Reposted by leif eriksonMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 31/01/2024Econ is the most catholic of all the humanities 2112
Reposted by leif eriksonJennifreddy Glove Hewitt @senatorivy.com · 31/01/2024🎉 MICHIGAN MENTIONED 🎉 141
Reposted by leif eriksonMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 30/01/2024The Semifinals are here, what a rarified group winners but only can win! Get in here and cast your vote for the finals. 171
Reposted by leif eriksonMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 28/01/2024ok folks i'm going to start the polls, opting for a straight head to head bracket this time. I will thread the polls under this post so I don't need to endlessly repost 8 polls tomorrow. Seeding was done by goodreads average rating with all flaws and caveats of such a system. 3164
Reposted by leif eriksonArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/01/2024The coolest tree bark 2870778
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024can you wait anon? . . . do you have . . . the .. .. patience . . . to wait for your opportunity? . . . . do you have the courage .. .. .. to act . . despite the chance of . . . failure? 120
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024has anyone ever solved the general problem of going soft once you win?? perhaps michael jordan model: ignore everyone else; love the game; relentlessly improve and be your own harshest critic down a less psychotically focused path, creating artificial challenges to keep skills sharp seems fruitful 010
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024@yashkaf.bsky.social has a great tweet abt how the brain has been compared to a book, then a machine, then a neural net. each analogy is imperfect, but progressively has a greater degree of accuracy. [neuromancer] 130
Reposted by leif eriksonleif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024i'm back in my hometown and there was a december party where i felt, within a couple hours, intensely, anger desire sadness and it was good. i was plugged back into a social network where consequences of actions mattered. i felt so alive and motivated 011
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024ok lets get real and talk feelings for a second. case warming himself w anger is so fucking real. intense emotions feel amazing because you are certain there's stakes. instant cure for vague feelings of purposelessness and wandering [neuromancer] 120
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024bruce and cath just wanted to fuck and have fun leave them alone 220
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024it pulls me out of the world a bit when buildings are described in cyberspace; there's gotta be a better abstraction visualization for it all flying around glorious 8k rez buildings unburdened by all construction limits would be glorious tho reminds me of Ra and the magical realm [neuromancer] 030
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024Dear Julius Deane is the platonic ideal of a doomsday prepper polite wily willing to put a slug in ur head if u look at him wrong knows what he wants (sucking bonbons noisily) may his neuromancer spirit and the Chiba clinics help him live on for another 10,000 years 131
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024gravity came down on him like a great soft hand with bones of ancient stone fighting his ascent to divine 010
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024rastafarian culture seemed really out of place; maybe it was the blend of woo and space stations/technical competence? ig makes sense if that tech is mundane in the neuromancer world OR OKAY here's the 5head take WM was intentionally utilizing undervalued ppl/groups 151
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 25/01/2024me n the homies spinning up an industrial clan in zero g gonna make the neuromancer orbital structures look like tinker toys 010
Reposted by leif eriksonleif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 24/01/2024history seems to trend in the direction of ppl allowing what was previously private to be public and to a lesser extent what was under one's own control to be controlled 111
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024WHO IS THE NIXON OF THE BCI AGE WHO APPEARS CHARISMATIC ON VIDEO BUT THEIR MIND REMAINS IMPURE 341
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024WARNING: THREAD RANT the threat of surveillance is one of my primary concerns wrt widespread BCI tech. i find it morally important that data going in and out remain transparent and consensual at the individual level 1/x 1123
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024@why.bsky.team only likes my bangers and i appreciate that 1110
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024having love + worthy crusade is everything i want rn could be an artifact of me being in my 20s 250
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024sensorium streaming is gonna be SICK, especially if paired with thoughts/emotions hey dude i'm in hawaii no i'm not gonna send you pics, come SEE THE SUNSET AND FEEL THE BREEZE [neuromancer notes chap 1-7] 1130
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024it seems like the internet had a wild west period; could BCI tech go through a wild west? if so, where and under what conditions? (doesn't seem like USA to me; FDA is SLOW) [neuromancer notes chap 1-7] 120
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 06/01/2024the future is gonna be STRANGE [neuromancer notes chap 1-7] 020
Reposted by leif eriksonMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 20/12/2023What book should we read? (FINALS) 1️⃣ Neuromancer - Gibson 2️⃣ Ringworld - Niven 3️⃣ Shadow and Claw - Wolfe 4️⃣ The Dispossessed - Le Guin 📊 Show results 72912
Reposted by leif eriksonleif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 19/12/2023the Great Great Lakes - Rich Bitch Alliance (2035) 131
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 19/12/2023while we're all chatting books if you want a decently realistic primer for a Very Weird Future™️ please go read the entire Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam immediately en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nex... 030
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 19/12/2023paging @minormobius.bsky.social peep the new book club material 140
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 03/12/2023sun worship is making a comeback get outside and present your bare skin to God 1132
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2023in the airport there is a dilapidated taiyaki shop. give the man 10 rupees, 10 baht, 10 canadian loonies, and 10 pages of handwriting from both you and your spouse. bite into the ice cream fish he hands you. blue indicates boy, pink indicates girl. congratulations! 140
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2023there are infinite forms of beauty; a new one is created every time something new is appreciated 140
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2023i heard there was a secret chord once played bestowed free room and board 130
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2023i shall form a metaphor against my enemies, and it shall prosper. i shall adapt the humble wall, appearing arguably before agriculture if you count the hide walls of nomadic living structures, into a blunt literary cudgel. i shall see walls everywhere 140
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2023the twenty-first error was to not be gentler with yourself when you are particularly weak 140
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2023i am begging you to bribe workers use gifts; don't ask for anything more than normal; don't expect to get anything in return they will have their entire day made and half of the time will go out of their way to Set You Up 130
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2023the twentieth error was to not give more gifts. for most, survival is easy and material wealth overfloweth 160
leif erikson @leaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2023the nineteenth error was refusing to accept gifts. others love you and want to express that 140
Reposted by leif eriksonSilby @silby.bsky.social · 09/09/2023I hope this message goes unread, unanswered, while you run for the hills 0152
