Henry Darger was a janitor who built a massive fantasy world with a strange mythology, illustrated with collages cut from magazines. His scenes alternated between serene/idyllic and graphically violent, with a plot centered on the "Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."
Terry Davis wrote and vlogged TempleOS, a years-long software development project to build an operating system that he saw to be a prophesied temple to the Abrahamic God. The project reflects both his impressive technical skill and his struggles with severe mental illness.
I'd like check out some outsider art. There are people with minds that work in weird and unique ways, sometimes to the extent that they can't operate effectively in society, but through their art they give us a map of the landscape of their alien inner world. That's both beautiful and fascinating.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck
These are really good resources, thanks. Yeah it's funny, I've noticed a lot of these metrics seem to disproportionately select posters who appear to be off their meds.
I wasn’t the type to hoard my scans, but now I am.
They don’t necessarily need to be private, sites could implement authentication systems to prove a real human is behind the keyboard. There’s precedent for that in other apps to varying degrees of success.
LLMs are fascinating technology and have no end of valid, ethical uses. It awes me what humanity has discovered, and it makes me sad to see people calling AI itself a cancer.
We should be talking about how to integrate them into our culture ethically, not condemning. There will be growing pains.
Fair enough, but I think it's important to realize that there are people who are not super educated on this but recognize it for the big issue it is and what to spread awareness. So they may not be forming their arguments to our standards (and I'm with you on that) but the attention is a good thing.
I get the impression you just want to argue. Idk what to tell you at this point except that this is not good for the market and you should reconsider your position.
It's exactly the "mom and pop" sites you mentioned that I'm worried about. The idea here is that any service can pay ISPs for preferential treatment. They get bandwidth "lanes" that others can't use. It's a zero sum game that only the big dogs can play. So, yes, mom and pop can be affected strongly.
I would say that this situation is exactly the reason behind the principle of charity, or "steel manning", which is more important than catching someone on a "gotcha".
No, but it aligns with the sentiment of the argument, that this can have devastating consequences for our access to services.
My understanding is that it’s not that Facebook would want to work only with Comcast, but that X might pay Comcast to prioritize requests to X, throttling requests to Facebook.
Start that difficult book you've been considering. You'll be glad you did.
Fair enough and well said. I just know that reading of difficult content (like the Joyce you invoked) is on the decline, which is sad, and it's helpful to support readers challenging themselves rather than disparaging that.
I think that’s a perspective in alignment with the overwhelming trend of instant gratification.
I take real satisfaction from my projects and from my work. I do my projects because I can’t stop thinking about how fascinating they are until I finish them. I work hard for the satisfaction of seeing my finished work. YMMV, but that hardly makes it a scam.
What did you think of Calvino? I have Invisible Cities on my to-read list.
Saw a book abandoned in the rain at a bus stop tonight. I flipped it over to see that it was a Richard Powers novel. I left it to its fate.
Also I think it's funny/helpful that I can't make a post with the entire 400+ character quote, but I can post a screenshot and provide the entire quote as alt text.
She was meant to remember. She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller coaster ride, feeding time among the beasts in a zoo -- any death wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture. She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovey beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for performance. But then she wondered if these gemlike clues were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.
A great paragraph from Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. This describes to motivation behind the religion and mysticism, conspiracy theory, maybe even empiricism.
Outer Wilds fits the bill and is my favorite game I’ve ever played (not to be confused with Outer Worlds). 12 Minutes is another one that’s pretty good. Also seconding Braid.
I’m always a sucker for a good Feynman quote and this one is no exception.
Bad wording but I think their point is that they would rather work out their own solution than implement and debug some known solution, which, felt.
Bluesky needs post channels. I might want to see my favorite writer’s thoughts on writing, but not their bird-watching updates. Channels would let people share all their interests without cluttering everyone’s feed.
This is both interesting and frustrating. I did this challenge once and tapped out after eating Da Bomb because I thought it would only get worse from there.
Parsing these emojis was a sisyphean task.
For those curious, the way I bundled the neural networks in my biological life sim by individual worked just fine until I wanted to move to batch my forward propogation. I should have been thinking in terms of matrices from the ground up.
Just learned a hard lesson that means a big refactor in a side project. When performance matters, you can't always model things to neatly fit the concepts you're working with. That one big calculation, the one that has to be fast? What data shape does it need? That might need to inform your design.
