Jay Alt

@jalt.bsky.social

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Do you love the hymns they taught you? Or are songs of Earth your choice?

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Ralph Wiggum, dissolving into air: (chuckles) I'm in danger.
In Feeling and Form Susanne Langer defines poetry as an art by its primary illusion of experience and claims all successful literature creates a semblance of mental process
The Architect from whichever matrix sequel
AI-gen tech style mayan calendrics dashboard
“My POV on hard subjects is not that we shouldn’t talk about them,” Kwon wrote on Slack. “Rather, because we are not just a research institution, but also an actor in the world (the leading actor in fact) that puts the subject of inquiry (AI) into the world, we are expected to take agency for the outcomes.”
The Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell
Cover of "Visions of Desirable Socities" edited by Eleonora Masini
Cover of The Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell
Description of the EMISARI teleconferencing system created in the Nixon White House to manage implementation of the 1970 wage and price freeze. "...what OEP thought of as a computerized version of a telephone conference call"
Short description of the SFMT (San Francisco / Moscow Teleport) network which (at unclear date) connected the PeaceNet machine in SF to a machine called uniipas in Moscow, with a dialup modem accessible to about a dozen people. "Some of these people are prominent critics of the Soviet government".
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First paragraphs of "End of the Macrocosm" in Hero With a Thousand Faces, describing the Mayan doomsday cycle
Passage in Progress and Poverty (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308.html.images) beginning "In theory we are intense democrats" and running through "seem to sweep us back again"
Passage of Progress and Poverty (searchable at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html) running from "The type of modern growth is the great city" to "the confidence of their fellow-"
Partial correlation plot using world values survey data showing zero sum thinking is left wing worldwide
"A Better Outlook for Cybernetic Man" cartoon by Stafford Beer, depicting the home computer user in comfy chair addressing multiple wall mounted monitors with reasonable requests for factual information, without advertising or surveillance
Digital painting of mister peanut with a gun
Blakes 7 cast photo featuring Blake in his insanely puffy overshirt but everyone is wearing normal trousers (not pictured)