The Bible has no descriptions of Jesus’ appearance, yet his face is the most replicated and recognizable image in the world. What does that tell us about the nature of information?
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ANTHROPIC'S LEAD ENGINEER MAKING $2.2M/YEAR LEAKED THE COMPANY'S INTERNAL OBSIDIAN BRAIN - AND GOT FIRED THE SAME DAY
00:07 a live neural network with 21 inputs, 10+ hidden layers, ReLU activation - thousands of connections firing in real time as the system processes every decision
first layer 64 neurons, second 37, then 22 - all the way to outputs - this is not a diagram, this is the living brain of the company thinking right now
8,893 nodes, 4,729 links - a knowledge graph so dense it looks like a galaxy when you zoom out
Marginalia Collection, Glossary Backbone, Master Index with 9,000+ documents - every cluster its own universe of connected knowledge
the company building the most powerful AI in the world uses an Obsidian graph to manage its own innovations - and now it's all public
he made $2.2M/year to know this - you got it for fre
The jerseys have the names of both the settler colonies and the damned invader countries on them.
The men wearing those jerseys are overrepresented by those who were invaded, trafficked, pulled by violences of separation and curated, generation after generation, as capital assets by Western nation-states suckling on far away and somehow regenerating motherlands in their wake.
The “World Cup,” like the Olympics, puts this on display.
Here’s to the “hoods,” extensions of points of origin worlds away from where they gather themselves to struggle against predator states who cheer them on, until they don’t.
What is the French team but a machine fueled by African batteries?
What is “Portugal” vs “Spain” but a metaphor for the first two major criminal enterprises battling each other with weapons pilfered from far off lands? Or “Brazil” or the “US“ teams as strewn with bodies born from peoples held in everyday contempt except when on the pitch?
The Beautiful Game is indeed that. Thanks for reminding us of the sources of so much of its beauty.
What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
I keep on revisiting this. You might not realize the depth of what he said. In urdu poetry, there is a concept where poets view God as a lonely being, so lonely that He created free willed humans for company. Loneliness is a Godly trait & whoever enters its realm meets God there
🥇 | Indescribable
Lionel Messi at the #FIFAWorldCup since 1966:
• Joint-most goals (16)
• Joint-most assists (8)
• Most goal involvements (24)
• Most goals from outside the box (6)
• Most big chances created (16)
• Most key passes (77)
• Most successful dribbles (112)
We might never see another like him. 🐐
I cannot lie, and this is my personal conviction, if somebody mentions a player as their best ever and it’s not Messi, i just know i cannot discuss football matters with you at all. No need
God honors his favorites by crushing them, drops the whole insufferable wretched weight of purpose on their spines until they either snap into shape or snap entirely. the unburdened, those buoyant grinning vapid little phantoms drifting through their own lives without a single crushing thing to carry, they are forgotten