'Epistemic Hygiene' is my phrase of the day from 5.2pro...context:"Treating signatures as derived objects with admissibility conditions is the correct epistemic hygiene for multifractal analysis"

Gpt 5.2Pro's assessment of a Gemini 3.1pro research report on "Advanced Research in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory, and the Mathematics of Complex Systems: 2025 Breakthroughs" is pretty brutal and spot on. This was the sort of result I was getting from Chatgpt before Pro series

Nima Arkani-Hamed talks about 'askable' and 'not yet askable' questions. What 'consciousness' is, is not yet askable. What attention is is askable. What an agent doing active inference over an unpredictable environnent using multiple sensors/probes does is askable.

Plato on madness and poetry: ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ἄνευ μανίας Μουσῶν ἐπὶ ποιητικὰς θύρας ἀφίκηται, πεισθεὶς ὡς ἄρα ἐκ τέχνης ἱκανὸς ποιητὴς ἐσόμενος, ἀτελὴς αὐτός τε καὶ ἡ ποίησις ὑπὸ τῆς τῶν μαινομένων ἡ τοῦ σωφρονοῦντος ἠφανίσθη. - He who arrives at the gates

Is there capital punishment for treason in high office and if not, why not? US looks like going for 'third term' like Russia and China. Why is no one shoring up the constitutional safeguards?

I'm usually not one to write thought pieces without much technical depth. But here we go. Slow the fuck down. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-…

Personal news; After months of succession planning, I’m passing command of the corner table at Bistro Le Creuset to Baguette ’Nberet, my loyal chief pigeon-in-waiting, who will take over duties after a full onboarding. I will be for consultancy and occasional pecking duties.