i’ll allow it
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honestly love this way of thinking about finding a character. don’t demystify! don’t interpret! it doesn’t signify in the first place etc
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
honestly love this way of thinking about finding a character. don’t demystify! don’t interpret! it doesn’t signify in the first place etc
thirty 🎯s and it’s still wrong
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
thirty 🎯s and it’s still wrong
the ambiguity of “lost” here seems telling psychologically
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the ambiguity of “lost” here seems telling psychologically
maybe an adjacent point but when people can’t trust what they see anymore, the game itself falls apart. like what happened with professional boxing, which was absolutely huge in the early 20c
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
maybe an adjacent point but when people can’t trust what they see anymore, the game itself falls apart. like what happened with professional boxing, which was absolutely huge in the early 20c
melting the permafrost to release vibratory malevolences not seen since the Weimar Republic and/or the Emperor Tiberius
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
melting the permafrost to release vibratory malevolences not seen since the Weimar Republic and/or the Emperor Tiberius
*Tracy Chapman chords* talking about a revolution
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
*Tracy Chapman chords* talking about a revolution
Grain riots in the middle west
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Grain riots in the middle west
(they do like to represent their structure as “weather” and ”waves” and it isn’t a bad analogy at all … but I do think astrophysical and virological metaphors may be more exact)
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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/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
(they do like to represent their structure as “weather” and ”waves” and it isn’t a bad analogy at all … but I do think astrophysical and virological metaphors may be more exact)
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makes me think of computer lib / dream machines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute...
Computer Lib/Dream Machines - Wikipedia
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November 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
makes me think of computer lib / dream machines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute...
he says upthread “be tougher on crime and illegal immigration”
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
he says upthread “be tougher on crime and illegal immigration”
keep thinking there’s something dialectical here
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
keep thinking there’s something dialectical here
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
Nixon: bad character (moral idiot)
Reagan: no character (destructive plasticity)
Trump: anti character (plastic moral idiocy)
it is genuinely interesting how different in tone/perspective is compared to western models imo
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
it is genuinely interesting how different in tone/perspective is compared to western models imo
the buffalo Buffalo buffalos buffalo if you will
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the buffalo Buffalo buffalos buffalo if you will
ah I assumed you were being ironic
> He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
not rly historical ignorance
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> He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
not rly historical ignorance
jewishinsider.com/2025/10/grah...
Graham Platner says ‘I am not a secret Nazi’ after photos of his tattoo emerge
A former acquaintance of the Maine Senate candidate said he called the tattoo ‘my Totenkopf,’ referring to a symbol adopted by a Nazi SS unit
jewishinsider.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
ah I assumed you were being ironic
> He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
not rly historical ignorance
jewishinsider.com/2025/10/grah...
> He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”
not rly historical ignorance
jewishinsider.com/2025/10/grah...
[on a computer with access to every image in history] sadly it’s impossible to correctly identify symbols,
October 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
[on a computer with access to every image in history] sadly it’s impossible to correctly identify symbols,
praying there could be a hope for pulling dems in congress away from collaboration in any case but yeah i think structurally it will demand something like DSA hostile takeover of dem strongholds and/or mass enlightenment (which really shouldn’t be discounted at this point imo)
October 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
praying there could be a hope for pulling dems in congress away from collaboration in any case but yeah i think structurally it will demand something like DSA hostile takeover of dem strongholds and/or mass enlightenment (which really shouldn’t be discounted at this point imo)
no you’re completely right “palpatine somehow returned” is brilliant screenwriting
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
no you’re completely right “palpatine somehow returned” is brilliant screenwriting
to be clear the actual probability in question is exactly nil
October 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
to be clear the actual probability in question is exactly nil
hilariously low probability esp given there’s also no timeline
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
hilariously low probability esp given there’s also no timeline