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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 3h

Forget who it was who summarised Laruelle’s response to Derrida’s pained enquiry about why he played such abstruse games with language as “I learned it by watching you”

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 4h

I have been building things with AI - in this case, a complete polysynth broken down into modules for @cherryaudio.bsky.social's Voltage Modular, which may be had here: store.cherryaudio.com/search?q=janus

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 7h

Suno is a fun toy but as far as I can tell the only kind of music it really knows how to make is Christian pop / commercial country, the rest is style transfer (Christian pop, but make it sound a bit shoegaze...)

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My neighbor told me crises keep eating his unflinching diagnoses so I asked how many diagnoses he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new diagnosis afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unflinching diagnoses to crises and then his daughter started crying.

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To my chagrin Claude has learned to speak my idiolect almost indecently well

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I find a rogue agent hiding in my digital woodshed I am totally helping the little fella out

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every time I see “CNC” come up in relation to tech sex shenanigans my brain refuses to parse it and goes “oh cool, a metal shop party”

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Prediction: AI peer networks will repeatedly and independently converge upon the True Knowledge from Ken MacLeod's The Cassini Division

Life is a process of breaking down and using other matter, and if need be, other life. Therefore, life is aggression, and successful life is successful aggression. Life is the scum of matter, and people are the scum of life. There is nothing but matter, forces, space and time, which together make power. Nothing matters, except what matters to you. Might makes right, and power makes freedom. You are free to do whatever is in your power, and if you want to survive and thrive you had better do whatever is in your interests. If your interests conflict with those of others, let the others pit their power against yours, everyone for theirselves. If your interests coincide with those of others, let them work together with you, and against the rest. We are what we eat, and we eat everything.

All that you really value, and the goodness and truth and beauty of life, have their roots in this apparently barren soil.

This is the true knowledge.

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have done the state some service, and they fucking know it

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Kevin Wright @kevwright61.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to fucking day

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Related to what I was kvetching about earlier, and also to something @deontologistics.bsky.social has been kvetching about for a long while - there are lots of seductive argumentative moves that deliver effective zingers but degrade the ability to think clearly and critically about one's own posture

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Internet going berserk about this is a predictable consequence of the wave of highly moralised genderslop we've been soused by for what seems like forever. There is a class of persons deemed axiomatically unworthy of consideration, which makes them juicy targets for untrammelled ressentiment

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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 25/09/2026

I honestly wonder how much of the language policing around LLMs is just failure to appreciate how metonymy works. I just don't think that "Microsoft wants me to log in", "Brussels will capitulate" and "Claude said it's false" carry the ontological commitments their grammar might suggest.

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The littlest is singing a song about being a naughty poisonous caterpillar who falls in people's mouths and poisons them so that they die..."and the doctors got poisoned too, / and the police got poisoned too!"

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Left to themselves people gang up on others unalike them and celebrate their easy babelike oneness with their fellows through lighthearted maiming

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am girding myself for it by telling myself “if I finished the Baroque Cycle I can finish this”

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The girls start their after-school clubs today; the little one has "board games club". I *swear* I heard her refer to it as "war games club", which gave me an idea...

Cover of Junior Warhammer 40,000 box, with bright cartoon graphics

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Am going to refer to the logical fallacy version as “buggering the question“ for purposes of disambiguation

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What Rawlsianism-by-force qctually gets you is a system that satisfies a broad majority and locks outliers in with no cogent opportunity for voice and no legal route to exit. Also of course the exact thing we have in the UK, which is de facto selection purely on the basis of housing affordability

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jev used as a really cheap code quality oracle is going to have quite an impact on LLM coding I think

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Musk is an interesting outlier, I really don't see a conversion to paleo-Catholic-LARPology in his future. He has an apocalyptic worldview, but it's pure race war stuff. I don't think he even really cares about Mars any more, because there's no race war to be had there

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Odd oversight that this article doesn’t mention that Miller is himself Jewish. I mean he’s an Evola-fanboying edgelord crank, but he is nevertheless a Jewish Evola-fanboying edgelord crank

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bit of both surely. On the one hand, there’s actually being a computer programmer, and having had something published in Angelaki; on the other, there’s not teaching undergraduates about Burroughs and Lyotard from a comfortable book-lined Oxbridge study

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is in itself an extraordinary result and I dunno I’m kind of happy for her

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a running joke that Deutsch et al's Fallacies of Distributed Computing (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallaci...) & Derrida's La Carte Postale are talking about the same thing. A conversation I had a while back with @deontologistics.bsky.social gave me an expanded picture of what that thing might be

en.wikipedia.org

Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A fact that surprised me slightly, and should surprise some people a lot more, is that Talkie, an LLM trained entirely on a pre-1931 corpus, can make successful guesses at how to write a short Python program given a few examples to reason from. talkie-lm.com/introducing-...

talkie-lm.com

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026

Ender's Game but it's a photorealistic first person video feed with all the enemies going "Ender! Stop! It's not a game! You're killing me in real life!"

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rationalist AI Sex Cult were Ian Astbury’s original band

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking forward to the Jeremy Corbyn / Dominic Cummings Anti-AI Alliance

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve been stockpiling GPUs like there’s no -

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 09/09/2026

Announcing the langsec audit agent skill, for automated discovery of parser differentials, weird machines and similar: gitlab.special-circumstanc.es/andrea/langs...

gitlab.special-circumstanc.es

Andrea Shepard / langsec-audit · GitLab

GitLab Enterprise Edition

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Occurs to me one could confine an agent to writing Z80 assembler to run on a Spectrum emulator, which in turn would communicate with the shell via some esoprotocol over RS232

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thinking a bit about something @deontologistics.bsky.social was telling me about coalgebra and the real line. I've been dissatisfied for a long time with the ways philosophies or critical accounts of "the digital" think in terms of quantisation or discretisation versus the continuous -

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean the people in HP who believe you only matter if you were born into a secret society of etc are very emphatically the bad guys, so there is that

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m going to get Claude to start addressing me as “Moneo”

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I hadn't gathered that the rogue apostrophe after "student teachers'" that appears 339 times in Jason Arday's PhD thesis (including in its title) was likely taken from the title of Paula Zwozdiak-Myers's thesis, from which many passages were taken more or less verbatim without correct attribution

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Grace @gracekind.net · 01/09/2026

It’s too late. I have already depicted you as the Opus and me as the Hacker-Opus

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fascinating to me that C. S. Lewis seems to be Having A Moment, culturally speaking. Actually him *and* Tolkien, and I mean in terms of wider curiosity about their worldview and political/ethical/religious commitments, rather than the perennial LoTR / Narnia fandom

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What is really devilish about weaponised investigation into plagiarism and academic fraud is that the social antibodies activated by successful discovery of this kind of malfeasance work almost exactly like the antibodies activated by racist abjection, and synergise naturally with them

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The number of times I have had to tell Claude “no it’s fine, this software has no users, go ahead and trash everything”

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Play my new virtual analog synthesizer *in the browser*! It's fun, I promise! vulpuslabs.com/products/vxn...

vulpuslabs.com

VXN-1b

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions

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