Wherever *I* get my podcasts? I get them from a mossy glade where the Forest Spirit roams, like everyone else

If you're doing 50 of anything in a month (in this case reading papers) when it would previously have taken a year, it's essential to interrogate whether or not these are still qualitatively the same activity.

They might be! It's in no way guaranteed.

A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

underbelly vibes

"hey lads bet you've not thought of this" <posts central question in philosophy that has been studied for thousands of years>

even "distraction" understates it, I feel

it's not simply that it becomes harder to evaluate the core idea, it can even become impossible to identify it at all

we perceive through difference / hierarchy and being *told* what to focus on only goes so far vs base perception

g-d save me from the demonstrable impact that could ever be titled "where things stand with the department of war"

couldn't believe my eyes

excited to see this classic return on the butterfly website

Adjacent to the previous post: the chatting with recruiters app being the same as the aspiring consultants browbeating groupthink app is similarly draining.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

LIFT ing the moratorium for those sick green GAIN s

'cos it's mega ultra sic

an llm couldn't write this

this game feels like childhood

💕 @utaw.tech 💕

Are you familiar with Pip Decks? They function in approximately this space for me, granted they're lower variety.

Also came across Intuiti cards recently (which are explicitly tarot-adjacent) but my second hand pack is still in the post, so nothing to report as yet.

I've been stress testing this analogy with a friend for a lil while (re: divination more broadly) and I think there's a lot of mileage in it.

The kicker being that I picked up a cheap tarot deck to get familiar with it.

The entire f'n thing (booklet and all) was LLM/diffusion generated.

I'm reading a bunch of variously historical texts recently and it's striking in the current information climate how much care is taken over the provenance of particular manuscripts and translations and what a necessary – and increasingly discarded – part of knowledge production that is

"my agents are producing software solutions at such an unprecedented rate that I worry we are existentially changing our relationship to production" ok? im producing fond memories with my cherished friends every day but your thing sounds cool too.

(it's low because it's fuckin' spenny and I try to buy it en masse elsewhere when it's on offer)

fight me x

Weird day in the High Court, huh?

which scotland are they living in !

even the ideas that have come from inside the house are clone stamped until fully divorced from any of the original motivation

this fundamental lack of curiosity - or even oblivion to the possibility of curiosity - has been one of the most stressful parts of my engineering career to date.

seeing people afford courtesies to computers that they aren't affording each other is, in the most literal sense, maddening

a baseline acceptance of good intentions is (mostly) fine when it comes to design patterns and saas providers.

it is not fine in matters of de/humanisation.

there's certainly *an* element of "I saw epistemic justice in a dive bar before the label signed them" there, but it goes beyond that.

it's imported questions into the workplace whose assumptions are so completely taboo to challenge because they touch on philosophical or even spiritual concerns.

I've struggled immensely over the past several years with the way that seemingly innocent conversations around automation have invited people to sidestep fundamental questions of being and knowing in a way that I've felt genuinely crazy bringing up in professional settings