Ale×ey
@equalparallel.bsky.social
A friendly algorithm
Writing art theory, reading philosophy
at https://equalparallel.com/
Made art at https://vimeo.com/user1037543
Persisted as https://twitter.com/EqualParallel
And one foot always @[email protected]
Writing art theory, reading philosophy
at https://equalparallel.com/
Made art at https://vimeo.com/user1037543
Persisted as https://twitter.com/EqualParallel
And one foot always @[email protected]
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Ale×ey
@equalparallel.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Wrote 4k words on faith in a disenchanted world. On what faith means to me in the impossibility of theism. Where I'd go when there is nowhere left to turn. Don't know if this is philosophy exactly. Just thinking out loud about things I've never really thought about. equalparallel.com/void-cloud-l...
Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.
Zheng Xiaoqiong is very relevant in this regard, a poetry of people who aren't in history books www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
www.equator.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Zheng Xiaoqiong is very relevant in this regard, a poetry of people who aren't in history books www.equator.org/articles/the...
It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.
Guy who learns more about math just to find out what the aesthetic experiences of different maths are like.
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Guy who learns more about math just to find out what the aesthetic experiences of different maths are like.
Was really hoping to buy some of it, but it was basically impossible to do it three different regions. It's like in Italy where they think food from a different region shouldn't be taken seriously. Potato salad tho can probably be recreated in the west, just not sure what kind of pickles they used.
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Was really hoping to buy some of it, but it was basically impossible to do it three different regions. It's like in Italy where they think food from a different region shouldn't be taken seriously. Potato salad tho can probably be recreated in the west, just not sure what kind of pickles they used.
Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.
On top of the great wall northeast of Beijing, a selection of tourist stereotypes: shy young russian couple quizzed by an Aussie about war, Americans discussing their bonuses while hiking, and a pair of young Germans filming themselves tearing off FUCK AFD stickers.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
On top of the great wall northeast of Beijing, a selection of tourist stereotypes: shy young russian couple quizzed by an Aussie about war, Americans discussing their bonuses while hiking, and a pair of young Germans filming themselves tearing off FUCK AFD stickers.
Mass use of genml in daily and professional lives seems like a social experiment to find a tolerable degree of noise injection into individual and social lives. And as with noise attack in charts, maybe it could bring clarity and make important things stand out against noise?
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Mass use of genml in daily and professional lives seems like a social experiment to find a tolerable degree of noise injection into individual and social lives. And as with noise attack in charts, maybe it could bring clarity and make important things stand out against noise?
Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.
The beginning of the modern retelling of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The beginning of the modern retelling of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.
An unexciting dystopia: all of the internet uploaded into the mind, each aesthetic experience a commercial product, a body dissolved into a thousand microservices, each a monetizable opportunity.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
An unexciting dystopia: all of the internet uploaded into the mind, each aesthetic experience a commercial product, a body dissolved into a thousand microservices, each a monetizable opportunity.
Thinking of the optimism of past scifi and cyberpunk dystopias, of so called transhumanism seeing a future in which minds find a different form of life by being uploaded online, singularity etc. And the offer of our reality being uploading the online into the mind.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thinking of the optimism of past scifi and cyberpunk dystopias, of so called transhumanism seeing a future in which minds find a different form of life by being uploaded online, singularity etc. And the offer of our reality being uploading the online into the mind.
It's a funny coincidence that both "we're eating good" and "slop" have become widely used online lingo terms at roughly the same time.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's a funny coincidence that both "we're eating good" and "slop" have become widely used online lingo terms at roughly the same time.
So, are we going to see some real real innovation in gov bailout of the biggest financial pyramid ever? I wonder how often this sort of thing happened before.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
So, are we going to see some real real innovation in gov bailout of the biggest financial pyramid ever? I wonder how often this sort of thing happened before.
This isn't to say it's somehow "designed" like this. But it is interesting that you can easily run into redditors on niche forums saying things like "imagine being concerned or offended by politics lmao" as if they were on a fox hunt in 19th century.
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This isn't to say it's somehow "designed" like this. But it is interesting that you can easily run into redditors on niche forums saying things like "imagine being concerned or offended by politics lmao" as if they were on a fox hunt in 19th century.
A highly speculative theory I've got is that Reddit (rabid hobbyism) was born centuries ago within the ranks of British aristocracy to channel need for political freedoms into harmless (sic) hobbies. Post-war, this became the trajectory for masses and valid up till today.
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A highly speculative theory I've got is that Reddit (rabid hobbyism) was born centuries ago within the ranks of British aristocracy to channel need for political freedoms into harmless (sic) hobbies. Post-war, this became the trajectory for masses and valid up till today.
Came back here to say that my optimistic theory is that the world has not descended into night completely yet and we have time until the ai bubble bursting, which will be like a friendly tap on the shoulder to global fascists already or close to being in power.
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Came back here to say that my optimistic theory is that the world has not descended into night completely yet and we have time until the ai bubble bursting, which will be like a friendly tap on the shoulder to global fascists already or close to being in power.
A strange thing I've discovered recently is the incredible amount of Japanese youtubers either don't speak at all or use text-to-speech on their videos. Subtitles only approach is somehow soothing, while the robotic voices and anime avatars are uncanny.
October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A strange thing I've discovered recently is the incredible amount of Japanese youtubers either don't speak at all or use text-to-speech on their videos. Subtitles only approach is somehow soothing, while the robotic voices and anime avatars are uncanny.
It also seems like a global thing. News reports are almost always dumbing things down. Can't be due to the format - documentaries manage to squeeze a lot into short form. Perhaps this is a cultural tradition stemming from the political role.
October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It also seems like a global thing. News reports are almost always dumbing things down. Can't be due to the format - documentaries manage to squeeze a lot into short form. Perhaps this is a cultural tradition stemming from the political role.
Ever since childhood, I wondered why exactly TV journalism is of such terrible quality that you could probably get more information from a tabloid op-ed column. Tv news formats seem to rely entirely on the authority of their voice.
October 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ever since childhood, I wondered why exactly TV journalism is of such terrible quality that you could probably get more information from a tabloid op-ed column. Tv news formats seem to rely entirely on the authority of their voice.
Ok now I understand who exactly Meillassoux had in mind wrt hard correlationism
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Ok now I understand who exactly Meillassoux had in mind wrt hard correlationism