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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Must support Anthropic or else the robots will be CCP, apparently! The essence of Amodei/Anthropicism is to say a bunch of anodyne things about regulation, tech & democracy, then admit actually there are no standards or rules as it’s an all out race with commies (who must be worse than our fascists)

Post by Anthropic ceo Dario Almodei where he declares he agrees with Secretary Bessent. Text at: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Come out to Waterloo Park on Saturday August 8 (world HTML day!) at 5 pm, to write HTML in the park. This is a casual celebration of the playful possibilities of the web: no experience is expected, and html activities (with or without computer) will be provided titleduntitled.name/facades/html...

A screenshot of https://titleduntitled.name/facades/html-day-waterloo-2026.html

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Visual Front: POSTERS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR FROM UCSD's SOUTHWORTH COLLECTION library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/vis...

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Is this how memes work? I am old but I am still learning.

Homer Simpson chalkboard meme with "I will not debate agricultural automation, expropriation, and development with liberals on Bluesky"

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Well at least everyone pouring their money into Palantir, Oracle, and Raytheon stocks are happy.

Stonks chart showing red declines for nearly everything except PLTE, ORCL, and RTX

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

We are discovering what global war lead by 21st century neo-fascists looks like, and also I had one of the best bowls of noodles I’ve ever tasted (Wuhan Chili Chili in Markham, Ontario) today

Bowl of rice noodles in deep red chili oil broth. Sections of color with dried tofu, a sausage (thrown in free), cilantro, picked vegetables, sliced beef shank, scallions, and some kind of Chinese kimchi-analog

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The suggestion from our results is: seemingly not! This was a pilot study and the findings need to be confirmed. However, they would suggest that despite being presented as general purpose pattern machines, LLMs pick up on different patterns from us, struggling with significant rhetorical figures.

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Good day to reread Mark Twain‘s 1901 “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”. And also Eduardo Galeano. I strongly recommend Mirrors, one of Galeano’s last works. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Text from https://web.viu.ca/davies/H321GildedAge/Twain.ToThePersonSittingInDarkness.1901.htm of To The Person Sitting in Darkness

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This literally pro-fascism car oriented Czech political party which just won 13 seats in parliament seems like something we’re destined to see in Canada

Introduction section of the Wikipedia article on the Czech Motorists for Themselves (AUTO) political party - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorists_for_Themselves

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Sure would be nice if the Toronto Star didn’t quote as experts culture-war-right think tanks with fashy-dogwhistle names and a penchant for genocide denial

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

democratic socialism just keeps working (and everyone does their best not to notice) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Chart of Indian states by districts at different Human Development Index levels. Kerala has 12 “very high” and two “high” while Tamil Nadu is mostly high with two very high

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

“Collective Love” by Ahmad Shamlou www.niloufartalebi.com/ahmad-shamlo...

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Mass-psychosis-as-a-service. Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius, but evil. A neighborhood sized map ruining Memohis air. XAI market cap $75 billion and rising, with participation from the Vision Fund, Fidelity, State Street, BlackRock, a16z, Lightspeed Partners, and Sequoia capital.

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Peter Kropotkin telling a story about a crab he saw at the aquarium one time.

Lower 1/2 of page 20 of Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid, Penguin Classics Ed.

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights isn’t perfect but it did a remarkable job when you think about it. It isn’t easy to explain its persistence (perhaps, its origins) in terms of US soft power. We (for various “we”s both pro- & anti-liberal) underestimate New Deal internationalism at our peril

OHCHR map showing ratification status of “18 treaties on human rights” probably corresponding to the Universal Declaration, colored by number of articles ratified. At a glass, the US, China, India, the Gulf states, the countries in the Horn of Africa, and a few others, stand out (highlighted in orange on the map) for, by this metric, protecting and signing treaties only on a few of these rights. Much of Latin America and Continental Europe stand out in deep blue for ratifying all the human rights treaties (unsurprisingly)

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Random images of New Orleans, now with alt text

LSU marching band between conference hotels. Person on stilts with glowing rain ow led cloak at right of frame. Academics take pictures

NPS museum of French Quarter. Various wall displays: “Gumbo” on placard on the right next to a telephone. Display on saxophonist behind various hanging musical instruments on left. Display about local animals barely visible in back

Bowl of gumbo with rice. Biscuit and diner mug are visible.

View of New Orleans public library. Entry room says MAIN LIBRARY. A person in a yellow vest and a person in a white hoodie stand in front of it. The wall of the library is a vast metal lattice above a glass first floor, through which lighting, bookshelves, and library visitors are visible

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Had a great time listening and presenting at the National Communications Associations conference in the ARSTM pre-conference on the knowability of LLMs (and rhet figures) and with the Panel for Progress on the Digital Divide on opposed visions of pluralism, “entropic or mycelial”, in AI imaginaries

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

Why is it culturally almost mandatory in these countries to live in a way, in this case for no apparent benefit other than ad-shaped prestige, that accelerates and almost guarantees the destruction of the biosphere? www.thestar.com/business/opi...

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Also worth noting that a couple pages later in this collection from 1941 on literary rhetoric is a passage on the necessity of post/degrowth

More Burke, he talks about how increasing production for everyone causes problems

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

This is in the beginning of Kenneth Burke’s Philosophy of Literary Form - Burke! (& i see folks with rhetoric phds saying it’s fine to let a few companies own & automate the production of words: ‘vocabulary itself as a way of sizing up reality…the “collective revelation” of testing and discussion’)

Passage from Kenneth Burke’s The Philosophy of Literary Form in front of an Amtrak window, a hand and a floral sheet at the edge of frame. Highlight: “Hence, I think that an attempt to eliminate magic, in this dense, would involve us in the elimination of vocabulary itself as a way of sizing up reality…what we may need is correct magic…accuracy of approximation being supplied by the “collective revelation” of testing and discussion”

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Kavi … @geryon.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

It’s a rhetorical question & I know the answer(s) but why are most mainstream tech journalists so horrendously bad at the not-repeating-PR part of their jobs, even in critical articles. Mundane example: there are ten ways to introduce “training data” in plain language but “more humanlike” isn’t it

“The More Data the Better” … “AI models become more accurate and more humanlike with more data”

NYTimes byline, Cecilia Kang, Cade Metz, Stuart Thompson

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