So, are we going to see some real real innovation in gov bailout of the biggest financial pyramid ever? I wonder how often this sort of thing happened before.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
So, are we going to see some real real innovation in gov bailout of the biggest financial pyramid ever? I wonder how often this sort of thing happened before.
A highly speculative theory I've got is that Reddit (rabid hobbyism) was born centuries ago within the ranks of British aristocracy to channel need for political freedoms into harmless (sic) hobbies. Post-war, this became the trajectory for masses and valid up till today.
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A highly speculative theory I've got is that Reddit (rabid hobbyism) was born centuries ago within the ranks of British aristocracy to channel need for political freedoms into harmless (sic) hobbies. Post-war, this became the trajectory for masses and valid up till today.
Came back here to say that my optimistic theory is that the world has not descended into night completely yet and we have time until the ai bubble bursting, which will be like a friendly tap on the shoulder to global fascists already or close to being in power.
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Came back here to say that my optimistic theory is that the world has not descended into night completely yet and we have time until the ai bubble bursting, which will be like a friendly tap on the shoulder to global fascists already or close to being in power.
A strange thing I've discovered recently is the incredible amount of Japanese youtubers either don't speak at all or use text-to-speech on their videos. Subtitles only approach is somehow soothing, while the robotic voices and anime avatars are uncanny.
October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A strange thing I've discovered recently is the incredible amount of Japanese youtubers either don't speak at all or use text-to-speech on their videos. Subtitles only approach is somehow soothing, while the robotic voices and anime avatars are uncanny.
Ever since childhood, I wondered why exactly TV journalism is of such terrible quality that you could probably get more information from a tabloid op-ed column. Tv news formats seem to rely entirely on the authority of their voice.
October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ever since childhood, I wondered why exactly TV journalism is of such terrible quality that you could probably get more information from a tabloid op-ed column. Tv news formats seem to rely entirely on the authority of their voice.
It's truly baffling that the greatness of all religions rests upon human craftsmanship of aesthetic objects, the effects of which have been coopted for so long. Truly the best thing to happen to fine arts is that divorce from sacral.
August 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's truly baffling that the greatness of all religions rests upon human craftsmanship of aesthetic objects, the effects of which have been coopted for so long. Truly the best thing to happen to fine arts is that divorce from sacral.
Someone should write about rise of rent-seeking jobs in a rent-seeking social formation as all sorts of labor gets squeezed further by rent-seeking. So influencers, podcasters and other grifter professions are seen as the most prospective career options by younger generations.
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Someone should write about rise of rent-seeking jobs in a rent-seeking social formation as all sorts of labor gets squeezed further by rent-seeking. So influencers, podcasters and other grifter professions are seen as the most prospective career options by younger generations.
Only recently dawned on me that cultural objects do not submit to exhaustive monotonic explanations of their value, role or function. You can't really say "this object is made of this many gramms of expensive materials, therefore" and expect it to explain it's cultural value.
August 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Only recently dawned on me that cultural objects do not submit to exhaustive monotonic explanations of their value, role or function. You can't really say "this object is made of this many gramms of expensive materials, therefore" and expect it to explain it's cultural value.
"How do you know this?" is such a fun question: it either unlocks a whole area of philosophy and solves many problems OR it's a question so annoying it will end friendships and relationships.
August 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"How do you know this?" is such a fun question: it either unlocks a whole area of philosophy and solves many problems OR it's a question so annoying it will end friendships and relationships.
Often wonder if there was a time when daily experiences in different languages felt differently - due to being built up from different cultural artifacts. But I guess no one would be able to compare different phenomenologies.
August 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Often wonder if there was a time when daily experiences in different languages felt differently - due to being built up from different cultural artifacts. But I guess no one would be able to compare different phenomenologies.
Nice diagram by Rescher from his book on Philosophical Dialectic
August 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Nice diagram by Rescher from his book on Philosophical Dialectic
I see you, and I raise you
August 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I see you, and I raise you
Depressed to report that the only really original philosopher of ASD I know turned out to be an IQ peddling crank.
July 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Depressed to report that the only really original philosopher of ASD I know turned out to be an IQ peddling crank.
Realistically speaking, I think there are investment people out there reading up on the polycrisis just now and thinking "that's the way forward".
July 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Realistically speaking, I think there are investment people out there reading up on the polycrisis just now and thinking "that's the way forward".