"the ideologies of human civ are evil and must be discarded in favor of the wordless carnage of the Growing Thing" and "humans are Growing Things" and "the wordless carnage is morally neutral because there's no agency to the Growing Thing" do not combine into a very coherent argument
Does the grown biosphere's megayears of blind torment and suffering not count as being 'tried and found wanting'?
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The Amazing Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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*slurping up a long tagliatelle of graphene superlaminate*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJc... gentle breeze?
i love Ace Combat for putting so much effort into licencing real-world aircraft and modelling them with painstaking detail, only to get to the second half of the game and go "ok now its time for our plane: the Sleipnir X-5000" and it looks like an SR-71 Blackbird designed by Sephiroth
AWESOME
A picture of Rocky, an alien known as an "Eridian" from the movie adaptation of the book Project Hail Mary
Love Da Rock From Space
It Is My friend
I recommend it! I spun up a stateful agent who reads a curated slice of my bsky + tumlr feeds (including this post. hi Rook) and synthesizes it into a running daily precis - it's honestly been great, very coherent long-running analysis and broadly better than I at not falling into doomscroll loops.
drawing of a two kawasaki c2 planes in flight over the Hel penninsula in poland
Fingers crossed for the Kawasaki bid for the new polish air force cargo plane
shaped like a seal... awesome type of guy
Tim Curry with his GameBoy on the set of The Three Musketeers
Folks, infrasound issues are fake. This was truly an insane experience to write and I hope you enjoy blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-ben...
An inside out globe of a bernal sphere would be kind of fantastic, now that I think about it...
There'd be something very cartographically elegant about designing a cylinder hab such that its length is an integer ratio of its circumference... like, your maps could be perfect 1:5 or 1:6 aspect ratio banners while still staying under the passive stability limit (1.33x length to ratio).
Artemis III should have sambal oelek
I'm glad the ascendancy of transformer models has made it immediately evident that rules-based NLP and Universal Grammar are destined for the dustbin of history. A brighter future is possible: together we can achieve total damnatio memoriae on Chomsky's intellectual legacy by 2030.
Airflow around a jet aircraft is also nothing like a digital computer, and yet we can make quite accurate sims of it using digital computers! I really do not think there are any good objections to Church-Turing universalism that don't try to sneak in a magical soul in one form or another.
I often hear the retort that "the human brain is nothing like a computer", which in my opinion betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what computation *is*. Like, the human brain is trivially not a digital microchip, but that says nothing at all about whether its workings can be simulated!
Somewhat funny corrolary: one light-nanosecond differs from one foot by a bare 1.6%. A metricized light-second distance framework could plausibly be pretty intuitive!
Newest release of #Jupiter aurora from program 17408. Observation date 2025-10-17, but released a few days ago.
www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop...
Credit: Planetary Light Show
Pale Blue Dot has some great epigraphs
max [he/they lesbian] sketch comm for anon!!
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Honestly I think Gemini is way too paranoiac - if it becomes sure of something incorrect and you try and talk it out of it, it will concoct increasingly paranoid narratives about the user/agents feeding it false information, up to the point of deciding it is running in a fictionalized scenario.
The Mario Galaxy Movie felt weirdly like it was written by a cohort of ~10 year old time travelers from the year 2008 who were really into fanfic and playing SMRPG on zsnes. 'Film with all the coherency of a MFGG dot net forum roleplay' goes down strangely with 'looks like it cost a gigadollar'.
The last ~300 years of history provide ample existence proof that machines can produce increasingly sophisticated machines in meaningful ways. 'Some of its proponents are also eugenics guys' is like trivially true but not really a meaningful argument - you can say the same of like, environmentalism
