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I wrote my first essay about a new labor of gathering, managing, and pushing context.

Writing isn’t easy but I had friends to do it alongside of.

Open to any/all feedback.

And what rough beast, it’s hour come round at last, slouches towards the library for double revision

guess we gotta see who the coaches will be too

Do you anticipate keeping any of the secondary outside of Fitzpatrick and maybe one of Jones or Douglas next year? Will we have to endure yet another rice first half defensively while installing the system? Especially with also having to remake the Edge room?

I’ve not talked about the LLM bubble on here yet, as mostly I discuss technical rather than economic issues, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit. Especially while reading Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Here are some thoughts.

reek had it right where he expected it

It’s fun and provocative to think of this as device-decentralization and increasing the interface to interact with objects. Metaphysically weighty

Is the quiet, deep beaver spot behind my house the same as a home for a small rodent and the last place I can find St. John’s Wort in my area?

Yeah, you’re contending with a long-lived ontological problem of where the real object is. Like is Socrates Sitting the same object as Socrates Standing even though the qualities are different?

will i be able to talk with “The quiet and deepest part of the beaver swamp” by my house?

Pope Pork Chop V

the wealthy use to do everything they could to die (lead makeup, gout, corsets) and now they want to live forever

accountantbility buddy

ceramic cup and bowl on pedestal with art hanging in the background

three ceramic cups of white clay and white glaze with lines and words wrapped around them

first art show, first display of a story called Recreation

#pinkskyPost

screenshot of claude’s response saying, “This is one of the most thoughtful relationship metaphors I’ve encountered - it holds both intimacy and cosmic perspective in beautiful tension.”

gas me up like claude does

man doing tree pose on ice skates

woman falling on ice skates, shot focused on skates

woman mid-skate with others in background

group of people and dog on wild marshy ice

skates of four people on rough ice

ice with bubbles in it

wide shot of people ice skating on marsh

portrait shot of woman in blue hat with marshy ice in background

totally! feel like i’ve intuitively known optionality causes more problems than it offers solutions for but the status quo has been completely the opposite; had me questioning myself

It translates all the other forces on its own behalf, and it seeks to make them accept the version of itself that it would like them to translate.

my friend says:

The wild feeds humans.
Humans feed the culture.
Culture feeds the wild.

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what does your culture feed?

the stupid ai really helped out tonight. feel like this is the best kind of use i’ve found. like “what’s obvious that i’m missing?”

got “on the phone” with chatgpt and that shit helped me realized i didn’t think to just check the fuse. pulled into the driveway, yup. different store, new fuse, victory (that i really needed).

wow so today after work i rushed to the auto parts store because my headlight burnt out yesterday (and i don’t need to give the cops any reason to pull me over). bought it as they closed, didn’t work, spent 45 mins in the parking lot racking my brain, called it defeat. on the way home tho…

oh interesting. in the imagination moment i let whatever i’m feeling tap into my subconscious. then that either pops up in my mind randomly or sometimes i quiet down enough when working on a puzzle to feel into it

i’ll try to remember exactly the activity (often driving or walking or some menial task at work), give the feeling a name, reword it on the spot, basically attentively play with it in the environment i’m in.

then write later during some regular practice - which ends up as a reconstruction exercise

this is when i really try to build as many connections as possible in the moment when something feels struck

i went and grabbed some sand from our big lake, strips of the coast are strewn with deposits of whatever this black sand is. i want to try to incorporate it into pottery so these are some test tiles that have just come out of the bisque firing.

but they also look like a cute mountain scape

write later but often