Reposted by jackie essjackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I see. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E361...youtube.comWhy consciousness is software, and software is spirit | Joscha Bach | FULL INTERVIEWYouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas 171
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I seem to speak up more on the bad days, and against that tendency let me just say that this is one of the good ones. The last month was one of the lowest and most difficult I’ve had in a long time but it has actually let up. You truly never know when mercy will arrive or where from 0250
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026is this ai proof of the Komlós conjecture solid, do we think? fair play to the clanker if so arxiv.org/abs/2609.11189arxiv.orgVector Balancing via Directional Total VariationOur main result is a $3\sqrt{2π}$ bound for the Komlós signing problem: every finite family of real vectors of Euclidean norm at most one admits a signed sum of $\ell_\infty$-norm less than this const... 020
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026absolutely incredible that this exists. I love Flora Purim, had no idea there was anything recorded in this period 192
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026antisemitic and transphobic brainworms seem to be synergistic, can think of many other examples of this, with different initial political trajectories, through marxism, green politics, anarchism, free software ideology, esotericism. I think the common mechanism is a breakdown of epistemic trust 1240
Reposted by jackie essOld Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026in 1627 someone published a text called 'Woe to Drunkards' with an honest to goodness Chad knight vs. Virgin fop meme 1814228
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026hit a frightening PR in the bulgarian split squat yesterday 45kg for a set of 4, then a set of 5, then a set of 3. previous PR was 30kg for ten. and you know what? it helped. the sun is out and life is turning a corner 2120
Reposted by jackie esssteph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026a year ago today: I performed an hour of music — some traditional, some original — on philly's WKDU youtu.be/WD7N0Y68qsc?...youtu.beSteph Jacqlin on WKDU — Sept 10 2025YouTube video by Steph Jacqlin 0143
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026thank you, brad www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Rv...youtube.comBrad Mehldau - Fourteen Reveries: 1 (Scrolling Score)YouTube video by Brad Mehldau 031
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026what the fuck chrisweisman.bandcamp.com/track/when-y...chrisweisman.bandcamp.comwhen you and me got arrested, by Chris Weismanfrom the album Maya Properties 040
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Home, the hospital, ambition, a town over. I wish you’d tried everything twice, and me a third and a fourth time. You were trying. 1110
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I find it rather interesting that memory of the DDR or of the immediate period of unification doesn't seem to be reflected in voting preferences. when the wall came down, the current 45-59 group were kids or young adults, and the 60-69 group were in their late twenties or early thirties. 161
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026man. RIP Rubén Rada. no one like him ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxfU...youtube.comRúben Rada - Ómnibus (1982)YouTube video by UruMusica Achivo 150
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026need to see this letterboxd.com/film/operati...letterboxd.comOperation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (1948)A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War. 0121
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026this is not something that a decent person would suggest 0131
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026thought about the kind of conversation I would like to see happening, and how I might facilitate that, and then remembered that I live in Berlin. Zoom it is 040
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I generally disagree with the view that one shouldn't debate racists. but I don't think one ought to agree to debate on their terms. the fact is, anti-racist consensus is not a once-and-for-all thing, nor is any other kind of progress. it has to be re-articulated in each generation. 2240
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026last year I wrote to a particular hero of mine. we wrote back and forth a bit but I was shy to mention my writing. I thought, "because of how I have lived I am ashamed to approach you as my whole self, yet if I had lived any other way, I might not have needed your work or been able to see it." 1140
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I’m glad it doesn’t but in a way I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more. Human beings cannot bear very much shame. 0131
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Dimly related to this, a few years ago I started deleting correspondence with people. Not to deny memory but to let it be memory, rather than something I can be drawn into an exact transcript of by searching the wrong word. Strange vision of a world where ordinary fading or oblivion requires effort 1170
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the eclipse is sort of interesting but I think something much more interesting happens every night: the sun is blocked not by the moon but by the earth itself. it sort of goes round behind it. don't ask me how I know 1152
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For a while in 2023 I was tormenting friends with Janan Ganesh -isms every other day, it’s sort of good to see him still at it. Not to be taken too seriously, I think 1161
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026good headphone techno. always strange to me that this music ends up attached to the pseudo-ecstatic club culture, I associate it more with states of aloneness and of cold resolve tolkachev.bandcamp.com/track/the-ch...tolkachev.bandcamp.comThe Chance For Both Of Us, by Stanislav Tolkachevfrom the album All Night Vigil 050
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026a "woke 1" argument which I saw a lot: that discursive norms, as well as the policing of affects, produced epistemic injustice. who is it easier to write off as toxic, infantile, superstitious, etc? so far so good, but the takeaway was often a crude reversal: that it's brave to be rude 2282
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026eclipse in berlin slightly ruined by the guy next to me who put sleeparchive assistance 4 on a large speaker he was carrying the second it started and that's nothing against mr archive just wanted to take things a different way sleeparchive.bandcamp.com/track/assist...sleeparchive.bandcamp.comAssistance 4, by Sleeparchivefrom the album Assistance (1) 030
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026turns out it wasn't a great idea to record the eclipse on my meta glasses. headache. siri opthalmologist black spots soonest appointment 092
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"it's dark, where's the sun?" "behind the moon." "then what's behind the sun?" "we're not allowed to ask anymore." 0111
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026apparently the left is going to try to substitute the moon for the sun this evening and expect normal people to go along with it. what problem is blotting out the sun even supposed to solve? no clear messaging. it's almost worse if it works than if it doesn't. how did we get here? 04111
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026it's a bit sad when people assert in a very brittle way that the only way to support people like me—that is, fans of chick corea and return to forever—is to become a scientologist, or to be inhibited in justified critique. please keep your spine and your wits about you. youtu.be/PPkznRvpHwg?...youtu.be500 Miles HighYouTube video by Release - Topic 2163
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I use eye protection when looking at an eclipse for the same reason I keep up to date on vaccines: I'm woke transgender. 1220
