crits in painting/fine art. and it's not even close.

In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...

i mean LL is the only real artist of all those four what are we even talking about (exceptions made for erin brockovich)

would teach in a faraday cage if i could

remembering how you once told me that inside every 500 page book there is a 100 page book

When he slept, Argus would close his eyes only in rotation. Even if several dozen eyes were sleeping, at any given moment there were enough vigilant ones to keep watch. that makes a bit of sense in the context of this passage -- but i agree with you that "des Argus" is a stretch

this is correct. in marx, cyclopean = large-scale machinery.

...AND is build from stolen intellectual property

healthy reading and sick reading - or how your illness also means you're a narcissist lol

especially important since the second theft is the narrative peak of the film

the key being that code is essentially deductive/procedural whereas current gen AI is inductive/emergent. hence two different senses of law: axiomatic vs vernacular

reading Barchester Towers rn. he's so great.