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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Sorry, is this an impromptu school exam or are you trying to go to bat for Rhodesia in some smart way? If you want to say something, just do it.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's not merely a budget thing though. When a state publicly approves and support violence perpetrated by another state, it automatically moves the poles of whats allowed in internal policy of said state. Germany is a vivid example in the current moment. That symbolic role is quite large.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Sure, it did. But I don't think people go out to protest or make moral cases of violence and oppression elsewhere for economic stats. That's a rather minor point.

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There is a very significant amount of effort, aid, help, legal and propaganda assistance that's always went into it from Western countries. Does to this day, which is why the direct comparison to Rhodesia stands up so well. So it's a pretty well grounded tendency.

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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

Even more difficult considering the wide class disparity: for some who turned to violence and/or radicalism it was clear since late 90s, for others (like Germans) the moment has passed unnoticed. Far easier to see clear breaks in so called hybrid regimes.

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

That is to say that it's very difficult to put a mark on the timeline of western societies at which they have passed a point of no return via mostly neo-liberal processes. Difficult to say when exactly the "vote for change" or "wave the flag for change" ceased to be meaningful.

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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

This is very much how it looks like from an ASD boat being rocked by a myriad digital ecologies vying for attention. But I often wonder if this is also familiar outside neurodiversity. And weirdly enough I've never known fandom about anything, even once.

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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

And not random people at that! What fomo does to a mfer!

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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

Or perhaps it's because it was written prior to the stampede around the topic in past two years. In any case, composiotionality of authorship is a rare topic, and despite slightly annoying form of mimicking "supercomputer", at least 2/3 of this is exceptional.

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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

I suppose it's a bit of hangover from fine arts for me where "interesting" is almost derogatory. More of a last line of defense than real motivation.

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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

That is layers and layers of contemporary crises seem to have made it clear there are whole disciplines that verge on pseudoscholarship. Maybe that was the ultimate goal of post colonial studies: to reveal how much out there hides the real world, instead of revealing.

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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

Was really hoping to buy some of it, but it was basically impossible to do it three different regions. It's like in Italy where they think food from a different region shouldn't be taken seriously. Potato salad tho can probably be recreated in the west, just not sure what kind of pickles they used.

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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

The beginning of the modern retelling of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

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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

An unexciting dystopia: all of the internet uploaded into the mind, each aesthetic experience a commercial product, a body dissolved into a thousand microservices, each a monetizable opportunity.

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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

This isn't to say it's somehow "designed" like this. But it is interesting that you can easily run into redditors on niche forums saying things like "imagine being concerned or offended by politics lmao" as if they were on a fox hunt in 19th century.

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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

It also seems like a global thing. News reports are almost always dumbing things down. Can't be due to the format - documentaries manage to squeeze a lot into short form. Perhaps this is a cultural tradition stemming from the political role.

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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 · 30/08/2025

Ok now I understand who exactly Meillassoux had in mind wrt hard correlationism

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Ale×ey @equalparallel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Have you seen this lol? Seems one step away but imho the real argument would be coming from "if corporations are people then why llms are not". longnow.org/ideas/life-i...

longnow.org

Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective

Artificial intelligence is simply the next chapter in the long-running symbiotic story of life on Earth.

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