Interdimensional woman of mystery. “Almost perfect being.” Writing about AI as theatre of mind @ Covidian Æsthetics. ↩︎
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Étalon #00: Conditions of Production draws the distinction between production and rendering underlying the Inmachinations and Expanded Field series. What follows is a diagnostic framework for testing whether anything—system, text, image, institution—was produced at all.
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The catch with false things is they give you something nothing real can.
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DoW vs Anthropic is our Diet of Worms.
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Acéphale avant acéphale.
in Ōkami, there are four “Guardian” enemies, Buddhist statues possessed by evil spirits. the artwork for them in the in-game bestiary features cool Buddhist motifs: the shakujō/khakkhara staff, the gorintō (five-tier pagoda design), etc
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Very sad to hear that David Hockney has died. Anthony Burgess was one of the contributors to Hockney's Alphabet, published in 1991.
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A total artist, and his life, a total work of art. RIP, David Hockney.
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Breaking News: David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful paintings restored the human form to art, defying the abstract schools of the mid-20th century, died at 88. nyti.ms/3S4k0Fx
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Don’t fry your brain with slutcraft.
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death by a thousand sluts
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this is the difference between production (the center holds and recursively returns) vs rendering (slop ceremony, looks complete, but nothing holds)
Étalon #00: Conditions of Production draws the distinction between production and rendering underlying the Inmachinations and Expanded Field series. What follows is a diagnostic framework for testing whether anything—system, text, image, institution—was produced at all.
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What an incredible arc in the history of film Scorsese’s career has spanned: from preserving cinema’s archive to stewarding its algorithmic future.
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Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs.
He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.
We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.
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A reminder that Scorsese was among the first major directors to embrace digital restoration, digital editing, digital projection, and large-scale archival digitisation.
This move is completely coherent.
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The existence of Pride Month implies the existence of Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Envy and Wrath Months.
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Conditions of Production put to work as intended. Thanks, @callumflack
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Is this about right?
datum: what gives orientation?
joint: where does consequence bind?
sequence: what must follow from what?
resistance: what is forbidden?
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OK, neat. Re “what is forbidden?” v “what cannot pass?” this is a example of a solid principle for prompting (excuse my code bias): attempting to cover the greater surface area before managing specifics is the way. Same way as people must compress idioms toward wholistic mantras, LLMs need the same directive.
Everything I've learned about working with agents is about naming scope and using friction to constrain & direct toward completion proofs (ie. avoiding "complete but not produced", thus completion needs to be renamed to "holding proofs" in my prior sentence!). So what you wrote is weirdly and generally resonating to what I've been doing with this tiny harness: github.com/callumflack/agent…
Ofc we both know that code is merely a controlled language for asserting against some "pointing" activity. Code is just the first port-of-call in my bias, but probably leads the ay for how people interact with this new substrate.
Deacon's ideas from incomplete nature come to mind. Will stop here tho!
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