A great paragraph from Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. This describes to motivation behind the religion and mysticism, conspiracy theory, maybe even empiricism.

This is it, the whole passage. There's no buildup, one second the two are working on assembling a machine together, then comes this, then the scene is over.

I've been building a custom Bluesky feed in Rust.

So far I'm using Flesch-Kincaid for readability and AFINN for sentiment to filter low-quality posts.

Not even targeting any topics yet, but the results are already looking solid!

I'd share it with no filters, but you don't want to see that.

I'm training a neural network with a genetic algorithm, but after 100k generations, these little guys still won't learn to run to safety. But give them just a dozen generations and they'll happily evolve to chase the kill zones straight to their doom.