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oh gosh I had forgotten this one

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Re-reading Narziss and Goldmund and grunting audibly at the line “love, for [Narziss], was not in the natural order, but a miracle”

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A formatted and archived version of my recent threads on post-Searlean critiques of LLMs and the question of whether their outputs are meaningful: deontologistics.co/2025/06/22/t...

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yo dawg, I heard you like hallucination

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Incredible things happening in vector space

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One of the most important and treasured records of my entire life.

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She was super in GLOW and I've been a convert ever since

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mfw all the JvNs converge on the same set of problems and solutions, squabble bitterly about who got there first, and mostly succumb to ennui and despair with only the meanest and most sharp-elbowed JvN prevailing

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Emma Stamm reflects on the perils of being enchanted by human and non-human others: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Somewhat the topic of this - codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o... - which ends up picturing LLMs as "a magic mirror that shows you what latent sense blooms, aura-like, around your utterances"

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Reflecting on how one of the world-sustaining politenesses of a bygone era was that if the phone rang in your shared house and you picked it up and it wasn't for you, you'd shout for the person it was for regardless of whether you were presently on good terms with them or not

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Mostly, I think, the perception that yahoos of various stripes are running wild and need to be suppressed so that the reign of politeness may continue without disruption by barbaric yawps

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Funniest possible overdub of this (notwithstanding that it’s pretty funny already)? I’m going with Country Joe and the Fish

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swimmimgly

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Bumped into the late Sean Hughes at a Fatima Mansions gig. My wife's got a better one, about a noted British actor seeing her with a boob out (breastfeeding) on a train carriage and smiling benignly at her. Forget who it was now but whenever he's on the telly she goes "he's seen my boob".

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Quite early on in Elden Ring there's a magic key you have to find to get into the magic academy, and it's guarded by a fearsome magic dragon, but if you like you can just sneak round the dragon, grab the key and ride away as fast as you can on your magic horsie, and a lot of the game is like that

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Hatherley has that kind of Mike Davis ability to say more about geography, class, politics in a brief tangent than most academics manage in a paper. Fascinating on the geography of the valleys (and similarity to rust belt), Corbynism and liminal class identities, and what makes pop unique.

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No.

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back in my day we were “non-consensually involved in kink” every damn day. it was called goatse.cx and we responded by sending it to every single friend we had on AIM

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Smell The Glove

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Sometimes autism can be weaponised for good y'know

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everything is going swimmingly

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oh gosh I had forgotten this one

Re-reading Narziss and Goldmund and grunting audibly at the line “love, for [Narziss], was not in the natural order, but a miracle”

A formatted and archived version of my recent threads on post-Searlean critiques of LLMs and the question of whether their outputs are meaningful: deontologistics.co/2025/06/22/t...

yo dawg, I heard you like hallucination

Incredible things happening in vector space

One of the most important and treasured records of my entire life.

She was super in GLOW and I've been a convert ever since

mfw all the JvNs converge on the same set of problems and solutions, squabble bitterly about who got there first, and mostly succumb to ennui and despair with only the meanest and most sharp-elbowed JvN prevailing

Emma Stamm reflects on the perils of being enchanted by human and non-human others: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Somewhat the topic of this - codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o... - which ends up picturing LLMs as "a magic mirror that shows you what latent sense blooms, aura-like, around your utterances"

Reflecting on how one of the world-sustaining politenesses of a bygone era was that if the phone rang in your shared house and you picked it up and it wasn't for you, you'd shout for the person it was for regardless of whether you were presently on good terms with them or not

Mostly, I think, the perception that yahoos of various stripes are running wild and need to be suppressed so that the reign of politeness may continue without disruption by barbaric yawps

Funniest possible overdub of this (notwithstanding that it’s pretty funny already)? I’m going with Country Joe and the Fish

swimmimgly

Bumped into the late Sean Hughes at a Fatima Mansions gig. My wife's got a better one, about a noted British actor seeing her with a boob out (breastfeeding) on a train carriage and smiling benignly at her. Forget who it was now but whenever he's on the telly she goes "he's seen my boob".

Quite early on in Elden Ring there's a magic key you have to find to get into the magic academy, and it's guarded by a fearsome magic dragon, but if you like you can just sneak round the dragon, grab the key and ride away as fast as you can on your magic horsie, and a lot of the game is like that

Hatherley has that kind of Mike Davis ability to say more about geography, class, politics in a brief tangent than most academics manage in a paper. Fascinating on the geography of the valleys (and similarity to rust belt), Corbynism and liminal class identities, and what makes pop unique.

No.

back in my day we were “non-consensually involved in kink” every damn day. it was called goatse.cx and we responded by sending it to every single friend we had on AIM

Smell The Glove

Sometimes autism can be weaponised for good y'know

everything is going swimmingly

The Combed Thunderclap gives a Lacanian read on my Derridean/Badiouvian/Baudrillardian read of LLMs: thecombedthunderclap.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

1) eeesh 2) how come I know who all of these people are?

Ooh, new Nortt

wd pay good money to see them beef in earnest

How ironic, for AI anti-hype to so pervasively resort to just making shit up

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