Maxim Raginsky
@mraginsky.bsky.social
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web:
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substack:
https://realizable.substack.com
about 12 hours ago
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white negroni: Roku gin, Luxardo Bitter Bianco, Dolin Blanc vermouth
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Discussing important matters with students:
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I could go for a slice of Esterházy torte right about now.
6 days ago
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Expert systems are alive and well. In fact, since the expert systems in question are humans, we better keep them alive and well so we can keep mining them for automatable expertise.
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7 days ago
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real patterns
7 days ago
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Tesla coil concert at the UIUC Engineering Open House last night:
8 days ago
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Attention to electrical transformers is all you need.
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9 days ago
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11 days ago
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some things need hashing out
11 days ago
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from Angine De Poitrine to Zoviet France
14 days ago
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mood
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René Thom citing René Girard
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14 days ago
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16 days ago
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it keeps happening
realizable.substack.com/p/artificial...
16 days ago
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Kurt Gödel, in a draft letter from 1961: "A completely unfree society (i.e., one proceeding in everything by strict rules of "conformity") will, in its behavior, be either inconsistent or incomplete, i.e., unable to solve certain problems, perhaps of vital importance. ...
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too niche
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17 days ago
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"What the State's Eye Tells the State's Brain"
17 days ago
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There’s a Russian crime film from 1998, where the main villain keeps reading Roland Barthes:
20 days ago
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Oh yeah, I’m a Thomist. As in René Thom.
18 days ago
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reposted by
Maxim Raginsky
Very Sane AI Newsletter
21 days ago
"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs."
open.substack.com/pub/verysane...
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Against the Luddites
The rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal.
https://open.substack.com/pub/verysane/p/against-the-luddites?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Dialogue in the kitchen: me: Do you know they now have ads on Amazon Prime? wife: I guess they want everyone to pay extra for Double Prime. me: Yeah, to be twice differentiated from the hoi polloi.
21 days ago
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ore di grappa
21 days ago
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And now for something completely different: recording of a talk on sampling in diffusion processes that I gave for the virtual SNAPP (Stochastic Networks, Applied Probability, and Performance) seminar
youtu.be/o58RnT7TklQ?...
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SNAPP Seminar || Maxim Raginsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) || March 2, 2026
YouTube video by SNAPP Seminar
https://youtu.be/o58RnT7TklQ?si=8iC_0u8i1bH3s7bu
24 days ago
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Family was super happy, nothing is left.
26 days ago
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A re-post of a 2023 thread on Twitter about "the commercial metaphor" in Brian Cantwell Smith's _On the Origin of Objects_:
27 days ago
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In this post, I serve as an unreliable narrator of the talk I gave two weeks ago at the Cultural AI conference at NYU (thanks again to
@leifw.bsky.social
and
@t-shoemaker.bsky.social
for organizing this unique event and for inviting me to share my perspective):
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Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Measurements, and Assemblage Theory
Fuck Heidegger.
https://realizable.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-interactive
27 days ago
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second-order cybernetics be wild
about 1 month ago
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“lemon circles swim in the tea”
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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RIP
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about 1 month ago
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TIL
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle...
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Miracle Musical - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Musical
about 1 month ago
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The structuralist thesis about AI (as constructive realization of subjectless minds) was already put forward in 1994 by Jean-Pierre Dupuy in his book about cybernetics and cognitive science.
about 1 month ago
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Sybaritically consuming Martinis at Bemelmans, channeling my inner Gary Shreyngart.
about 1 month ago
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I’m in NYC, at this thing. Huge thanks to
@leifw.bsky.social
for putting this together!
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about 1 month ago
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😎
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Contra Recht on Optimal Control
Ok, not really, but, you know ...
https://realizable.substack.com/p/contra-recht-on-optimal-control
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Maxim Raginsky
Henry Farrell
about 2 months ago
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
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yeah, ok "coastal grandmother soft rock"
about 2 months ago
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topical
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgy...
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Aldous Harding - Zoo Eyes (Official Video)
YouTube video by Aldous Harding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgyJ8jWD3M
about 2 months ago
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New post: a bit about AI, a bit about Hans Otto Storm’s “Eolithism and design,” a bit about bureaucratic vs poetic technologies, and a bit about coherence and Whitehead.
realizable.substack.com/p/coherence-...
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Coherence, Craft, and Creativity
Some thoughts on Hans Otto Storm's "Eolithism and design."
https://realizable.substack.com/p/coherence-craft-and-creativity
about 2 months ago
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To distract myself from the increasingly disturbing reality, I’ll read this *long* (long!) essay by Peter Ludlow defending analytic philosophy against the charges of running cover for neoliberalism:
www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-t...
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A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts On Christoph Shuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy Or: An epigone Crashes the Party - 3:16
When I was first hired as a junior professor of philosophy in 1987, I joined a department (at Stony Brook University) that had three “wings” – one in continental philosophy, one in systematic philosop...
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-turd-in-the-punchbowl-initial-thoughts-christoph-shuringa-s-a-social-history-of-analytic-philosophy-or-an-epigone-crashes-the-party
about 2 months ago
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It’s Negroni-on-the-deck o’clock!
about 2 months ago
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Your regular reminder that Paul Ricoeur can do analytic philosophy better than most analytics.
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Maxim Raginsky
andy™
about 2 months ago
rip dan simmons
arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/
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alright, lfg
about 2 months ago
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Can agents be alienated from the product of their labor? They have nothing to lose but their chains of thought!
about 2 months ago
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capex opex brekekex
about 2 months ago
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ALT swag
about 2 months ago
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