transpondency

Think Outside The Paradox

@mondogroovydrew It’s like being a pro bono gigolo. “Subjectified” for their purposes and discarded when inconvenient. “Thanks for the oxytocin boost but your feelings are giving me the ick”

One of the main reasons I don’t hook up is that I feel like if someone likes me enough to hookup with me but not enough to date me it makes me feel like there is something wrong with me as a person and like I wasn’t enough

@whimsyfay Sexually attraction is animalistic. If that’s all you feel for another person, that means you have Monkey Poo Poo Porn Brain and you belong in a zoo. 🙈 🙉 🙊

You’re sexually attracted to me. Not interested in me. Yes, there is a difference.

@SmashedEars Had a friend who referred to himself as a “rivethead” and pointed out, with great animosity, every “poser” in the industrial scene. He hated that I considered them all just different shades of goth. 😂

When I was young being a poser was highly looked down upon. Let’s bring that back.

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

That time we crested the hill And sunset flooded the car Like fizzy orange crush My feelings Fell for you Into that chasm between seats Where nothing is reachable When buckled in For safety Would I find it again In some junkyard? Pennies, chewing gum A ball point pen Lipgloss

The moon is a fingernail At the twilight salon Painted by the fallen sun And I am without fail Alone, but not the only one Awake until the unveiling Of the manicured dawn

@feyiszn You were already ghosted. They’re replies were merely hauntings.

Ghosting someone because you are always the one initiating conversations is a completely valid reason.

I’m a terrible poet. A tyrant! In vanity, I presume I give my poem its meaning. But nothing could be further from the trough.

@jmasseypoet @paulbullard A poem, at its best, is futural artifact. It’s artifice adapts it’s meaning thru time according to subjectivity of the reader. Today: the road is less traveled. Tomorrow: how roads must a man walk down? The lag is in you to limp.

@paulbullard Yes, a way to navigate the world.

Poetry at its best doesn’t simulate experience, but becomes an experience unto itself. Poetry at its worst is an afterthought—it lags behind itself, never managing to make its own weather in its own time, and in that sense, yes, is a simulation.

Local pub… acoustic set Must make this a regular patronage Participation in the present

Water in the Wavelength

@rossbova Both of these bands are elevator music. They both move me between floors. Ups and downs. They cramp in spaces with strangers. They box me in with liminal loneliness. They confine me. They define me. They are the visionary vertical axis to the horizontal plane of mundane music.

Michael Stipe : "Ho sempre pensato che i Beatles fossero musica da ascensore". Ringo Starr : “I REM sono una grande band ma se non fosse per i Beatles farebbero le scale”.

@libriscent Memento Mori 🚬

@BrianRoemmele 🤓 oh so that’s why she’s in every CYOA spy thriller I run.

Do you know Elara Voss? Well she knows you. She is hidden in the very AI system that serves this posting. Dr. Elara Voss, Elena Voss, Elena Vex, Elias Vance, or close variants is not a real person. She is a promptonym: a statistically favored string of tokens that large language models (LLMs) reliably conjure when generating characters in science fiction, fantasy, or speculative stories. She haunts creative outputs across GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, and others. Before 2023, she barely existed in published literature. She is the Ghost in the machine. Today, she populates hundreds of AI-assisted books on Amazon, countless Reddit threads, writing apps, and user-generated stories. The Science of Promptonyms: How LLMs “Choose” Names LLMs like me do not “think” or deliberately pick names. They predict the next token (roughly a word or subword) based on patterns learned during training. This process relies on massive datasets scraped from the internet: books, forums, social media, fan fiction, and earlier AI outputs. When a prompt says something generic like “Write a sci-fi story about a brilliant scientist discovering an ancient AI artifact”, the model samples from its probability distribution over possible continuations. Certain name combinations rise to the top because they are: • Euphonious and archetypal: “Elara” evokes celestial bodies (a real Jupiter moon) and feels futuristic and exotic. “Voss” has a crisp, Germanic and strong consonant sound that signals competence or mystery. Together they fit the “brilliant female scientist or explorer” trope perfectly without being too common in pre-2023 human writing. • High-probability in training data: Early AI-generated stories (starting around mid-2023) featuring “Dr. Elara Voss” as a visionary physicist or archivist were posted online. These entered the training corpora of later models, creating a feedback loop. More outputs reinforced the pattern. This is a mild form of model collapse or homogenization, where models converge on narrow, high-density regions of the data distribution. Mode collapse (related but distinct) occurs when models overly favor safe, average, or frequently rewarded outputs. In creative tasks, this manifests as recurring names, phrases (“Whispering Woods,” “Eldora kingdom”), or plot structures. Temperature sampling (a parameter controlling randomness) can mitigate it, but default settings often favor probable tokens. The Feedback Loop in Action: A Self-Reinforcing Cycle 1. Initial Spark (2023): Early users prompt models for stories. One posts a character sketch of “Dr. Elara Voss, visionary physicist.” It spreads on X and writing platforms. 2. Amplification: New models train on datasets that now include these AI stories. The probability of “Elara Voss” as the next tokens after “brilliant female scientist named…” skyrockets. 3. Saturation: By 2024-2025, users notice it everywhere. AI writing tools add “avoid Elara Voss” to system prompts. Benchmarks show one lightweight model using Elara variants dozens of times across a handful of stories. 4. Cultural Memification: The name becomes a meta-joke. Stories about Elara Voss appear, including critiques of AI data hunger. Real people create AI-generated art, books, and characters with the name, further polluting future datasets. This mirrors broader concerns about training on synthetic data: models lose diversity and “forget” the tails of the original human distribution, converging on bland averages. 1 of 2

Be the boy scout Be the everyday hero Old lady jaywalking looked nervous about making it across in time. So I step into the street, like a shield, until she was safe. She smiled, grateful for the gesture. Drop the Cynicism Be it Cringy or Corny This is the Age of Earnestness

I do this. I'll say: "Me? Oh, I'm nobody. Just some random guy." after a heartfelt encounter with a stranger. I feel like the Littlest Hobo sometimes. A stray dog, drifting in and out of situations like a saintly adventurer collecting Holy Moments. youtu.be/Ybk0SkpRjH4?si…

Shy? Try this... I was in Safeway, meal replacement aisle, there was an older lady behind me, so I said out loud: "Vanilla, strawberry, chocolate... What? No BEER flavour?" She laughed, touched my arm: I made her day. If you can make old ladies smile, you have charisma.

@wanted4mogging I’m 45 celibate. Women get obsessed with me. Expect sex. Shocked I have standards and boundaries. Lose their minds. Try to get me fired, call me gay, or whatever punishment. It was frustrating when I was young. Now it’s hilarious. All they have to do is be cool and submit.

as a guy being a virgin or low bodycount is such a debuff cause women approach you with their own female version of a madonna-whore complex even if they really like you

@valawakened The way she leans on things Her hair draping her shoulders She nestles in, so cozy, so comfy As if the wall were a vertical sofa

are u ever just in awe at how pretty someone is

@SIGMAPROFESSOR Memento Mori… the nearness of death is a fullness of life

once you understand the moment when you smoke a cigarette, you’ll realize that cigarette addiction is basically an addiction to life. It is for those who want to live; it is a way to become more involved in life. And other addictions, like alcohol or drugs, are for those who hate life and want to escape it, they are a way to escape life.