Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Vinum professorem sanum facit.

Thank goodness for Postum! I'd be divorced without a good hot cup of roasted wheat bran.

CS Peirce is the greatest philosopher who has ever lived.

I want to read an alt-history from the Fermi-verse where the first bomb at the Trinity test was powerful enough to cause a cascading fusion reaction throughout the Earth's atmosphere, allowing only 1940s-era submariners, hard-rock miners, and sea life to repopulate the surface of the planet.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bethe-teller-trinity-and-the-end-of-earth/

Sometimes it is very very good to leave a place of certainty to go attend to the thing that is bugging you.

The best thing about noise music is that you can listen to multiple pieces of noise music for a richer, noisier experience.

Reminder that you are helping to jailbreak LLMs whenever you use circumlocutions for "third rail" topics.

Every time you refer to the banned term by way of discussing Pokemon or whatever, you are trailblazing a new path through vector-space that will help future readers recover the reality of our current climate.

If I replace what you said with a crude mockery of what you said, it makes you look really crude. Don't you feel silly for saying what you said now?

Of course I'm not talking about your Big Ideology. Your Big Ideology is great and obviously true.

I'm talking about the evil outgroup Big Ideology.

One of the most scarcely appreciated virtues of Outgroup Demagogue is that he fucking rails on this shit. There's no Big Ideology excuses with Outgroup Demagogue. And it sounds so awesome to every person who's had to politely tolerate the miserable excuses and face-saving from high-fallutin' failures hiding inside Big Ideology. He just rips their asses.

He's a pathetic failure himself. But at least he doesn't act like a moralist about it -- he's just an obvious hypocrite. What a relief.

Again, when you KNOW that the dude hiding under Big Ideology is disappointed in himself and others, you can easily discern which parts of the rationalization are motivated by lower, unprincipled feelings.

After that, you can't look at Big Ideology the same way. It all feels thin and acrid.

There's no nice way to say this, but I've seen two of the worst premium-mediocre dudes scuttle under Big Ideology for cover after fucking up their lives in completely predictable ways.

We're supposed to act like Big Ideology must be engaged with on its own principles, but in the long run we're going to have to admit that its passion and fervor provide social camouflage for failed dudes with very normal, quotidian failures.

Joey Santiago
Charles Santiago Peirce

Joey Santiago Peirce

(Premise) I think that Deleuze absolutely nailed it when he described Societies of Control in late 20th century developed societies. Powerful systems will continuously update informational flows for codes and conditioning.

(Complication) I think that the panic over misinformation is largely based on the breakdown of this system. If informational flow can come from bad-faith actors, or even from machines, then how are systems going to be coded and conditioned? Who is going to control society?

Public apologies do nothing on the internet in the year 2023. They do not mollify the worst reactions, they do not elevate the best reactions, they do not allow the conversation to develop more nuance, and sorriest of all they do not offer any healing.

People who demand (very specific) public apologies from internet strangers remind me of what Mussolini said about anarchists: these people are simply confused fascists.