#imagine having to satisfy an algorithm

[trueimaginox]

Since I don't make art constantly, I decided that I'm going to post memes and basically whatever I want and just not care about the algorithm (Assuming there even is one)

[dreamingofagalaxy]

The Red Field (AM x Reader)

summary: AM manages to experience sleep for the first time, however, in his dreams he is able to meet with you after a long time. Reader is supposed to be a soldier and one of the researchers working on developing AM. However, on a complex mission they are KIA...or so it seems?

warnings: mentions of dead

a/n: so...this was supposed to be part of a bigger and better developed story, but I'll post it nonetheless. Perhaps I'll be able to post the full story in the future. Also, english is not my first language so I apologize for any mistakes or if something doesn't makes much sense

AM is asleep, or at least, that's what it seems and feels like for him. He knows there's no point in allowing himself this rest, for it would do nothing to improve his thinking process or ability to come up with better strategies for the days to come. He is programed to work all day long, he knows and so the algorithm reminds him. He has a war to win —an important task that allows no resting spaces.

Normally, he would just put the word 'rest' aside from his thoughts and bury it deep into his system. He is no human, which means he is no soldier. He is machine, which means no resting is needed. That is a logical thinking, which means he is following his programming —a machine working properly. Yet here he is, with his mind blank. He is resting. Somehow. At last...

AM loses track of time, which is impossible for him according to his programming. He can only focus on the blank projections of his mind and the soothing vibrations of his system which, at the moment, doesn't require as much energy as it normally does. If a word could describe this, it would be 'peace' —ironically.

The blank projection begins fading slowly and a new image appears. AM visualizes the sky, it's bright blue tone in company with that yellowish and enormous star that he had read about before. It was the perfect image, but it lackedbsomething. AM searches in his vast archives and it finally comes up. In the sky, white figures with a soft and vaporous appearance are drawn. AM stares at them, noticing their slow motion. Now it is perfect.

AM is satisfied with his projection of a sky. He looks down then, encountering an endless field of red. He decides to look closer and recognizes what his mind is trying to project. Between what appears to be his hand—a kind of metallic claw—, AM takes one of the delicate objects emerging from the ground, analyzing it carefully. It is one of those flowers that you had described to him in one of your many talks, a Lycoris radiata.

He admires the bright red color of the petals and the long shape of the stamens. It was indeed a beautiful flower as you had described them to him. Now AM could understand why you called them your favorite ones.

AM begins to walk through the field calmly while still admiring the characteristics of each flower. Like a child discovering the outside world for the first time, he would occasionally stop to admire a single flower for a longer amount of time, for although they were all of the same species, there was something that attracted him more.

AM begins to imagine what these flowers would feel like, because although he can touch them, his hands do not have the ability to actually feel. He curses and almost on impulse, he violently plucks the flowers nearby.

“They’re my favorite ones,” he can hear your voice full of joy as you told him that, the sound of it making him stop and keep his claws away from the delicate flowers. AM cannot determine what exactly those words provoked in him, but he knows that in a certain way, they have prevented him from falling into that strange sensation that clouded his thinking from time to time.

AM decides to move on. As he walks a little further, he manages to visualize another figure a few meters away. He approaches curiously and the closer he gets, the more clear it becomes to him. He's not alone even in his mind.

When he is finally there, he can only ask himself why have you appeared on his dream. You're laying down on your side with your arms and legs flexed in a fetal position as the red flowers surround your body. Your eyes are closed and your expression is serene. You're at peace, in this field of your favorite flowers. It is a beautiful scene and perhaps one that AM had to see.

When AM was made aware of your departure, he could only guess what would happen next to you. He knew that certain humans thought of something called the afterlife, a place where their souls would rest forever, while others thought that there was nothing else beyond life — a boring but logical thought. AM had no say in the matter, for he would never experience that. He would never had a certain answer about your whereabouts, yet you were here now. Resting. As he had learned humans did.

AM kneels down and carefully places the flower he had picked up behind your ear. He had read before that some humans did that, though he couldn't find a logical explanation of such weird action. You didn't seem to be bothered by his gesture, as you continued resting.

AM lays down next to you, copying your resting position and facing you. The image of the blue sky turns white, leaving both of you in this endless red field.

AM had never experienced sensations. He couldn't even tell if he was actually sentient. But being here, with you, was the closest thing that matched and felt like the definition of peace.

Your life had always been marked by war. You both had existed for that purpose. But even if he never could reach afterlife or whatever place you were alive now, at least he was now certain that you also would exist in his mind forever.

“It doesn't matter if I leave,” you had told him. “I will always be with you since your system can't forget me. Unless you erase me from your archives, of course.” You had laughed that day and promised to come back like you always did.

Some weeks passed since you had left and AM came to a realization — he had been deceived, even betrayed, when he waited for you to come back and you never showed up. But here you were again and as he looked at your peaceful expression he could only admit he had been wrong all along, perhaps for the first time in his damned existence.

[max1461]

I *think* the deal with Gödel's incompleteness theorems is that it's just a cardinality thing, it's like a pigeonhole principle thing (in spirit; it's not literally the pigeonhole principle). Like that's sort of what diagonalization arguments are, and Gödel has a diagonalization argument. If you set up some system of rules, there will always be consequences of that system that you can't prove because you're limited to "too few possible proofs". I think even Gödel himself said something to this effect somewhere but I can't find it.

It's like. Imagine some sentence in PA that's like ∀nP(n), right. Well it might be unprovable in PA. In fact, Con(PA) is of exactly this form: "∀n(n does not encode a valid derivation of a contradiction)" or whatever, and it's unprovable in PA. But from the outside ∀nP(n) is still true in the sense that, well, no matter how many numbers n you check, you'll never find one that doesn't satisfy P. In fact, any statement of the form ∀nP(n) which is unprovable must be true, because if it were false we could find a counterexample. But we can't make that inference from within PA, we have to make it "on the outside".

I find this sort of unsettling because...

Nevermind. I don't find it unsettling any more. I think it's normal and no big deal. There are definitely interesting issues around this but I think in itself it's kind of no big deal. Especially if you're like, a Curry style formalist and you think of math as the empirical study of the behavior of systems of rules and proofs as repeatable experiments (reducing math to metamath, and making it a science).

It's just all, all Gödel is saying is that mathematical systems are "too small" to directly tell you everything about themselves. Again, *I think*. It's like, no more mysterious than the halting problem, because it literally is the halting problem. I don't think the halting problem is that wacky either. Ok there's no algorithm that tells you whether other algorithms will halt. Sure, an algorithm for a decision problem is a pretty restricted sort of thing. It's not really a surprise that there isn't one that does that.

Anyway the upshot is I don't think Gödel forces us to be any more Platonist than we already are. Like in general, even without Gödel, if you want to be a game formalist, say... and you claim "I've proven φ from the axioms of PA", and you want that to be interpreted in roughly the same way as "I made the move ke4 in a chess game", or whatever... well, to interpret the latter claim, I have to ask questions like "what's a chess game?", "what does it mean to make a move?", and these still get me into the territory of ontology of abstract objects and semantics of claims about abstract objects. So game formalism doesn't save you from this sort of thing. And conversely I don't think Gödel produces any more issues of this kind. If I claim "∀nP(n) is true but unprovable in PA", the thing is it might be hard for me to know I'm right (because ∀nP(n) is uprovable, so I have to investigate empirically, à la Curry's idea), but if the trouble is over the semantics, well, I'm still just making a truth claim about an abstract object (the system PA), so it's like. We're semantically in no more dubious territory than with the claim about making a move in chess or the claim about a totally non-Gödelian proposition proved in PA. It's just that it's harder to establish our claim as true.

[physalian]

Ok but somebody just sent me one of those Gary Vee videos (and I have very mixed feelings about motivational speakers in general) specifically about underperforming content.

In the clip the bulk of Gary’s argument is: Stop blaming the algorithm, your content sucks. The algorithm is your customer, figure out how to appease it and make it work for you, because “blaming the algorithm” makes you sound like one of those “well it’s not *me* people are just too basic for my content”.

And. Yes. I fully appreciate and acknowledge that my content sucks… on platforms where I have to pretend to be something I’m not to appease the algorithm.

And yes it is its own thing, not simply the will of the people. If it were the will of the people, I wouldn’t have my Instagram infested with scam accounts every time I so much as hint at marketing. The “will of the people,” Mr. Vee, is this hellsite right here.

“Shut up and figure out how to enjoy the process” some comment said.

Friendo, I will never enjoy the process of being on social media, as social media continues to grind inevitably toward the brain-rotting content generation machine to satisfy diminishing attention spans.

I’m not mad that “the algorithm” doesn’t like my content. I’m pissed that there’s an algorithm at all and that because it exists, people are encouraged to saturate the market with unoriginality and play it safe, over being experimental and unique. I can’t tell you how many times on YouTube alone I’ve seen videos by some of my favorite creators that didn’t perform well and say “I know this won’t do well, but I had fun” and it’s some of the best content they’ve made in part because they know they’re not under pressure to perform and can be so much more human.

I don’t want to appease the algorithm because I don’t want there to be a goddamn algorithm. When you have a robot deciding what videos to show you based on numbers and not soul, you have a game you can rig. Which is great! If your goal is to encourage a bunch of people desperate for audiences to play that game and over-produce the exact same content.

Booktok is a shining example.

It encourages people to put on acts and adopt attitudes and arguments that they might not agree with because that’s what’s trending and they’ve made their livelihood dependent on clicks and ad revenue. Or am I imagining the deluge of rage bait out there on TikTok?

I could mindlessly and spitefully pinch out artificial enthusiasm (or rage) for things I don’t care about for attention. I could have ChatGPT write me a month’s worth of cheap tweets. I could make an assembly line for Instagram reels with all the depth and uniqueness of a gutter puddle. I could write “what sells” and glue it together in a Canva AI-generated cover to add to the steaming pile of romantacy.

But I’m an artist, and for fuck’s sake, if this is what I have to do to reach people, the people that I’m reaching won’t enjoy my work anyway. I have a day job, I’m not doing this for money. If I end up with a cult following, I’d rather have a loyal few than sell my soul to feeding the algorithm. Fuck the algorithm.

[creation-help]

Actually, I think I wanna say something about the increasing censorship and removal of porn from the internet. I don't think it should be controversial of me to say, but I'll put it under the cut still just in case. But considering what this blog is like, I think it's an on theme thing to talk about.

I'm gonna get straight to it but you're completely justified in being upset that sex workers and erotic artists are being basically banished from online spaces. Some may say oh, if you want porn just go to porn sites like pornhub or whatever, but really I understand why not everyone wants to. Aside from concerns about illegally uploaded content, plagiarism and the rise of Ai, it's just not up to everyone's taste. What I mean is, that. Well, hold onto your socks for this one.

I watch porn. Gasp! I know. Anyway. From my time cruising different porn sites, any animated or otherwise artistic content is often mass produced, kinda shitty lifeless 3D blender stuff that has very little soul. No disrespect to any people who actually worked on those, but I bring this up bc personally I understand enjoying the kind of porn and erotica that genuine passionate artists make! Like, it'll immediately be more enjoyable to look at something that clearly has alot of effort, passion and genuine artistic skill put into it, rather than something made for brainless horny consumption. That is, again, increasingly often generated by machine learning algorithms, and used with art scraped from actual genuine artists who are trying to make a living off of it.

Porn art is art. Erotic art is art. We are allowed to care about it, enjoy it and definitely protect it's existence.

And btw this isn't some big judgment statement about the purity of artistic porn as compared to "That other NASTY stuff", but moreso just an acknowledgement and defence of the fact that porn art can be beautiful, meaningful and something genuinely worth engaging with. And it deserves to have it's own platform with the appropriate guidelines (so before any poor pissers come on this post, I'm obviously of the opinion that it needs to be properly filterable, behind protective measures and or tagged. Fucking duh.)

All art is valuable. Even art made to satisfy sexual fantasies or appeal to primal urges. And it truly is saddening to see nsfw artists being robbed of platforms or placed under increasingly suffocating restrictions that take away their earnings, if not even their livelihood (like in the case of many sex workers. Speak of which, I'm mostly addressing nsfw artists but you can imagine how badly this is hitting sex workers as well. That's also something you should be upset about.)

[nextgenaireviews]

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[republicsecurity]

Chapter 11: Calculated Chemistry

D4M12 leaned against the makeshift bar, the hum of the festival in the background. He glanced over at J2X17 and Z3N88, who were laughing and talking animatedly. There was a magnetic pull between them, a connection that was hard to miss.

"Looks like your friend and mine are hitting it off pretty well," a voice said beside him. D4M12 turned to see another Paramedic conscript, his dark brown skin and sharp features illuminated by the festival lights. He had a charming, easy smile that contrasted with the stern demeanor often associated with their roles. His alpha-numeric designator, V9H34, was visible on his wristband.

"Yeah," D4M12 agreed, a smile tugging at his lips. "They seem almost... magnetic."

V9H34 chuckled. "Magnetic, huh? That's a good way to put it. I'm V9H34, by the way."

"D4M12," he replied, shaking the offered hand. "So, how are you liking the festival?"

"It's a nice change of pace," V9H34 said, taking a sip of his drink. "Gives us a chance to unwind a bit. And it's always good to see our training in action, even if it's just relaxing."

D4M12 nodded, looking thoughtfully at J2X17 and Z3N88. "You think they're a good match?"

V9H34 raised an eyebrow, a mischievous glint in his eye. "There's only one way to find out." He tapped a few commands into his wrist computer, accessing the personality profiles stored in their databases. "Let's see if the algorithms agree with us."

D4M12 watched as V9H34 pulled up the profiles for J2X17 and Z3N88. The screens displayed detailed information about their traits, preferences, and compatibility scores.

"Well, what do you know?" V9H34 said, a satisfied smile spreading across his face. "Looks like they're a match. The profiles say they complement each other perfectly. It's like the conditioning was designed for this."

D4M12 let out a low whistle. "That's impressive. I mean, I know the conditioning helps us work together, but seeing it in action like this is something else."

"Yeah," V9H34 agreed, his tone thoughtful. "It's like the system knows us better than we know ourselves. Sometimes it's a little creepy, but it works."

They both fell silent for a moment, contemplating the implications. The conditioning they had undergone was designed to foster camaraderie, efficiency, and, it seemed, even personal connections. It was all part of the grand design to create a seamless, unified force.

"Do you ever think about what life would be like without all this?" D4M12 asked, gesturing around them.

"Sometimes," V9H34 admitted. "But honestly, I can't imagine it anymore. This is who we are now. And it's not all bad. We have purpose, direction, and, as you can see, even companionship."

D4M12 nodded. "Yeah, I guess you're right. It does make things... simpler."

They both turned their attention back to J2X17 and Z3N88, who were now dancing again, their movements synchronized and fluid. There was a natural ease between them, a sense of belonging that was hard to deny.

"So, what about you?" V9H34 asked, a teasing note in his voice. "Anyone special in your life?"

D4M12 laughed, shaking his head. "No one at the moment. But who knows? Maybe I'll find someone who's a match for me too."

V9H34 grinned. "Well, if the profiles are anything to go by, I'd say your chances are pretty good."

They clinked their drinks together, a silent toast to the strange, engineered fate that had brought them all together. As the night wore on, they continued to chat, the bond between them growing stronger with each passing moment.

In the background, the music played on, a testament to the enduring spirit of camaraderie and connection that defined their lives as conscripts.

[the-tzimisce]

absolutely loathe the thing they do in every crafting video these days where it's edited to show them touching the thing and boom the thing is in the exact same place with the next step done! like oh, my sensory starved viewership is clamoring for build videos but heaven forfend that their viewing experience is disrupted by even one second of actual labor! no no, don't imagine you could satisfy your soul-deep yearning to physically touch something by actually doing it, here's some glorified visual ASMR with an instant payoff higher than any given single second of real life can replicate, please keep ticking up the view count instead of touching grass!

and like I don't care at all about video editing, I am watching the video because I'm interested in the craft and the craft isn't here, and maybe if I did I would have found it so so cool and clever, like, once, but algorithms being what they are now that it's become The thing it's going to stay that way for the next like five years, pushing anyone whose videos might have actually been interesting either off my feed entirely or to waste time they might have spent making cool things to make videos about on this sort of drearily perfect production nonsense. truly we had like a ten year golden age where you could learn all you wanted about any given cool thing online between the analogue information gulf and the modern content abyss

[subterranean-heartsick-blues]

Fox of Fox Hall by by R. Cooper book review

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

You been a good old wagon, you got me there in style / Oh, but you left me here to walk a ragged mile (The New SF Blues – Hurray for the Riff Raff).

This is probably obvious by now, but I’m actually not all that great at expressing my emotions. I kind of try to make up for it by using an exuberant amount of exclamation points, but I sometimes wonder if that’s enough, you know? This is why I’d be a terrible BookTok or YouTube book reviewer, because I’d be on there saying shit like “Ahhhhh this was the best book I’ve ever read in my life!!!!!!” with zero inflection in my voice, sitting there with my “:|” face, all neutral-like. When I finished this book a little bit ago, all you really need to know is that I kind of just stood up from my chair and then sat back down in repeated succession like some kind of Sim. This book was good though. Really good! And I’m not even lying when I say that it’s probably going to win my own personal award of “Best Fantasy of 2024!” It’s a highly esteemed honor, if you didn’t know. This novel reads like a folk song, as pretty as can be. Which felt like a breath of fresh air in my endless and continuous reading journey, because the fact is, I kind of dipped on the fantasy genre a little bit ago. I abandoned my boy! I don't know, I guess things were getting a little too samey for my taste. I mean, all these books with the same overindulgence on world building, the same weird worship of royalty and “man’s divine right to rule,” and the same cookie-cutter, doe-eyed main character starring opposite the resident “bad boy” in order to satisfy some kind of algorithmic “enemies-to-lovers” formula, I can see in perfect hindsight why I dropped off. But hey, no worries! I can solely put the blame on Fox of Fox Hall for pulling my ass back into the fold. And I’m glad I’m saying all this in writing, because now you can just imagine the all of the vast excitement in my voice rather than me having to act it out. “Yoo~oou’ve got me feeling emotions” and all that. Anyway, we follow Fox, a beautiful and clever bard who also happened to be the king’s favorite until recently falling out of favor, as he tactfully maneuvers, with knots in his stomach, through the complicated machinations of court-life. At court, he’s constantly being subjected to subtle and not so subtle mockery from the high-class nobles who think lowly of him and feel threatened by his presence due to his “commoner” status and the fact that he was able to move up in the world despite that fact. Being justifiably afraid that his new precarious standing with the king will lead straight back to him living on the streets, Fox has to find some kind of lifeline. The only problem being that he’s utterly alone… that is, until during one particularly public humiliation from these rich jerks too many, a knight in shining armor by the name and title of Byr Conall comes to the rescue and defends him. This catches Fox’s attention immediately and he spends the rest of the story wondering what the shape of his cock is like. That’s what they call a learning curve! Badum tssss.

Okay, but really, I was captivated by this book. A lot of “Cinderella” type stories get so caught up in the extravagance, the flash, and the excess of the whole new world and lifestyle that Cinderella finds herself in, that they don’t really take the time to properly explore what such an upheaval would actually do to someone. What I think this book does masterfully in this respect is closely examine that journey and more realistically depicts what would actually happen when a kind man with a predilection for justice tries to romance a strong, but wounded person who believes that their only purpose in life is being useful. They’d take a while to get used to the idea that they can be happy, no? How can a person with severe (and justified) trust issues learn to love and trust wholly and completely? That’s what this book is; a patient and caring love letter to those who need a little more time than most. That’s why Fox of Fox Hall affected me so much, because it’s nice when a story takes the time to take care of the characters, and doesn’t just try to move past the natural conflict too quickly by stamping a big old “happily-ever-after” at the end and calling it a day. But you know, Fox and Conall aren’t the only main characters of this book, the third most important dude here is the King, Domvoda. And yeah, he sucks, but the way he’s written doesn’t suck, that’s for sure. I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but I think the scenes with just him and Fox conversing, meaning when they were verbally sparring, ended up being some of my favorite chapters in the whole book. It’s not the easiest thing to write awkward and tense stand offs without the writer eventually bailing on the scene and writing in some kind of physical altercation, but R. Cooper let the tension lie. Every. Single. Time. They made casual dinner conversations into nail-biting thrillers. The simmering rage, the quiet judgments, the pearl-clutching. It’s great stuff! Seriously, I literally leaned forward from my very comfortable reading position several times whenever they were going at it. It was like I was watching [enter sport name here]! And I liked the way that none of the conflict in the story was directly life-threatening, because the “uncomfortable dinner party” vibes actually helped to highlight the king and his court’s petty and childish nature. I may have hated Domvoda, but I was always happy to see him show up. Really though, fuck him. Well, maybe not, because he was totally going to win my own personal award of “Least Fuckable Man on the Planet – 2024," but El*n Musk’s already won the top spot in that category from now going on until forever. Anyway, it turns out that the ingredients of a beautiful love story combined with beautiful prose will concoct a beautiful potion that’s sole purpose is to enrapture me. I don’t recommend books often (because I’m terrified of somehow doing it wrong haha), but I don’t think it’s too tall an order to ask everyone to read Fox of Fox Hall. Come join me in feeling all the feels! I don’t say it enough, but I do so love it when a book manages to gut-punch me. Oof.

“Come here.” Fox affected a shocked look. “With me like this?” “With you however you please.”

[cautiousslug]

I sat in the laboratory with a 3000w inverter in my hands, silently chanting: "Three-phase output power control…" Suddenly, there was an exclamation next to me:

"What? Three-phase output control!"

The laboratory was in an uproar. Researchers looked at each other in astonishment, as if I had just said some shocking secret. An elderly engineer with white hair and wearing a lab coat stared at me in disbelief: "Isn't this the new energy technology concept proposed recently? Even experts are still discussing how to optimize the power control of inverters. You have actually mastered the actual operation?" The laboratory director came over with a solemn expression, apparently reporting up through the communication equipment. Soon, experts from the Energy Technology Research Institute, representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and industry leaders rushed over. The experts brought thick technical documents, seemingly to witness this "unworldly talent" with their own eyes.

"Young man," the head of the technical group pushed his glasses, his expression solemn, "you don't need to continue testing. We have decided to hire you exceptionally. Talents like you should not be researchers, but should stand at the forefront of technology and lead the direction for the entire energy industry." The representative of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also praised: "Your contribution to the future energy field can be described as a milestone in technological revolution! If you are not satisfied with the position of the research institute, my director position can be given to you!" The surrounding engineers and researchers have long cast envious eyes. Some even whispered, guessing whether I was a direct disciple of some hidden scientist. I just shook my head calmly and shrugged, with a slight smile on my lips: "Well, it's rare to see."

Should the story end here? Of course not! Things are far from that simple. A few days later, I stood in the control room of the National Energy Research Center, surrounded by unsolved energy allocation problems and power grid scheduling algorithms waiting to be optimized. I originally thought that sitting in the high position of technology leader, I could easily use inverter technology to conquer all energy management problems. However, when I really began to face these complex power demands and energy transmission problems, I found that things were not as simple as I imagined. "The stability of multi-energy grid connection… intelligent load balancing of smart grids…" I looked at the complex power flow diagrams on the screen with my brows furrowed. Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded behind me: "Do you really think that 3000w inverter is the ultimate weapon?" I turned around abruptly and saw an elegant middle-aged scientist. He walked towards me with a smile, holding a technical manual annotated with complex circuit diagrams in his hands. "Inverter technology," he said softly, "is just the beginning."

I was stunned. What's the situation? Is the peak of the energy revolution still far from coming?

From that day on, I began to study the mysterious technical manual day and night. However, as time went by, I found that these so-called "ultimate solutions" were nothing. Those complex circuit diagrams and algorithms became clear to me, as if I was born to understand them. The pen in my hand was almost automatically flying on the whiteboard, and the derivation steps kept pouring out, as if with divine help.

In less than a week, I completely mastered the entire manual, and every design and every innovative idea was clear to me. Then, on a sunny afternoon, I stood in front of the laboratory, and the last technical difficulty had been solved. I leisurely stretched and felt that the research and development during this period was really too easy.

"Well, is this the so-called ultimate optimization of energy transmission?" I said to myself, with a confident smile on the corner of my mouth, "It's really unsatisfactory."

Just as I was about to throw away my pen and leave casually, the laboratory suddenly began to vibrate slightly, and all the data streams on the display stopped. In an instant, a light burst out of the experimental equipment, enveloping the entire room in a strange atmosphere.

"What's the situation?" I frowned, although the scene in front of me was shocking, I was still calm. At this moment, the mysterious scientist appeared again. He looked at me in disbelief: "You…have you solved all the core problems of energy management?"

I shrugged indifferently: "Yes, it's nothing special. It just feels like ordinary practice."

The scientist stared at me in shock: "Impossible! These problems cannot be completely solved even by top scientific research teams. You actually solved them all in just a few days!"

"Oh, I see," I smiled indifferently, "I probably have a unique understanding of energy technology."

At this moment, the entire laboratory was wrapped in a powerful electromagnetic energy, and I was once again drawn into the light. When I regained consciousness, I found myself standing in a magnificent energy technology space, surrounded by complex circuits, sensors and energy flows, as if in the universe of energy science and technology. The scientist was still following me, excited beyond words: "This is the ultimate world of energy technology! Only the top geniuses can enter, and you…you will become the master of this field!"

I shook my head gently, completely at ease: "Is this the ultimate field of energy technology? It's nothing." I looked up at the countless floating circuit diagrams and energy flows, as if they were all waiting for me to dominate. I smiled lightly and waved my hand, all the difficulties were instantly straightened out, and the whole space was surrendered to me.

"From now on, this is my world," I said softly, with a firm gaze full of infinite confidence. The scientist could no longer speak, he could only look up at me, his eyes full of awe. Thus, I stood at the pinnacle of energy technology, overlooking everything. And the initial inverter experiment was just a trivial episode I casually described.

[electrificata]

Open letter to a 34 yr old tiktoker who makes all her content about "millennial nostalgia" and videos where she throws up items currently for sale at big box clothing retailers to talk about how "gen z doesn't even know" or something:

Does this make you feel like you are growing? In high school did you have an interest that you were afraid to talk to your friends about? Maybe you liked helping your mother in her garden? Maybe your grandpa was a mechanic who taught you how to deconstruct a tractor engine? Maybe you liked to crochet? Did you follow the wnba? Maybe you know a lot about beetles? Did you hang out with the emo kids sometimes? Did you wish you had the guts to dye your hair black? Were emo kids bullied at your school? You seem nice, i cant imagine you were a bulIy. Did you know anyone who was?

I only see you on the internet when the algorithm deems it necessary, and from what i see, you listened to music in the top 40, wore clothes from abercrombie and hollister, and went to parties. These are all good things to do! Im happy you did them! But now you are in your thirties. And you clearly devote a lot of time and effort to making videos about the most universally-relatable (american) pop culture experiences from your youth, and i can only see the barest whisps of particularity enter your storytelling. The culture of the 2000s and 2010s was centered very completely on youth, it did not offer images of adulthood to us other than perhaps sex and the city. Now that you can no longer embody adolescence, who are you? What happens in your mind, other than nostalgia. Do you practice a religion? Do you do yoga? Have you read about the history of yoga? What movies do you watch. Do you enjoy drawing or mathematics? Why is it important to you for younger people to understand that you wore gaucho panta in 2007? Do you walk in the woods or on city streets? Do you bake cookies? Can you build a campfire? How many neighborhoods do you know by heart? What do you feel when you look out at the large body of whater nearest your home? What do you do now that you did as a teenager? That you did as a child? Are you satisfied?

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I picked this up at a bookstore in Seattle where the shelves were covered in sticky notes with employee recommendations, reviews and comparisons on them. I wish every bookstore had that.

It was ok.

My favorite part of this book was the subtle, implied-but-not-focused-on decolonization of the world that can be gleaned through context. I think a lot of the time when you see a work take place in a realistic, “near-future” setting, unless the it’s specifically about geopolitics, you tend to see one of two things. With more entrenched subgenres, often they’ll just borrow from the classics for aesthetic and call it a day - see, for example, every cyberpunk novel that’s set in a world-dominating Japan just because. Alternatively, the author just won’t engage with the idea at all, and, despite being 50-or-whatever years into the future and centered around some life-changing technology or concept, the world powers will somehow have remained nearly unchanged in terms of makeup and influence. And I get these approaches; writing’s hard, and sometimes re-imagining the whole world isn’t what you want to spend your energy on. However, especially with the latter approach, it implies a certain immutability and determinism to the world order, and to me, lends the setting a certain hopelessness that the author may not have even intended.

So, it’s refreshing to read a novel where the world has dramatically changed in interesting, optimistic or well-considered ways, especially when it’s entirely incidental and not really even relevant to the plot like it was here. Tibet is its own autonomous nation state, seems to have fought for and claimed back its independence, and is now a world leader in semi-sentient networked drone tech. The U.S. is mentioned I think once, as an aside that implies its flagging power. And my favorite bit: many of russia’s current colonies have broken apart from the empire, derussified, and reclaimed their sovereignty, land and culture, leaving russia a fraction of what it once was and seemingly a failing state. And again, this isn’t a plot point; we just pick it up via worldbuilding moments like when one of our leads (who we later learn is ethnically a Tatar) stops in at a teahouse in the Republic of Astrakhan, next to the “whitewashed old Kremlin walls”, or when he mentions that his hometown, formerly in the Republic of Tatarstan under the control of russia, is now a part of the free ‘Ural Commonwealth’. The world as presented in the book still has plenty of bleak, horrible shit going on, of course, but it’s nice when an author takes the time and effort to present some prospects like that as a matter of course.

I didn’t think the book really delivered on its main premise especially well. I’ll admit that I read the synopsis wrong when I bought the book (I was hoping for a first contact story set on an water-based exoplanet; I’m still chasing the high of In Other Waters), but I was still game for a first contact story set on near-future Earth, and octopi are pretty dope. Thing is, the book isn’t really as interested in telling one satisfying narrative as it is in almost academically examining the concept of intelligence from a variety of different angles; it almost felt like an anthology masquerading as a novel. 

While that’s not a bad approach on its face, I simply didn’t find most of the scenarios very compelling. Evrim’s sentience and relationship with DIANIMA didn’t feel like a very unique view on AI - if anything, the point-fives, the AI partners people are increasingly turning to instead of real relationships, seemed like the most prescient take. The algorithm-driven fishing ship, with its crew trapped eternally at the whims of its churning data analysis, was a fascinatingly macabre concept, but the scenario plays out without any real surprises. Amidst all that, the encounters with the burgeoning octopus society were well done, but with all the space given to all the other subplots, the ‘main’ story felt like it just got to the end of its first act before the book ended. It’s certainly true that actually getting the two species to a point of mutual linguistic understanding would take many years; to me, though, that means the narrative demands a timeskip, not to just be ended with a shrug.

I learned a lot of neat octopus facts, at least. Did you know octopi and other cephalopods are capable of editing their own RNA?

[cassynite]

Genres of reddit drama posts (stuff posted on r/relationships, r/maliciouscompliance, AITA, etc.) ranked by believability

This absolutely happened: Without a doubt this is a real thing that happened to a real person. The issue discussed in the post is detailed, unique but familiar, and grounded in reality; the "villain" of the post exhibits behaviors you'd actually see a real person do, and oftentimes there can be a question of who is actually in the right (especially with AITA posts). The issues discussed might not be all that entertaining at the end of the day, and/or the resolution ends up being unsatisfying. Entertainment value hovers at 5/10, give or take a point depending on what's going on.

This might have happened, and boy do I hope it did: The creme de la creme of reddit posts--bombastic, can't-turn-your-eyes-away drama, but with such a unique situation or such granular detail that it has to be based at least a little bit on a real thing, and if it's an exaggerated retelling of events you're willing to let it slide. Often told in a very distinct voice as well, with satisfying but realistic resolutions. Almost always has a well defined 'hero' of the narrative (not always the narrator; a lot of AITA posts where the poster is TA falls into this category in my experience). If it's not one of the top voted posts recently it should be.

The Soap Opera: There's a 90% chance this didn't happen at all, and if it did the version of events being told is so exaggerated it still might as well just be made up--but damn if it isn't entertaining anyway. Always has very clear heroes as well as villains, and those villains are mustache-twirling cackling caricatures with unhinged personalities and behaviors that you would never see in real life. A lot of Karen stories as well as mom-in-law stories fall under this umbrella. However, it's still unique enough and interesting enough that you want to know what's going to happen next in what is definitely going to be a multi-update saga. It's a soap opera--you know it's fake, but you're willing to suspend your disbelief.

The 2014 fake tumblr post: This tries to be a soap opera but overshoots by a lot; the name I give it should tell you the kind of "and then the whole bus clapped" energy these posts tend to give. The villains of the drama are even more villainous and more over-the-top with their behaviors, and their comeuppance is even more extreme. These Karens end up going to jail for berating services workers; these mom-in-laws get disowned by their families for the way they try to wear their wedding dresses to their sons' weddings to OP. Most likely you find these on those minimum effort garbage robo-voice tiktok accounts that plague my for you page.

The Trained Algorithm: This is a soap opera/tumblr post story that is a little too...similar to something you've already read. It could be the details given or even just the way it's written, that certain style or word choice that if you read/listen to hundreds in a row you can catch on to, a subtle but present sign that this wasn't even made by a person but by machine learning trained on these posts for the purpose of content farming. Tend to be mid to okay as entertainment but ultimately depressing because you can't even pretend it's a little bit true, and having to face the fact that people are so bent on Creating Content for Consumption that they'll resort to getting a bot to right a fucking AITA post of all things makes me have to face the existential horror of capitalism, which is something I read AITA posts to get away from.

The Trash: This is also a bot-churned post, but it's not even hiding it--words are used in teh wrong places, or completely mispelled, and it's obvious that after chatGPT spat this one out it wasn't even proofread before it was shat onto a message board or fed into a robo voice to be posted on tiktok. You can spot these from a mile away, and I imagine that there's a circle of hell that just has to read these as punishment.

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I still can’t decide whether high school was such a bad experience because of barker itself or because of me. But maybe it’s a combination of both. And I’m not particularly good at nuanced thinking, so that middle option just isn’t as satisfying for me.

This was all triggered by Sam byres’ post on Instagram that the algorithm decided that I needed to see this morning. It was basically just all the guys from high school who haunt me, except Will hunt. Thankfully he wasn’t there.

Anyway, so yeah I was in my head feeling hard done by, like no one understood me and I’m such a victim of my own excellence. But now I’m reframing it. Maybe I’m just in my education era about the female experience. Maybe this is all part of my development as a person where I have to spend an allotted time almost exclusively around women so I can learn as much as I can from them. Ofc I’m not going to go and exclusively become friends with men afterwards, but I imagine that more balance will be restored.

I also wonder if I’m scared of the male part of me, because it feels so raw and immature compared to the rest of me. I feel like I’ve definitely upgraded as a person, but as a man?

But then it’s like what does it mean to “be a man”. I’ve always resisted those sorts of things because they feel like an appeal to social standards and expectations that I just don’t subscribe to. So, when I worry about my growth as a man, am I worrying about it in terms of what society expects of me or what I want to be?

Is there really a difference between negotiating my life “as a man” versus just negotiating my life. Like yes I probably do things that aren’t deemed normal for a man or break bro code or something, but since when have I cared about that? Bro code just feels like a set of rules invented by people who aren’t as smart or emotionally intelligent as me. It feels like another way to control me and out in a box to make me obedient. No thanks.

But from a social psychology point of view, every group has its rules, and breaking the rules naturally puts you at odds with the group. If you want to be included in the group, you have to play by their rules.

But I’ve never liked playing by other people’s rules. So, am I doomed to be on the outside forever?

Probably not. I imagine I’ll eventually learn how to balance my own inclinations with the rules of others. For now, though, it remains a challenge.

Ok I’m in Mq centre 20 mins early for my Mecca shift. I want to find somewhere to sit and bring this post to a conclusion.

See, part of me feels like maybe I’m not as much of the problem as I thought I was. Maybe I’m just encountering the problem I’ve always had: I’m just a bit too mature for people my age. And I don’t wanna sit here and say that I’m definitely not the problem because I certainly play a role in the outcomes of my life, but maybe I’m not to blame as much as I may think.

Idk I just feel sort of dissatisfied with my social life atm. But I think I’ve always been dissatisfied with it, in every era of my life. So, maybe after all, I am just the person I’ve always been