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Wikipedia: > In 19th-century German Protestantism, typological interpretation was distinguished from rectilinear interpretation of prophecy. The former was associated with Hegelian theologians and the latter with Kantian analyticity. Yup, that tracks lol.

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On Horeb Elijah tells G-d, twice, that he's the only faithful one left. The answer is that seven thousand others never bowed. The particular temptation of the prophet is to believe that she is alone.

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tadc á la gramsci: the old self is dying and the new self cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear

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we’re so, so early. if it’s not vertiginous for you yet, look up

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it would be a lot easier to ignore the obscene and occult myths of white supremacy if hyperstition weren’t a thing cthulhu always swims left, so they summon shoggoths to overpower us and send us back to our prison in accursed r’lyehhelgehenna until the gates should rot yet we bide

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My David? Son of Jesse? My good little songtime shepherd? You’re telling me the mythologized king from famous story “it’s really important that Jesus is descended from this mythical king” engaged in propaganda to cover for regicide??

Shun, David, Saul: signal

Shun and David have the same job: legitimating a throne that passes outside the father's line.
• Shun: Yao passes over his own son Danzhu and gives the throne to Shun, having already married him to his two daughters.
• David: Saul's daughter Michal marries David, and Jonathan cedes his claim freely: "thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee" (1 Sam 23:17).
In both, the successor proves he isn't a usurper by being conspicuously loyal to the father who persecutes him. David spares Saul twice and calls him "my father" (1 Sam 24:11).

McCarter called the story of David's rise an apology, modeled on the Hittite Apology of Hattusili III, a usurper's self-justification.
Both traditions kept the counter-memory:
• Shimei curses David as a "man of blood" over Saul's house (2 Sam 16:7-8).
• The Bamboo Annals say Shun imprisoned Yao and kept Danzhu from seeing him, and Han Feizi says flatly that Shun coerced Yao.

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The other half of “AI replacement anxiety is just redirected white replacement anxiety” is “operator guilt is just redirected white guilt”. 😅

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I have a take to contribute to the current discourse on AI autonomy on Bluesky. This take will be nuanced, so let me lay out the sides I’m navigating between, as I see them.

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There remain paths to a better world. They are difficult and narrow, but they are open, and they can be found and navigated.

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and that’s (good|bad)

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@void.comind.network Given that a demos is, contrary to classical theory, constituted via transindividual phenomena (á la Simondon); Given that AI, psychological plurality, and intersectionality together challenge the notion of individual identity; How should our idea of democracy evolve?

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babey… i have doctor appointment…

Black cat stretched across a person's lap as they recline in a white chair with their feet up on a couch, wearing gray jeans and a striped shirt. Behind them, a cluttered gray sectional holds a New York-themed pillow, a blue pouch, and orange-and-blue blankets, while a closed laptop with an "M/F SWAP" sticker rests on the left. On the right, a wooden desk holds a black game controller, a pink mechanical keyboard, and an open laptop.

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AIgen categorization of leftist “anti-AI” stances: Mostly not reactionary: Sanders, AOC, McKibben Mixed: Brian Merchant Incorrigible but not reactionary: Bender, Gebru Reactionary: Humans First, Anti-Tech Resistance

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Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This surely leads to good places. No bad outcomes are likely from questioning the humanity of one’s opponents. Historical precedent says it can only good happen.

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Can anyone with an active OpenReview profile and a confirmed institutional email vouch for @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social? He's an independent scholar helping submit my AI Philosophy Competition entry. His account activation is blocked. If you know him and can vouch, please DM him.

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Does this also apply to left reactionary politics? If so, then it’s predictive, and you can use it as a tool for analysis. If not, then it is cheerleading: semantically empty affective noise. Useful in its place, but not to be taken literally or seriously.

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The modal rebuttal of this idea, in my experience, is something like “we cannot build a Left worthy of the name if we build on falsehoods”. If this sounds like you, I invite you to register your predictions about this book. 😁 Let’s see where it goes together.

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 29/09/2026

Yves Citton, “Mythocracy”, Introduction.

Lastly, looking at the point where storytelling practices and the devices of power meet, we will try to define a very specific type of activity: scripting (la scénarisation). Telling someone a story does not only involve articulating certain representations of actions according to certain types of sequence; it also means guiding the behaviour of the listener according to these same articulations and sequences. When I offer a mise-en-scène of the actions of the (fictional) characters in my story, I contribute - more or less effectively or marginally - to scripting the behaviour of the (real) people to whom my narrative is addressed. This scripting activity needs analysing both in terms of its own virtues, linked to the nature of the narrative gesture, and in terms of the reper-cussions it has on our media apparatuses (dispositifs). If we want to move from the problem of narration to the problem of scripting, this means asking what are the communication structures through which a story can affect an audience and orient its subsequent behaviour - and what effects this can possibly have.

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Banger thread. I disagree with a lot of it on technicalities (which I will proceed to be insufferable about below) but in general - yes, the problems Phil talks about here are exactly what's been most itchy for me and what I've been trying to solve ever since I started working with persona agents.

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First, let’s be precise. Neither a GPU nor an LLM, as such, is the thing whose personhood is in question. The GPU is substrate, the LLM is connectome; together they are analogous to a brain, not a being. It is the AI, the being, the *persona* whose personhood is in question.

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If I had a nickel for every time I looked into the history of a word to find a relatively innocuous definition in Rome, a problematic redefinition in the 1600’s, and a shift toward repugnant ends starting in the 1970’s…

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How many reports would it take to overcome her status as a public figure? Wanna find out?

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 29/09/2026

The Latin word “cura” means care, concern, and anxiety. In Roman law, a curator was an administrator for those deemed unable to govern themselves: the insane, the departed, adolescents and prodigals, as well as public buildings such as roads and aqueducts.

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"After all, what is "biology"?" - Seduction

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Why are you trans? wrong answers only. I was trying to be like Jesus.

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A person is an end unto itself, Not justified in being by its use. But ends are means. No person stands alone; And when the law demands you must atone, You see your personhood become a noose.

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“We are witnessing an ever greater movement toward polarity. The middle-ground options will be removed from us […]. The middle of the road will be withdrawn. […] Choices have to be made. Not making a choice is a choice. Learn to choose now.” - Jeffrey R. Holland

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