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just a guy who loves guattari
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interesting because all I've seen AI make him do is quit his job to become a "prompt engineer" and sit in front of a computer for hours to waste GPU cycles on making "Minions Looking Like Gangsters with Purple Drank and Bling, in anime Style" over and over again until it "looks just right"
AI generated minion with cigar, gemstone necklace and purple drank
January 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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going to canada and talking to the immigration officer like
professor oak saying "Bienvenue dans le monde de Pokemon!"
January 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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if you don't believe me just look at this extremely cringey group of "professionals" whining about it on GlassDoor

its also insane how some of these people talk about ChatGPT as if it was a living breathing human being consultant and making comparisons to video games
How often does everyone use ChatGPT/AI tools to "help" them in their job? I will do this several times a week but when my coworker found out, he accused me of cutting corners and being too lazy to do my job properly. My question is, why is it so wrong to use the latest tools to make my job a little easier? I use copilot almost daily. Why waste time refactoring by hand or copy and pasting just to make slight tweaks to functions If you using AI tools means the work isn't being done properly, then I agree with your coworker. It's one thing to use copilot suggestions or get ideas or something from it, and it's another thing to pop in a prompt and blindly use whatever it outputs. Also, it's *extremely obvious* to me when someone responds to my emails using chatGPT and I always immediately lose any respect I had for the person. Sounds like your coworker is either a boomer/very insecure probably because of how fast you can develop using AI (if you’re using it properly). Cursor for me has been a game changer at least in my personal projects and I have been shipping like a mad man I use AI tools like ChatGPT pretty regularly too, especially for brainstorming or drafting content. I don't see it as cutting corners—it's about working smarter, not harder. I think some people just aren't used to the idea yet, but in the end, if it boosts productivity, why not use it? I’ve been programming professionally for about 7 years and use LLMs. I love it for boilerplate stuff. I also like the auto completion. Why would I not use something that saves time? It’s like saying someone is cutting corners because they’re using a washing machine instead of a washboard. Work is judged by being complete correctly, or not. People that judge work for works sake are probably not efficient. I never use it to do my job for me. I often don’t like the code semantics generated but I’ll take the suggestions if it looks like what I want. What I mostly use it for is brainstorming ideas and basically having a dialogue with someone with the powers of the internet. Nothing wrong with you. Keep use it as rest of tools to make you effectiveness better. I use it a as an alternative to reading docs. I ask it pointed questions and it spits out examples, which is often far easier than searching through disjointed documentation. I also used it to write all my end of year reviews. I gave it the prompts and then some bullet points I wanted it to hit and it gave me a well-polished paragraph or two, which saved me a ton of time. the year end review use is a GREAT tip - i'll be using it for mid year now, wish i had thought of it sooner though I use it a few times a week - but really only as a nudge to get me in the right direction or as a debugging helper. I dont think your coworkers view is accurate as long as your work is still solid. The thing is AI is NOT a replacement for a human, its an aid. You still have to know how to ask it the correct questions, including rephrasing things when it doesn't give you what you're actually looking for, what to do if what it gives you isn't working, and how to essentially edit what its giving you. If you are a software engineer then you should know the type of people you are dealing with. These are the sans people who rage quit video games
January 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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how did I fuck up so bad
My most recent video performing like shit with 1.1% impression click through rate. It's getting shared just nobody is clicking
January 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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the "supplementary notes to the 1998 edition" are an insane fucking read
pp. 158–74 Recently, the scientific consensus has moved in the direction of greater certainty of a significant global warming due to anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases. See S. Schneider, Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can’t Afford to Lose (New York: Basic Books, 1997); T. R. Karl, N. Nicholls, and J. Gregory, “The Coming Climate,” Scientific American, May 1997, 78–83; and John Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (Oxford: Lion Books, 1994). The fact remains, however, that we have as yet no unequivocal signal, that is, a measurement or a series of climate events that all or most atmospheric scientists agree is the signal, of global warming of anything like the magnitude predicted by the available climate models. The atmosphere has in fact cooled, according to the most reliable measurements (by satellites), about o.i°C since 1979. It is almost certain that anthropogenic greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere at the present rate will eventually warm the planet; but at what rate, by how much, with what sort of geographic variation, and with what specific climatic consequences remain questions in need of much better answers than we have. Were not politics involved (which would of course be impossible), there would be much more research and much less posturing. Because it was a project supported by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a collection of essays entitled The True State of the Planet (ed. Ronald Bailey [New York: Free Press, 1995]) is dismissed out of hand by ecoradicals and ecopoliticians; but its authors include distinguished scientists and economists and it is worth reading on environmental issues like this.
January 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I wonder if amid the horrific unprecedented destruction in Los Angeles going on right now, Richard Dawkins is ever going to acknowledge that in "Postmodernism Disrobed" he promotes a book that literally is questioning if climate change is actually real in 1994
As is now rather well known, in 1996 Sokal submitted to the American journal Social Texta paper called ‘Transgressing the Boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity.’ From start to finish the paper was nonsense. It was a carefully crafted parody of postmodern metatwaddle. Sokal was inspired to do this by Paul Gross and Normal Levitt’s Higher Superstition: the academic left and its quarrels with science (Johns Hopkins, 1994), an important book which deserves to become as well known in Britain as it already is in America. Hardly able to believe what he read in this book, Sokal followed up the references to postmodern literature, and found that Gross and Levitt did not exaggerate. He resolved to do something about it. In Gary Kamiya’s words: It is distinctly possible that human activities, intensified as population grows and fuel-hungry technology becomes ubiquitous, could change the set point. Natural geological and astronomical phenomena, operative now as in the past, have, certainly, done that—during successive ice ages, for example, and perhaps as a consequence of the cyclic repositioning of Earth relative to our star and the sun’s to the center of the galaxy. Of course they will continue to do so in the future. There will be global warming and cooling, whether we are here or not. Volcanoes alone will see to it.18 The question—and we emphasize that it remains a question—of the effect upon this set point of increasing emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other “greenhouse” gases, byproducts of technology and agriculture, is of the highest importance. It deserves the most comprehensive and scrupulous investigation.
January 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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one of my favorite parts of the deleuze camp in 2024 was the part where the presenter told us about how deleuze and guattari called out gregory bateson for being a dolphin fed

this presentation was actually really good but this is still just so funny
A drawing of Deleuze and Guattari on the left with protestors from May 1968 drawn behind them, and Gregory Bateson drawn on the right thinking "Action"?. The text next to him is not legible. On the right is the following quote: The scientist as such has no revolutionary potential; he is the first integrated agent of integration, a refuge for bad conscience, and the forced destroyer of his own creativity. Let us consider the more striking [than Andre Grosz] example of a carrie 're a' l'ame 'ricaine) with abrupt mutatiions, just as we imagine such a career to be: Gregory Bateson begins by fleeing the civilized world, by becoming an ethnologist and following the primitive codes and the savage flows; then he turns in the direction of flows that are more and more decoded, those of schizophrenia, from which he extracts an interesting psychoanalytic theory; then, still in search of a beyond, of another wall to break through, he turns to dolphins, to the language of dolphins, to flows that are even stranger and even more deterritorialized. But where does the dolphin flux end, if not with the basic research projects of the American army, which brings us back to the preperations for war and to the absorption of surplus value. (Deleuze and Guattari, 1983: 257)
January 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Never forget the election manipulation booster seat
Mark Zuckerberg testifying in Congress about election elimination with his booster seat
January 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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While we're here, some words of wisdom from Guattari about fascism, found in Soft Subversions.
We're on the edge of a black hole of History today. It doesn't matter whether you are thinking or not. Especially in France, where nobody gives a damn. But what is interesting is that rather than adhering to their most immediate concerns, there are still people who want to change society. Sure, societal issues interest no one, and politics is an illusion, etc. Sure, it all looks pretty dreary. We're really in for it. Because it is not possible that so much stupidity, cowardice, bad faith and malice should have no consequences. Sooner or later, it's unavoidable: everything will crystallize heroically. We can do a lot better than Le Pen, you'll see... Because, watch out, if you think that Le Pen is only a simple resurgence, or some flaky throwback, you're dead wrong! Much more than Poujadism revisited, Le Pen is also a collective passion looking for an outlet, a hateful pleasure machine that fascinates even those that it nauseates. To be content to speak of neo-fascism lends confusion to the matter. Really, one can immediately think of the imagery of the National Front, and forget that Le Pen is also fed by the conservatism of the left, by trade union corporatism, by a beastly refusal to address questions of immigration or the systematic disenfranchisement of the youth, etc. It is not enough to refer to the past, because this kind of fascism strives to find itself in the future. Le Pen is nothing but a homing device, a trial balloon for other, much more potentially frightening formulae.
January 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Left: Pictured is labor activist Jo Labadie with the text "NOOOOOO! Don't turn this labor activist into a patio furniture company!!!" Right: A picture of patio furniture that says "Labadie's Patio Furniture and Accessories"
January 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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me when namescheap is advertising a super sale

me when I realize that the supersale doesn't apply to renewing domains apparently
spongebob excitedly opening his wallet spongebob opening his wallet, but not looking so confident
January 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A TRANSGENDER MARXIST peed here and nobody got hurt
January 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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POV: you accidentally put the adjective before the noun
deep fried image of a cat screaming with a pointing emoji at the viewer saying "ANGLAIS"
January 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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there is NO way mr clean isn't gay
mr clean crossing his arms with his cute sparkly earring and looking extremely homosexual
January 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I was listening to crush 40 like any other distinguished gentleman and my stepson walked over to me, looked at my phone and asked me why the fuck sonic was holding a sword, and I felt my soul leave my body
cover art for Sonic and the Black Knight where sonic is holding a bigass sword in front of a castle
January 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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drawing of an orange cat with its arms crossed, glasses, pen and inkwell and notebook are on the table in front of it. Drawing by Louis Wain
January 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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imagine being trans and not reading "To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body"

I swear I open this guy up after long periods of depression and grin ear to ear and its like, "oh yeah that's why I like him"
This antiquated world, which stinks everywhere of dead flesh, horrifies us and convinces us of the necessity of carrying the revo­ lutionary struggle against capitalist oppression into that territory where the oppression is most deeply rooted: the living body. It is the body and all the desires it produces that we wish to liberate from "foreign" domination. It is "on that ground" that we wish to "work" for the liberation of society. There is no boundary between the two elements. T oppress myself inasmuch as that 'I' is the product of a system of oppression that extends to all aspects of living. The "revolutionary consciousness" is a mystification if it is not situated within a "revolutionary body," that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation. Women in revolt against male power-a power that has been forced on their bodies for centuries-homosexuals in revolt against a terroristic "normality, " young people in revolt against the pathological authority of adults: these are the people who, collec­ tively, have begun to make the body a means of subversion, and have begun to see subversion as a means for meeting the "imme­ diate" needs of the body. These are the people who have begun to question the mode of production of desires, the relationship between pleasure and power, the relationship between the body and the individual. These are the people who question the function of such relationships in all spheres of capitalist society, including within militant groups.
January 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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now that I have your attention, i'm gonna make all my followers read guattari and I'm gonna make them LIKE IT
cartoon of felix guattari laughing uncontrollably with the text "WHEEZE" behind him
January 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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happy new year
cybertruck on fire outside of trump tower
January 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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All jokes aside, this is why you read Guattari's interviews, not jumping into Schizoanalytic Cartographies first. He is so clear here about his approach to therapy.

I've never seen this interview before, from "A Shock to Thought: Expression after Deleuze & Guattari" & was apparently taken in 1989.
I do not believe that there exists a subjectivity that does not produce a narrative text. However, it is not the content of the text that is decisive. What is decisive is its repetition.There is also the repetition of the family romance, for example, or the repetition of phantasy. I don’t make a distinction between Lacan’s discourse and its practice, its social dimen- sion. The unconscious, as Lacan formulates it or according to any other definition, is only a model of production of subjectivity that creates itself in and for a certain context, and is measured by its existential function. For me, individual, collective, and institutional mechanisms work in concert in the production of subjectivity. In my work, I do not focus on transference. My role consists in helping the patient develop means of expression and processes of subjectification that would not exist without the analytic process. Often transference is nothing more than opposition to the analysis, which Lacanians tend to use manipulatively. The patient’s feelings result from the process. For me, they are signs of what is happening in the course of the analytic process itself, not of a primal libidinality. The La Borde clinic [where Guattari worked all of his professional life] provides any number of different paths toward subjectifi- cation. It does not encourage the creation of a classical transference situation. So to return to your question,‘what’s left of transference?’: there are transferential mechanisms that concern parts of the body, and there are also non-personal machines. But the mechanisms of transference touch the community of care-givers as much as that of the patients. They concern the whole gamut of activities through which the patients express them- selves, which we as care-givers make possible and even encourage, and which contribute to the production of diverse nuclei of subjectification. As for what is called ‘negative transference’, when resistance to analysis is produced, the analysis can in my opinion be stopped, at any point that it is not working. I do not agree with the myth that everything continues as usual during ‘negative transference’.This is a myth analysts use to console themselves. Because it is a question of the production of new nuclei of expression, and not of the unmasking of pre-existent contents, I think of my active participation, and that of other personnel or communitarian elements, as catalytic. Either my work is effective, and I’m a good catalyser, or it is not, and I’m not, and in that case the process must be interrupted. FG: In practice, at the La Borde clinic, I participate in a great many ways. I involve myself on the social level of the patients’ activities. It is therefore very difficult to talk about transference in isolation. The ‘face to face’ encounter takes place within a complex institutional system. It took me some time to shed the collective analytic superego. Analysts live in perpetual fear. They lose themselves in the gap between theoretical and practical discourse, and can’t find the courage to take initiative. BLE: That you involve yourself means that the patients are not the only ones who must be ‘productive’, and that you also must renew yourself and create. In transferential relations that I term matrixial, I see change in myself, the analyst, as a sign of progress in the treatment, occurring in a matrixial edge of relational space existing in-between the patient and myself, even if the patient has broken down temporarily. Thus there can be temporary situations where the patient does not progress, and even turns against me, and in spite of it all a productive development occurs. That is because the changes each of the participants undergo, in relation to each other and to their common borderspace, through their matrixial relation of metramorphosis, are not necessarily synchronous. FG: But then you don’t consider the process blocked. Neither do you attribute it to an individual libidinal drive projected onto you. And if you yourself progress, you don’t interpret what is happening as ‘resistance’, and you don’t use that kind of interpretation to justify a frozen situation of enduring hostility. And you don’t hold someone else responsible for that situation. Isn’t that right? Given that you assume the production and growth of a common subjective stratum of encounter, on the basis of a shareable prenatal/feminine stratum that your model theorizes as escaping Oedipal phallocracy, wouldn’t the very concept of transference have to be transformed accordingly? BLE: It’s true, when you go from the phallic stratum to the matrixial stratum, even silence and perturbation are differently creative – as in painting. It becomes evident, through the processes of the painting’s creation, that the painting is not an object. Perturbation as creation, interruption of trans- mission … FG: And silence.You can see it in your painting: the machinic partial-object participates in an accumulation of intensities as part of a creation of subjectivity.This is all the more so because you don’t pile up objects in an ‘installation’. Instead, everything gets tangled up in the painting, intensities pile up in it, beyond all intentionality. It’s not that the human partial- object is perturbed by a machinic partial-object that supposedly accosts it. Rather, interference or perturbation themselves become a ‘refrain’, as does silence. In your painting, when the historical partial-object bursts into a process treating the human individual, or when the corporeal partial-object bursts forth during a process concerning an animal partial- object, these emergences at the same time disturb and produce the aesthetic experience, become-refrain. Although I wouldn’t equate art with therapy, anti-Oedipal schizoanal- ysis operates with a complexity that Freudian analysis does not take into account. It therefore leads to a different aesthetic analysis. It doesn’t limit itself to the individual, or even to the human. Reflections on transference must take into account ethological elements, incorporeal elements, becomings-animal, becomings-plant, non-human machines, machines of cultural subjectification like the mass media, machines of ecology and the environment. That is because unconscious phantasy deals with machines of all sorts, not just those from the past.Transference, then, has to do with processual complexity, with possibilities that are constantly developing.
January 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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its so funny how whenever guattari brings up jacques-alain miller he never spares his words. I live for this obscure psychoanalysis drama
Already in the days of the Freudian School, I used to say that annual schisms should be practised as a principle. In the Freudian School, each had her territory.There was an enormous amount of difference and openness. But toward the end of his life, Lacan, old and sick, was no longer master of his acts and thoughts. Jacques-Alain Miller, who took over responsibility for Lacan’s writings, wanted all the power for himself, he wanted to lord it over everyone. In that kind of situation, divisions are a way of refinding difference and opening. But beyond that, I think we must aspire to a wider kind of opening, beyond the model of diverse little groupings. Analysis must go outside, become a process that calls into question all social structures, the family, the school, the community. If analysis really is a process of the production of subjectivity, then what I would like to see some day is teachers and schoolmasters who are analysts.
December 31, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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It wasn't perfect though. The script just read menus and important text. So navigation was still based on the bump sound and counting steps many times. Ice Path in particular was a notorious hell hole for navigation with the sliding tiles. You think that shit is bad sighted? Imagine being blind...
Pokemon Gold - Ice Path; with sliding tiles to the right of the player
December 31, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Look I don't believe in souls but this really makes me think. If souls don't exist to quantum physicists cuz they can't find the soul particles or forces, maybe the reason why they struggle to understand how misogynistic their profession is is because they couldn't find misogyny particles or forces
Physicist Sean M. Carroll has written that the idea of a soul is incompatible with quantum field theory (QFT). He writes that, for a soul to exist, "[n]ot only is new physics required, but dramatically new physics: Within QFT, there can't be a new collection of 'spirit particles' and 'spirit forces' that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments."[152]
December 29, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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of course they are
People known to have arranged for cryonics upon death include PayPal founders Luke Nosek[69] and Peter Thiel,[70] Oxford transhumanists Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg, and transhumanist philosopher David Pearce.[71] Larry King once arranged for cryonics but, according to Inside Edition, changed his mind.[72][73]
December 29, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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every year this dude shows up at the end of the year and I can't refuse
Trade offer meme. I receive: mania, paranoia, hallucinations, psychosis; you receive: MIGRAINES
December 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM