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Atlanta-based software architect with two decades of experience in systems engineering and emerging tech. I write about literature, philosophy, software, language, and the craft of programming
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Channel 4's adaptation of Oresteia
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Channel 4's adaptation of Oresteia
but who will be the father coughlin of the left
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
but who will be the father coughlin of the left
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Olive Thomas by Maurice Goldberg as featured in Theatre magazine, March 1919
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Olive Thomas by Maurice Goldberg as featured in Theatre magazine, March 1919
imho it is somewhat hypocritical how imperial and temple power centers aura-farm the New Testament while steadfastly ignoring its pointed critique of… imperial and temple power centers. not to mention the open hatred for the sociological content of the gospels (feed the hungry?? you confused child!)
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
imho it is somewhat hypocritical how imperial and temple power centers aura-farm the New Testament while steadfastly ignoring its pointed critique of… imperial and temple power centers. not to mention the open hatred for the sociological content of the gospels (feed the hungry?? you confused child!)
we almost got a genuinely-woke followup to last jedi (duel of the fates) but out of craven cowardice they killed it and gave us rise of skywalker instead
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
we almost got a genuinely-woke followup to last jedi (duel of the fates) but out of craven cowardice they killed it and gave us rise of skywalker instead
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...
my favorite thing about ai? well do you count memory-palace mental training disciplines to prepare for butlerian machine-war
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
my favorite thing about ai? well do you count memory-palace mental training disciplines to prepare for butlerian machine-war
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“it is alternately stone in you and star”
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“it is alternately stone in you and star”
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice… and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. (MLK)
September 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice… and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. (MLK)
rly not a good vibe when Rightists say they are Finally Solving autism
September 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
rly not a good vibe when Rightists say they are Finally Solving autism
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Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link here: www.urbanomic.com/book/the-rev...
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link here: www.urbanomic.com/book/the-rev...
may all beings be happy and live in safety and be free from fear
August 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
may all beings be happy and live in safety and be free from fear
An LLM is a black hole; weights are interior island regime, seemingly nonobservable but clearly “part” of the same structure as the radiative halo (predictive generations) whose information is purified by stepwise path-dependent entanglement — ie replica wormholes (utterances, unprestatable portals)
An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...
August 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
An LLM is a black hole; weights are interior island regime, seemingly nonobservable but clearly “part” of the same structure as the radiative halo (predictive generations) whose information is purified by stepwise path-dependent entanglement — ie replica wormholes (utterances, unprestatable portals)
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the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
August 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
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they should make a good dragon. beige. not quite as thick
August 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
they should make a good dragon. beige. not quite as thick
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au justice was served
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
au justice was served
a great while ago the world begun
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
a great while ago the world begun
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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
~Sylvia Plath
~Sylvia Plath
![[Experiment in Three-Color Photography by Edward Steichen (1906)] a woman in the distance walks away and around the shore of a small body of water, in a slight mood of darkness](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:radq5ea3mto23ckpk7qe4j4v/bafkreia6tkth37w7tbe54rlrioj47rtybte5hyg4yzuvhlvc5cvgzkt5j4@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
~Sylvia Plath
~Sylvia Plath
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I keep thinking that the broadest sense of Nietzsche’s philosophy is simply a raised eyebrow alongside the question: “so you say you want to deny the reality of your senses?”
Well I guess what I have seen is people propose something like degrees or scales of reality wherein the more fleeting or ephemeral something is then less real it is. This is classic Platonism, where sense impressions are pretty low down the reality scale, whereas numbers and concepts are high up.
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I keep thinking that the broadest sense of Nietzsche’s philosophy is simply a raised eyebrow alongside the question: “so you say you want to deny the reality of your senses?”
the world becomes tragicomedy around comedy writers, through no fault of theirs exactly
decided to take an uber instead of the bus to work today and he asked what my job was and he said “haven’t heard of satire before, i’m going to have to chatGPT that”
August 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
the world becomes tragicomedy around comedy writers, through no fault of theirs exactly
Where books burn, so do people
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Where books burn, so do people
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Sommerfeld Residence, Berlin, 1920-1921 https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/53282
July 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Sommerfeld Residence, Berlin, 1920-1921 https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/53282