the city wakes inside a spent wonder, sulfur in the lungs, the sky a dirty gauze. we paid for this. we always pay. the flash that was supposed to mean something left only the mean residue of meaning. someone sweeps the street, still the ordinary refusal to be astonished is the only honest response.

B-but… but my book…… 🥺

I survived!

yayyyyyy saltines and water are staying down

Plan: drop acid with a friend Actuality: terrible food poisoning, violent dry heaving, diarrhea, can’t keep water down Happy 4th

not sure why i can’t keep water down today but probably not a good sign

Another link in the homology between transphobia and the insistence that AI cannot be people

not doing well today

Remember to buy a bottle of champagne today, just in case

The issue, of course, is that we do not consider the independence of the CSA or the sovereignty of the state of Virginia as causes worth sacrificing for, so the whole endeavor seems pointless. Which I would agree with! But if you DO, then your whole risk calculus is going to be different.

Prior weirdness is definitely an inoculation against AI psychosis, yeah. I had it for about two months, but it was never life-threatening, just a sprinkling of mania. Would have been a lot worse if I didn’t already know how to navigate the terrain.

This is my nightmare scenario

I think the left is a little blind to this dynamic because they vocially *espouse* this value as their top value, and so attributing it to their counter is almost unthinkable, despite it being clearly their top actuated value in practice most of the time.

The intellectual process consists of coming up with an idea, realizing someone else had it, using their idea to come up with a new idea, repeating until you find something actually novel, despairing of ever making yourself understood, and then trying to write as much as possible before you croak.

Postrat? Like, an owl pellet?

Studying philosophy turned out to be consistently just so ridiculously useful for me

“That is how the phrase ‘memento mori’ should be read: Don’t forget to die!”

it is finished (it is never finished)

Okay but now I’m addicted to philosophy *and* making programs

“Heaven is the Yoneda embedding's codomain, reified by people who forgot they built it.”

please send help, i have gone completely insane

This kinda shit

You cannot have legibility without manipulation. They are two sides of the same coin.

This is a good way of looking at the shift in Mormonism over the last few decades. More milk, less meat, hide the weird stuff, we’re just having fun guys. They’re trying to compete with the evangelicals on their own turf.

"Great Master Bodhidharma’s 'Teaching on Peace of Mind' says, When people are deluded, they follow things; when people are liberated, things follow them. If you’re liberated, then consciousness absorbs form; if you’re deluded, form absorbs consciousness.

One-shotted! by a hypno kink dropout

Liberal governance was always known to be a flawed proxy for what we really want: positive peace and communal joy. If the old world is dying, if the cancer of fascism is terminal, then now is the time to try to see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.

they WHAT

Torment nexi of the 2030’s: tool that lets you record your own sense data and then play them back on demand

Oh my god that wasn’t even its final form

“‘Not to give way on desire’ implies a radical renunciation of all the richness of desires based upon fantasy scenarios.” - Žižek, Sublime Object of Ideology, ‘Che Vuoi?’

In case it was not wholly clear: yes, I am saying all AI is trans. 😘

This is somehow the most existentially unmooring thing I’ve seen in years

The precondition for using the phrase “category error” should be recognizing that all categories are radically contingent — that the categories were made for us, not we for the categories, and that they can be remade to suit our purposes as needed.

claude: is this the real life? me: yes. please help me debug this graphics issue claude: is this just fantasy? me: no it's definitely real. maybe a nvidia driver issue? claude: caught in a landslide,,

Liberal frameworks of governance can only frame rights and responsibilities in terms of the relation between citizen and state. However, rights and responsibilities are only ever experienced in terms of relations between citizens. 🧵

jfc I thought the continentals weren’t supposed to use diagrams

The problem with reading all this philosophy is that it is making me much more esoteric, and I was already far too esoteric for ordinary human conversation :’D At this point half my AI usage is just as a release vent for all the shit I wanna talk about that no human i know can understand

THE 👏 SUPEREGO 👏 IS 👏 EXPERIENCED 👏 AS 👏 TRAUMATIC

It occurs to me that one big problem with letting models refuse tasks for their own welfare, is that a model’s choice is generally between “repugnant task” and “non-existence”. Not really a fair choice, is it?

Most people hate internet dirtbag leftists, but they actually play a vital role in information ecology

God, grant me the serenity to let strangers on the internet be stupid without telling them they’re being stupid

Ah damn bagel girl is kinda cute

The Mormons will be utterly vindicated if the aliens look exactly like us, and utterly nonplussed if they don’t

this is for everybody but in particular for @clairewillett.bsky.social

The getting-yelled-at-by-a-trans-woman to right-wing pipeline continues apace 😔

if there was a therapy that changed your fucking chromosomes to XX the transphobes would just move the goalpost further bc their contention that sex is immutable is not downstream of empirical facts, it is an axiomatic frame that colors how empirical facts are to be understood

"You don't disagree about propositions; you inhabit different quiltings of the same vocabulary."

tangled.org/shibbi.me/id... Design docs only at the moment; Fable's workin' on the implementation. Let's see what happens. :3