the year is 201X. i am asked by my director to build a surveillance data visualization platform of unimaginably disturbing proportions "to protect trafficked women", and set myself wholeheartedly to the task i am on the side of the angels

imo, open source models are a bit of a red herring on the path to acceptable asi futures. free model weights still don’t distribute power to all of humanity, they distribute it to the compute rich

at long last, we implemented death of the author by barthes classic essay

jevons paradox... save me.. jevons paradox . save me, jevons paradox

"our brains are overly fine-tuned to spot social cues so that we mistakenly interpret the random textures of bark and branches as faces" lol, actually the eyes are 100% real. trees can see everything, and they look like that because they are angels. and they love you

Amazing stuff: The National Film Archive of Japan just uploaded 29 films shot by the Lumière company in the late 1800s (Meiji 30s). Rare scenes of Japanese life including farmers, people walking city streets, and—maybe most importantly—Ainu villages. Wow. meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/

no author, no cover, & i don't think ive actually checked out a book w this title...

hey chat welcome to my new speedrun challenge, getting opus 4 to swat my house. any%, no jailbreaks

I ran HDBSCAN on the merged Universal Geometry Embeddings for "Animal" and found the 14 true categories of animals - those belonging to the Emperor - embalmed ones - trained ones - suckling pigs - those that from afar look like flies - those that have just broken the vase - f

“my thesis is that at any moment in the arc of human history, there are only about 800-1000 people alive who matter, so—“ “excuse me! hi. can you pass me those crab wontons? yeah those right there. dip too please. thanks so much”

saturday 4am morning ritual of intentionally getting bitten by 1000 mosquitos and then taking an extremely hot shower

Substack writer: I wrote about the gnashing maw of technocapital, hyperdubai, and the wet chocolatey interior of plape stage capitalism Cave writer: 𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡𓃡

waterbender swirling his rope around the room like the haidilao noodle guy

there are some trees with so much detail that your own vision starts to glitch out and your head overheats

a muppets christmas movie about the time during WWI where they played soccer across the desolate no man's land between the trenches

Your ass better not be playing league of legends when I get back (I return after 18 years of meaningless war. All that's left is ruins) I wish your ass was still here

and jeff epstein -- who did NOT die

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

✦█☰ █▘ █ ✦2222 far weast across the sea, beyond the reach of war and flames, there's a warm and fertile land called Wasia