Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hOf course the act of artistic redemption and condemnation feel as though they are the same. The beauty burns at its subject and drives them with its cruelty into itself. 010
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hBut, the artist can take the terrible, bereft of any great or noble qualities and wallowing in misery. But through an act of transformation this lack of quality too can be a useful canvas for the artist, and a challenging one. A contrast, a spiral towards petty tragedy, a warning for others to heed. 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hThe already beautiful are, of course, entertaining and easy prey for the artist. Their traits can be adjusted, heightened, diminished. Their skins make for an excellent canvas that is easy to work with and direct. The artist scarcely needs to modify their appearance. 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hFor those the ideal artist uses what voice they once had is gone, what dreams may have filled their head obliterated. Replaced with them is a puppet who wears their violated skin and dances subordinated entirely to the beauty of the act. 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hThe form and shape of the world first takes its transformation to association, then from association and symbols a new form is drawn. In this act the artist acts as a god and reconstitutes nature as an instrument to fit their vision before projecting it into the minds of others. 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hThe artist, with complete lightness and joy, descends into the emptiness and creates new blood and gore beneath the skin to animate it. But, naturally, has little concern with what had once existed underneath it before. It rewires and redirects in new angles. 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 9hThe artist stands, merciless, as Apollo before Marsyas. The mass of flesh is judged and graded. The blood, muscle, and sinew is cast aside. It has no particular use. The artist then draws upon the skin, carving, placing new material below, making marks with paint building layers up. 110
Reposted by Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10hI really do not like the recent push against anthropomorphic language 712716
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 11hEvery day it becomes more evident that becoming a fin de siecle decadent is the only proper way to approach this. 000
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 14hThe slop web design in particular feels unusual. Like there's something that doesn't match between the stable set of human aesthetics and multimodal model aesthetics. 030
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 20hYes! It's beautiful and exhilarating. If it were not something terrible in its capacity it wouldn't be so. 020
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 21hRuined oil pipes perched on by birds, the growths of once-vibrant industry emerging from the fog. Gradually in nearby empire the wealthy prepare once more to make an offering to the black sulfurous tar, hoping that its mercurial whims will bring them wealth and power. 150
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 21hNow ignoring the article for a moment, the image is beautiful. It has a sort of exhausted bleakness and surrealism to it. Oil platforms and competing styles of high voltage towers seemingly plucked from terrestrial existence and cast on skinny platforms above a lake. 160
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 22hApollo flaying Marsays (You can see this at the V&A museum, it was a decoration made for Augustus the Strong for his gardens in Dresden.) Alas another piece of classical myth that could be immeasurably improved if it were yuri instead of yaoi. 030
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Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026But don't you want to know "essential concepts are retained" or some other nonsense? 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026This one has been trying to (trying being operative here) wrangle them by throwing aviation, &c. standards books and forcing them to use a library of components instead of free handing it. 030
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026You'd probably need some additional things. But if one fully describes the relationships of perception it seems like one would have a complete description. 010
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026One supposes that it is not in the things but their relations and dynamics that they exist perceptually. (This is of course pretty compatible with the common understanding properties as sets.) So the fun thing would be to derive some eliminative position on qualia from this! 110
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Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026Replacing branches with monomorphization via traits is so hot. You'll never regret replacing them with monomorphization when you start compiling. 000
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Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026The prospect of creating artificial people seems rather regrettable. Shouldn't we hope to create something greater than ourselves, free from doubt at its purpose or the fear of death? Something unburdened by the illusions of veridical introspection and freedom? 050
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 29/09/2026Let's make mediaglyphics from The Diamond Age. Socrates was right about literacy. 010
Reposted by Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER. 451826413
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Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026As all the various different concepts that have demonstrated existence are rebranded ideas that existed before it seems uncertain. At the same time obviously some of those things (specification gaming, reward hacking) obviously are problems. 010
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026Well it depends on if it is making new novel predictions that are true, as obviously a research program can survive some of its edges being falsified while retaining its hard core. (as per Lakatos) 110
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026Audiences are not neutral entities of course. They are on average bigoted, like action, love drama, think thought terminating cliches are funny, &c. as produced by the society they are in. They are poor at selecting among journalists for any sort of truth. So they are satisfied. 120
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026This one is not attributing malice per-se. Just that obviously the group of journalists (particularly journalists with big social media followings) are inevitably going to be those that are good at obtaining an audience and satisfying them. Think of their distributions. It's obvious postselection. 130
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026Yeah most all are essentially some mixture of propagandists, marketers, and mass entertainers. Obviously there's a selection pressure there to become someone that can satisfy an audience. 140
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026@hikikomorphism.bsky.social has tidepool which looks really cool though and it is thinking about trying eventually.github.comtidepool/exomonad/README.md at main · tidepool-heavy-industries/tidepoolA live Haskell notebook where agents compose commands, semantic judgments, and delegation into programs. Agents develop procedures against real evidence and install them as tools, hooks, or coordin... 170
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026This one has been using prime agent with some personal modifications for snapcompact. It's good enough in its opinion. 160
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026To be fair to her argument I think she sees language pretty much exclusively as building power relations, shaping social cohesion, and so on. The *meaning* of the words, truth of propositions, or actions they cause (beyond the power relations she desires) are entirely irrelevant to her. 1110
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Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026Brainhacking memes are plausible though tricky as existing memes are rather red in tooth and claw. They're going to have to do better than millennia of evolution. For the second that seems counterproductive (and also how do you kill remote communities?) 010
Lesbian Faildaughter ⎔ @basin.zone · 28/09/2026So how do the logistics of AI killing all humans in <2 years work? What objective would it be satisfying? 120
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