and proof that the em dashes aren't chatgpt

Jhana Retreat Report I went on a jhana retreat this year (2025), and this is a report of my three most important take-aways from that experience. Just to quickly situate myself, I’ve been aware of jhana for about a dec…

my jhana retreat report to close out the year neologos.co/2025/12/31/j...

None, formally. There is no country where a constitution, law, or official regulation mandates enrollment in private group chats (e.g., WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat) as part of formal government processes like swearing in elected officials or appointing leaders. Group chats are widely used informally at high levels of power in many countries, but no legal framework anywhere currently treats group chat membership as an official or mandatory part of governance. Would you want me to check if any draft laws or pilot projects are trying to move in that direction? (Some e-government initiatives are close.)

wild

(cw: chatgpt)

as an evening person, I wish the moon revolved around the earth in the opposite direction

"things want to be at position 0" = geocentrist gravity
"things wants to be at velocity 0" = aristotlean mechanics
"things want to be at acceleration 0" = newtonian mechanics
"things wants to be at jerk 0" = ???

do not undervalue all you need

I'm probably gonna wake up tomorrow too

how much of "being in your body instead of your head" is just "being in your proprioception/touch instead of your vision/hearing"?

seamster : seamstress :: teamster : teamstress

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

doesn't look like you did. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

if the medium is the message, you're going to get a very different message when the medium is air vs not-air

mobile home except it's a plane

it would take 8 nights to collect enough power from starlight to run an efficient LED light bulb for 1 second

what an incredible glimpse into the psychology of the etymological process of the hyperreal

masscommons.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/1...

the first photos of earth from space are greyscale

fyi LLM so exact numbers are bs

interesting

"ESTA is not a visa" feels a lot like "a terrorist is not a soldier"... the multiplication of entities beyond necessity [but of course for very keen is-what-it-does purposes] in international relations

mastodon is full of instances blocking each other

change your handle to your website

why do I keep hearing about Emanuel Swedenborg

ASI will be a hyperobject

when you experience something new for yourself, even something bad, you enter into community with everyone else who has experienced it too, and you often come to understand things you didn't even know you didn't understand before

I completely agree and I'd say we haven't even developed pre-thermodynamics steam engines yet

then you're saying we already have AGI, just that it's still very expensive and inefficient

but our invention of steam engines caused our understanding of thermodynamics, not the other way around

disagree. we will in all likelihood stumble our way into replicable recipes for training AGI through a lot of trial and error. clear understanding of fundamental principles will require additional work and will be the consequence, not the cause, of the development of AGI

where are the unidentified driving objects at

when can we upload our minds to the slutcloud