I guess I'm going to write something about LLM "reasoning." Generally, LLM are still absolutely a next-token predicting machine, just like they were 3-4 years ago, but now they are dressed up better to look like they are thinking. What technically makes the difference?

The US mistook a tar pit for a bank vault.

my latest essay maps the broken protocol of Venezuela's oil, where sanctions turned liquid assets into solid liabilities. This operation prioritizes strategic denial over profit.

Read here: thing.rodeo/tar-pit-trap/

#Venezuela #Geopolitics #Oil

Stop fighting the Canvas editor. You paste a table, hit save, and it explodes. 💥

I wrote about why the LMS mangles formatting and how to bypass it with "Syllabus as Code." Write in Markdown or Word, compile to HTML, reclaim your work.

#HigherEd #EdTech #DigitalHumanities

thing.rodeo/evil-quine/

Sure, looting Venezuela might not be profitable, but all of our national investments in the last year are definitely not going to be profitable.

Ukraine Foreign Minister - "Ukraine has consistently defended the right of nations to live freely, free of dictatorship, oppression, and human rights violations. The Maduro regime has violated all such principles..."

Remember that one next time you're told to cry about sovereignty

Treating reality like a simulation to be optimized guarantees a fatal crash. The Granger Theorem reads Primer as a warning about a tech future where the only winners are the cynical operators who learn to exploit the glitches.

#Primer #FilmTheory #SciFi #Simulation

thing.rodeo/granger-theo...

If the Universe is a Set (V ∈ V), it cannot expand. There is no outside.

Monism sees a static crystal, not a Big Bang. Expansion is just curvature; Dark Energy is friction.

Part 2: thing.rodeo/house-of-mirrors/
#Philosophy #Cosmology #Spinoza

Veritas norma sui et falsi est

Then the strong slayer of Argus looked furtively upon the ground with eyes flashing fire... He took the lyre upon his left arm and tried each string in turn with the key... And Phoebus Apollo laughed for joy... and a soft longing took hold on his soul as he listened.

The BwO persists as a surface of immanent substance where partial objects (fragments of desire) distribute themselves, escaping unification into a rigid organism.

The subject is a residue that wanders across the body without organs.

I’ve been digging into the 2025 consistency proof for Quine’s New Foundations.

We thought a "Universal Set" broke logic. It doesn't. It just trades the ZFC skyscraper for a hall of mirrors.

Part 1: thing.rodeo/quine-universal-set/

#Philosophy #SetTheory #Spinoza #Monism