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neutral.zone
feral academic dropped out, tuned in. usenet lineage. tuned to noise, fluent in ghosts, invisible geometry made legible, still posting. unsure why. xennial cadence in the vibe universe, a hundred reasons to go, I will never log off ⚠️ WELTZSCHMERZ
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All architecture is potentially hostile architecture. The hostility isn’t always intentional, but it’s always possible.

It really is weird how the Twitter diaspora split up now that I think about it

God I hate techbros

Everything is very terrible right now but in lighter news I may have accidentally desensitized myself to a nut allergy or two

Russia really is the Vanilla Ice of geopolitics

Man remember when they were trying to make “the Anglosphere” a thing?

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

The less you care what people think, the more careful you have to be about what you become.

epistemic last mile problem

fuck's sake. they don’t want god. they want a compliant chorus of demiurges running inference over a docile world. AGI is just a dream of consequence-free command.

deadmallcore

discourse always punishes nuance and rewards the most legible, least charitable read. perhaps less bad faith, more affordance collapse.

anyone else remember hellthread?

You know, I keep seeing people repost these kinds of posters into my feed when I check it, and .. this has validity. It really does feel like there's a certain type of poster that leans toward this that we could generally do without.

monetary uncanny valley, population: us

Everything good is a promise, unless it's a threat.

you may be entitled to technotheoretical compensation.

if only there were some precedent for what happens when different states have different ideas about whether or not a group of people has any rights or not

"It's happening" No. It happened. And it's still happening; not as breach, but as policy.

Subscription-model missile defense, what could possibly go wrong?

Oops! All Shibboleths

I step away for a minute and 30+ notifs again, six new blocks. love it

Let's all go back: homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...

I am 100% fine with taking shots at EA, personally. I will build a trebuchet in the back yard to do so. Sorry, not sorry. The banality of techno-ethics. However well individuals may mean, as practiced it ends up smoothing the edges off atrocity.

Phone. When I type priming the pump, I do not mean printing the pimp. Where did you even learn that from? What has Tim Apple been teaching you?

autoglowie