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The Game Detective @gamedetective.bsky.social · 8h

Look man. You got to trust the process. Fucking around is the first step. Finding out comes later, but you HAVE to go in order.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 8h

It’s a truth, universally practiced, that an IP that made a fortune in a single media, must be in want of an adaptation

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot of the interesting bits in a piece of art are in the particular and specific and odd rather than the average or high probability.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

meep meep

Trolley problem but the roadrunner is on the track. When the coyote pulls the lever, the streetcar lurches sideways off the track and flattens him instead.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a truth, universally uncomfortable, that other people in possession of different interests and thus different political commitments than ourselves, might still want a vote

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Infranecine conflicts underwhelm and supranecine are so over (sorry)

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do people think we just... publish ideas without supporting evidence and are free to ignore prior evidence arguments existing in the literature that disagree with our interpretations? That is not remotely how any of this works. Wouldn't be useful, interesting, or even *fun* if it worked that way.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is my favourite Borges story.

The Witness by Borges and translated by ANTHONY KERRIGAN

In a stable lying almost in the shadow of the new stone church, a man with
gray eyes and a gray beard, stretched on the ground amidst the animal
odors, meekly seeks death like someone seeking sleep. The day, faithful to
vast secret laws, continuously displaces and confounds the shadows in the
wretched stable. Outside stretch the tilled fields, a deep ditch filled up with
dead leaves, and the tracks of a wolf in the black mud where the woods
begin. The man sleeps and dreams, forgotten. The bells calling to prayer
awake him. In the kingdoms of England, the sound of the bells is already
one of the customs of the afternoon, but the man, while still a boy, had
seen the face of Woden, had seen holy dread and exultation, had seen the
rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments,
seen the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners. Before dawn he would be
dead and with him would die, never to return, the last firsthand images of
the pagan rites. The world would be poorer when this Saxon was no more.
We may well be astonished by space-filling acts which come to an end
when someone dies, and yet something, or an infinite number of things,
die in each death—unless there is a universal memory, as the theosophists
have conjectured. There was a day in time when the last eyes to see Christ
were closed forever. The battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with
the death of some one man. What will die with me when I die? What
pathetic or frail form will the world lose? Perhaps the voice of Macedonio
Fernandez, the image of a horse in the vacant space at Serrano and
Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Simple Simon met an AI man, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the AI man, Is there consciousness in software? Said the AI man to Simple Simon, Show me first *your* wee ken-y; Says Simple Simon to the AI man, Indeed I haven't any.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Get enough moral fiber and the binding becomes less discomfortable

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One euphemism to rule them all, One pen to sign them, One delay to bring them all and in the morality bind them

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Sickos house…

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Champie @champierth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A tree, a shell, and a bubble walk into a bar, the barman says "We don't like your sort in here."

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At a party, I had a retro- playground conversation that started like: Hi Hi, I can jump like this! Nice! I can jump like this! Cool! Do you like dump trucks? Heck yeah! Graders? etc it was actually about books (because I saw him reading), but it was the best party conversation since forever

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why necessarily illusory, when it could be contingently or functionally illusory?

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“(Bureaucratic/political) legibility is not the same thing as vitality” “This arrangement is exploitative and inefficient.” An interesting and fairly thorough read.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the slow dance of quotes and replies, being able to write a Romance in 300 characters wouldn’t even be a plot point, just a light whisper of fingers on glass.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anthropomorphism tells you something about the beholder and nothing of the beheld. I don’t think that’s bad. Distracting, maybe, but in a really human way.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

¡Ándale! …on delay ~ today’s motto, apparently

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

MR DARCY: Please disregard my last email. At the time I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit, during faculty meeting

Mr Darcy (Colin Firth) from Pride and Prejudice 1995 BBC, writing a letter

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Forbidden” is dissolving it in reheated weak coffee to fortify it (I’m told) otherwise it’s just sparkling disapproval

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think anthropomorphizing ourselves seems like an assumption of both illusionism and theory of mind. It’s like just a way we deal with the world in some sense… it should be the expectation that we have to work around (rather than attempt to purge) Computer crashes make me sad, like it’s hurt

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Double issue voter, but it’s actually a third secret issue

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I enjoyed the bit about famous ax murderer, Henry VIII

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Are the polls half empty or half full? Twice as weighted as they need to be?

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s a lot of thankless work to be a sexy murder poet all the time (so I’ve heard from my basically pleasant desk)

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If someone mostly replies by vague post, that tells you they are more interested in lukewarming for themselves than having a conversation

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(Mouth pipetting grant writing) “is its own form of danger, just slower and less honest than the phenol.” Satirical truths

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s only nepotism if it is from the familial region of intergenerational advantage, otherwise it’s just sparkling “excellence”.

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Intelligence is as intelligence does

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is there a definition of definition that doesn’t rely on metaphysics? (actual question as well as play)

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Single cell multiome analysis of transporter accidents reveals a role for forked beard genes in fate acquisition

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Asymmetric Midichlorian deposition by Hensen’s Node is dependent on frnkoz1

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OK, what if instead of us having pnuema that LLMs lack, what if LLMs have phusao that we lack? (not camp B, but the sort of joke that flies at summer camp)

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One. Two. My Two Brains! Ah ha ha

Cookie Monster and Count Von Count. One. Two. Two brains! Ah ha ha

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The roads to perdition or salvation are paved with inference from subversion

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A we that is wee loses in stability what it gains in clarity

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is true for wizards, too

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Kenny Pearce @kennypearce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Word of the day: ‘opiniatrety’. “The floating of other Mens Opinions in our brains makes us not one jot more knowing…What in them was Science, is in us but Opiniatrety, whilst we…do not..employ our own Reason to understand those Truths.” (Locke, Essay, §1.4.23)

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was noodling about today’s rhetorically-ignored third way(s) and thought about concepts that are under-defined enough to interfere with some forms of strict analyses but having been subjected to a lot of previous rigorous analysis interfered by being over-defined *at the same time* Ambi-defined?

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Surely 40 whacks with a hair brush isn’t gong to impress anyone, Lizzie

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wager: I don’t have to say which character this is about

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Xanaxides @xanaxides.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ah, it was a story about madness.

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