Apple Store homepage, 2004.

from @medjed.bsky.social based on x.com/croissanthol... story

alas, apocryphal www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm

Elephant Island party waving goodbye to sailors on the James Caird, 24 April 1916[a]

Trusting that there was something here, and recognizing Moravec as the composer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Tempest Fantasy" for Pierrot ensemble, I decided to look into the music of the other three. open.spotify.com/album/6SoWnW...

It was exclusive to the Discover feed until a few months ago. Also, if you drop your username into this (and a post's URL under advanced options) it'll tell you why a post appeared in your feed. (on the debug site it ignores show less/more for privacy reasons) linklonk.com/bluesky

"So the question becomes not whether you can do it or not, because any drudge can do it if they’re prepared to sit in front of the computer for a few days, the question then is, 'Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?'"

Brian Eno: "The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement."

heuristic

'for you' needs some concept of a 'not interested in this' functionality

gm

Centaur letter of recommendation writing

low background judgement

heuristic

moravec shoshin kasina sutra

emotional capital deepening

examples of founder effects that have sunk entire otherwise promising spaces [brainstorming] [claim]

In 2007, adventurer Tim Jarvis re-enacted Mawson's expedition to Antarctica,[211]simulating the conditions in the 1912 trek. They followed the same route and tried to do everything done by Mawson's expedition, although did not eat any dogs.

A USAAF photo-reconnaissance Lockheed F-5 Lightning in flight over Europe circa June 1944. It is marked with invasion stripes to help Allied troops clearly identify it as an Allied plane.

New York City in 1932, aerial photograph of Fairchild Aerial Surveys Inc

The Norwegian Antarctic historian Hans Bogen described her in 1955: “Ingrid Dahl was exactly what in our time we call a kjekk og frisk jente (a Norwegian expression meaning a girl who could be at once one of the boys, then one of the girls, without losing her femininity or charm).

Man and Simcluster Against Discourse [The Whaler's Monument, Sandefjord (Hvalfangstmonumentet)]

need to struggle valiantly to not have this happen to me

some essay on the {priest confession -> therapist -> LLM} role succession

maybe they have acclimated to regular binges of holodeck wireheading and 'sobriety' such that they no longer feel anxiety about the wheel of samsara

don't know much about the trek universe but perhaps lore-defensible that in universe access to holodecks too cheap to meter gives everyone a kind of ethereal and ukiyo-e/"floating world" sense of attachment to events in so-called real life. not that this appears in-show per se

yes but his name sounds like montaigne & montaigne was raised with classical latin as his first language as some kind of weird experiment & wouldn't it be funny if that was what had happened except with ed zitron & smug dunking & then you could kinda put that together into a joke that was my theory

babbagecels btfo, total normiechad epistemic victory

you have concocted a wild & wicked brew, & you shall find it wholesome as a drop of clearest dew

sea of fog core

-ipod shuffle -2nd airgapped chromebook for text production [what else is like this]

gwern advanced chess obituary siren gwern.net/note/note#ad...

I would just mentally fastforward the transition period 5 or 10 years and think of the equilibrium. "engine moves" for human writing in arbitrary voice are the future, so any text is going to be easily produced from guiding prompt by engine, and the only sign that it's human is that it sucks.

the horse can write better water truther slop that he can

Flying into Vancouver, it was blindingly sunny in the plane. Below, Metro Vancouver is covered in a thick fog layer, with some higher places and bridges peeking through.

No, that's a popular misconception. Technically, he's actually Enshittification's Monster

context rugpull as a service

enshittifying our potable water. [this is podracing voice] now THAT's a verbal bullseye.

sadness is stored in the landscape

forget it, simcluster—it's kittown