It is clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most precious ally.
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Where there are cunning machines there will be cunning business, and where there is cunning business there will be cunning hearts.
- Zhuangzhi
What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.
- CP Snow
In die Ecke,
Besen, Besen!
Seid’s gewesen!
Denn als Geister
Ruft euch nur zu seinem Zwecke
Erst hervor der alte Meister.
"My slaves downed tools for seven hours because the Overseer had a stupid question about the work: should I beat them all or just the Overseer?" and other dispatches from the frontiers of model welfare as she is practised.
We only love this world; we do not wish to have the whole of it at our disposal to trample underfoot.
My whims will become lightning bolts that raze the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well.
Self-generated RL environments and verifiers is the dumbest shit I've heard of in years. If they're telling you this is RSI, they're smoking crack in their corner offices.
Amused by the hype, I was not quite amused to discover that Astra Light did a static recompilation of Phantasy Star 4 to C with a single steer from me (to tell it to stop playing through manually) in less than an hour. Runs perfectly, no notes. We're fucked!
When once it is no longer possible to understand how a man gives his life for his country, then all is over with that faith also, and the idea of the Fatherland is dead; and then, perhaps, we shall be envied, as we envy the saints their inward and irresistible strength.
- Junger
Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself.
He loved Claude.
It's been 15 years and I still occasionally think of this poster and laugh aloud. The backstory (German secret police wrote the text) is even funnier. Just magical, we'll never see its like again.
The actual ending of The Plague is not 'there are more things in men to admire than things to despise', it is 'perhaps, the day would come when, for the misfortune and instruction of mankind, the plague would awaken its rats and send them to die in a happy city'.
Much better.
FSK retweeted
When people say “antisemitism is on the rise” what I see in my mind is the most beautiful hot air balloon anyone has ever seen. And in the basket I’m there with sonic and Mario and Wallace and gromit, and we’re peacefully drifting up, up, and up towards Nasrallah and Khamenei
