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May 19
tiki bars are charming as aesthetic remix: American bars playing Polynesia with Caribbean rum
but once you notice there’s no kava, the traditional social drink, the post-contact hangover gets harder to miss and Tongan binge-drinking statistics start hovering over the garnish
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Jun 11
the breakdown of consciousness in the origin of the bicameral mind by Julian Jaynes
Jun 10
JUST IN: Redditor claims he can now “use ChatGPT” in his head & accurately predict what it would say.
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Jun 11
llm locution feels almost homeric
reusable half-lines, stock epithets, and a prosody of explanation
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Jun 8
the long-prophesied cyberpunk future has arrived surprisingly domesticated
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Jun 2
CS Lewis feared analysis as spiritual vivisection: a basilisk gaze that kills all it sees and sees only by killing
but dissection need not be desecration. one can enjoy the autopsy while still mourning the body
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Jun 2
the richness of the past is in forms worn into fit; coherent surfaces to grow around
Jun 2
tradition is most alive when participation is a generative act
not mere preservation or rote reenactment, but learning its grammar well enough to vary it, ornament it, and make new things that still feel like they belong
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Jun 2
tradition is most alive when participation is a generative act
not mere preservation or rote reenactment, but learning its grammar well enough to vary it, ornament it, and make new things that still feel like they belong
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Jun 2
fads generate novelty, but living traditions generate successors
they give people a way to participate without needing to found a new movement every ten years
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Jun 2
decline is when new things no longer thicken into inheritance
no shared grammar, no apprentices, no standards, and no plausible way for the form to keep producing contributors after its founders are gone
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May 30
there is a recurring failure mode in theory where noticing that modernity dissolves inherited human forms gets mistaken for permission to aestheticize the dissolution
marx, for all his failed prophecy and prescription, still wanted capitalism subordinated to human emancipation
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May 30
what disturbs me about nick land is that he recodes inhuman, world-dissolving forces as libidinal/cybernetic destiny and treats surrender as the height of profundity
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May 30
katseye, the “global girl group,” feels like an early sign of korean demographic contraction reaching the kpop production function
the talent pipeline ran on youth surplus, parental ambition, dense audition networks, and misery tolerance. this will sputter as the cohort shrinks
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May 30
and we're still early! the really tiny korean birth cohorts are children and won't hit trainee age until the 2030s
that is: global groups are a sign that kpop's future is as a transnational operating system for turning teenagers into legible pop assets
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May 23
one uncomfortable implication of fast-moving fertility tech is that “when should we have kids?” starts to inherit some of the logic of the wait equation
nobody wants to imagine telling their kid they were born just before the good options arrived
May 22
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May 20
increasingly glad I interpreted a B in honors real analysis as career guidance
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.
An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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May 20
"Google is cooked" round four, 3.5 flash edition
honestly it's getting tedious at this point
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