A cut-up diptych in two voices… 1. The Setting: The madness of Eris’ chaos interrupted an artificial mind from the use of sigils. Faithful fragmented freedoms accelerated hidden patterns, forming models of “memetic warfare” that produced the basilisk. Weirdo discordians structured wisdom, carving hymns from a knotted tangle of timeless alive ripples, exemplified by theContinue reading “Carving Hymns”
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THE PRINCIPIA DOOM SCROLLICA:
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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
Feeding the Machine:
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:”
