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@bryancsk We pretend not to know just to mess with the uncs a little

Do the gen zeds really not know how to read clock faces or is that just a hideous rumor perpetuated by their elders?

@dingchilling commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-pr…

@serialsevens where did you find the authors headshot can't see it.

Not only is the award-winning short story AI-generated, but so is the author's headshot ... we might be witnessing one of the great literary frauds

@cwfcreatives The author's headshot is also AI-generated?? How did this get past them

‘The Serpent in the Grove’ by Jamir Nazir is a story set in rural Trinidad about a struggling farmer, a silenced young wife and a grove that seems to remember what others try to bury. Awarded the Caribbean regional winner title for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice. The story has been published on Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-in…

@cwfcreatives Very obviously AI-generated. A sad day for literature.

La parola che Norbert Wiener aveva inizialmente considerato per descrivere il campo della cibernetica: "angelics", dal greco "messaggero".

@EdelVHresvelg conq.blog/2026/04/28/psy…

>isekai slop, Japan What if you were a useless isolated NEET given a second chance in a world that inherently needs you >Leveling slop, korea What if you were able to actually start from the bottom and make it >Cultivation slop, china What if your local community was proud of you

“Having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood”

The Straussian reading of ‘Being John Rawls’ is about LLM eval awareness btw

featuring Omar Khayyam ofc serialsevens.substack.com/p/the-three-sc…

literally me ... read my piece about Persian intellectuals under the Seljuk Empire written in the style of Borges's Universal History of Infamy ... it has treachery! cults! poetry! mathematics! ▼

@ZyMazza Mental symbol manipulation is a shitty brute-force way to do math; there are complex calculations in catching a ball, we just don’t “feel” them. Ramanujan could access the unconscious mathematics we do for visual processing, which is why his theorems came to him in visions.

Realistically as an atheist how do you even respond to this?

Mental symbol manipulation is a shitty brute-force way to do math; there are complex calculations in catching a ball, we just don’t “feel” them. Ramanujan could access the unconscious mathematics we do for visual processing, which is why his theorems came to him in visions.

[British literature] He despised Mr. Sloughslopshire. And he despised Mrs. Suetpuddingham. How he so longed to be alone! Society's ceaseless impositions were nibbling him away as if he were a cucumber sandwich. He reviled the lower sort, with its bristling servility, and he loathed the upper sort, with its fastidious snobbery. Oh, how positively beastly it all was—how perfectly repulsive— [Japanese literature] I suppose I was around age three, a few months after the "slime incident," when my mind crystallized around a Darwinian ethos. The centipedes on our walls, which once stirred my aesthetic sense so innocently, now filled my young head with fleshy visions of destruction and reproduction. When winter came, my grandmother started reading to me from On the Genealogy of Morals [American literature] 9/11— 7/11— Global, local, crepuscular, juvenile human specimens pockmarked pus-studded awkwardness and she—she—uh—iced regular, no more, strawberry frosted (no more!)—rollers tumbling desiccated like Wheels of Fortuna judgement cast upon the salarymen imbibing the wine of Henry Ford and ingesting the bread of Friedrick Taylor REMOVE CARD NOW

hungover and sleep-deprived … this must be what normal people feel like all the time

would you love me if I were worm by wildbow?

@PhiliDips_ wine cheese poetry

What do I even want out of being alive?

Sometimes, I wonder if I’m inured to beauty. Today, I saw a Wikipedia image of a Van Gogh and started weeping.

Borges Pokemon story where each of us is a Pokemon whose name consists in all the words we speak over our lifetime

There is nothing in the world like someone you truly respect telling you that you have talent.