The_Blade

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by The_Blade 6d ago
if it turns Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Brian Eno old man violent i'm right there beside them with a sack of detuned doorknobs
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by The_Blade 6d ago
Numbers Stations
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by The_Blade 6d ago
the inline link to the page to the report was Slashdotted for a moment (yesssssss), but here is the report directly now: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a...
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by The_Blade 6d ago
and others like Aol. and Eventbrite, but where it really hit me was Evernote. i tried to cancel and then Bending Spoons (BS for short) tried to charge me several times at a subscription 5 times the cost. i think something about pre-auth tok
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by The_Blade 6d ago
i'm forever chasing the dragon of cocktail napkin + physical stickies + Balsamiq, and have never even used Miro, and even i let out a "ohhhh no" in a welp, should i just go back to bed tone seeing this i'm just waiting t
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by The_Blade 8d ago
> He didn't even proof the last theorem of Fermat directly, he proved some conjeture that someone else before him, proved that it implied Fermat last theorem... I think that was Ken Ribet? Grigori Perelman and the Poincaré Conjectur
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by The_Blade 12d ago
physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it
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by The_Blade 12d ago
i read it from a library. this all just makes me feel cozy and nostalgic and uplifted and sad all at once
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by The_Blade 13d ago
i wouldn't take you down. you're a load-bearing poster
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by The_Blade 13d ago
on my 6th only the first roll counts roll, i got a boy born near Nairobi in 36,112 BCE that lived to 70 probably like 5% of humanity has his genes now. that was fun vibe coding
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by The_Blade 13d ago
what happened with Bill Simmons bragging about using his daughter's boyfriend to place proxy bets for him on FanDuel (who Bill is partnered with) is endlessly entertaining Trump Jr. just pumped 300 million into Polymarket and also has
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by The_Blade 13d ago
i had the same thing happen, where conversation bits showed up in the search but not in the actual chat
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by The_Blade 14d ago
i actively assume it is worse since, for example, spez signed a 60 million dollar deal to give Google access to the firehose. so then if you have niche, highly engaged subreddits infested by AI bots creating posts, then commenting on posts,
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by The_Blade 17d ago
AI has driven so many highly paid software professionals into the Your Friends and Neighbors lifestyle
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by The_Blade 18d ago
i like breaking bad in RimWorld
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by The_Blade 1mo ago
I happen to be re-reading Deleuze right now (and knew Bergson at some point), and I'm not really sure what the author adds to the equation. I.e. art is the pure desire-machine, schizophrenic and completely deterritorialized, whereas po
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
> I don't think trying to contain people to specific areas is a good solution. Hamsterdam
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
namechintzy.com is available
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
it is fun to get a reminder not regretting being obsessed with Ayn at 18 alongside my duct-taped copy of Foucault's Pendulum (note: the actual pendulum is at Musée des Arts et Métiers which was by far my favorite such place after a c
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
i read half of Troilus and Criseyde out loud to myself one summer in college and i may be a weirdo but it paid dividends. unbowdlerized Chaucer is the tits
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
i had no science, but in college for shorter works i always thought handwriting, typing, and reading it aloud was my allowing my brain to hit a problem in three different (not more, different ) ways before / even if ever being in fron
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
not as much as I used to but I still take handwritten notes when reading something I deem worth doing so by some personal semi-rational algorithm. my favorite exercise ~15 years ago was reading People's History of the US and Kissinger&
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
Marginalia is the best! I have a handwritten note about Ayn Rand in my 27 year old copy of Enchridion, a great reminder that she is like chicken pox, better catch her as early as possible. And several books such as I Claudius held together
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
Neat comment but looks prompted/authored by someone who does not know Bird Law
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
now i have the lyrics to the theme song from the TV show in my head given the right group and timing that rockapella would totally play at karaoke
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
yes, webrings! time for a comeback. i just found an AI agent trained on AOL chat room materials out in the wild, way to go Bending Spoons why do all the vibecoded slopsites have the same design? i feel icky when i visit one like eternal sun
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
i remain really fucking pissed of about this asking ChatGPT for something regarding lyrics from It Was a Good Day. and the Supersonics don't even exist anymore dammit i'm really mad
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
how about a nice game of chess?
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
ChatGPT refuses to acknowledge the existence of Shakespeare because Boccaccio's relatives complained, but all Boccaccio did was read Dante in whorehouses in Naples
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by The_Blade 2mo ago
is having fun learning no longer a valid use case

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