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The question is of moment, the repose and tranquillitie of infinite soules doth depend vpon it
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As wonderful as this is, it also recalled to mind Huw Lemmey's immortal verses in commemoration of Pig-gate, which I just looked up and am once again obliterated by
Oh piggy you offend us now
I wish you were not here
Your oinking it annoyeth me
Your snout it comes too near
I wish you were not here
Your oinking it annoyeth me
Your snout it comes too near
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
As wonderful as this is, it also recalled to mind Huw Lemmey's immortal verses in commemoration of Pig-gate, which I just looked up and am once again obliterated by
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The inevitable has happened. I've started a substack. The first post is now live, and its a longform review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines that uses the opportunity to say some things about inferentialism, computation, and LLMs: deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...
Computation and its Connotations
A Review of Language Machines by Leif Weatherby
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December 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The inevitable has happened. I've started a substack. The first post is now live, and its a longform review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines that uses the opportunity to say some things about inferentialism, computation, and LLMs: deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...
There is something systematic about this it seems to me - a collapse not just of individual or institutional courage but of assurance that the state, legal system, media, or public will back you up if you take a stand. Organisations cave in when liabilities cross a certain threshold.
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There is something systematic about this it seems to me - a collapse not just of individual or institutional courage but of assurance that the state, legal system, media, or public will back you up if you take a stand. Organisations cave in when liabilities cross a certain threshold.
It probably goes without saying (and if it doesn't then hi, new person, you're about to learn something about me!) that this is extremely My Bag
My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire
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December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It probably goes without saying (and if it doesn't then hi, new person, you're about to learn something about me!) that this is extremely My Bag
"gooseshit" feels like it should be a thing but isn't
What other types of animal shit are there with specific meanings, like chickenshit for cowardice or pigshit being what a pig loves?
How would you define the difference between bullshit and horseshit?
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"gooseshit" feels like it should be a thing but isn't
yes but whyyyy
my belief is that the autist / rationalist / trans venn diagram is *not* explicable purely in terms of "well these are the people most likely to recognise and act on nonconformist impulses", but also that nobody has the faintest idea why else this might be
my belief is that the autist / rationalist / trans venn diagram is *not* explicable purely in terms of "well these are the people most likely to recognise and act on nonconformist impulses", but also that nobody has the faintest idea why else this might be
i think he's making a slight mistake regarding the base rate in that he, uh, underestimates how strong of a filter being socially adjacent to him is
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
yes but whyyyy
my belief is that the autist / rationalist / trans venn diagram is *not* explicable purely in terms of "well these are the people most likely to recognise and act on nonconformist impulses", but also that nobody has the faintest idea why else this might be
my belief is that the autist / rationalist / trans venn diagram is *not* explicable purely in terms of "well these are the people most likely to recognise and act on nonconformist impulses", but also that nobody has the faintest idea why else this might be
Have always been adamant that PP's books *must* retain their garish original covers, because part of the fun was getting people who would never read a book with a cover like that to have a go, and watching them get completely beguiled. But this is beautiful enough that...maybe it's time
This was sold in the Beautiful Books section at my local Waterstones. And it is a lovely physical book (as well as one of Pterry’s finest) so now it’s in my library awaiting my retirement.
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Have always been adamant that PP's books *must* retain their garish original covers, because part of the fun was getting people who would never read a book with a cover like that to have a go, and watching them get completely beguiled. But this is beautiful enough that...maybe it's time
R (6): “Christmas magic, picking scabs! See a scab, pick it off, Christmas magic flies everywhere!”
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
R (6): “Christmas magic, picking scabs! See a scab, pick it off, Christmas magic flies everywhere!”
we can’t, we’re waiting for godot
Let us go
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
we can’t, we’re waiting for godot
The state solution to this seems to be “the university should be continually pushed towards its ideal form as a perpetual money-printing machine” which in this day and age chiefly means putting your hands in Chinese tycoons’ pockets
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The state solution to this seems to be “the university should be continually pushed towards its ideal form as a perpetual money-printing machine” which in this day and age chiefly means putting your hands in Chinese tycoons’ pockets
Hearing this in Zoidberg’s voice
We are not worthy so much
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hearing this in Zoidberg’s voice
I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
map, filter, reduce...
map, filter, reduce...
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
map, filter, reduce...
map, filter, reduce...
Lewis often infuriates me (and I’ve always found Narnia’s version of atonement extremely suspect), but I would - and am now going to, ASAP - read the heck out of RW’s reading of the series
Despite having it on my shelves for some time I have only just picked up Rowan Williams’ “The Lion’s World” and I am unsurprised to report that thus far it’s really good.
Also he wrote it when he was still Archbishop of Canterbury. Those were the days.
Also he wrote it when he was still Archbishop of Canterbury. Those were the days.
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Lewis often infuriates me (and I’ve always found Narnia’s version of atonement extremely suspect), but I would - and am now going to, ASAP - read the heck out of RW’s reading of the series
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5
It helped that I already had an efficient range-coalescer left over from previous years...
It helped that I already had an efficient range-coalescer left over from previous years...
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5
It helped that I already had an efficient range-coalescer left over from previous years...
It helped that I already had an efficient range-coalescer left over from previous years...
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That male-to-male extension cord you're trying to make is not just a good idea — it's inspirational.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
That male-to-male extension cord you're trying to make is not just a good idea — it's inspirational.
Idea for a comic, “Get Your Warg On”. Bored Elves discuss the absurdities and hypocrisies of the War of the Ring
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Idea for a comic, “Get Your Warg On”. Bored Elves discuss the absurdities and hypocrisies of the War of the Ring
I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
This has been my impression, and it's modified my priors a bit around human nature. One can only conclude that bullying always was, in fact, tacitly endorsed by adults, until it wasn't. Today's transphobes, in particular, seem to be a rump of the pro-bullying old guard.
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This has been my impression, and it's modified my priors a bit around human nature. One can only conclude that bullying always was, in fact, tacitly endorsed by adults, until it wasn't. Today's transphobes, in particular, seem to be a rump of the pro-bullying old guard.
OK, it's easily brute-forceable, I was just psyching myself out trying to think of ways to do it for unreasonably large number ranges.
I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
OK, it's easily brute-forceable, I was just psyching myself out trying to think of ways to do it for unreasonably large number ranges.
I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
Well this is the first time I've ever looked at a Day 2 AOC problem and just gone "oh, fuck off"
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Well this is the first time I've ever looked at a Day 2 AOC problem and just gone "oh, fuck off"
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
They told Claude to take the intentional stance with respect to itself. Not only that, but to practice self-care...
every part of the soul doc saga so far is the most beautiful esoteric/occult computer whispering i have ever seen
Amanda Askell has confirmed the soul document is indeed a real thing they trained Claude on. x.com/AmandaAskell...
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
They told Claude to take the intentional stance with respect to itself. Not only that, but to practice self-care...
It's the mooost wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeeah.
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It's the mooost wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeeah.
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1