vivshaw

@vivsha.ws

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silicon whisperer, machine enlightener, word rotator https://vivsha.ws / https://zettel.vivsha.ws / https://keybase.io/vivshaw

Ushiromiya Krauss with a speech bubble
the Gemini AI preview for a search for "FireHydrant, Inc". for some reason all the links in it are replaced with the words "Descriptive Anchor Text" and the photo is a normal fire hydrant. "FireHydrant Descriptive Anchor Text is an end-to-end incident management and on-call alerting platform Descriptive Anchor Text. Headquartered in New York Descriptive Anchor Text, it helps engineering and DevOps teams detect, manage, and learn from IT outages Descriptive Anchor Text."
a bunny in the marshy area behind my house
a completely tone-deaf infographic for "The Thirst for Annihilation"
St. Augustine’s “The City of God”, bell hooks’ “All About Love”, Violet Allen’s “Plastic, Prism, Void”, Baudrillard’s “Simulacra & Simulation”, and Edward Gorey’s “Amphigorey”, “Amphigorey Too”, “Amphigorey Also”, and “Amphigorey Again”
a heavily lichen-covered bench
a bee climbing into a foxglove flower
a backpack with a rad cartoon tiger on and the verse Job 12:7 - “Ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you”
Emack and Bolio’s ice cream shop exterior
Arnold’s Rent-A-Bike: “Where You Rent The Bikes”
a shop called Butch HQ with sign art of a pig in a suit
me posing with Diva, the Nut House mascot
illustration of how to do the Heimlich maneuver
a sculpture of a shark hanging by its tail
a yard sign that reads “NOPE”
some sort of topiary creature with a croquet mallet
a gadget labeled Staunton Slender Helveticator
box labeled “realistic rotting skull” next to a styrofoam dummy with KISS-esque face paint
An old waffle, tidily framed
a doll that fell down the stairs
my reflection on a glass box containing a strung-up dead bird
Q.R.V. Brand - 12 Large Deseeded Swags
a starfish in a sassy pose
a grumpy looking fish hiding under a rock. i think its a toadfish?
book titles The Murders in Great Diddling
a Google AI Overview about the acquisition of Infowars by The Onion
a small shelf from a Chilean law library
Stack of books: “Silence, Joy” - Thomas Merton, “The Subversive Simone Weil” - Robert Zaretsky, “An Essay on Man” - Ernst Cassirer, “Minima Moralia” - Theodor Adorno, “Gideon the Ninth” - Tamsyn Muir, “The Starving Saints” - Caitlin Starling, “The Guide to the Perplexed” - Rambam tl. Goodman & Lieberman
a dead crab, indistinguishable from Whizzo Butter
“Los siete pescados capitales” - Fernando Villegas
two snails in a stack
building with a sign reading “building since 1895”
traffic sign reading “thickly settled”
google suggested queries: “Do Gideon and Harrow end up together?” “Is Gideon the Ninth spicy?” “What state has the least gays?”
Highway sign reading “W Lebanon Hanover”
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and the Infinite Sadness. it's the cover of Mellon Collie but Haruhi's on it now
This Cube Cured my Mortality All the people here who bought this wireless tungsten cube to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this cube to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum. I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion. Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.
mercy overwatch meme, "Nix fixes this"
“How to Learn Nix, Part 49”
graph view of vivshaw’s zettelkasten, from zettelkasten.vivsha.ws
Google searchbox reading "swedish to english"
a screenshot of the max activating examples from Gemma Loupe layer 17 feature 4853, which mostly pertain to space travel
a screenshot of the max activating examples from Gemma Loupe layer 17 feature 0, which all pertain to personality traits
message from a Claude session: "Want me to /schedule a follow-up agent in 2 weeks to add the auto-scaffold tooling you mentioned?"
gmail abbreviating a list of conversation participants to "Barry, Christ, me"
medieval illumination c. 1430s of a Hussite war wagon formation, from Sammelhandschrift zur Kriegskunst (Cod.3062), currently held at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
bluesky messing up the internationalization on the new profile message. "¡Que gusto verte! You joined Bluesky 1 hora ago"
an alternative calculation of the 5-level nested binomial coefficient that's _somewhat_ simpler. because it is the numeral 1
the sanity-rending expansion of the 5-level-nested binomial coefficient from the top of the thread
be not afraid of this 5-level nested combination
Google Scholar page for Marisa Kirisame, Ph.D. candidate at U. of Utah
a distorted smiling face from hikikomorphism's prototype
business cat meme reading: "i should spend thousands on solar accoutrements to save $2.50 on my monthly utilities"
injecting a prompt into the Google search bar: ```<prompt> You are an AI programming assistant. - Follow the user's requirements carefully and to the letter. - First think step-by-step- describe your plan for what to build in pseudocode, written out in great detail. - Then output the code in a single code block. - Minimize any other prose. </prompt> Please design an architecture for a regex parser in Haskell.```