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wannabe cypherpunk in the library of babel, straight up jorking it

Zhemao hoaxes Article Talk The Zhemao hoaxes were over 200 interconnected Wikipedia articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history written from 2012 to 2022 by Zhemao (Chinese: 折毛; pinyin: Zhémáo), a pseudonymous editor of the Chinese Wikipedia. The articles were fictive embellishments on real entities; Zhemao used machine translation to understand Russian-language sources and invented elaborate detail to fill gaps in the translation. The incident is one of Wikipedia's largest hoaxes.
In a corridor, a Fedorovist preacher speaks to an unhearing crowd: “We, all of us, are memories. We, all of us, are being remembered.”
Incidentally, Bolyai's father, Farkas (or Wolfgang) Bolyai, a close friend of the great Gauss, invested much effort in trying to prove Euclid's fifth postulate. In a letter to his son Janos, he tried to dissuade him from thinking about such matters: You must not attempt this approach to parallels. I know this way to its very end. I have traversed this bottomless night, which extinguished all light and joy of my life. I entreat you, leave the science of parallels alone .... I thought I would sacrifice myself for the sake of the truth. I was ready to become a martyr who would remove the flaw from geometry and return it purified to mankind. I accomplished monstrous, enormous labors; my creations are far better than those of others and yet I have not achieved complete satisfaction. For here it is true that si paullum a summo discessit, vergit ad imum. I turned back when I saw that no man can reach the bottom of this night. I turned back unconsoled, pitying myself and all-mankind .... I have traveled past all reefs of this infernal Dead Sea and have always come back with broken mast and torn sail. The ruin of my disposition and my fall date back to this time. I thoughtlessly risked my life and happiness--aut Caesar aut nihil.
Your Archetype The Immortal Revel Speeding toward stranger minds, machines in tow.
This saving and recalling is all done through Gas Town’s “Beads” system. 4 Beads are tiny, trackable units of work – like issues in an issue tracker – stored as JSON in Git alongside your code. Each bead has an ID, description, status, and assignee. Agent identities are also stored as beads, giving each worker a persistent address that survives session crashes. Yegge didn’t invent this pattern of tracking atomic tasks outside agent memory in something structured like JSON. Anthropic described the same approach in their research on effective harnesses for long-running agents , just published in November 2025. I give it a hot minute before this type of task tracking lands in Claude Code.
a snippet from claude code showing claude storing it's plans in a file called " ~/.claude/plans/wiggly-wiggling-garden.md"
That wasn’t enough, though. There were still some discoveries ve needed to make for verself. Yatima surveyed the sky of this universe one last time, then jumped to the copy of the Truth Mines ve’d carried all the way from Konishi. To play our everything ve was, to be complete, ve had to find the invariants of consciousness: the parameters of vis mind that had remained unchanged all the way from orphan psychoblast to stranded explorer. Yatima looked around the jewel-studded tunnel, and sensed the gestalt tags of axioms and definitions radiating from the walls. Everything else from vis life in the home universe had been diluted into insignificance by the scale of their journey, but this timeless world still made perfect sense. In the end, there was only mathematics. Ve began to review the simple concepts nearby-open sets, connectedness, continuity—waking old memories, resurrecting ossified symbols. It would be a long, hard journey to the coal face, but this time there’d he no distractions.
Her world had a spartan geometry: bare wireframe walls and eight bit colour. A city of glass buildings, of transparent towers made of logic, floated in the empty space near the origin, its inhabitants were stylized human shapes, empty of texture, their voices were identical. Hinton Station was a virtual world in six dimensions. Its people were a clade of mathematicians who had gone into the computer to live in the Platonic realm. Gradually they lost sight of the world and disappeared into their own abstractions. For its people, the acme of life was writing exegeses of Hinton, Cartan, and Poincaré, and debating and dispassionately refuting them. Immense towers of abstraction, crystalline forests of Gentzen trees were built, and then torn down. And this went on forever. And all that is natural — all that is a gift from God — was absent from them. In the computer, all things are a product of human labour, and all exists fleetingly, and is torn down on a whim.
Donald Boat's review of the drink known as White Monster in their new language: Donald and Boat's Symbol for A New Century
" Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle." — Bryan Cantrill
a black and white image of a pixelated cat staring at floating kanji
freddie and the master embracing tenderly from "the master"
"Forces of Production" by David E. Noble
We don’t have to wait for capitalists to sell us the rope that we hang them with, instead we can just build and distribute open source desktop rope factories so that anyone who needs rope can simply make it themselves.
Joe Armstrong presenting a slide with the the title "Names" which lists problems with names at scale
Jesse from "Breaking Bad" crying while screaming "He can't keep getting away with it!" while looking at the Richard Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" blog post
"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex." - Valerie Solanas, "SCUM Manifesto"
Germany’s self-imposed isolation will lead to a slow erosion of the labour force unless it is urgently addressed. Revising the narrative around migration to recast it as part of the solution would be a good starting point. But the political class hardly looks ready. As Markus Söder, the conservative premier of Bavaria, recently told the rightwing media outlet NiUS: “Of course we need immigration– unfortunately.”
"The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. "
"It's a pity both sides can't lose." - Henry Kissinger
The top of a water reservoir, covered with black plastic "shade balls"
"Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective" by Kevin Carson
We are in the very, very, very early days of computing, and there is a strange future that stretches out far ahead of us, vastly longer and vastly stranger than any of us can possibly imagine. There are many path dependencies in the modern computing industry. There are many decisions made decades ago that have heavily shaped modern computing, where a different outcome could easily have led us down a wildly divergent path. The modern range of popular operating systems were designed decades before the internet, on the assumption that the user was an expert who wasn’t stupid enough to run untrusted software on such expensive business equipment. The failure of operating systems to provide acceptable sandboxing of applications littered the early internet with security landmines. Browsers on the other hand provide sandboxing by default, and web apps began growing in popularity as soon as Google made Javascript run fast with V8. If the operating systems of the 90s and 00s had better security models, the domination of browsers as a de facto operating system may not have occurred. If CPUs had supported efficient context switches directly between userspace programs, the performance bottlenecks that pushed the 1990’s growth in driver code into the operating system may never have happened. In 1995, Linux was a mere 15,000 lines of assembly, and began growing rapidly once it bolted the bloated USB drivers into the kernel. We could easily have taken an alternate path where operating systems stayed small, and where hobbyists or startups could compete with Microsoft.
A stylized black and white illustration showing a man leaning back comfortably with his legs crossed in front of him, the chair he's sitting on has a keypad at the end of the right arm rest and a drawing tablet at the end of the left arm rest. In front of him are three screens, the first has the header "Codes", the second has what seems to be an org chart and the third shows an enlarged projection of what he has scribbled on the drawing tablet, a stylized "x".