Giant Pile of Rats (official)

Giving shape to the souris-tes paradox

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@saintsoftness Yeah, especially for his speculative works.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@saintsoftness Absolutely and in the Metaphysics too. My Greek has never been great, but I struggled through the M. in Greek and the composition of ousia makes a lot more sense in that language than in even very good English translations.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@saintsoftness Yeah, I find it especially handy with Aristotle because so much of the technical terminology in English is carried over from Latin glosses and can be more obscure than the Greek.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@TheStalwart Learning to formalise animal perceptual models is more promising long-term and probably less expensive, but also there's no pathway to become a trillionaire and/or profoundly change the productive infrastructure of capitalism with them

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@TheStalwart Expert systems using machine learning have tremendous potential for medicine, but LLMs aren't the right model types and they're too costly.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@saintsoftness Should be OK so long as the over-grooming has stopped. If you have a soft blanket or cloth, spread some catnip on it and cats'll often shift the grooming behaviour to it while cuddling it against the wound.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@TheStalwart Most of that stuff wasn't owned by any specific social institution which could be targeted for incorporation, elimination, or transformation.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@JesseBrown Weren't you originally implying the shooters were Muslim? Now that they're not, the claim is that some Iraqi guy who can't even get the details right is the mastermind? I think rushing to conclusions here is a bad idea.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@MichaelChongMP The museum regularly has long-running exhibits about other countries (Uganda and Myanmar in the recent past and should continue to do so. The Libs are trampling on Canadians' rights and this is what you're prioritising?

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@CTVNews The idea that Iran was actively working on creating a nuclear weapon is simply not factual.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@CantEverDie Banks have reduced their commercial loan business lines to mainly serve large, liquid(ish) PE borrowers over actual businesses.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@somethings_awry Specifically for ballpoint (liquid and/or gel?) or marker-tip and fountain as well?

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

Always a bit funny to me how the considerations of the utility monster problem are essentially a secularised reframing of "Should you sin by substituting your preferences for God's?" (He is, after all, the ultimate utility monster)

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025.

In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft.
https://t.co/0xpILXnURG

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@Silent_Mandible @plateauscave Cheers! If they end up being of interest, I suggest following up with Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, which is sort of a late-80s reflection on how things went since the original SotS was publshed.

[Giant Pile of Rats (official) @hebemachia]

@Silent_Mandible @plateauscave Report on the Construction of Situations (Debord), and Khayati's On the Poverty of Student Life as well, and then the journal Internationale Situationniste (it's on Libcom).

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@White_Janissary Yeah, ploughman's lunch was invented in the 1970s by a pub chain. Food that was enhanced by eating it with a beer was the point.

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@JesseBrown The existence of this industry comes up from time to time in news articles and Reddit posts, but mainly in the form of the police mentioning it briefly in articles about specific crimes.

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@JesseBrown I think the real story here is that Toronto has a teenage-murderer-for-hire industry , which despite the Canada Day weekend shootings in 2024 no one has really delved into in depth.