The Space Between
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Social media doom is a cargo cult. We see bad things happening, so we share bad things happening, performing the ritual of awareness, hoping that if we doom-scroll hard enough and retweet urgently enough, we’ll summon the spirits of Change and Solution. Instead, we mostly summon cortisol and targeted advertising
A Manifesto for Markov Cut-ups Language wants to mean. We can’t help it; we’re pattern-seeking creatures who find faces in clouds and narratives in noise. This work exploits that compulsion. The Process I feed texts into a Markov chain algorithm: literature, philosophy, scientific articles, song lyrics, whatever crosses my path. The algorithm learns statistical patternsContinue reading “Feeding the Machine:”
The Cosmic Liminality