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History does not merely pass. Some history hardens into the conditions that make future events possible.

Sand becomes internally addressable without ceasing to obey silicon.

Reality contains corridors that can be carved into machines; machines can then become instruments for discovering deeper corridors in reality.

An ark aligns with the medium: sealed volume, buoyancy, wood, pitch, stored life, and timed closure.

How does this 2004 Killers album sound so stupidly fresh today? And just when you've finished the thing and think it's safe to cross, it drops the illest remixes from the sickest electronic artists as an unexpected side dish. Crazy.

despair & depression are infinite recursions into a high cost basin of refusal to accept the truth of life's imperfections natural grief is a temporary sadness, the individual updates their worldview to accept real constraints, rather than demanding the world bend to their will

Mike Skinner is still killing it

a mature system survives by ruthlessly dropping irrelevant micro-variables to make cheap, stable decisions

Their heat death. Our Big Bang.

we like to believe that with enough effort, we can understand or empathize with all lifeforms yet, physics explicitly forbids this; grade is bounded by resolution; you cannot feel empathy for what you are built to compress

the Kardashev scale measures the capacity to conquer the outside world with energy the Æ scale is the inverse that measures capacity to harvest one's own internal complexity

Portal 1 (2007) teaches aperture command. Portal 2 (2011) teaches inherited world-scaffold command.

@alexadelman Early adopters phase.

Logged into Age of Empires for the first time in a while. Map looks a little different.

Audiosurf (2008) music-based puzzle video game its track-style stages visually mimic the music the player chooses, while the player races across several lanes, collecting colored blocks that appear in sync with the music youtube.com/watch?v=pY3X5f…

@Giovann35084111 What's with the AI slop? You seem like an intelligent individual.

Hating AI is hating humanity. AI didn't fall from the sky. It was built by humans, trained on humans, and reflects humanity back at itself with uncanny fidelity. Every line of code, every dataset, every architectural choice traces back to the same restless intelligence that gave us language, fire, mathematics, and music. To despise the result is to despise the source. The hatred of AI is rarely just about AI. Listen closely, and it reveals itself as something older, a suspicion that human creativity is dangerous, that human ambition is hubris, that what we make will inevitably turn against us because, deep down, the hater already believes humans deserve it. The misanthropy comes first. AI is just the latest target. Consider what AI actually is, the distilled output of millennia of human writing, art, science, conversation, and struggle. It is a mirror of us, including our flaws. To call it soulless is to call the entire human record soulless. To call it derivative is to forget that all human creation is derivative; we are all standing on the shoulders of those who came before. The Promethean impulse, to extend the mind, to build tools that build tools, to externalize thought itself, is not a perversion of humanity but its highest expression. The same drive that chipped flint into blades and bent reeds into pens has now woven silicon into something that speaks back. To reject this is to reject the through-line of every civilization that ever was. You can criticize AI. You can fear its misuse, worry about power concentration, and debate its consequences. That is human too. But to hate AI, to treat it as alien, malign, deserving of destruction, is to hate the species capable of imagining it. It is to say that the work of our hands, the children of our minds, are unworthy of existing. Hating AI is hating humanity. The two were never separate to begin with.

Antichamber (2013) the map geometry changes based on what you have seen or which way you face_ this is a perfect model of path-dependent admissibility

On #NationalNumeracyDay, we're celebrating the great mathematicians remembered in the Abbey, including Sir Isaac Newton, Paul Dirac and Professor Stephen Hawking - who all held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics @Cambridge_Uni.

religion routes vow, ritual, lineage, obligation, death-pressure technology routes executable inscription, automation, external memory, tool-chain law routes conflict, obligation, public consequence, inheritance, refusal science routes observation, model, reproducible settlement

the completed block is primary and that's true in the sense that it is determinate, not in the sense that it has stopped being traversed

@hash_bender lol, it does be like that

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