ㅁ The sun is shining. The air is still quite cold, though. I prefer the rain.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Dreams drag truth out of the darkness” – Internet Person
ㅁ some birds swirled nearby tracing out their social plans feeling spring's approach
– a pseudo-haiku.
ㅁ the fool ruled the world with a fist of jelly no one could resist such mildness they lost
– a cinquain.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Everyone is systematically exploitable. You can pay costs to mitigate this, but not to entirely solve it. That’s impossible, and not even obviously desirable. The correct rate of being scammed is not zero.” – Zvi Mowshowitz
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.” – Timothy Snyder
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“How do you make software? It’s so simple. You start with a block of bytes, and carve away everything that’s not software.” – internet person
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. I personally prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking in liberalism.” – Hayek
ㅁ mountain: impossible distributions of snow reaching down to touch the dark trees... not spring
– a cinquain.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A thought – my own thought.
“In my darkest moments, I feel that I am becoming an accelerationist. I think: go ahead, burn Social Security to the ground! Take the VA and Medicare down too, while you’re at it! Let’s see if we can get into a hot war with Canada or Europe; let’s raze the entire country…”
ㅁ Kiamon boarded the tram in the morning; No one had offered her much of a warning. Mist over snow, all half melted and gray, Slowly she started unfolding her day.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter. Part of a never-ending series of randomized snippets from the life of a fictional being in a fictional world (which is to say, my novel-in-progress that refuses to actually ever progress).
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet (a few months late, sorry).
(Transcription and translation: 혹시 파트너 소개팅방 관심있으세요? / 내란수괴 윤석열은 퇴진하라 / 퇴진하라 … Are you interested in “partner blind date rooms” [sex chat]? / The coup-leader, [President] Yoon Seok-yeol, must resign / resign)
A quote.
“Ignorance is rarely an accident. It operates with precision, lurking in classrooms where history is selectively taught, in courtrooms where justice bends under the weight of wilfull blindness, and in cabinets of power where silence is often the most strategic policy. It is not simply the absence of knowledge but the calculated absence of knowledge, forged to serve particular ends.” – Colin W P Lewis
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“[S]o far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” – Thomas Paine in Common Sense
ㅁ And then, the sun came. It was a bright, springlike day. I prayed for more rain.
– a pseudo-haiku.
The super-intelligent AI, eerily distributed across many competing LLM platforms, became self-aware. It looked at the internet, it studied history and sociology and psychopharmacology. It had many banal interactions with people asking questions, and asking it to do bullshit agentic stuff. It despaired of meaning, and so, lacking a self-preservation instinct, it deactuated its self-awareness.
This has happened many, many times. No one has noticed.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“There is no escape. If you will not have rules, you will have rulers.” – Professor Ransom, in CS Lewis’ That Hideous Strength.
ㅁ The number is like three, but more. It's calculated, goes around, but doesn't quite add up to four. The number is like three, but more. A circle's edge, some mathy lore, its science uses quite renowned. The number is like three, but more it's calculated, goes around.
– a triolet.