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It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
August 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
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Hallucination is the apparent perception of things that are not present. The AI failure-mode, however, is not that, it's delusion: the inferrence of things that are not perceived, independent of whether they are present or not.
May 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hallucination is the apparent perception of things that are not present. The AI failure-mode, however, is not that, it's delusion: the inferrence of things that are not perceived, independent of whether they are present or not.
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In addition to the economic stuff, "masculinity" was a set of cultural values engineered by the ruling class to convince young men to risk/lose their lives in the military and to instill values that were militarily useful in the spears and shields era of military tactics
This is really good…
…and of course men *are* in “crisis” and have been since the 19th century, that “crisis” being the declining relative economic value of upper body strength and declining child mortality, making it less economically valuable for women to make childbirth the work of their lives.
…and of course men *are* in “crisis” and have been since the 19th century, that “crisis” being the declining relative economic value of upper body strength and declining child mortality, making it less economically valuable for women to make childbirth the work of their lives.
we're doing masculine crisis discourse again, I guess.
so I'll post this again. Patriarchy *defines masculinity as a crisis*; that's how patriarchy works. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/there-isnt...
so I'll post this again. Patriarchy *defines masculinity as a crisis*; that's how patriarchy works. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/there-isnt...
May 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
In addition to the economic stuff, "masculinity" was a set of cultural values engineered by the ruling class to convince young men to risk/lose their lives in the military and to instill values that were militarily useful in the spears and shields era of military tactics
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I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
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Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
March 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
2/n
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This is interesting. Continuing to think about the Temple of the White Rat, Bishop Beartongue (who is sort of my template for a Practical Good Person who can see the big picture) is not at all a centrist, but she might be considered an incrementalist.
Conversely, why have 'good guys' become so cringe, so unrelatable, so one-note? Bc 'good guys' are historically portrayed as rule-followers. Law-abiders. Both-sides-ers. For the last few decades, that means that the 'good guys' end up defending the same broken system *that produces the villains.*
February 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is interesting. Continuing to think about the Temple of the White Rat, Bishop Beartongue (who is sort of my template for a Practical Good Person who can see the big picture) is not at all a centrist, but she might be considered an incrementalist.