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😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings

a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember

last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!

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Whenever I hear somebody say 'Kaiser Permanente' I think it's a Pynchon character

beautiful film-making, everyone but the screenwriter did a great job lol

Super impressed by Emma Stone, who added a lot of nuance to a character who just wasn’t written with much depth at all.

lots of people deeply want a better world, but give up. They get jaded as they age without the opportunity or the will to join in an optimistic common project. An easy read of this movie dignifies that cynicism.

Anyway, astonishing craft on display. Brilliant performances,

At once we see an authentic-feeling portrayal of grief and isolation pushing someone into psychosis, and also a weak disavowal of that caring impulse, a shrugging “lol we’re a fallen species and we deserve what we get.” I think this is a
pretty popular moral attitude—

conspiracy ideation, and opening the faint possibility that the corporation might have altruistic goals. But then there’s a “re-flattening,” as both the CEO and the conspiracist are revealed to be motivated by rageful self-regard and do increasingly awful things to each other.

On Bugonia. The first act does this flattening juxtaposition of empty corporate HR talk and fringe conspiracy talk, suggesting these are in some sense the same—the CEO does yoga, the conspiracist does yoga, etc. Later we get a kind of “un-flattening,” showing how trauma and abuse make room for

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

An image of two beams opening into a large hall with 17 foot ceilings. The wood flooring is covered by linoleum about halfway through the space.

The Lab is restoring the main auditorium of the San Francisco Labor Temple, built in 1914. Among other things, this is where the 1934 vote to join the longshoremen in a city-wide general strike was held. It will be the largest, longest-running space in the Bay Area dedicated to experimental work.

screenshot of newspaper. headlines: The midterms are approaching. Why aren't the Left playing Cinco Paus (2017)? D.C. figures are running out of time. 50 MIN READ Dems need to stop looking for a 'joe rogan for the left' and start playing Cinco Paus (2017) As the right corner the information ecosystem, a portugese wizard can... 90 MIN READ Big Tech, Lobbiests, the Frog, can they be stopped? How people get their information may be changing, but some people are still playing Cinco Paus (2017)... 45 MIN READ

the algorithm has me pegged

What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

I’d add that many don’t seem aware that the takes on offer are first-pass

He’s talking about an invisible mechanical duck

believe in automatons, believe they can sing and dance and play Chess,—even at the end of the Turn, when the latch is press’d and the Midget reveal’d, and the indomitable Hands fall still.”

“They’ll believe what they like,” groans Mason, “in this Age, with its Faith in a Mechanickal Ingenuity, whose ways will be forever dark to them. God help this Mobility. They have to take all Projectors upon Trust,—half of whom have nothing to sell, who know nonetheless of this irrational need to

My fellow residents of the Friendly Honda waiting room are about to witness a stunning display of coffee drinking.

✨New preprint! Why do people express outrage online? In 4 studies we develop a taxonomy of online outrage motives, test what motives people report, what they infer for in- vs. out-partisans, and how motive inferences shape downstream intergroup consequences. Led by @felix-chenwei.bsky.social 🧵👇

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

From Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon:

“I do not enjoy regular Luncheon Engagements with these people, but I am close enough to tell you this,—they will not admit to Error. They rely upon colorful Madmen and hir’d Bullies to get them thro’ the perilous places, and they blunder on. Beware them.”

Say “Goodheart’s Law” one more time; I dare you

These days I just try not to take the bait, and to stay consistent, but I’ve got to admit I feel a compulsive sense of loss which puts me at risk of falling into some deep circle of social media hell

For me, it’s the antimony between left politics and quantitative measurement, broadly construed. Many folks I feel aligned with on The Issues seem to genuinely believe that measuring outcomes is either impossible or morally wrong, and who point to specific cases of bad measurement as justification

There are so many interesting variations on this move, and they all rile me up

Personally, I get anxious when people who I feel morally aligned with reject a good thing as bad people co-opt it

This splits communities into camps, driving social media repetition compulsion on both sides

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

If you do a good thing that's popular there'll be an incentive for bad people who want to do unpopular stuff to pretend that really actually their bad thing is the same as your good thing. This is not especially puzzling and does not tell us that much about any particular case. Sometimes people lie.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

For example, this work from @adambonica.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/adam...

Which makes me roll my eyes a bit at the pejorative “positivist.” Like, I’m not sure that what makes the shallow pro-moderation camp bad is that they are positivist per se, it’s that they’re sidestepping reasonable criticism from their peers for some uh assuredly complicated reasons