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meika
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writes on the big history we have

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I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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An AI generated the “Edward Crabtree” lie. An AI absorbed it. An AI spread it. The Bondi attack reveals the risk of AI chatbots eating their own tails, @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports.
Bondi lie peddled by Elon Musk's AI chatbot shows the future of our AI-poisoned information ecosystem
In the hours after the Bondi Beach mass shooting, AI misinformation began to eat its own tail, with Musk's X bot absorbed and regurgitated in record time.
www.crikey.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Zižek, mate, the structure is an urge, and so no such thing, but is everything we do. The recursive gastrulating mess is a success story, just don’t run away. open.substack.com/pub/whywesho...
Zižek the wizard
on reading the introduction to Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Conspiracy theories are always plans in waiting.
The snake oil in the latest US national security strategy is that yes, Europe is sinking in a technocratic centrism that has lost legitimacy, but the NSS proposes that we Europeans replace it with anti-democratic populism. It’s a demand for authoritarianism in the name of democracy.
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Remember when you hear a conspiracy theory, you are hearing a plan.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
in between the book arriving and my reading it I thought a lot about performance, and how our streets are the main stage (if all the world’s stage, most of it are side chapels). Some people say we need religion, usually in reference to spiritual efforts whyweshould.substack.com/p/reading-ki...
reading Kirk Lougheed's "A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force"
begins to describe an intuitive approach acknowledging effort in our values
whyweshould.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
In the olden days #clickbait would suck you in, now it just slops all over everyone.
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Big shout out to all the twitterx MAGA accounts in Russia. #GOBACKTOrussia
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Identity is a form of suicide.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Today I translated “Aunt Sallies hypostatize Modestine’s goad” into “Straw men make material his donkey’s whip”. Success.
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Word of the day : presbyophrenia.
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Both traditional and transgressive modes surrounding pronoun usages are fundamentally conservative and are unwise.
Footnote to Alignment ② definity on POV, preposition & pronouns
a bit ranty
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It's not a conspiracy, they are just very naughty boys who confuse techbrotard mantra's like "move fast and break things" with simply breaking things and running away. (Also narcissism.) theconversation.com/this-liberta...
This libertarian manifesto, loved by Peter Thiel, urges a ‘cognitive elite’ to see selfishness as a virtue
The Sovereign Individual celebrates the instincts of the impossibly wealthy to accumulate, hoard and insulate themselves from the messier demands of mass democracy.
theconversation.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
aesthetics another value that is an effort not a coin whyweshould.substack.com/p/alignment-...
September 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
worlding with too much potential and too much stuff whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/duck-bananas...
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
causality and alignment, a taphonomy of worlding increment
Alignment ⑦ counts towards causality
My writing on alignment, a sub-project of the taphonomy of worlding, now tilts to an embodied physics, which is a kind of metaphysics, but not about physics, but about how we world our bodies as anima...
whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I had to go back and see what caused me to write about causality. It was values so I posted about that instead. With trust as an example. (Trust is an example because thats how we value each other) whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/taphonomy-of...
Alignment ⑥ Values are an effort not a coin
My writing on alignment, a sub-project of the taphonomy of worlding, is now at part 6, and while I was going to publish about causality next, I decided to get back to the first notes on alignment I wr...
whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
August 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM