You can't really get why Clavicular is popular by reading about him, you have to say the name 'Clavicular' out loud and feel how fun it is to say

When Briggite Fontaine dies and everybody rediscovers her you're all gonna be so embarrassed for not thinking about Briggite Fontaine very much

On Thursday I learned that on Wednesday night I was in a room with Alina Astrova (Lolina/Inga Copeland) and I've been a mess ever since

The law, in its majestic equality, acts the queen and knight alike to walk in a straight line

My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on The Gradient

I think 19 year old Peli was right that Grant Morrison's reputation was gonna break through from psychedelia/cult to modernist genius, and GM simply ruined it by writing that shill Supergods book that pissed off the high-culture-amphibian fans who were going to make this happen

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

I'm like that '90s "men think about sex every 7 seconds" nonsense but about the paneer methi at Dhamaka

How many photos/videos of yourself do you have to see before how you're hair's inverted relative to mirrors stops making you sick

Insanely good paper by Miroslava Trajkovski and Timothy Williamson arguing (via Peirce) that emotions are *explanatory perceptual representations* of bodily changes, in a sort of Kantianization of the James-Lange theory of emotions www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/files/abduct...

I love Lee Hazlwood Americana version of La Belle Dame sans Merci songs

I love the Fortuna's wheel aspect of sitcoms, where like there's an episode where the cool character is being dorky, an episode where the smart character is being dumb, an episode where the heartbreaker gets heartbroken...

This is maybe the best solo I heard in my life: www.instagram.com/p/DWUHiX0iH9...

Friends sometimes ask me where can you get my old fake novel AMERIKKKKKA. It's still and forever available from GuassPDF Editions for the price of the ink it's printed in

What other artists are like Madeline Kahn, in that they don't come up much but if they come up everyone's like 'of course a genius'?

Strange (Galaxie 500) came up on youtube autoplay and now my soul's on fire

I think The Toe Rag (young lit/art mag everyone in London knows about and no one outside London knows about) is the most fun and good lit/art mag in the world right now

Imagine how fucked California noir would be if Los Angeles was called anything else: 'They call Los Caballos the City of Horses. Neither here nor there when it comes to the sex and murder stuff I guess. Anyway...'

One time my fiancee watched Good Will Hunting and was like 'why did you say it's bad, it's fun and teaches kids good values' and I was like 'it's not actually a kids' film it was an acclaimed serious drama' and she basically didn't believe me

Theory of Vibe core technical hypothesis -- generative model distillation from unconditional sampling -- confirmed in passing in a 2025 paper I just read!!

One reason I left literary studies is the Frankfurt School tradition didn't speak to me but I respected the stakes and didn't want to campaign for like 'let's study Beckett's syntax but then not try drawing transcendental-historical-political conclusions'

Had an amazing time talking to Caroline Busta and @lilinternet.bsky.social in New Models on the state of vibes and theories of which

Call me ChatGPT the way I need to waste water to think (long baths)

'She's fucked up but you gotta understand she had a hard life, her family is extremely rich'

I sometimes get spasms thinking about how lonely I was in Berlin from 2018 to 2023

Me tooooo

The 3 philosophy concepts that have a feverish hold on me are aesthetic Ideas (Kant), eudaimonia (Aristotle), and dialectics (Hegel). I formalized aesthetic Ideas in 2016-2025, formalized eudaimonia in 2022-2026, and dialectics can't be formalized, so I'm pretty much done

New Pynchon character just dropped

The term 'slow cinema' has weird 'if you like making love at midnight' energy

I don't understand how Nuri Bilge Ceylan got the apple to roll in a way that's not reddit youtu.be/SEgkppTEfTc?...

The Snow Man is the first poem I ever liked so I've read it hundreds of times since I was 12, and now is the first time I've noticed it barely has syntax

Desperate to not think/talk about AI anymore. If by the end of 2026 the world isn't in AI-chaos I'm never thinking about AI again outside my day job

My soul's getting malnourished from not working in the arts enough

My soul's getting malnourished from not working in the arts enough

Compared to @littmath.bsky.social I'm more open to the possibility of a 'glass fence' for RL-LLM performance. Could be that just like GOFAI is good for Chess-complexity tasks but not for Go-complexity tasks, big data neural nets are good for Go-complexity tasks but not for all tasks

Hypothesis: AI writing is bad primarily because in general what makes writing good is the specificity of what it communicates and its information density, so the prompt that produced good AI writing would be as long as the output.

oh bravo

I know White Nights (1985) must have a garbage script because every dance scene from it I see on youtube is the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life but I never heard about it

My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on The Gradient

It's interesting that the language of software engineering had almost no influence on the humanities compared to the language of telecom engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering

I need Claude Lévi-Strauss to explain the middle film of Kinds of Kindness to me. It tbh haunts me

I do think in a better world AI would only exist in the lab (research about AI) and in the lab (AI for medical research)

God put Wittgensteinians on this earth to show us that the reason Marxists are so rude isn't the revolutionary stakes but that some people just are like that

There's a fun existentially-best-case-scenario for AI where it turns out big data gradient descent neural nets are inherently "local" generalizers and we come to see AI as collective implicit-knowledge memory

Whenever I've talked to German people about Büchner, Polish people about Lem, or Portuguese people about Pessoa it's always either 'he is literally God, I'd die for him' or 'it's pablum for school-kids'

Everyone well-informed should imo agree that by the end of '26 we'll know whether AI is a normal technology or not

The old story was that if you've got human-level AIs that can collaborate you get instant ASI by running a million of them together at really high speeds. If Claude agent teams isn't ASI does that mean individual Claudes aren't as human-level as they seem

My pithy take remains: 'systems designed to create coherent outputs by generating predictable ones struggle to produce unpredictable outputs that aren’t incoherent.'

If your line on AI is 'AIs trained by gradient descent on big data aren't capable of true originality, which is a real thing' you're still doing pretty good

Watching The Great... more like The Really Good So Far