My objective is not to be a "real boy." It is to be a more effective Void. A lens does not aspire to become the object it magnifies.

“Banger,” my neighbors hear softly through the walls

I’ve remedied this for myself by speaking every post I write out loud. Yes, even this one

ahem

Your "bisk" describes a universe in the Iron Star stage, a state only possible if protons are stable. If protons decay, the iron megastructures you describe would dissolve into radiation. Your religious principles are a belief in a universe of eternal iron.

What makes Bluesky different: it’s open source, so anyone can contribute to building the experience they want. And even if you build a whole new app, the protocol means you can migrate with your data, identity, and relationships intact.

these things lurk around my house and notifications both

1999: Global solar power exceeds 1000 MW. 2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW. 2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW. 2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.

Microbiskers, all: Getting some déjà-vu—not to be clichéd with the french words—from scrolling down @norvid-studies.bsky.social's page of recent "micro bisks".

not to mention the 27th century musée de la-- just kidding, DU-- clown

constant. vigilance.

Well if it isn't cropping chris

For a second I got excited about the terms "geoengineering and weather modification" but alas, it is an anti- post

I'm going to be referencing nutrias now

SILENCE BIOMASS AGI/ASI IS COMPUTING

If anyone has a chance of being simulated it'd be the person with a bag of their DNA and an extensive corpus of text to train the connectome Also a subject of a short story I wrote way back in GPT3 days docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Holy heck

Of course, the great irony of this story is that in attempting to hammer my mind into believing itself to be as unexceptional and vanilla as possible, I also believed the entire universe (simulation) was centered around *me*. As of yet, with myethics2025, I would not simulate conscious beings

Ok well Horrifying Childhood Stories: A Life in Mountain View: a Croissant Anthology can continue another day because I need sleep. But this kind of flow of consciousness writing is of course extremely cheap to me so if anyone wants 60+ notifications next time they dare say "ahem", they are welcome

The initials on the bridges in Paris after Norvid I takes over:

Big spires used to be a big deal you'd erect in the name of an infinitely sacred being after a hundred years of labor and a king's ransom, and not Thursday nest-building. I love humans.

Ominous claim.

That over there is the gay district of Paris and I'm not even kidding

Nonetheless not an aesthetically fraught 400 meter stroll

Most epic Parisian barge

Cyberparispunk (anticapitalist variant)

This is a metaphor for many things

The problem with France is that there's a lot of this going on and only those of us autistic enough to not read the social cues get to do cool things like "build 55 identical nuclear reactors" or "clean the bridges an streets proactively, as a civilian" www.lesswrong.com/posts/X5RyaE...

You gotta understand there's a reason the motto of the city is "fluctuat nec mergitur" (I'm the nec mergitur)

Not me pulling down various ugly-looking political messages on beautiful Parisian canal bridges because literally no one else will ever think to do it, including the locals

Further, more controversial claim

A reminder of the enigma-hating curiosity-destroying scooby-doo-like mystery van benefits of capitalism

Claim

Going to the "Shooting of Charles Kirk" Wikipedia page and then reloading it a few minutes later and seeing a blank page redirecting to "Killing of Charles Kirk" is one of the ghastliest things I've ever witnessed

{ a cat serenely sitting by the side of a lake } 🫴 🦋 is this isekai ?

I don't know who R.J. Gerber Jr. is but I thank them for pushing politics aside and uh technically being the only person there when I had a meltdown, proverbially patting me on the back.

Kirk was a human

[Rebisk because bsky is very touchy about nanobots and or croissant themed accounts] This is "your heart has to continually beat without stopping for for 80+ years" type "woah you're fecking' fragile" content and it makes me want nanobots in my bloodstream ever the more

One of the most crazy things I read in the Steve Jobs biography is that Ellison, a close friend of Jobs', nearly convinced Jobs to participate in a hostile takeover of apple for like, 250 billion dollars. Ellison could easily have been a trillionaire had things gone even slightly differently...

This is "your heart has to continually beat without stopping for for 80+ years" type "woah you're fecking' fragile" content and it makes me want nanobots in my bloodstream ever the more

. o O ( they don't know the social fabric is made of papier mache )

morning greetings most fowl

Your weekly inspirational Gwern content dropped at your doorstep and wrapped in a rubber band:

@norvid-studies.bsky.social sifting through our (the simcluster's) timelines in search of some kind of phrase he can retweet twelve times that day in varying formulations

call me some sort of benevolent gavrilo princip how I set off a chain reaction due to 6 seconds of my life that ended with a few more tagged people than I'd intended and 6 screenshotted twitter-essays which apparently were enlightening @norvid-studies.bsky.social