Chase Patterson

Golden State Catholic; seeing the sarcasm of eternity—the sword in one hand, the trowel in the other.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

Are shoes not the ultimate tool of ideology?

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

This is Slav reacting to Puritanism. The secularization as capitalism / ideology affords the Marxist critique but the more interesting question : would it be better, worse, or in any way meaningful if he conceived of his work as something other than serving a billionaire?

[“paula” @paularambles]

Consider, if you will, this peculiar Silicon Valley confession: “I worked for 36 hours with no sleep. Although I was dead, I also felt energized. I even fell asleep a few times while driving home in my Cybertruck, but fsd came in clutch. Happy thanksgiving.” People read this and say, “Wow, so crazy.” No. This is not crazy. This is ideology speaking in the first person.

Look at what he is really proud of. Not what he built, not the result. He is proud of his own exhaustion. He whips himself and calls it self-actualization. Before, the saint starved in the cave for God. Now, the engineer fasts from sleep for the billionaire.

And the best part, the truly obscene part, is the drive home. Here the machine steps in as what Lacan would call the big Other, the big adult in the room that keeps going while you collapse. You can be unconscious, half-dead, and still you are “productive,” because the car does the driving, the system does the watching. You close your eyes, the algorithm stays awake.

But notice the ideological twist: rather than confronting the absurdity of a society where one works until unconsciousness, the narrative is inverted. The same system that squeezes him until he is sleeping at the wheel also appears as his savior. This is pure capitalism. First it injures you, then it sells you the bandage, and you say thank you. You wreck yourself for one of the billionaire’s machines, then another one of his machines rescues your body on the drive home.

Which brings us to the “Happy Thanksgiving.” It is the final twist of the knife. Gratitude here is not for rest, or sanity, or enough sleep to drive safely. Gratitude is for the privilege of being exhausted in the right office, in the right hoodie, for the right man. You give thanks to the very structure that wears you down. It is like saying grace over your own burnout.

Thus the man who naps on the freeway is not a deviation. He is the ideal subject of our time. Half-alive, overworked to the point of being a public hazard, and then thanking the machine that keeps this madness just barely on the road. The system grinds him down, risks his life and the lives of everyone around him, and his reaction is not “this cannot go on,” but “I am so grateful.” In this one man in a Cybertruck you get the whole picture at once: exploitation, technology and holiday cheer condensed into a single, obedient “thank you.”

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

The brilliance of this is it does cut to that amusing moment where all philosophy collapses into an argument over the merits of cobblers.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

https://t.co/zeKUiZhoUx

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

We know gravity pulls things together in space...but have you ever seen what it does in phase space?

In this scene we're not watching a blob of matter in x–space. We're watching a thin probability sheet in (x, v).... position–velocity space... being pulled by its own gravity. In the collisionless limit, Liouville’s theorem says this sheet can stretch, fold, and swirl, but never tear or change area. Collapse in x is "paid for" by stretching in v.

Numerically, this is a 1D cold-dark-matter toy universe: a sheet of particles evolved under the Vlasov-Poisson system. We solve Poisson on a periodic line, get the self-consistent gravitational field, then integrate Hamilton’s equations so the sheet folds into a multi-layer spiral. The glowing filaments are where the sheet keeps revisiting, carving out dense caustics in phase space.

It's gravity not as "stuff falling down," but as area-preserving origami in phase space.

#Mathelirium #VlasovPoisson #PhaseSpace #Liouville #DarkMatter #HamiltonianFlow #ProbabilityFlow

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

Space is rarefaction. Gravity is a density—an anti-spacial vector similar in analogy to pressure mediation and equalization inside and outside of a balloon. While light is a coaxial circuit—the longitudinal extension twined with transverse curl. There is no antigravity.

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

just so we're clear:

Antigravity is a Windsurf wrapper

Windsurf is a VSCode wrapper

VSCode is an Electron wrapper

Electron is a Chromium wrapper

Chromium is a C++ wrapper

C++ is a C wrapper

C is an Assembly wrapper

Assembly is a Machine Code wrapper

Machine Code is a Binary wrapper

Binary is a Physics wrapper

Physics is a Math wrapper

Math is a Logic wrapper

Logic is a Philosophy wrapper

Philosophy is a Humans wrapper

Humans are a Carbon wrapper

Carbon is a Star-forged-matter wrapper

Stars are a Gravity wrapper

Gravity is… definitely not an Antigravity wrapper

[Cahair O'Kane @CahairOKane1]

Beautiful

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

Imagine the morning or night this was conceived.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Women with just 1.36% dehydration experience substantial mood deterioration:

↑ Anger-hostility 8%
↑ Fatigue 17%
↓ Vigor 12%
↑ Mood disturbance 19%
↑ Task difficulty perception 58%
↓ Concentration 45%
↑ Headaches 2x

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

Conducting a rigorous, n=27457 study weighing and measuring pinkies to determine if the claim does or does not care about feelings.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

Politics is a disreputable profession because a politician survives, in part, by telling lies which appeal to concerned groups within a broader population. Pointing out that it is a lie is pointless. Supporters value that a politician will lie for them if it is to their benefit.

[Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @RepTeresaLF]

Any school teacher has more work ethic in their pinky finger than Elon Musk has in his entire body.

Make. Billionaires. Pay. Their. Fair. Share.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

It it sad that it is so difficult to live a productive life and raise a peaceable family with a brick and mortar shop open to customers whose association with your wares is not mediated by algorithms, fiber optics, silicon—infrastructure.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

I’m sympathetic, but, if you didn’t build the internet and do nothing other than pay (which most do everything possible to avoid) for a fraction of a fraction of its upkeep then why do craftsmen get ownership of their tools and labor but engineers do not?

[Wetterschneider @Stretchedwiener]

Thank you Jeff, for solving the mystery of why people interested in making toys no longer visit my website.

It was a puzzle why, recently, traffic fell to zero - since my website had always been a helpful resource to answer questions about toy making.

The interested individuals would read a few Q and A's and often email me and I could work with them to make toys.

Now all that is gone. I didn't know where it went or why it disappeared.

It's because you scraped my website and used my work to build an AI based system that cuts me off.

Thanks!

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

I’m sympathetic because the weight of culture and politics, including the manipulation of currency and regulatory capture taught everyone to become dependent on the internet and then once dependent punished them.

[Garcia @GarciaCap]

Retail investors getting the ability to short sell during extreme fear

[Matthew J. Peterson @docMJP]

Every so often I click open the feed from a certain vantage point of clear-eyed soul-sight and read all the words as the utterances of a bunch of humans who just want to be loved.

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Every couple generations we remove a load bearing rule because the problem no longer exists and find out why the rule existed.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

I hope the FCC understands that if they sought comments on a rule that mandates drone strikes on these call centers they would instantly become the most popular and beloved government body in the country

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

Robocallers located abroad have been tricking Americans into picking up their phones by displaying U.S. area codes.

But now, the FCC is seeking comment on rules to prevent anyone -including a legit biz with call centers abroad - from masking the caller's real country of origin.

This is part of the FCC's broader effort to crack down on illegal robocalls. If our action here results in legit businesses deciding to onshore more of their operations, then that is a good and added benefit.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

@SkepticalAlpaca Yeah, then probably things like I described or her surname has two vowels or two consonants next to each other which never occurred in the training data they used for the NLP.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

@SkepticalAlpaca They are also concerned with things like sql injections, so it is possible none of this is about the surname but your wife accidentally included a period or comma or something that would break whatever database they are using.

[Chase Patterson @chasewpatterson]

@SkepticalAlpaca Depending on how lazy they are or how much of this rule creation is automated you get things like I described. Consider the variables: number of characters, placement of characters. Maybe they dig deeper, parsing vowel and consonants but there isn’t much to work with.