Shadows of Ourselves Thievery Corporation · Mirror Conspiracy · Song · 2000

‘Coeur Mécanique, où sont tes piles? Perdu dans un monde tout étranger. Pourquoi tous ces mensonges? On n’a plus le droit de se renfermer. Je n’ai pas le temps de perdre la tête, pour nous sauver de nous-mêmes. Quelle est cette ivresse qui nous entraîne?’ #musicsky

Yarım ölçekli bir delta ovasında dolaşan kuramsallaşmış cilalı buzdolabı devri ornitorengi gibiyim; durumsuz vadiye gitsem şaşırtıcı renkler yok, aylar öncesindeki kıvrımlı dağlara çıksam yeşil erikli kurabiye yok, yönergesel mağaraya insem varoluşçu zürafalar yok.

Hüseyin Güngör - claude-introspection-activation-strength What does the strength of feature-activation in introspection mean for Claude? A recent blog post and a corresponding paper by Anthropic reports that Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 at times display introspecti...

This is my friend @hgungor.bsky.social's blog on the pragmatics of AI introspection. TIL that we are to yell at our LLM's to make them bamboozle and trigger a use, or whisper gently to them for profound introspection and trigger a mention. #langsky #compling

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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Churning, Forging, Noodling, Spelunking, Deciphering, Cooking, Wandering, Considering, Brewing, Pontificating, Herding, Calculating, Working, Inferring, Computing, Puttering, Accomplishing, Crafting, Smooshing, Actioning, Manifesting, Contemplating.

4/4

Actualizing, Jiving, Thinking, Enchanting, Mustering, Germinating, Concocting, Spinning, Reticulating, Channelling, Effecting, Incubating, Percolating, Stewing, Honking, Conjuring, Unravelling, Hustling, Determining, Schlepping, Shucking, Finagling, Pondering, Clauding, Processing, Whirring...

3/4

Combobulating, Doing, Creating, Musing, Wizarding, Frolicking, Crunching, Cogitating, Baking, Synthesizing, Discombobulating, Elucidating, Unfurling, Tinkering, Philosophising, Perusing, Forming, Deliberating, Ideating, Scheming, Simmering, Divining, Shimmying, Imagining, Sussing, Wibbling...

2/4

Here's a comprehensive list of the processing words displayed by Claude Code CLI while it works on your requests: 🧵

Flibbertigibbeting, Puzzling, Wrangling, Envisioning, Generating, Marinating, Ruminating, Cerebrating, Coalescing, Mulling, Booping, Hatching, Vibing, Meandering, Moseying...

1/4

I’m very stoked to hear the new @puscifermusic.bsky.social album soon and see them live in Chicago in April. 🤘

Therapists: Turkic programming languages aren't real, they can't hurt you.

Turkic programming language:

In a world where our identities are shaped by warped relationships to ideologies, brands, commerce, trends, and fashion – we are all Waluigi's."

He is not his own man. His existence is the triumph of capitol over creativity; he has no reason to exist beyond adding a simulacrum of novelty to a declining commodity. He is the committee designed end point of a franchise alienated from ideas of play.

Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing.

The same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others.

"Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi.🧵

obsequious adjective an obsequious manservant welcomed them. SERVILE, ingratiating, unctuous,

when the word that you don’t know is desribed by three more words you don’t know

Altın Gün - Oğlan YouTube video by Thara Ak-Var

A Gagauz folk song:
Oğlan oğlan kalk gidelim. Granitza'nın boyunda koyun güdelim. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban. Oğlanın evi sarı samandan. Ona yaklaşamıcam tozdan dumandan. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban. Oğlan oğlan, boynuma dolan. Şu elinlen saçından bana yap yorgan. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban.

I love that /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ kind of rhyme for those who have undergone the cot–caught merger, such as Californian Zack de la Rocha

The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "strudel" in Hebrew, "dog" in Russian and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes back thousands of years.

In Taiwanese, @ is "little mouse" (小老鼠 (xiǎo lǎoshǔ). It's "dog" (собака/sobaka) in Russian, "strudel" (שְׁטְרוּדֶל/shtrúdel) in Hebrew, "monkey's tail" (apestaart) in Dutch, "duckling" (παπάκι/papaki) in Greek, and "snail" escargot in French. The @ sign is a mirror of history going back 1000's of years.

Of, street view koymamışlar trafoya ._. maps.app.goo.gl/Lqd2bVe38erk...

Tamam geliyorum. İş güç sahibi de oldum şimdi bilet alıp gezebilen bir insana dönüştüm. Gelip kan veririm sonra da ayak başparmaklarımızla iki buçuk tane falan çiğ köfte yaparız.

Ben. :3

This is the evilest thing I've read for a long time.

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing.

We need a Star Trek episode about how the invention of the universal translator caused people to stop valuing actually learning languages, while they fatally overestimated the UT's accuracy and the resulting misunderstandings led to a massive war that tore the quadrant apart

Channeling my best David Attenborough to introduce one of the many wonderful items in our #Treasured exhibition, currently running until 26 October in the ST Lee Gallery of the Weston Library in #Oxford. Come visit to see this manuscript and more!

‎Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Unabridged) ‎Languages · 2025

📚 New read: Algospeak is the study of language evolution through content moderation algorithms. Great for anyone tinkering with linguistics & data. Re: lexical innovation through algorithmic rules, phonemic substitution patterns, and corpora analysis of viral propagation via a sociolinguistic lens.