Jun 28, 2024 from Joybuke Sarkic Tropes: the Horror of Flesh The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: those urges that are instinctual, animalistic, and fleshy. The term now, from my kno...
Jun 22, 2024 from nutcroft Synergy Greg Synergy Greg would like to see you in His office, it is the one down the hall, past the cubicles and dreary faces, uplifted only when He deigns to venture forth. You will know Him when you see Him,...
Jun 19, 2024 from nutcroft I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian da...
May 29, 2024 from nutcroft The Complex Problem Of Lying For Jobs A few weeks ago, friend of the blog Nat Bennett wrote this article on lying to get jobs. It is strongly against lying, and the central thesis is that habitually lying is going to put you into a wor...
Apr 17, 2024 from nutcroft On conversations of debate and exploration Dear friend, I appreciate your so-called engineering mindset. It's great to aim to approach things rationally, to understand things from the ground up, to do analysis of how systems work and how ea...
Mar 30, 2024 from nutcroft For the joy of making it I. In the bottom section of Y Combinator's website we read: Make something people want. Make. Something. People. Want. Make. It's about making. Creating. Crafting. This is about art. Not fine art, ...
Feb 12, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ plagiarism is the currency of the internet I call it “plagiarism is the currency of the internet”:
Feb 05, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ A Predictable Ui Is A Good One Until Generative Ai We judge an interface as “good” if the user knows what to expect, and is never faced with results or feedback that seem out of the blue or confusing to them. I still think this is true, but maybe w...
Jan 16, 2024 from nutcroft When hope and gloom unite This is the Matrix and I am Neo. Not because I am the One — I'm not. The reason I am Neo is because I really can fly, I really can stop bullets, I really can download knowledge to my brain. The rea...
Jan 06, 2024 from nutcroft Manifesting democracy We cannot presuppose a democratic society before its existence. We can only identify a democratic system in a society after such society has existed for a nontrivial amount of time; insofar as demo...
Jan 01, 2024 from nutcroft On the essence of decisions and hope What is a decision and why does it matter? I. One could claim that decisions do not matter insofar they are not actions. Decisions are not facts. They are just something someone said and maybe some...
Dec 11, 2023 from nutcroft Applied anthropology On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...
Nov 22, 2023 from Silence Calling Compulsions Like the desire to drink liquor Or the irresistible pleasure of sex
Oct 09, 2023 from Joybuke Stuckism: What Conservative Action Really Is Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, some on the question of Industrialism, others on the corrosion inherit to progress-...
Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling Taking Off A plane crawls on ground during taxi But in the same distance it takes off
Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling Fire and Speed The plane taking off starts moving fast and fast Increasing speed and moving wings Takes off
Jul 23, 2023 from nutcroft Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone Laniakea Books is a publishing house in London, England, which publishes public domain books only. Public domain books are books which their author has relinquished all copyrights and allows everyo...
Jul 19, 2023 from Joybuke Radicals Are Losers Radicals, at least the core base of them, have to, by definition, be losers. People usually only take stances for changing society, especially fundamentally changing society, if they see a problem ...
