Econ is the most catholic of all the humanities

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The Semifinals are here, what a rarified group winners but only can win! Get in here and cast your vote for the finals.

i've been running lately i've gotten FAST 🏃💨

ok folks i'm going to start the polls, opting for a straight head to head bracket this time. I will thread the polls under this post so I don't need to endlessly repost 8 polls tomorrow. Seeding was done by goodreads average rating with all flaws and caveats of such a system.

The coolest tree bark

do you fear the end? or will you savor the moment?

how fucking slow can you move anon

can you wait anon? . . . do you have . . . the .. .. patience . . . to wait for your opportunity? . . . . do you have the courage .. .. .. to act . . despite the chance of . . . failure?

has anyone ever solved the general problem of going soft once you win?? perhaps michael jordan model: ignore everyone else; love the game; relentlessly improve and be your own harshest critic down a less psychotically focused path, creating artificial challenges to keep skills sharp seems fruitful

@yashkaf.bsky.social has a great tweet abt how the brain has been compared to a book, then a machine, then a neural net. each analogy is imperfect, but progressively has a greater degree of accuracy. [neuromancer]

corrugation

i'm back in my hometown and there was a december party where i felt, within a couple hours, intensely, anger desire sadness and it was good. i was plugged back into a social network where consequences of actions mattered. i felt so alive and motivated

ok lets get real and talk feelings for a second. case warming himself w anger is so fucking real. intense emotions feel amazing because you are certain there's stakes. instant cure for vague feelings of purposelessness and wandering [neuromancer]

bruce and cath just wanted to fuck and have fun leave them alone

it pulls me out of the world a bit when buildings are described in cyberspace; there's gotta be a better abstraction visualization for it all flying around glorious 8k rez buildings unburdened by all construction limits would be glorious tho reminds me of Ra and the magical realm [neuromancer]

Dear Julius Deane is the platonic ideal of a doomsday prepper polite wily willing to put a slug in ur head if u look at him wrong knows what he wants (sucking bonbons noisily) may his neuromancer spirit and the Chiba clinics help him live on for another 10,000 years

gravity came down on him like a great soft hand with bones of ancient stone fighting his ascent to divine

rastafarian culture seemed really out of place; maybe it was the blend of woo and space stations/technical competence? ig makes sense if that tech is mundane in the neuromancer world OR OKAY here's the 5head take WM was intentionally utilizing undervalued ppl/groups

me n the homies spinning up an industrial clan in zero g gonna make the neuromancer orbital structures look like tinker toys

history seems to trend in the direction of ppl allowing what was previously private to be public and to a lesser extent what was under one's own control to be controlled

WHO IS THE NIXON OF THE BCI AGE WHO APPEARS CHARISMATIC ON VIDEO BUT THEIR MIND REMAINS IMPURE

WARNING: THREAD RANT the threat of surveillance is one of my primary concerns wrt widespread BCI tech. i find it morally important that data going in and out remain transparent and consensual at the individual level 1/x

@cwonus.org likes all my posts and i appreciate that

@why.bsky.team only likes my bangers and i appreciate that

having love + worthy crusade is everything i want rn could be an artifact of me being in my 20s

sensorium streaming is gonna be SICK, especially if paired with thoughts/emotions hey dude i'm in hawaii no i'm not gonna send you pics, come SEE THE SUNSET AND FEEL THE BREEZE [neuromancer notes chap 1-7]

it seems like the internet had a wild west period; could BCI tech go through a wild west? if so, where and under what conditions? (doesn't seem like USA to me; FDA is SLOW) [neuromancer notes chap 1-7]

the future is gonna be STRANGE [neuromancer notes chap 1-7]

merry christmas!

neuromancer eurodancer plz bring me a TV

What book should we read? (FINALS) 1️⃣ Neuromancer - Gibson 2️⃣ Ringworld - Niven 3️⃣ Shadow and Claw - Wolfe 4️⃣ The Dispossessed - Le Guin 📊 Show results

the Great Great Lakes - Rich Bitch Alliance (2035)

while we're all chatting books if you want a decently realistic primer for a Very Weird Future™️ please go read the entire Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam immediately en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nex...

Wyomissing

please fasten your seatbelt

bsky book club! plz vote if interested 📖🐲📕🤖📚💀📗

paging @minormobius.bsky.social peep the new book club material

The tower of babble

sun worship is making a comeback get outside and present your bare skin to God

will be online less frequently; traveling

in the airport there is a dilapidated taiyaki shop. give the man 10 rupees, 10 baht, 10 canadian loonies, and 10 pages of handwriting from both you and your spouse. bite into the ice cream fish he hands you. blue indicates boy, pink indicates girl. congratulations!

there are infinite forms of beauty; a new one is created every time something new is appreciated

i heard there was a secret chord once played bestowed free room and board

i shall form a metaphor against my enemies, and it shall prosper. i shall adapt the humble wall, appearing arguably before agriculture if you count the hide walls of nomadic living structures, into a blunt literary cudgel. i shall see walls everywhere

the twenty-first error was to not be gentler with yourself when you are particularly weak

i am begging you to bribe workers use gifts; don't ask for anything more than normal; don't expect to get anything in return they will have their entire day made and half of the time will go out of their way to Set You Up

the twentieth error was to not give more gifts. for most, survival is easy and material wealth overfloweth

the nineteenth error was refusing to accept gifts. others love you and want to express that

I hope this message goes unread, unanswered, while you run for the hills