AI is dead consciousness which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking human creativity, and lives the more the more it sucks. Commodification of creativity. Alienation from one’s own ideas. THIS is the Information Age.

i am basically a trained musicologist because i occasionally recognize bits and pieces of "Powerhouse" by the Raymond Scott Quintet—besides the obvious industrial-sounding portion—in various classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

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evidence for qualia: my daughter repeatedly insists she is feeling the crackle of pop rocks in her “mind”and not her head, nor even her brain, no matter how many times I try to correct her.

come and keep your 同志 warm.

Chinese Tom Friedman: “No two countries with a Mixue will go to war with each other”.

people made fun of Pynchon for being reclusive, but these days you kinda gotta envy him.

Imagine you could upload your consciousness. Would that unlock immortality? Now imagine a million copies of yourself, each slightly different. Would that not unlock death more permanent than exists today? Your individual death is no longer worth mourning. You cannot be remembered.

Children. Children. Please get your bets in while the dice are in the middle.

Saskatchewan doesn’t officially keep track of the number of people who live in Saskatoon proper, but counts the entire metro area. This is why it is known as “the Chongqing of Canada”.

autobiography is all fiction, not for lack of candor, but because if you describe a person, that person isn’t you. the narrative of a character does not map onto the narrative of conscious being except in retrospect.

relatively speaking, the United States of America is north of Canada.

just like Obama was our second black president (Clinton), Leo XIV is our second Chicago pope (JPII).

why the hell is Circle Inn on my timeline.

I didn’t realize they were still working on Barkley 2.

“Rise” from Herb Alpert’s 1979 album (it’s got the beat that Biggie used for “Hypnotize”) is, once the Trumpet kicks in, what I can only describe as “cocaine jazz”.

Hegseth is doing the Brandt

liberals believe Trump is a Great Man. They think that MAGA ideology is his creation and they need to defeat it with their ideology. It doesn’t occur to them that it is the present form of liberalism itself that has lead to the material conditions for MAGA to take hold.

Did you know: the slang term “dime” as in “she’s a dime” (a perfect beauty) originated in San Francisco in the 1800’s as a borrowing from the Chinese idiom “十全十��”.

oh my god imagine getting to see the Saudi army actually fight. the grimmest of lols.

They’re fixing the train tracks at the Rosemont Blue Line station with a little crane in the middle of a train rn this is awesome.