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mining our collective childhood for wistful cultural trinkets

Metaphor is a powerful tool, and I’m a big fan of it, but metaphor is also a magickal working; if you keep describing an angry, capricious god, you’ll sure as shit get one.

July 2, 2025

vibeshifty: on Adam Curtis

It’s as if he has elected to haunt his own work, which—for someone who is very much a part of the extended Fisherverse—is a curious choice, almost a voluntary diminishment.

June 30, 2025

help us elaborate upon what we are trying to say

I don’t think it’s difficult to foresee the effects [of LLMs] on academic knowledge production at all, as the effects outside of the academy are glaringly obvious: I mean, have you tried searching the internet recently?

April 18, 2025

the Way is the way things are

This year’s big meta-project is, in a nutshell, to worry less about things.

January 17, 2025

beyond the douchbaggery of dogs: attentional guideropes and negative worldbuilding in Flow

I will stop overthinking animated movies aimed at children when people stop making animated movies for children set in worlds with a crazy amount of implicit but unaddressed questions embedded in them.

January 9, 2025

Category: Art

mining our collective childhood for wistful cultural trinkets

vibeshifty: on Adam Curtis

help us elaborate upon what we are trying to say

the Way is the way things are

beyond the douchbaggery of dogs: attentional guideropes and negative worldbuilding in Flow