i’ll allow it

i am not sure if this reflects actual dynamics of attention mechanically but the possibility of intentional novelty seems interesting? top-k/temp may impose heavy constraints but if latent space continuously differentiable you could identify unmapped directions and explore new concepts intentionally

but who will be the father coughlin of the left

Olive Thomas by Maurice Goldberg as featured in Theatre magazine, March 1919

imho it is somewhat hypocritical how imperial and temple power centers aura-farm the New Testament while steadfastly ignoring its pointed critique of… imperial and temple power centers. not to mention the open hatred for the sociological content of the gospels (feed the hungry?? you confused child!)

praying there could be a hope for pulling dems in congress away from collaboration in any case but yeah i think structurally it will demand something like DSA hostile takeover of dem strongholds and/or mass enlightenment (which really shouldn’t be discounted at this point imo)

no you’re completely right “palpatine somehow returned” is brilliant screenwriting

to be clear the actual probability in question is exactly nil

hilariously low probability esp given there’s also no timeline

subtext;

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John boyega bearing a bright blue flag leads a resistance army

we almost got a genuinely-woke followup to last jedi (duel of the fates) but out of craven cowardice they killed it and gave us rise of skywalker instead

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...

baseline smtp is notorious for permitting senders to forge the origin address to ~whatever they want. there are some mitigations available today, eg you could use certs, but not broadly adopted. (not expert but have worked in cybersecurity r&d for several years...)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_s...

there are some strong parallels to ‘they thought they were free’ — even for intellectuals it can be hard to see what’s happening until you hear your children complaining about ‘Jewish swine’ and realize in a flash you have been burning in hell without realizing it at all. “One had no time to think…”

many other mask-off moments were hinged with plausible deniability or procedural ambiguity; this at least stands a chance to inspire at least a bit of retrospection in news consumers even if just unconsciously as it were (‘oh, wait, was all that new right xenophobia actually based on hitlerism..…?’)

note her “creative nonfiction” magazine list may be interesting in this context too — www.erikakrousewriter.com/cnf-lit-mags

krouse gives numerical rankings to ~500 literary magazines here www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouse...

Always loved this (from Hamlet II.1)

POLONIUS: …and there put on him
What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank
As may dishonour him — take heed of that;
But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips
As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty.
REYNALDO. As gaming, my lord.

I do like the idea of having to put on socks/shoes/boots in order. This may be overgranular but could boil down to stackable slots and tracking object handedness? Could be neat to have a comfy bonus with socks. Also: five magic rings per hand/multiple necklaces would be such a neat customization opp

from circumfession —

“…the audacity of this stroke about which she will alas, never know anything… and which, piercing the night replies to my question: I have a pain in my mother, as though she were speaking for me, both in my direction and in my place”

my favorite thing about ai? well do you count memory-palace mental training disciplines to prepare for butlerian machine-war

language without communicative intent (psychoanalysis? mysticism?) seems better than communication without intellection (prayer? advertising?) but clearly the worst of all worlds is intellection without content (mathematics)

“it is alternately stone in you and star”

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

need so much more of this queen type behavior

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

YouTube video by Kara Comparetto Frog's Theme (Chrono Trigger)(Zohar)(Piano)(Mitsuda)

ok but it is beautiful tbh

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I like how there’s one big person tyrannically centralizing the decentralized community

somehow surprising to see a right-facing pelican — idly wondered if the orientation of the pelican is somehow influenced by RTL vs LTR language prevalence in training data regime. but presumably that’s all normalized by Tokenization

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice… and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. (MLK)

craven and cynical philosemitism from white nationalists is structurally indistinguishable from virulent antisemitism but it gives a lot of people a fig-leaf to hide their shameful hatred so who’s to say if right or wrong

sure, I agree with you for the most part! it is pretty plain in the text even — Kallipolis is ironic metaphor for social structure of the drives/“spiritual multiplicity”

imo I do think Plato envisioned an activist and experimental role for philosophy in polities/social policy formation. You don’t necessarily have to believe the seventh letter; Callicles could be an author stand-in. But Kallipolis is bottomless irony and clear metaphor for social structure of drives.

but socrates called tyranny and the tyrant beautiful! wait I’m just getting word he was being ironic