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I need to go pose with this at a coffee shop, or youth's soda fountain (or malt shop). That'll show those normies...
antiX
I need to go pose with this at a coffee shop, or youth's soda fountain (or malt shop). That'll show those normies...
I formally retire from this "place." (It was already heavily a bot ghost village when I got here)
Go to my blog instead:
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com
Go to my blog instead:
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com
Candide's Garden
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I formally retire from this "place." (It was already heavily a bot ghost village when I got here)
Go to my blog instead:
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com
Go to my blog instead:
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com
One of my weirdo sub-reddits I followed gave me a breakthrough on a puzzle I've been thinking about Infinite Jest for years.
old.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJe...
old.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJe...
Lenses/Lenz -- and consciousness
It's been a while since I read the book (two times), and I think I'd have to re-read it to do any real justice to what I am saying, but one...
old.reddit.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One of my weirdo sub-reddits I followed gave me a breakthrough on a puzzle I've been thinking about Infinite Jest for years.
old.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJe...
old.reddit.com/r/InfiniteJe...
TIL most big Oktoberfests start in September and only end in October, if that.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
TIL most big Oktoberfests start in September and only end in October, if that.
Ah, cool! The guy who did the Norsk Experiment is now screwing around with Chatbots.
www.apronus.com/conversation...
www.apronus.com/conversation...
Conversational chatbots
Conversational chatbots based on ChatGPT
www.apronus.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Ah, cool! The guy who did the Norsk Experiment is now screwing around with Chatbots.
www.apronus.com/conversation...
www.apronus.com/conversation...
ChatGPT - Gel ink pen history
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
chatgpt.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reading "Aristotle's Guide to Self- Persuasion." A big take-away: slogans, repeated. Here's mine for doing house work:
"The next chore cheers the house."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
"The next chore cheers the house."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion: How Ancient Rheto…
Show yourself who's in charge using the original art of…
www.goodreads.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reading "Aristotle's Guide to Self- Persuasion." A big take-away: slogans, repeated. Here's mine for doing house work:
"The next chore cheers the house."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
"The next chore cheers the house."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Horror film concept: AI works with ants to destroy the human race.
Based on real events (not involving AI).
Based on real events (not involving AI).
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Horror film concept: AI works with ants to destroy the human race.
Based on real events (not involving AI).
Based on real events (not involving AI).
ChatGPT - Miles Davis jazz styles
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
chatgpt.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Opened my email today to see one from... ChatGPT.
That was a creepy.
Unsubscribe.
That was a creepy.
Unsubscribe.
August 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Opened my email today to see one from... ChatGPT.
That was a creepy.
Unsubscribe.
That was a creepy.
Unsubscribe.
More of the kind of making I like. If you're just flipping though it, that big wooden tool he uses to square things up is *chef's kiss*
youtu.be/ucAfUodzdjc?...
youtu.be/ucAfUodzdjc?...
cubeta de 20 L para maceta
YouTube video by muebles con palets
youtu.be
August 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
More of the kind of making I like. If you're just flipping though it, that big wooden tool he uses to square things up is *chef's kiss*
youtu.be/ucAfUodzdjc?...
youtu.be/ucAfUodzdjc?...
Windmills are on my mind right now. YT algo knows, and so another video recommended:
youtu.be/Vt5Y4iMAQWI?...
youtu.be/Vt5Y4iMAQWI?...
A Tribute to the Persian Windmill – The Process
YouTube video by Simon Gripenberg
youtu.be
July 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Windmills are on my mind right now. YT algo knows, and so another video recommended:
youtu.be/Vt5Y4iMAQWI?...
youtu.be/Vt5Y4iMAQWI?...
Powering my Camera with 20V Tool Batteries
YouTube video by Evan Monsma
youtu.be
July 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reposted
by way of comparison, I decided to wikipedia it. (wikipedia having replaced google as the goto search for most things I'm interested in.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_equation?wprov=sfla1 Includes python implentation
Sunrise equation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
by way of comparison, I decided to wikipedia it. (wikipedia having replaced google as the goto search for most things I'm interested in.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_equation?wprov=sfla1 Includes python implentation
Meh. Only important if it was the real basis of a new romanticism.
Otherwise, I'd say the easiest way to not have recommendation engines ruin your life is still just to not be one.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Otherwise, I'd say the easiest way to not have recommendation engines ruin your life is still just to not be one.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
The most important thing I have ever written. Probably also the best:
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com/2025/06/post...
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com/2025/06/post...
Post-Algo
We are post-algo. We ask the machine, but do not let it decide. We tune our own feeds, and disturb the defaults. We do not scroll; we summ...
gardenofcandide.blogspot.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Meh. Only important if it was the real basis of a new romanticism.
Otherwise, I'd say the easiest way to not have recommendation engines ruin your life is still just to not be one.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Otherwise, I'd say the easiest way to not have recommendation engines ruin your life is still just to not be one.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
