Kazys Varnelis

It is expensive but I think the best practice is to run all three to compare. Claude is by far the best writer, but has the strictest limits.

Back from a week in Vilnius. Ajman is so happy to see me.

7 fables of accelerationism - varnelis.net This accompanies my essay, “Speculative Architectures: the Radical Legacy and Fables of Accelerationism.” All work is produced in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence. These works combine specul...

Honored to be the first speaker in the new Nacionalinis Architektūros Institutas in Kaunas, Lithuania. I will be presenting my Radical Architecture project, "Fables of Accelerationism" this Thursday, 31 July.

#aiart #ai #radicalarchitecture #architecturefiction

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Oh no no no…

You know what the most amazing thing about chatbots? They are agreeable? Imagine if we all supported each other in our theories and flights of fancy? It would be an interesting experience if nothing else,

Waldemar Jochelson, Koryak reindeer offering. 1901.

Something appears to have changed at ChatGPT to make deep research better. I ran it yesterday and one search took three hours! It also prompted me with a series of multiple questions first, not just the usual four.

From now on I can see the sun
Makes me anxious, makes me run
From now on I can see the sun
Makes me nervous, makes me run

Another essay about to drop. It’s going to be long, maybe 9,000 words? And those words are diamond sharp today.

A sophisticated LLM that can output Nick Land essay. http://loremgibson.com/

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

Imagine if a candidate for US President had a workable program to ban sludge, that bureaucratic hell companies and the government put us through on support lines, in endless phone menus, and online to make us give up. They'd win 50 states!
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Millennial design enshitification has come for Cracker Barrell.

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Happy #caturday from Ajman.

Questionable life choices there.

Been watching Homicide: Life on the Streets.

Season 2 episode 2. (1994) is one of the most intense hours ever aired on TV. Andre Braugher and Yaphet Kotto’s performances in this are epochal.

Has anybody come up with a really good alternative for a gym they'd like to share? Trainers are now $100 an hour. Pretty much all the gyms around here have devolved into nothing but classes or have something horrible going on (no windows, blaring loud music). What the heck do people do?

When you read this remember one thing.

We are in the Singularity now.

Ajman is a lovely, massive (15lbs of muscle) boy. Our friends brought him to us to foster from Sharjah where they rescued his sorry wild ass. He’s getting used to the green lands of New Jersey.

So nice to hear. Sometimes I’m afraid it’s all spoken into the void.

"O Superman," from Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut album, 'Big Science.' The album returned to vinyl for the first time in 30 years in April 2021: https://laurieanderson.lnk.to/BigScience Laurie Anderson's new album, 'Amelia,' out August 30, 2024: https://laurieanderson.lnk.to/amelia Director: Josh W Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video)

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The Rise and Fall of the Author - varnelis.net The Library of All Plagiarized Books, Google Imagefx, 2025In Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Menard undertakes what appears to be an impossible, even insane, task: recreating, word for word, “the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters of the first part of Don Quixote and a fragment of chapter twenty-two.” Menard ... <a title="The Rise and Fall of the Author" class="read-more" href="https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-author/" aria-label="Read more about The Rise and Fall of the Author">Read more</a>

Sunday reading. A long-form essay on the Rise and Fall of the Author. I won't hide the link today so it'll be shadow-banned across social media. Well, what else is new? Except that this should either be a book or heavily edited down. So it goes.

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It's sad to see how thoroughly omakase has been debased in the NYC area. Garbage fish with jalapeno served to the masses.

Ireland has a US border — it could help travellers nervous about Trump's America International travellers arriving from a select group of airports, including Ireland's Dublin and Shannon, breeze through customs — without an American passport.

It’s sad it’s come to having to offer this as travel advice, but if you need to fly to the US and are apprehensive, pre clearance through at the US borders in Irish airports is a great idea. You arrive at a domestic terminal.

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I will never stop using em dashes just because some losers and failures are too weak to read critically.

I visited Russel Wright's fabulous Manitoga and wrote an essay about it. Read it and visit this spectacular building and landscape near New York City. Links below.

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that

Goodbye John, it was good to know you.

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Finding it a little hard to believe that the Venice Biennale still exists. Why? What does it have to offer anybody anymore?

the First Flowers of Spring: Hepatica, Rue Anemone, and Culture Ecology I still have the next installment of the Skeptic’s Guide to AI and Art queued up, but for now, the rain makes me think of my garden and I wanted to finish up my thoughts on these plants.

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I wrote a brief essay on hepaticas and rue anemones and their roles in cultural ecology.

About 6,800 miles away, this cat is starting his three week journey to our place, wish him luck and bon voyage!

With the Venice Biennale coming up, I will remind you that for almost 15 years now I have been calling for a multi-year moratorium on new Biennales. There is no reason to have more of these.