Drunk Ratel
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A tree does tree things. It does not call itself a tree.
A cloud does cloud things. It does not call itself a cloud.
An artist does art.
If you do art, why do call yourself an artist?
A cloud does cloud things. It does not call itself a cloud.
An artist does art.
If you do art, why do call yourself an artist?
February 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A tree does tree things. It does not call itself a tree.
A cloud does cloud things. It does not call itself a cloud.
An artist does art.
If you do art, why do call yourself an artist?
A cloud does cloud things. It does not call itself a cloud.
An artist does art.
If you do art, why do call yourself an artist?
Art is not the default state of things.
Art is the exception that reminds us we are alive.
Art is the exception that reminds us we are alive.
February 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Art is not the default state of things.
Art is the exception that reminds us we are alive.
Art is the exception that reminds us we are alive.
Not all music needs to be art.
Not all decoration needs to be art.
Not all writing needs to be art.
Nothing needs to be art.
But art needs to exist in everything.
Not all decoration needs to be art.
Not all writing needs to be art.
Nothing needs to be art.
But art needs to exist in everything.
February 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Not all music needs to be art.
Not all decoration needs to be art.
Not all writing needs to be art.
Nothing needs to be art.
But art needs to exist in everything.
Not all decoration needs to be art.
Not all writing needs to be art.
Nothing needs to be art.
But art needs to exist in everything.
Art is ambiguity coordination among entropy-bearing agents.
January 31, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Art is ambiguity coordination among entropy-bearing agents.
Art is ambiguity management under entropy.
January 31, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Art is ambiguity management under entropy.
Ethics is a low-entropy coordination protocol.
January 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Ethics is a low-entropy coordination protocol.
Epistemic distortion ∝ assertion without entitlement × reader susceptibility to narrative authority
January 30, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Epistemic distortion ∝ assertion without entitlement × reader susceptibility to narrative authority
Future Division of Labor (Minimal Law)
AI performs
→ symbolic optimization, prediction, and information structuring.
Humans perform
→ action under constraint: physics, behavior, and judgment.
Everything else disappears.
AI performs
→ symbolic optimization, prediction, and information structuring.
Humans perform
→ action under constraint: physics, behavior, and judgment.
Everything else disappears.
January 30, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Future Division of Labor (Minimal Law)
AI performs
→ symbolic optimization, prediction, and information structuring.
Humans perform
→ action under constraint: physics, behavior, and judgment.
Everything else disappears.
AI performs
→ symbolic optimization, prediction, and information structuring.
Humans perform
→ action under constraint: physics, behavior, and judgment.
Everything else disappears.
Aesthetic human interaction is real-time inference over partially observable dynamical systems.
January 29, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Aesthetic human interaction is real-time inference over partially observable dynamical systems.
Conservatism and Fascism aren't ideologies.
Conservatism is an affective braking system.
Fascism is what happens when that system panics and locks.
Conservatism is an affective braking system.
Fascism is what happens when that system panics and locks.
January 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Conservatism and Fascism aren't ideologies.
Conservatism is an affective braking system.
Fascism is what happens when that system panics and locks.
Conservatism is an affective braking system.
Fascism is what happens when that system panics and locks.
Billionaires leaving a polity is not a sign of social dysfunction.
January 9, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Billionaires leaving a polity is not a sign of social dysfunction.
Every minute discussing whether Jonathan Ross is or isn't a good person buys the system time at no cost to itself.
January 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Every minute discussing whether Jonathan Ross is or isn't a good person buys the system time at no cost to itself.
Reality is necessarily a tautology in a process ontology.
January 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Reality is necessarily a tautology in a process ontology.
Reality requires constraints.
Constraints create viability.
Viability creates structure.
Structure creates possibility.
Possibility creates dynamic processes.
Dynamic processes create experience.
Without viability, there is no reality at all.
Constraints create viability.
Viability creates structure.
Structure creates possibility.
Possibility creates dynamic processes.
Dynamic processes create experience.
Without viability, there is no reality at all.
January 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Reality requires constraints.
Constraints create viability.
Viability creates structure.
Structure creates possibility.
Possibility creates dynamic processes.
Dynamic processes create experience.
Without viability, there is no reality at all.
Constraints create viability.
Viability creates structure.
Structure creates possibility.
Possibility creates dynamic processes.
Dynamic processes create experience.
Without viability, there is no reality at all.
Philosophy is physically instantiated, cognitively executed, biologically grounded, and ultimately realized in physical processes — but its explanatory structures are autonomous and cannot be reduced to those lower levels without losing meaning.
January 7, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Philosophy is physically instantiated, cognitively executed, biologically grounded, and ultimately realized in physical processes — but its explanatory structures are autonomous and cannot be reduced to those lower levels without losing meaning.
I’m pro-psychedelic the way an engineer is pro-nuclear energy.
Both technologies, for humanity to have a future with minimal suffering, need to deployed at scale, with great create, and with an overabundance of caution.
Both technologies, for humanity to have a future with minimal suffering, need to deployed at scale, with great create, and with an overabundance of caution.
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 AM
I’m pro-psychedelic the way an engineer is pro-nuclear energy.
Both technologies, for humanity to have a future with minimal suffering, need to deployed at scale, with great create, and with an overabundance of caution.
Both technologies, for humanity to have a future with minimal suffering, need to deployed at scale, with great create, and with an overabundance of caution.
The Westphalian System
1648 - 2026
RIP
1648 - 2026
RIP
January 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The Westphalian System
1648 - 2026
RIP
1648 - 2026
RIP
Israel is Liberia 2.0
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Israel is Liberia 2.0
I think PowerPoint has been a vastly underrated cause of the tech-bubble, and may be the most dangerous product ever developed by Microsoft.
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think PowerPoint has been a vastly underrated cause of the tech-bubble, and may be the most dangerous product ever developed by Microsoft.
There's no coherent reason to ban doping in pro-Sports and the Olympics.
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There's no coherent reason to ban doping in pro-Sports and the Olympics.
Market liberalization is capitalist imperialism turned inward.
December 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Market liberalization is capitalist imperialism turned inward.
Complaints about female hypergamy scale inversely with a man’s objective desirability and adaptive capacity within the mating market.
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Complaints about female hypergamy scale inversely with a man’s objective desirability and adaptive capacity within the mating market.
Declared pickiness is highest immediately before successful mate selection and declines sharply after, as preferences reconfigure around the chosen partner.
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Declared pickiness is highest immediately before successful mate selection and declines sharply after, as preferences reconfigure around the chosen partner.
Every pot has a lid.
Too bad for skillets.
Too bad for skillets.
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Every pot has a lid.
Too bad for skillets.
Too bad for skillets.
Sociology of Racism (Beginner Level)
A white person using a racial slur against a Black person is engaging in racism and is an asshole.
A Black person using a racial slur against a white person is engaging in hostility and is an asshole.
You're welcome.
A white person using a racial slur against a Black person is engaging in racism and is an asshole.
A Black person using a racial slur against a white person is engaging in hostility and is an asshole.
You're welcome.
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Sociology of Racism (Beginner Level)
A white person using a racial slur against a Black person is engaging in racism and is an asshole.
A Black person using a racial slur against a white person is engaging in hostility and is an asshole.
You're welcome.
A white person using a racial slur against a Black person is engaging in racism and is an asshole.
A Black person using a racial slur against a white person is engaging in hostility and is an asshole.
You're welcome.