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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 20h

"avatar" was a great pull for "digital representation" because it codifies reality as spiritually above computer world. neal stephenson remains stubbornly influential

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 20h

"avatar" was a great pull for "digital representation" because it codifies reality as spiritually above computer world. neal stephenson remains stubbornly influential

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 21h

saw a murdered out lexus earlier with the license plate "umbreon"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 22h

bluesky suffering badly for not being able to offer me this content

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they're turning up the "make everyone crazy and evil" knobs on social media for the midterms. you should be sane and nice instead

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wouldn't be super surprised if we hit some kind of hard complexity/obedience tradeoff ceiling. why would something better than me at my job want to do what I say

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like I could probably manage to zone out at a phoebe bridgers concert even without a phone. just sort of shuffling around looking at my drink. I could be less present than you could possibly imagine

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

putting a painting in there is okay I think. that's just a solid innovation. I want to see a painting when I look in my fridge

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it seems like a terrible resource for anyone who already has a passing familiarity with TV

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would sort of get the argument that star wars is fundamentally about unraveling family drama, but I don't get why you can't just make another family to have drama about. you can still do all the problematic bloodline stuff but these guys clearly aren't working anymore

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

anyway I'm never going to test my assumption that "choosin' texas" is sung in the same cadence as "deep in the heart of texas"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

looking into it slightly, this lady's beat is basically claiming that (specifically woman-led) country music is dominant for some other reason than "most non-country listeners are no longer captured in chart calculations because of technology"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tried to make one of these that actually covers like "games that I have weird dreamlike memories of that shaped my sense of aesthetics"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

can't remember the last time I was within sight of two people smoking normal non-electronic cigs, though the fact that I did just now is probably just down to being in a home depot parking lot

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

fandom has always been evil but I'm not sure it's ever been so dysfunctional or so integrated into the products it venerates

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

sorry is "clark kent" not a really weird pull here. like is there not a real charming guy we could refer to. "he was as rich as bruce wayne!"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the sphere is causing discord...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lynx Eyed Meghan Hilebrandt 2023

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

keep your mouth shut if you're not telling me about the 10-year t note buddy

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sorry society has progressed too quickly and there is no longer a consensus answer to "what is appropriate behavior here" for most situations. that's why we're all constantly recording each other and trying to figure out if the person on video should be in trouble and stuff

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

scenes of early autumn: waiting at the light in my car at sunset, a guy sells flowers in the median. across the street from him, a woman puts up spiderwebs in the sex shop display window for halloween

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I could probably feel some incredible proustian Feelings if I tracked down the exact model of clock radio I had that played different white noise loops. I am as wary of doing this as I would be taking LSD

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's crazy how fully we've collapsed everything into everything else. world leaders are addressing twitch streamers from the UN

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the line I've drawn for myself about this is that I do not acknowledge disembodied intelligences as having these qualities. when you are a guy who has to work to maintain homeostasis we can be friends, a star trek gas cloud or a server room might as well be a chair to me

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you've got to assume an ethics expert is troubled almost all the time. although it would be pretty cool not to be. "the blasé ethicist"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

people in the early 20th century were really obsessed with pilots and planes, it's very strange to try to think about now

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the only solution is to put portlandia on a movie screen and clockwork orange everybody like this into watching it

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this has to be a miscommunication, right

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"supreme intelligence" is pretty good, it sounds like a nation of islam thing

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 19/09/2026

Current* conditions near Bayfield, WI:

View looking SSE from Port Superior Marina overlooking Pikes Bay in Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-18 21:14:01 CDT (about 5 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Bayfield: 59 F | 15 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: ESE at 2 mph | 3 kph // Humidity: 93%

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

saw "fig newtons" was trending twitter because an account posted a picture of fig newtons with "I bet you can't remember what these are called." internet's cooked

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

feels kind of presumptuous to call him "our correspondent," when everybody involved is dead and the paper is under different ownership

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

you probably can't have a show designed around doing apologia for some kind of vague romantic nationalism while there is no popular consensus about why your country should like itself

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

fine. but every account should start at 100% toxicity and you have to dig out by being patient with dumb strangers. only human saints should appear in the discover feed

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

me interrupting the singer after the first line of monster mash

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

dried mango slices are a great product because they're sold by weight but the lighter ones are always preferable to the heavy ones at the same volume, because any leftover water content makes them gross

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

just in terms of damage control we should probably be drilling into, like, teens and old people the difference between "a program running on your computer" and "a program running on a server somewhere" that every company on earth has been trying to obfuscate for 20 years

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

haven't reflexively laughed out loud in a while but I was listening an old cbb tour show and "I saw the doctors pronounced him dead, 9:01 pm, they put a sheet over his face" "just his face?" really got me

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I keep coming back to the one with the smoke, it's got this incongruous black spot with a shockingly well rendered whorl of smoke around it

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's so messed up that he's a decent painter. I mean of course he has the resources to be, but it's crazy he wanted to be one

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

prior to 9/11 people would regularly smoke two parallel cigarettes, but the imagery became taboo

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

as down as I am on folding phone screens I do think the tablet-ish aspect ratio is nice. not really going in my pocket or being used directly as a phone much, might as well make it better for reading and video

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

yeah they don't call it a drug charity

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

yeah the valence of "slop" is "bad" and people have thought things were bad before. not sure about this memory-hole thing but I'd like to go there

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean yeah, these are kids who lost a couple of important school years to covid and are coming into high school between the rise of AI and society figuring out how to function with it

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I also think this applies to using AI for research versus directly generating results, if not quite as cleanly. it's incredibly reassuring to be able check yourself against (ostensibly) this floating consensus at all times

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

not a big fan of the way they're stylizing everybody's button noses as massively widening out towards the bridge to account for their big cartoon eyes. it's like, weird animal instead of cartoon neoteny

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