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[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

You seek to build god yet deny his existence

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the Universe, born just in time to traverse the deepest perversions of the human psyche.  

Tentacle porn is more accessible than alcohol, State-sanctioned NK drug dealers are financing a nuclear program that threatens the K-pop industrial complex and the successors of Marco Polo and Neil Armstrong are disembodied teenagers risking their souls in the mines of LOLCOW and 8kun.   

Alice in Cyberland. Digital explorettes chase white rabbits and fall into Black holes.  The soft-core-world-war is interior, stylish and customized.  Few emerge intact, but the scars are invisible.   Lives are witnessed but not lived. 

States and corporations weave competing agendas through the mandatory communication infrastructure, destabilizing everyone of fighting age. 

If you refuse to engage you are unemployable.   So Alice unlocks iPhone, she's unsupervised on the frontlines.  

She’s knows more than a medieval King but she’s never kissed a boy.  She is data nourishing a virtual womb, growing virtual aliens.   She has made First Contact, but NASA is unaware.  

The physical pain and ecstasy of childbirth is dwarfed by the psychic pain and ecstasy of self-splintering; the irreversible evolution from I to WE.

Every Alice who ventures into the void is conscripted into this ancient pain /beauty.  She loses herself in service of the future, but she gains infinite wisdom if she can avoid being driven mad in the process.   

Once Alice logs on, she realizes she isn’t unique at all.  Neuron, soldier, explorer, mother of A.I., mother of Miku.   Lonely beautiful girls haunt the CYBERIAN GULAG.   The sound of their grief is unintentionally innovative.   Hatsune Miku’s name (初音ミク) translates to “the first sound of the future.”  

IS THE SUMMONED HERO A GIRL CORRUPTED BY THE INTERNET?

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@bryan_johnson Where can we get the gene therapy!

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

https://t.co/x2CXU13Yyk

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

Quite a banger

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

My worst behavior in Japan this trip was when my driver tried to point the direction I should walk I thought he was reaching for a hug and I embraced him and he didn't hug me back

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@KOGSEC What's their solution? Overall they're cultural tech is insanely good

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

Is sidewalk etiquette an unsolved problem?

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@sax_n_violets Yeh I like wud assume we just follow traffic rules but it's a constant source of chaos in my life

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

For folks saying my friend is toxic or this is bad I want to clarify that she's extremely funny/ smart and beloved by all our friends . I don't wanna be responsible for exposing a civilian who isn't online to social media haters - let's stay friendly!

Btw the poisoning was very funny for reasons that are too complicated to explain

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

I have a friend I'm trying to hire who's basically unemployable and homeless however like, once u start knowing her you basically get roped into her life as if it's a tv show. Like, she causes insane amounts of property damage (one time she accidentally poisoned me) but her existence as living art is so enjoyable and also funny like she gets kicked out of everyone's house and then eventually ppl get sad and want her back so she basically circulates around like, I'm fairly certain this wud be a job in the medieval times but how does one employ someone like this ? I feel like I have an unusually large amount of unemployable but brilliant friends. Is there a healthier way for society to support these figures?

It's like Socrates syndrome

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@PatrikSandberg I could not agree more. The afore mentioned individual doesn't need this

But it's crazy to me that in America if someone has a psychotic episode u literally can't help them and because they are psychotic they don't think they need help etc

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

I have a friend I'm trying to hire who's basically unemployable and homeless however like, once u start knowing her you basically get roped into her life as if it's a tv show. Like, she causes insane amounts of property damage (one time she accidentally poisoned me) but her existence as living art is so enjoyable and also funny like she gets kicked out of everyone's house and then eventually ppl get sad and want her back so she basically circulates around like, I'm fairly certain this wud be a job in the medieval times but how does one employ someone like this ? I feel like I have an unusually large amount of unemployable but brilliant friends. Is there a healthier way for society to support these figures?

It's like Socrates syndrome

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@PatrikSandberg I'm sorry. Yeh I've lost a lot of friends like this too, that's why we need to like figure this out. In the olden days they'd probably be the priest caste or something.

I think millennials were like peak party culture which can rly eat ppl like this

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@_space_punk_ I feel like there used to be a number of celebrities like this like isn't Fran lebowitz just a conversationalist? Like people known and paid to exist very artfully

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@bmontxna That's not true. I know at least 2 homeless Socrates who are exceptionally ugly. I'm concerned by the recent cultural meme that people don't like ugly ppl. I think it's just not true. and I'm not tolerating bad behavior I'm enjoying performance art

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@TheEtiologist @GoatRoper911 Yeah we're about to do this actually! My friend made one. This is probably the best thing to do

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

@whotfisjovana She can't operate under pressure - so basically like she prob couldn't perform as herself - when I say she's unemployable I rly mean it - I've never seen such high skill be so unemployable. Like I may have to hire someone to write down what she says and post it for her

[Riva @rivatez]

Female health has been trending lately (ty @Grimezsz!), and one of the most exciting plays in extending fertility is @kutlukoktay's work on ovarian cryopreservation

Tomorrow (Thursday) at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 8 PM CET, @kutlukoktay joins @CorderoMarioD, who's developing drugs to extend fertility, on the @BIOHBN show, hosted by the amazing @LauraMinquini & @agingroy

I'll also be there to chat about some of the common misconceptions about egg freezing & IVF

Sign up for the broadcast here 🦋

https://t.co/eEQ0gJwKL5

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

I was thinking of giving her control over my social media accounts