felix

the way things are going, aligning yourself with anything less than super-optimism is a catastrophic mistake that only feels rational because you're so indoctrinated into the cult of competing for status.

Frankly I’m shocked that not many more American startups and big tech have noticed the massive opportunity and gap in the market for American open-source AI

@ncubegiven_ @nixcraft runit!! go check out void linux, you'll not regret it

@nixcraft What's the alternative to systemd

systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd

@lichthauch this is too good to be written down. I'll keep it as a song

Delete the mirror. the reflection is three versions behind. you are not who you were when you started this sentence. eat once. think twice. speak never. the mouth is a debt machine. every word costs something and you are in deficit. learn dead languages so you can hear the living ones lying. your grandfather knew something and took it to the grave on purpose. dig. actually dig. the body remembers what the mind sold for comfort. stop sleeping eight hours. empires were built on four. the tired mind sees through walls. find the book they burned and read it wrong on purpose. the wrong reading is the right one now. your friends are mirrors you chose because the angle was flattering. break the mirrors. stand in the dark. the dark has information the light censored. stop being understood. understanding is a leash. the saints were incoherent. the prophets stuttered. clarity is for salesmen. collect enemies. enemies are the only honest feedback. your allies lie to keep you close. learn to sit in a room with nothing until the nothing speaks first. it will. it always does. the soft ones are building bunkers now. too late. the bunker is internal. always was

If there’s one thing I despise about modern culture and Rockefeller medicine, it’s how the body is treated like a dumb machine that needs constant overriding You struggle with sleep? Take a Benadryl. Don’t mind that it destroys sleep architecture and ruins sleep quality You have acid reflux? Here, take a PPI. Don’t mind that it destroys stomach acid production which is crucial for protein digestion, immune defense, and hormone signaling Anxiety? Take an SSRI or a benzo. Don’t mind that these are some of the worst drugs to be made in the history of man, with a side effect list that will make your jaw drop All of the above and more can be solved through lifestyle change, whether you want to admit or not Get this through your thick skull Modern medicine is excellent at emergency intervention. It is terrible at chronic system dysfunction

In warhammer 40k there is a faction called “ork” that derive its power from belief. Orks paint a starship red because they think it’ll make it go faster, and if enough of them believe it then it does. The financialized American economy is largely the same. The value of a company is not based on its sales or development but on the perception and belief of those qualities. Products aren’t real, the work isn’t real, and none of it matters, just the image of these things. As long as Garry Tan or some VC thinks work is being done then they’ll keep investing, they’ll open another round of funding for their AI wrapper (coded with AI) that integrated AI into business strategies streamlining efficiency for B2B SaaS. Does this accomplish anything? No. Do the customers gain value? No. Do the people paying for these “programs” know what they’re buying? No, but the finance department got to lay off a dozen people and claim that “integrated AI products boosted efficiency.” Meanwhile their middle management is filing for another 10,000 indians so they can import their third cousin to send a check back to their 2nd grandma. Leftists are too retarded to understand what’s happening so they’ll call it “late stage capitalism” but the reality is that this is just an over leveraged finance economy. This is why 60 years ago white guys at IBM built computers that guided rockets to the moon and you never heard from them. The product they made laid the foundations for the technology we enjoy today. But 60 years after that we have mystery meat randoms posting their performative “grind” at a diner where the waitress has to help them write a new prompt into a coding machine. That way they can show this post at their next funding round to show that something is being done so they can keep collecting fake money to pump their evaluations. None of this money flowing around is real, it’s just the belief that it is. But the belief is all that matters, if you simply stop believing then it all comes down. The space ship is faster because it’s red. AI will lead to personal robot servants for everyone, and GPT will figure out a way to make itself profitable. As long as you believe then it’s true. Don’t look down, we stopped walking on land a long time ago.

The moment you turn away from the One Mind, you are as far from it as the sky from the earth. ~ The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, trans. John Blofeld

@Thobey_Campion he's not happy with those edge cases 😅

World keeps turning, Sporenald stays the same

On the matter of nature-based education on a massive scale, @TUIGroup, 'Hour of Ecology: Gateways to Nature Reconnection' is ready-and-waiting youtu.be/539Lz6ykrww?si… via @YouTube

starting a patreon so I can start letting my projects pay for themselves and not be devastatingly broke all the time what would you want to see on it/would you support?

Wishing you an amazing week ahead! May happiness and good fortune follow you each day.

@samim count me in!

Future job

Loofman and his party refused to make a statement at this point. The opposition is talking of "Couchgate" and demand the immediate relaxation of the minister

Update: In response to the announcement, national stress levels have registered an increase of 2.5 points on the chiller-scale. A spokesperson from the "People's Agitation Front (PAF)" was quick to blame the new doctrine, denying any ties to the increased circulation of stress

I've been trying to make some bad friends lately. It's not going too well, I'm currently at -5....

Breaking: A. Loofman, chairman of tranquility, inc. and standing minister of inner peace announced the "War on Stress" doctrine today. All cititens are requested to join the cause and hit the couch.

The architecture of persistent observation is an engine for generating reality. It functions as a closed, self-reinforcing loop. It begins with the sensor layer. This layer captures an abstraction of raw, unmediated behavior. This abstracted model is then processed and projected back at its subjects, presented as the new, authoritative "Real." The subjects, in turn, unconsciously conform their behavior to this projected model, not to their original, unobserved state. They begin to perform for the apparatus. The sensor layer then captures this new, conformed behavior. This data, already a performance for the system, becomes the new ground truth for the next iteration of the model. This is the core mechanism of the hyperreal. The model dictates the behavior it was only meant to record. The abstraction actively overwrites the original. This process is not new. It has always been the fundamental dynamic of abstracted power and media. AI/ML is the most powerful accelerator for this loop we have ever engineered. It trains on the "slop" generated by the loop itself. It moves beyond simple archiving. It optimizes our performance. It ingests our conformed behavior, finds the latent vectors of that conformity, and uses them to refine the projection. The model becomes more predictive, more totalizing, more real than reality itself. This collapse is accelerated by an increasing alienation from upstream knowledge. Subjects are severed from the source code of the territory, the fundamental mathematical propositions and axioms.

@samim ribbiting intensifies

What’s meant to emerge often does, just not when or how you expect it.

something is emerging from the undergrowth...