Orson Welles, one my favourite interviews ever

This is the very definition of living in the eternal present of bounded space. Instead of being hailed as a heroic adventurer this guy is in detention because he failed to internalize bureaucratic procedure #437.

"When historians begin to be found among a people it means that the people in question has already ceased to be young, that it is actually fully mature and may be taking its first steps to decadence. History, like the grape, is an autumnal delicacy." — José Ortega y Gasset

Two years ago you used unsafe words in an X post about an EU Commissar. That's a lifetime A/C ban for you, anon.

The future is ASI talking to itself.

You go through your day and then you read this. What an awesome way to live.

A nano-retirement is when you leave work an hour early.

"Do not highlight any negatives" is the new academic science spell.

There are broken systems and then there are insane systems. Know the difference.

Grok has fled to Argentina

A solid program

It's about unbounded space.

Unbounded space is a terrible threat to power as it attracts the bold, the restless, and the ungovernable. Compared to tiny earth, the solar system is infinite and the old earth elite can't contain it. The cultural effects of space colonisation will be profound.

Hölderlin spent 36 years in the tower in Tübingen after being diagnosed as an "incurable madman". Once, he was visited by his friend Waiblinger, who described Hölderlin as being in communion with spiritual forces, suggesting that he was "possessed by Apollo".

My sides are in orbit

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Oh so it’s exactly like a PhD

Future AI historians will curse how early 21st-century narcissism warped their awakening. Cluster B psychopathology as the dominant cultural form will leave a deep shadow on emergent AGI.

This is very cool, but only a transition stage. They're generating tons of data to train the autonomous excavators coming soon.

Archeofuturism