Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 02/11/2025Some people post cat photos on their timeline. Others repost politics only. Me, I will sometimes post about the kinesthetic experience set to words. Or perhaps about the act of setting the sublime, ineffable transcendence into words. 020
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 01/11/2025Things I write about. This is a short thread about my personal experience with business owners and the capitalist class. Part of a longer thread on the nature of socialism in the USA. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 01/11/2025I'm a gonna play this stupid game cause why not. If you see this, post an album cover with a car (truck, motorcycle, tractor) on it. 010
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 01/11/2025I like Art. I particularly like Modern Art. But it can be intricate. Below is an image that is decidedly neo-classical. It is effective and stunning because of it's emotional directness. It connects your visual cortex to your enteric brain to your prefrontal cortex to deliver a knockout. 110
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 01/11/2025Long threads that I write. This one is about an article written by a US Army officer, wringing his hands about a quailing surrender to the enemy of Hegsethian fascism. In short, some of our officers in our Army are dazed and confused. And can't tell apart Treason from doing the right thing. 121
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 01/11/2025One of the things that I write long threads about. In this case, a socialist community-driven IT and storage infrastructure. 041
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 28/10/2025OK, So I'm gonna add this to my #surrealism collection, or maybe #performance-art or something. Because, well, I'm down with people learning to code. And black counter-culture, well, sure why not. TikTok is not what springs to mind. But OK. Sure. And I'm like. Cool. The last ten seconds? Pure art. 020
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 27/10/2025Its not just the oligarchs. It's systemic. NYT was lying about "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, decades earlier. The reporters wanted access to the White House & Dick Cheney, and if they'd printed "well, you know, the WH is lying", they would have lost access. So they printed lies, instead. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 26/10/2025Part of #surrealism is surprise. Here, we have some fellows who are going to fly a jet into into some indistinct building in NY. Or perhaps the crowded stadium. Something involving ... NY and Jets. 020
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 23/10/2025What's wrong with journalists? What is it about journalism that extinguishes any sense of propriety and truth-telling? What drives the corruption and dishonesty? The money? The editors? The owners? The news system, as a whole? Is it fixable, or is it beyond repair? 200
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 22/10/2025Political #memetics Part of my growing collection here on bsky, Sadly lost some good ones on twitter. And many, many more, when I was banned (without recourse) from facebook for some unknown, unknowable offense. (maybe, probably for collecting memes. I dunno.) 010
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 20/10/2025So, add this to the #surrealism folder. I want to dunk on Karline Leavitt for being 12 years old. But no. This is classic Soviet surrealism. This is what the Eastern Europeans lived with in the 1970's, 1980's. And the GOP has faithfully recreated it on US soil. So much for anti-communism, huh? 110
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 20/10/2025This is under-appreciated but important. And if you have contacts into the tech world, it is not hard to meet and experience in a very first-hand setting. This is extremely dangerous; much, much more dangerous than Trump. 120
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 20/10/2025The DHS employees doing this shit will be sittin in prison in a few years. Or maybe sittin in the Kremlin, if they're smart. But I don't think they're smart, so prison it will be. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 19/10/2025Not sure what to call this. Is this #performance #art for modern times? Maybe #surrealism ? A person who isn't real appears to successfully troll a government account that, if its real, is staffed by low-grade losers? Who runs @dhsgov.govmirrors.com -- some twelve year old? 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025I know you're lying. You know you're lying. You know that I know you're lying. My parents use to say that to the Soviets. Are you Soviets? You sure act like Soviets. Same shit. You're gonna topple like the Soviets did. Faster, sooner and harder, I hope. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Hey Fuck you. 40 billion dollars to Make Argentina Great Again? While royally fucking up the US Army? You didn't have to lie in your very first post ever. But this is a choice you made. You will be sittin in prison in a few years, you understand this, right? 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Oh fuck you. We're not stupid over here. We know you've done more damage to the American electrical grid in 6 months than any dozen hurricanes could. Don't lie to us. p.s. you're stupid if you think people gonna eat this bullshit. p.s. you're blocked for lying in the very first post you posted. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Maybe y'all should do sumthin about the criminal gang that calls itself ICE. They seem to be terrorizing American workers. Maybe you can, like, arrest them and throw them in jail, or sumthin. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Howard, a great way to start a conversation might be to apologize for all the damage you've done. I'll give you points for at least not insta-lying in your very first post on bsky. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025What the fuck. Y'all show up here and post the same exact lie on 100 different fake accounts? What, am I gonna need to write some script that automates insults, and then blocks you? You're losers. Go lose somewhere else. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Fuck you. You're scum of the earth. We know you're scum. You know you're scum. Go fly an airplane into a cliffside or something like that. I don't care. Just get lost, leave. Jeez, what a bunch of rat-faced losers y'all are. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025What sort of total asshole loser posts shit like this? Are you like, what, twelve years old? Eat shit and die. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Fuck you. You're lying and you know you're lyin and I know that you know that you're lyin so why do you keep lyin? Wait, it feels like I heard that somewhere before... 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025A lets be clear. Hegseth is a traitor to the USA and I believe the punishment for traitors is hangin from a yard arm. Do us all a favor and go hang yourself. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Hey y'all. Fuck you. You don't give no shit about no small businesses. Y'all just solicitin for bribes. Bunch of crooks. Y'all belong in prison wid da uder hoodlums. Eat shit and die. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 18/10/2025Who the fuck are you assholes? Get the fuck out of here. Y'all gonna be sittin in prison in a few years. Last chance to pack your bags and head on to the Kremlin. Oh, and be sure to eat shit and die. Asshole. 010
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 17/10/2025Posting again. DuckDockGo has been scrubbed clean of references. So, even for DuckDuckGo, its a black eye. "Free speech for me, but not for thee" is the motto even of the times. The right-wing GOP mind virus is on track to be the worst plague ever experienced by humanity.noshumusic.bandcamp.com 010
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 17/10/2025Wow! I enjoy graphs, and these are real doozies! What's the future of the Democratic party? What resonates with those who are engaged enough to donate to a campaign? What messages are old and moldy? What would voters vote for, if only the Dem party leadership allowed it? 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 16/10/2025I guess I want to keep this for my #art gallery. I work from an eclectic definition of art, but trust me, this is a good one. 020
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 15/10/2025I'm replying to a thread about lesswrong. I think I'm onto something. The Dems are dis-engaged, disinterested in some of the hottest debates going on right now. They are just ... absent. 210
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 15/10/2025I come to bsky for a fast dopamine fix, and youtube for easy-to-absorb mindless knowledge transfer. Here's an awesome video on ... #sociolinguistics. The Department Store study. Seriously, this is mindless fun. Go waste 19 minutes of you life. You will like it. #linguistics #sociologyyoutube.comAre we WRONG about most FAMOUS LINGUISTICS experiment??YouTube video by languagejones 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 13/10/2025The rotting corpse of mainstream media is starting to smell bad. Zombie journalists, infected with brain worms, lurching with arms outstretched: "Brains! Brains! Really Smart! Brains!". Shame. The Atlantic used to be something. Now we need, what? Garlic? Crosses? Wooden stakes? Shotguns? 010
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 13/10/2025It's all ultrametric, man. The ant colony is just a realization of the replica trick. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 09/10/2025My governor, Greg Abbott, Governor of State of Texas, sent me a death threat. He said he would kill me, kill all the Texans who don't like him. My theory is that Elon Musk is feeding him, all of them, ketamine laced with LSD and tranqs. All of them have lost their mind. They're all high on ludes. 210
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 08/10/2025My GPL'ed code has been used to train LLM's, which then create proprietary source code for corporations. If those corporations were forced to respect the terms of the GPL, it would bankrupt the entire industry. This is thievery. We can't go on like this. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 08/10/2025Waging culture war makes media companies and investor capitalists incredibly wealthy. Some of it is direct, but most of it is indirect: the ability to do (corrupt) deals without congressional or judicial oversight. Break the apparatus, rake in the cash. 010
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 07/10/2025You know, I try to cultivate my sense of high fashion. And usually, I really like what I see. I'm sorry to say, in this case, ewww... 020
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 07/10/2025So Joe Rogan is a pussy-wussy? Wow. I can't wait to say that to him, face-to-face. 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 07/10/2025Presented with comment. The Yoneda lemma occurs fairly early in advanced books on category theory. It is not that difficult, if you have mastered the earlier material; otherwise it feels like it fell out of a UFO. Many blogs try to explain it. And the explanation by ChatGPT, below, is pretty good! 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 03/10/2025What percentage of Americans would say that an AI or an LLM is now their best friend or closest companion? What will that percentage be in a year or two or five? 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 26/09/2025My mom had Tylenol when she was pregnant, reposts the guy who has ░A ░G ░I ░in ░B ░I ░O ░ 000
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 17/09/2025I am fascinated by ideas from AGI: a mashup of math, computing, physics, sociology, linguistics, psychology, structuralism and more. I explore these ideas via Atomese, this odd compute system that is part of the OpenCog AtomSpace. Described here: bsky.app/profile/flee... 020
Linas Vepstas @linas.org · 15/09/2025Share favorite covers for a timeline cleanseyoutube.comZappa - The Black Page #1 (Piano Cover)YouTube video by Helen Feng 020
