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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

On the other hand if western democracy is mainly constituted by inherited monetary wealth and that of social institutions, it's easy to see how it becomes naturalized in some minds, and appears as a sort of inherent cultural difference. Which is awful.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Were I some kind of scholar, I'd write that democracy isn't a heritable on/off switch but a spectrum constituted by social institutions which are easily eroded, monetized, privatized, etc to a point where civil, peaceful responses are addressing non-existent societies.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

And this would probably be my angle about theory of what is a video game.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

One of the actual highlights in this awful year was learning that hyperfocus is less about focus and more about inability to extricate oneself from a particular narrow mental and ethical ecology. It's like as if someone else always sets your clock.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

On a completely serious note when sculptor Richard Serra said "work comes out of work" he was talking about RLHF to yourself on your own work. Pretty much every photographer does it as well.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Let us all remember that for a few years a massive amount of people believed predict-next-token-machine will predict next unknown in science as if it was a token. As if nature, science and language are one single thing and truth is like getting three cherries in a slot machine.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I understand why thinkers of all kinds prefer to forget about the difference between the pure and the applied maths particularly in relation to physics, but it makes a lot of philosophy of math related conversations sound like a game of marbles.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov was one of the most interesting reads around the topic of AI for me this year. Partly because it's built around questions of authorship not cheapened by the usual sensationalism and commercial religion, but around practicing poetry.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Part of me gets frustrated that philosophy that gets public attention is guided less by necessity and more by what's interesting. Then again it's hard to find a personal vector that's more versatile in all sorts of human pursuits aside from pleasure and profit.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Something comical about the number of people, especially writers, who believe writing is competitive. Comical because literary fiction has been a kind of business of existential truth searching, rummaging in the words, and yet it's practicioners rarely find this instead.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Looking through the piles of nonfiction I've planned on reading in past years and finding that so much of this stuff seems meaningless in the present. Liberalism truly an interregnum and so much written in it's ethical mode is basically wishful thinking.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Guy who learns more about math just to find out what the aesthetic experiences of different maths are like.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

On top of the great wall northeast of Beijing, a selection of tourist stereotypes: shy young russian couple quizzed by an Aussie about war, Americans discussing their bonuses while hiking, and a pair of young Germans filming themselves tearing off FUCK AFD stickers.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Mass use of genml in daily and professional lives seems like a social experiment to find a tolerable degree of noise injection into individual and social lives. And as with noise attack in charts, maybe it could bring clarity and make important things stand out against noise?

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Thinking of the optimism of past scifi and cyberpunk dystopias, of so called transhumanism seeing a future in which minds find a different form of life by being uploaded online, singularity etc. And the offer of our reality being uploading the online into the mind.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It's a funny coincidence that both "we're eating good" and "slop" have become widely used online lingo terms at roughly the same time.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So, are we going to see some real real innovation in gov bailout of the biggest financial pyramid ever? I wonder how often this sort of thing happened before.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A highly speculative theory I've got is that Reddit (rabid hobbyism) was born centuries ago within the ranks of British aristocracy to channel need for political freedoms into harmless (sic) hobbies. Post-war, this became the trajectory for masses and valid up till today.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Came back here to say that my optimistic theory is that the world has not descended into night completely yet and we have time until the ai bubble bursting, which will be like a friendly tap on the shoulder to global fascists already or close to being in power.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A strange thing I've discovered recently is the incredible amount of Japanese youtubers either don't speak at all or use text-to-speech on their videos. Subtitles only approach is somehow soothing, while the robotic voices and anime avatars are uncanny.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Ever since childhood, I wondered why exactly TV journalism is of such terrible quality that you could probably get more information from a tabloid op-ed column. Tv news formats seem to rely entirely on the authority of their voice.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It's truly baffling that the greatness of all religions rests upon human craftsmanship of aesthetic objects, the effects of which have been coopted for so long. Truly the best thing to happen to fine arts is that divorce from sacral.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Someone should write about rise of rent-seeking jobs in a rent-seeking social formation as all sorts of labor gets squeezed further by rent-seeking. So influencers, podcasters and other grifter professions are seen as the most prospective career options by younger generations.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Only recently dawned on me that cultural objects do not submit to exhaustive monotonic explanations of their value, role or function. You can't really say "this object is made of this many gramms of expensive materials, therefore" and expect it to explain it's cultural value.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"How do you know this?" is such a fun question: it either unlocks a whole area of philosophy and solves many problems OR it's a question so annoying it will end friendships and relationships.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Often wonder if there was a time when daily experiences in different languages felt differently - due to being built up from different cultural artifacts. But I guess no one would be able to compare different phenomenologies.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Nice diagram by Rescher from his book on Philosophical Dialectic

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Depressed to report that the only really original philosopher of ASD I know turned out to be an IQ peddling crank.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Realistically speaking, I think there are investment people out there reading up on the polycrisis just now and thinking "that's the way forward".

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Nations, peoples, races, genders and religions are obviously fake but repression based on these invented categories is real and this violence is what makes these categories concrete.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A deeply annoying aspect of all artistic work is no matter how much stuff you make, write or perform, you're always flying blind. You never know what is for sure the right direction, nor do you know what people really think about your work. Total leap of faith stuff.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Knausgaard essay surprisingly hits on many interesting points regarding enchantment of the world relation to aesthetics and cognitive development. Unsurprisingly doesn't expand on either, taking them as just good literary bits. And the Bridle interview and ending are really meh.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

As a distraction from descent into madness, been reading up parts of the current story where one programmer has been acting out a strange dance of first pretending to contribute to a massively popular and important FOSS Linux component (Xorg display server) via largely meaningless but buggy

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It might be entirely post hoc on my part, but the idea of the theory-free immediate knowledge of authorial intent connects to Griffith’s theory of palingenetic ultranationalism—pre-theoretically knowing the hidden historical structure of Our Lost Heritage (also the Protestant doctrine of meaning)

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Wrote 4k words on faith in a disenchanted world. On what faith means to me in the impossibility of theism. Where I'd go when there is nowhere left to turn. Don't know if this is philosophy exactly. Just thinking out loud about things I've never really thought about. equalparallel.com/void-cloud-l...

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The most moral thing to say and do right now would probably be illegal.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I might say bad things about Adam Curtis.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Interesting, if perhaps excessively optimistic text. Can't quite tecall much writing in the area of philosophy of CLI! Maybe just adjacent in Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line". echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/prom...

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Every time I listen to a conversation with Ray Brassier, I get a strong desire to read and write philosophy. To pick the thickest, most challenging book. To write things in the most urgent, serious manner.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Social contract theories are probably some of the worst and most naive (and class specific!) ways to read history one can find in philosophy. Truly bottom shelf stuff from the supermarket of ideas.

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