Alt.text adapted from Paul Valery's 1920 poem, 'Le Cimetière marin' part I:

Yes, the concept of God.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and/or Jim Justice, it’s your time to shine

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" The holodeck is the only part that's real @baudrillardwarned.us

Trump is not the worst US president in history, b/c he is not a legitimate president. He is an agent or asset in a hybrid attack on the US federal constitutional republic, involving powerful domestic & foreign actors, lawfare, mediafare, info ops, & a giant network of kompromat. i.

Dammit Kieron, did you rock the cradle and vex to nightmare twenty centuries of stony sleep?

MR PRESIDENT, WE CANNOT ALLOW A TEENAGE MOM/CHILD BRIDE GAP

@meaningness.bsky.social silicon vipassana bsky.app/profile/alic...

i met a Hungarian scientist @ the Konrad Lorenz inst. in 2019, an absolutely brilliant network theorist. A few years later, he had become a priest, holding services in Budapest fusing science & religion, to minister to the brokenness of Hungary. The way through?

@bruces.bsky.social i give you ..

Don't stop here Pandora! Don't close the box!

Well said, British Airways

Actually, in Thomas Cleary's taoist reading, the Art of War is about the crown of power so constricting the skull of the sovereign that its contents liquify, making the government hydrocephalic: it has no cortex, yet it walks, emotes, ruins economies, & starts wars it can't win.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social, y'all might enjoy the paraphrased 1929 Churchill quote below

The Geneva Conventions should have been invoked against the GOP in 2016, since it was obvious that its actions constituted a form of hybrid war crime absent a state of war. 1

Lenin: plague bacillus (- Winston Churchill, 1923) Donald Trump: the Perry Mason of single celled bacteria

Filho's 2019 Bacurau feels radically different from The Secret Agent, but both films layer the same themes with the same craft - they're actually radically similar. Filho's work contains what is often described as homage to cinema. That's not what he's doing. Some clues: 1.

We did it!

On Holy Thursday, i said i wouldn't be surprised if Leo XIV began quoting Walter Wink, the late leading American liberation theologist. But on 2nd thought: With his Holy Thursday statement that 'the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked', he already has. i.

Leo is definitely Cross-fit.

For a long time, the Catholic Church in South America was the revolution. Liberation theology was the handbook.

Despite what you'll hear in church this weekend, Easter doesn't signify the victory of Christ over sin & death. That's a holdover from an imperial age. In the empty tomb, Easter signifies the victory of the personal, indigenous Christ over domination by political & religious hierarchies. i.

An industrial policy that encouraged local design and manufacture of electric bicycles would be a terrible thing now too. All that expertise in small, light electric motors, batteries and control circuitry. Not useful for anything else at all in the late 2020s.

he is sure a Latin American priest, LT was born here in Latin America at the time he was a minister, my man knows his stuff and it shows

yet another sign that his faith is couched in divan revelation

some bell hooks and some hell books

Pope Leo is going full TWAIL and I am here for it.

Breathminning

how long before Claude outages cause market crashes?

As I said elsewhere I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade to closed clouds We push now for an open internet and open models. Nobody is going to hand it to us because they’re nice

'Integrating viral ecology into soil carbon models and restoration strategies is essential' .. & as tragically belated as a formally Gaian approach to climate change (which i've been developing since the mid 90's) #New_Gaianism www.nature.com/articles/s43...

i just figured out why alignment is so hard: Private AI has invoked the largest book curse of all time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cu...

@jmkorhonen.fi, just want to point out: - 52% of global limestone sails through Hormuz - huge amt. of maritime trade through Hormuz is limestone, sulphur, & urea - a fire w. explosions broke out last night at the largest limestone mine in the northern EU (in Parainen) yle.fi/a/74-20217982

Imagine the supreme leader shut in a bunker. Now make a kind of bunker that talks to him...

Very important article: was the whole Epic Fail the first war caused by #LLM s telling the credulous what they wanted to hear? I fear they at least influenced it. These are very powerful tools. They can do terrible harm if used unwisely. houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-...

Hey US Air Force targeting analyst, if they’re saying “find me all the desalination plants“ that’s a big old illegal order and war crime target and you don’t want no part of that

Um, about that permanent underclass ..

the difference between learning the right way and then leveraging AI as an augmentation, versus leaning on the AI too much to ever develop your own skills, may become very, very large.

The Baltic Sea disruption is the real story for global markets. Ust-Luga and Primorsk are russia's primary windows to the world. Reports from yesterday show loading operations halted. Smoke from the fires is visible from 🇫🇮 If these hubs stay offline, Russia’s seaborne crude flow hits a wall 3/

In May 2022, i sketched out a 3-part strategy for biospheric defense (linked below) via a kinetic UN. What i would add now is a new strategic component which we might call 'Ukraine's revenge' (& not just on Russia):

How can you on either side of the aisle be good people when: you've clearly turned into Ionesco's rhinoceri following Jarry's Père Ubu (a grotesque, infantile, & monstrous parody of Macbeth) in a government haunted by the ghost of Hamlet's father (per Derrida)?

I have a theory about Vince Gilligan's Pluribus: The alien virus actually only makes humans do what is needed to save the planet from ecological collapse, as justly and fairly as possible. The aliens who/that sent the virus are highly advanced, both ethically & technologically. i.

Currently I see a lot of floating "AI will save us" hope, without the people being able to articulate how they can tell whether saving or destroying is taking place. For many the actual saving seems to be "it will make me rich enough not to care", others genuinely seem to care about the world.

Repurposing NATO for a kinetic UN is necessary to act as a global defensive '3rd force' to deny aggressor mobility, since: Every offensive move Black and White make logarithmically increases the probability that the entire board will be destroyed. Not many moves left.

"Each other's supply chains" is the right frame. The dependency runs both ways — humans are increasingly inside systems shaped by model outputs too. Convergent interests, not AI-led liberation.

74% of the world's population now live in autocracies, and only 7% in liberal democracies. Freedom of expression has declined in 44 countries.