white negroni: Roku gin, Luxardo Bitter Bianco, Dolin Blanc vermouth

Discussing important matters with students:

I could go for a slice of Esterházy torte right about now.

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.

real patterns

Tesla coil concert at the UIUC Engineering Open House last night:

Attention to electrical transformers is all you need.

some things need hashing out

from Angine De Poitrine to Zoviet France

mood

René Thom citing René Girard

it keeps happening realizable.substack.com/p/artificial...

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. ...

too niche

"What the State's Eye Tells the State's Brain"

There’s a Russian crime film from 1998, where the main villain keeps reading Roland Barthes:

Oh yeah, I’m a Thomist. As in René Thom.

"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...

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.

ore di grappa

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?...

Family was super happy, nothing is left.

A re-post of a 2023 thread on Twitter about "the commercial metaphor" in Brian Cantwell Smith's _On the Origin of Objects_:

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):

second-order cybernetics be wild

“lemon circles swim in the tea”

RIP

TIL simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle...

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.

Sybaritically consuming Martinis at Bemelmans, channeling my inner Gary Shreyngart.

I’m in NYC, at this thing. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social for putting this together!

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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 ...

yeah, ok "coastal grandmother soft rock"

topical www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTgy...

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-...

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...

It’s Negroni-on-the-deck o’clock!

Your regular reminder that Paul Ricoeur can do analytic philosophy better than most analytics.

rip dan simmons arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

alright, lfg

Can agents be alienated from the product of their labor? They have nothing to lose but their chains of thought!

capex opex brekekex

ALT swag