lexi
@barredspirals.bsky.social
thought launderer, accursed magus, aspiring victim of communism
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lexi
@barredspirals.bsky.social
· Nov 5
now if youll excuse me ill be in a bathroom stall boofing precisely 512mg of authentic soviet-era phenazepam to increase my posting powers and own the bourgeoisie
i think the wackiest conspiracy theory i'm inclined to believe is the one about 700 years of european history being entirely fake bc some dipshit monks (intentionally or otherwise) conflated "ab urbe condita" with "anno domini"
January 4, 2026 at 7:14 PM
i think the wackiest conspiracy theory i'm inclined to believe is the one about 700 years of european history being entirely fake bc some dipshit monks (intentionally or otherwise) conflated "ab urbe condita" with "anno domini"
"closet jews conspiring against hydrogen" is definitely the weirdest take i've seen in a while.
January 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
"closet jews conspiring against hydrogen" is definitely the weirdest take i've seen in a while.
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sorry to UChicago-post but one must take seriously the idea that Aristotle in 350 B.C. understood the character of the human activity of thinking better than 99.999% of people living today
Don't have anything new to say about AI here. One thing I will say is that higher ed has long been broken. If elites had spent more time thinking through the point of education and how well we really do it than stoking woke panic, maybe we wouldn't be staring at this abyss. nymag.com/intelligence...
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
sorry to UChicago-post but one must take seriously the idea that Aristotle in 350 B.C. understood the character of the human activity of thinking better than 99.999% of people living today
that mack thread was surreal. cartoonish even. literally citing examples of ridiculous and destructive overreactions as if those are arguments IN FAVOR of another ridiculous and destructive overreaction
remarkable lack of self-awareness, by so many people
remarkable lack of self-awareness, by so many people
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
that mack thread was surreal. cartoonish even. literally citing examples of ridiculous and destructive overreactions as if those are arguments IN FAVOR of another ridiculous and destructive overreaction
remarkable lack of self-awareness, by so many people
remarkable lack of self-awareness, by so many people
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Sensational knee-jerk reactions to misleading media stories does not help the discourse on suicidality. It distracts from it.
This is already a field that suffers from limited resources and attention.
This is already a field that suffers from limited resources and attention.
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Sensational knee-jerk reactions to misleading media stories does not help the discourse on suicidality. It distracts from it.
This is already a field that suffers from limited resources and attention.
This is already a field that suffers from limited resources and attention.
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I feel strongly that if you're going to speak out about the current chatbot litigation, at the bare minimum you need to read the filings on the dockets of these cases. Not just the sensational snippets you see in the media. And you need to educate yourself on how to speak about public health issues.
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I feel strongly that if you're going to speak out about the current chatbot litigation, at the bare minimum you need to read the filings on the dockets of these cases. Not just the sensational snippets you see in the media. And you need to educate yourself on how to speak about public health issues.
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Because they’re not. Anyone with even minimal crisis-response training and familiarity with suicidality understands that psychosis is a complex, multifactorial condition—and that this fixation on chatbots distracts from the far more important work of identifying and addressing its underlying causes.
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
January 4, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Because they’re not. Anyone with even minimal crisis-response training and familiarity with suicidality understands that psychosis is a complex, multifactorial condition—and that this fixation on chatbots distracts from the far more important work of identifying and addressing its underlying causes.
apparently DoE helis were seen overflying Vegas a few weeks ago
im sure its fine
im sure its fine
January 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
apparently DoE helis were seen overflying Vegas a few weeks ago
im sure its fine
im sure its fine
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I would be thrilled if I got pay stipends from the CCP/PRC.
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I would be thrilled if I got pay stipends from the CCP/PRC.
this is like the ghetto version of getting raytheon ads
January 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
this is like the ghetto version of getting raytheon ads
as technology advances, it's become clear that the time for enterprises to take quantum cryptography seriously isn't tomorrow — it's today. that's why we're excited to announce a proprietary new technique that is totally unaffected by quantum. we call it ROT-13
January 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM
as technology advances, it's become clear that the time for enterprises to take quantum cryptography seriously isn't tomorrow — it's today. that's why we're excited to announce a proprietary new technique that is totally unaffected by quantum. we call it ROT-13
today's video is sponsored by the transgressive thrill of murder
January 4, 2026 at 11:19 AM
today's video is sponsored by the transgressive thrill of murder
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"The masses, themselves, rush there to enjoy this execution, this dismemberment, this operational prostitution of a culture finally truly liquidated, including all counterculture that is nothing but its apotheosis."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 4, 2026 at 10:40 AM
"The masses, themselves, rush there to enjoy this execution, this dismemberment, this operational prostitution of a culture finally truly liquidated, including all counterculture that is nothing but its apotheosis."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
*extremely dad voice* merry Kommunismus
January 4, 2026 at 10:39 AM
*extremely dad voice* merry Kommunismus
damn this is some NSA-tier redaction
January 4, 2026 at 10:33 AM
damn this is some NSA-tier redaction
me, picketing a rust convention: the right of a l33t haxx0r to keep & bear buffer overflows SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 AM
me, picketing a rust convention: the right of a l33t haxx0r to keep & bear buffer overflows SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
tfw you see a tweet whose emotional valence is not properly calibrated to the Current Thing
January 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM
tfw you see a tweet whose emotional valence is not properly calibrated to the Current Thing
no one's happy about the current situation with leopards eating people's faces. that's why we're open-sourcing a full reimplementation of Leopard Corp's proprietary face eating library, in rust
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 AM
no one's happy about the current situation with leopards eating people's faces. that's why we're open-sourcing a full reimplementation of Leopard Corp's proprietary face eating library, in rust
listen im broadly pro-clanker but it seems unwise to allow yourself to become dependent on cloud services (paid or otherwise) to be able to produce software
January 4, 2026 at 9:04 AM
listen im broadly pro-clanker but it seems unwise to allow yourself to become dependent on cloud services (paid or otherwise) to be able to produce software
"a memory-safe `transmute`"
this is fucking hilarious https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs/blob/main/src/transmute.rs
this is fucking hilarious https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs/blob/main/src/transmute.rs
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM
"a memory-safe `transmute`"
this is fucking hilarious https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs/blob/main/src/transmute.rs
this is fucking hilarious https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs/blob/main/src/transmute.rs
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listen up people, the solution to the Venezuela situation is *checks notes written on back of hand* vote harder
January 4, 2026 at 4:13 AM
listen up people, the solution to the Venezuela situation is *checks notes written on back of hand* vote harder
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I need an app such that I type in all the different types of alcohol and mixers I have, and it references a common bartending guide, and spits out a list of all the cocktails I can actually make without going to the liquor store.
I have a feeling this might even exist.
#cocktails
I have a feeling this might even exist.
#cocktails
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I need an app such that I type in all the different types of alcohol and mixers I have, and it references a common bartending guide, and spits out a list of all the cocktails I can actually make without going to the liquor store.
I have a feeling this might even exist.
#cocktails
I have a feeling this might even exist.
#cocktails
i have yet to figure out how libs decide which CIA disinformation to incorporate into their religious convictions. maybe it depends on whether it makes orange man look bad or not??
January 4, 2026 at 12:05 AM
i have yet to figure out how libs decide which CIA disinformation to incorporate into their religious convictions. maybe it depends on whether it makes orange man look bad or not??
the new qwen-image is the first local model I've tried that can do gravitational lensing. compared to z-image here
January 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
the new qwen-image is the first local model I've tried that can do gravitational lensing. compared to z-image here