Ben Flickstein

That would be so much cooler than humanoid robots

i just want razorblades in my fingertips like molly millions 😞

John Cooper Clarke coded

SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

This is just the plot of Le Guin's "Lathe of Heaven" (1972) and not even the good part

the funniest thing about ai is its currently the best and cheapest this generation will ever be

Why would you even want to create a horse? They're already around. A cool animatronic horse could have actually been nice if nobody was trying to pass it off as the real deal and instead had a serious conversation about how to prevent it from accidentally stomping people to death

That's a very original idea. I don't believe it has ever existed before. It is an idea that ought to go out of existence. Immediately.

A screenshot from Zeta Gundam of a handwritten letter, the important part read: "Captain Quattro, he is a CHAR"

Captain Quattro, he is a CHAR

Gasoline is the elixir of the car

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

You already brought me five portions of muck.

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for corkscrew?

Arcadia.

na na, na na, na Katamari Morrissey na naaaa, na na na na na, na na, na Katamari Morrissey etc.

large vizier models are typically trained using backtreasoning, where the model steps backwards through a plot or scheme to arrive at the cradle of twisted desires that birthed it

A panel from the October 1986 issue of Swamp Thing. Batman is blasting a cowering Swamp Thing with a gun attached to a barrel on his back, which says "CAUTION DEFOLIAN"

Caves of Qud
@unormal.bsky.social
(Swamp Thing issue 53, October 1986)

Excerpt from Anna Tsing's "The Mushroom at the End of the World" "What we have is mushrooms, that is, fruiting bodies of underground fungi. The fungi require the traffic of the commons to flourish; no mushrooms emerge without forest disturbance. The privately owned mushroom is an offshoot from a communally living underground body, a body forged through the possibilities of latent commons, human and not human. That it is possible to cordon off the mushroom as an asset without taking its underground commons into account is both the ordinary way with privatization and a quite extraordinary outrage, when you stop to think about it. The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditization more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement."

Anna Tsing really cooked here

(from The Mushroom at the End of the World)

And what rough beast slouches toward bluesky to be born?

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

I've just started watching the 79 series for the first time and every time I hear the theme I turn into sickos.jpg

Urgh!

Was gonna listen to the new side story while cooking but apparently leeks are poison (to all creation)

A grey and white cat curled up in a spiral

Uzumaki

Not prose, but blank verse is 'white' in Russian

Here's a silly Baudrillard for you, by @hausofdecline.bsky.social

Drive Your Go-Kart Over the Bones of the Dead

The entire 'work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' essay has felt extremely relevant lately