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idc if it's trite. i caught a glimpse of myself in this girl's letter from 30 years ago. we're all fictions

As she told me in one letter, "The only people i can connect with usually live miles away but that is okay. (They are so important to me) No one seems to be real around here and the only thing that is, is those letters I get." Cleo's feelings about what counts as "real" call into question the lines between lived experience, accounts of it, and fictions. Ironically, it appears to be her partly fictional persona that has enabled her to finally "meet" "real" people.

anosci @anosci.net · 14/10/2026

please forgive me for hooting and hollering but i think i would like to read this. whats that quote about god making grapes but not wine? (making a note for myself here. Benice L Hausman, Changing Sex: Transexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (1995))

Drawing extensively on autobiographical accounts of gender reassignment, Hausman attempts to examine the contradictory ways in which transsexuals are both forced to "proven their "real" or "authentic" gender and yet contest the very existence of "real" or "authentic" gender identity. She argues "The commonsense understanding of transsexualism as a 'disorder of gender identity' is a cover-up for the potentially more threatening idea that transsexuals are subjects who choose to engineer themselves." For example, Bornstein has written, "I am a transsexual by choice, not by pathology."

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anosci @anosci.net · 14/10/2026

oh.............. that's ai. ai corpos want ai to be a prescriptive tech soooo bad but they're marketing it as holistic. badly.

an excerpt from "Cyborg grrrls: new technologies, identities, and community in the production of 'zines" (1996) by Kate Eichhorn:
In The Real World of Technology, Franklin emphasizes the need to understand technologies as both historically and socially contingent, and thus, emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between "holistic" and "prescriptive" technologies. She argues that holistic technologies can be understood as those technologies which "leave the doer in total control of the process" while with prescriptive technologies "Each step is carried out by a separate worker, or group of workers, who need to be familiar only with the skills of that one step." In short, holistic technologies enable performing
the people using technologies to also make decisions about how and when to use any given technology. On the other hand, prescriptive
technologies work to limit such decision making. In fact, Franklin
argues that with prescriptive technologies the less capable workers
are of making decisions about when and how to use the technologies
the more efficiently these technologies tend to work. Prescriptive
technologies - and she argues that "Today's real world of technology
is characterized by the dominance of prescriptive technologies" -
are largely dependent on a "culture of compliance."

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anosci @anosci.net · 13/10/2026

im reading some stuff from Kate Eichhorn and she makes an excellent point here: the approach to any technology is going to be noticeably split between academic and personal use. (academic use itself being a pipeline for industrial / "job" use) the former is far more visible, but less interesting.

an excerpt from "Cyborg grrrls: new technologies, identities, and community in the production of 'zines" (1996) by Kate Eichhorn:
For example, studies on gender and technology typically take place within the school system and tend to focus on whether or why girls and young women are under-represented in science and computer related courses, why they are more likely to drop out of science and computer related courses and/or programs, or how they "cope" in these traditionally male-dominated fields of study. In other words, these studies have typically focused on "victims" and
"failures."

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anosci @anosci.net · 13/10/2026

septabee is rly fun!!! here's a little compilation of nonsense ive been up to #septabee

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anosci @anosci.net · 13/10/2026

that's quite a comparison. but i mean... tru tho. sure

an excerpt from "Panic computing: The viral metaphor and
computer technology" (Deborah Lupton, 1994), which reads as follows:
'Panic Computing' invokes '[t]he underlying moral imperative ... You can't trust your best friend's software any more than you can trust his or her bodily fluids - safe software or no software at all!' (Ross, 1991: 108). The insertion of an 'infected' disk, that is a 'carrier' of corruption, spells disaster for the integrity of the computer corpus. Just as people are exhorted to grill their sexual partners for details of their past intimate lives, so as to be 'sure and safe' before proceeding to exchange bodily fluids, so they are warned to verify the source and safety of the computer disks they insert into their PCs.

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anosci @anosci.net · 09/10/2026

this is what im talking about. from 1993! we are facets

Anthropological accounts of ritual often focus on the body as the zone of inscription for ritual activity. The authentic, subjective, and singular self is located within the physical body, and an externalised, public, collective self is inscribed on the body as the "social skin" (Turner 1980; Douglas 1966). In Farside, by contrast, the physical body becomes an incidental referent in the construction of multiple selves; it is "forgotten" -- systematically deconstructed through the fusing of the hacker body with electronically constructed selves. The person becomes a network of related but disparate personalities, only some of which are located within the physical skin.
In conversations with MUDders, I often encountered an idealization of the virtual persona as more authentic than the selves bounded by the physical body. A lord of Farside once told me: "My physical appearance isn't good. But here I am my personality. People meet it before they meet the physical me" (Farside 3/2/93). The "physical me" is contrasted with "it," "my personality." This consciousness of identity is profoundly pluralistic; multiple selves construct the identity of the person.
from Cybernetic Fantasies: Extended Selfhood in a Virtual Community by Mimi Ito

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anosci @anosci.net · 11/09/2026

for some reason, almost every post about septabee is either "look at this crazy thing" or "i cant figure it out" well let me be the one to tell you: it's actually REALLY GOOD. and really fun!! you can just. go forth and make insane things.

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anosci @anosci.net · 28/08/2026

i cba to record the sound but if you want to compare, dial your oscilators like this in synth1. everyone has synth1 right? (also play with the p/w while youre there. it's a cool sound)

a cool synth1 patch that you should copy

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anosci @anosci.net · 28/08/2026

i actually realized that if i just replace the operator with a saw wave instead off a triangle or saw wave, then you get the "position modulation" waveform i was hypothesizing. it looks like this. (same as -1 oct square wave FM, and -1 oct triangle PM)

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anosci @anosci.net · 28/08/2026

postulating. position, phase, frequency... what would a fourth order be? untenable probably, but still. hmm

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anosci @anosci.net · 16/08/2026

"yeah we support vibe coding." the vibe we're coding:

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anosci @anosci.net · 06/08/2026

sometimes i know it's just nostalgic, because objectively it's kind of a mess. but i love the look of these washed out photoshop-glowing-text anime girl album art banners. this one is from 2002. look at it.

extremely washed out and blue pic of a pensive anime girl in a breeze, with a ton of overlayed text describing a netlabel (circa 2002)

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anosci @anosci.net · 17/07/2026

me: hey guys chekc out my album i made :) youtube algo: boooo! jeer! we hate your guts

Your channel subscribers are showing less interest in watching this video

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anosci @anosci.net · 01/07/2026

yknow i could rewrite this to remove the comma. remember syntax trees? i bet there's a website that automatically generates those... oh god there is. look at this

syntax tree for the sentence "I feel a deep sense of disgust every time i hear someone mention children in any political context because children are only ever seen as pawns to control and the people that want that the most are the people I trust the least."

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anosci @anosci.net · 23/06/2026

the music seemed a little off-key so i fixed it real quick

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anosci @anosci.net · 31/05/2026

HUH. WHAT IS THIS!!!!! what possible purpose could you have for marking an entire account adult-only (EVEN TEXT POSTS) when we already had a system to mark individual posts as adult-only

a text-only post from Jay Axer, who has been afflicted by an account-wide "Adult Content" label

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anosci @anosci.net · 28/05/2026

well it's very simple:

a diagram showing a cat picture pointing to a CNN kernel diagram, a backpropagation diagram, a CNN diagram, a GAN diagram, and then a slightly blurred picture of the same cat

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anosci @anosci.net · 23/05/2026

the local discord channel when there's a storm over the city

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anosci @anosci.net · 23/05/2026

1000th use of the phrase, spotted in 2006

"To say it for the thousandth time: We’ve come a long way from bleeps and bloops, but we have a long way to go." from Mix Magazine, October 2006

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anosci @anosci.net · 23/05/2026

variation on the evergreen (2005)

"Those beeps and boops of yesteryear's arcade games", an excerpt from Game Developer's Magazine, March 2005

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anosci @anosci.net · 22/05/2026

evergreen phrase (2002 edition)

excerpt from Hyper magazine #107 that reads: "The bleeps and bops of the NES days are long gone,"

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anosci @anosci.net · 22/05/2026

well that's just not correct. but it's really close. if i saw that in a youtube video i'd sigh and think "this guy needs another research pass" but within the context of a 2002 magazine, that slight misinfo tickles my brain in a certain way. very curious

text from Hyper magazine issue 107 that reads: "Yet the Super Mario theme, for all its brilliance, was composed and played with hardware insanely primitive by today’s standards. The sound chip for the NES was about as simplistic as they come: it could produce one noise, one sine and two pulse-wave voices,"

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anosci @anosci.net · 25/03/2026

i think ppl are becoming more familiar with the look of vibecoded web apps but let's take a moment to celebrate the look of human coded web apps, like this one that i made

3 badly sized text areas and two buttons, one labeled "go" and one labeled "generate". all aligned left on an otherwise blank page. one of the text areas contains the string "the quick brown fox jumped over the".

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anosci @anosci.net · 23/03/2026

ok i gotta hand it to bsky for some pretty high quality hatemail game here

a bluesky notification that I have been followed by Dr Jordan B Peterson (a new account with 8 followers)

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anosci @anosci.net · 06/03/2026

idk how cute we're talkin but i do have a furry sona.

anosci's fursona standing by a janky fire, holding a wine glass and waving to the viewer

anosci's fursona explaining something into the mic on his stream desk

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anosci @anosci.net · 03/03/2026

I've done something like this! though only with audio on a small model i built. the limitations with the model start to appear and you don't get a 1:1 start to finish copy but you do get a janky recreation. a video version would be incredibly funny to see.

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anosci @anosci.net · 27/02/2026

unfathomable machinations twist and turn in my mind. (i wanted to document that this tweet started out as me lovingly thinking about my wife)

the "brain to words" meme with the following progression:
"i love my wife" -> ??? -> QRT'd "conjunction analysis"

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anosci @anosci.net · 16/02/2026

hmmm idk. ai is, more than anything, a black hole of "disambiguation needed".

chickenscratch diagram made in ms paint, badly

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anosci @anosci.net · 09/01/2026

FINALLY someone understands my video

a youtube comment that reads as follows: Music makes you gay

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anosci @anosci.net · 05/01/2026

...i just don't think that's true

a RYM search for the Top Library Music albums between 1980 and 1999, with the top result being "To Pimp a Butterfly" by Kendrick Lamar, followed by "OK Computer" by Radiohead

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anosci @anosci.net · 03/12/2025

do Mike Mulkay, Nancy K. Baym, et al realize that their academic papers about humor are themselves incredibly funny? this phrasing is killing me

an excerpt of text from "The Performance of Humor in Computer-Mediated Communication" by Nancy K. Baym that is citing "On Humor: Its Nature and Its Place in Modern Society" by Mike Mulkay, which reads as follows:
Furthermore, humor cues can be incorporated within the humor itself. Mulkay argues that an interpretive reversal may be cue enough to "generate the terminal response required by humor -- namely laughs and smiles" (1988, p. 54)

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anosci @anosci.net · 15/11/2025

thanks for tuning in, everyone <3

anosci's twitch stream setup with the giant text "STREAM OVER". several emojis are scattered around the set.

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anosci @anosci.net · 12/11/2025

hey!! I'm having a birthday stream in 2 days and I want to invite you to check it out! the details are a little fuzzy but i plan to stream roughly all nite

big flash text announcement that reads as follows: tune into my birthday stream! November 14th, around 5pm NYC time, for as long as I can last. watch me make a song! twitch.tv/anosci

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anosci @anosci.net · 12/10/2025

but also this excerpt goes hard: Gender becomes a verb. again, from 1997.

an excerpt from Shannon McRae's 1997 essay "Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text, and The Virtual Body" which reads as follows:
If boys can be girls and straights can be queers and dykes can be fags and two lesbian lovers can turn out to both be men in real life, then "straight" or "queer," "male" or "female" become unreliable as markers of identity.
It is not so much that gender roles or sexual preferences actually change as that cross-gender role play troubles the link between gender and desire, from which we, usually unquestioningly, construct our identities as sexual beings.
Gender becomes a verb, not a noun, a position to occupy rather than a fixed role.
In many cases, gender becomes the effect that one individual can have upon another.

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anosci @anosci.net · 10/10/2025

story: I had a collection of some mangled renditions of SMB 1-1 BGM that id been making just because they're funny. generating some janky ai marios for the album art crossed my mind but didn't feel right, even 4 years ago. so i drew the worst mario i could. that decision feels better every day.

a very bad drawing of Mario with the text "uhhh..... OF COURSE i remember how mario goes, its definitely exactly... um. or like. hmm... ok. hold on. thinking emoji." in the style of the classic black box NES artwork

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anosci @anosci.net · 21/09/2025

any bluesky experts have some idea why bsky doesnt think my domain exists?

screenshot of a 400 return code from https://boletus.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle?handle=anosci.net

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anosci @anosci.net · 06/08/2025

this is the song btw. a journey through the triangle of thirds

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anosci @anosci.net · 06/08/2025

i was trying to explain a song idea to my wife and she replied with "it's amazing that you have control of all the voices in your head" and im staring at my diagrams like hmm maybe this does sound a little crazy

four sequential Circle of Fifths that have all been labeled with esoteric scrawlings

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anosci @anosci.net · 24/07/2025

it's funny to me that the *first* image on the K-T extinction page is the asteroid hitting the earth, instead of a pic of the crater. like. "we're talking about THE EVENT here". so dramatic!!

a screenshot of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event page on Wikipedia

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anosci @anosci.net · 17/07/2025

ok so i think i finally have an answer to what funny furry little guy survived the k-t boundary and brought us to today: protungulatum donnae. this guy

artist's depiction of a Protungulatum donnae, by Graham Berry

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