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in many materials it'd be slower than the (solar) terminator; if right on a message about a nice sunset could follow the sun around the world gathering "instant" relies.

Venus of WillenFord

maybe a bit of that public sublime
of knowing the world is yours
as much as its own and others',
yours as the past is its own, gone
as hills dimpled goosefleshed with grass
and moles of live oak are their own,
as the flowers of an onramp breathe
and grow blue as the absent sky.

there's a contemplation to the way
a train spins a hill, makes a temple
with it, centering it off-center
as its own perspective, also with
tents and towns it is easier
to imagine being there, of there,
from rails than from a highway:

good thing consume me came out early and beat the rush!

saw someone enjoying a fine dinner in it later... this may be where gamer chairs belong

take that hemingway

neither retribution nor swift vengeance but a secret third thing

pronglertariat of the world moo-nite

lump-in proletariat, is this anything

sure thing! was kinda enjoying the "get in, losers" energy of the jump lmao

aha found the other thread ty

to check i'm following: your go-to example for opposition to ai (as an ideology?)

of course there were those applied fields, but we can't forget the new frontiers of subjectivity opened by scamomenology

ok but consider: Griftsmith.

gotta take care of your macros when working out

aha it was at least 60% a bit, but they were trying to be a good moderate SPD and that seems like a difficult path in the game; when they gave in to the car's suggestions to militarize and bribe the other parties and achieved victory they enjoyed a small spiral over it

my only interaction with this game was a socdem friend getting radicalized by it on a road trip, glad to see it's still out here

amazing how games let us live out such different realities

alas i cannot find the scan

(the parable of the useless tree, that is)

this is real SHODAN coded in a way I'd never realized before. "m-m-m-miserable hacker, crawling through my branches. i am not like those other trees, those useful ones killed for fruit and wood. I aimed for uselessness, and though I almost died, now I am im-m-mortal."

to misquote the Zhuangzi: "and aren't we both of us gamers under the heavens? On what basis do you, a miserable gamer about to die, criticize me?"

ah yeah another reply caught me on this! i am new to social media so I'm not sure if the etiquette is to delete or what

lmao ratlimit is my troll laureate. love to see her branching out

oh fun, makes sense they're old school fortran dorks like that

he loves talking about "bringing knowledge from one group to another" as "arbitrage" and other financial metaphors

lmao ill see if i still have the scan of a particularly breathless section of Burt's book. it replaced "weak ties" as buzzword du jour, positing social power not from loose mutuality (via studies of anti highway actions) but from being an information gatekeeper (studies of professional success).

yeah sometimes it feels like a rock-paper-scissors of bad faith; leftists are weak to centrists are weak to fascists because feeling superior but on the same side is easier to chase and conceal than being strictly opposed

(to be clearer bc online i think i am agreeing with you and just couldn't resist the structure)