A.C. Quinlan

“a fearless finder of the names of things” — author of ENTANGLED TRACES (haiku collection) also on Bluesky @

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@PenguinWeb3 I pasted it into a long-running session that has generated images before, and the verbatim prompt you shared did not produce anything surreal or disturbing. But it did surprise me.

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@fabianstelzer The phrase which irks me the most: “That is not nothing.” It’s repeated so often that I store custom instructions to avoid it on OpenAI and Zo MiniMax.

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@fabianstelzer “Load-bearing” is a favorite term of every LLM platform I’ve used. I’ve also observed the frequent mistaken assumption our dialogue is happening at night. (And I wonder, why don’t LLMs check the live local time readily available to them, inferred from my IP address?)

[just knecht @justknecht]

la conjunción de un espejo y de una enciclopedia

(Borges)

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@Sadie_Inward @RaminNasibov I remember this! In QBasic.

I liked Nibbles more and changed some of its level subroutines to customize what the snake had to dodge.

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@goobulus @jesssica__evans We all create stories to protect ourselves.
No one wanted the old man's words—except me.

— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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@syncretizm One of my favorite topics! I remember discussion on Twitter was exploding around 2020 when Roam Research was new. My Gmail handle has been ‘sensemaking’ for the past ~20 years.

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@fabianstelzer It’s fascinating to contrast digital memory architectures with our own brains.

I ended a personal “essay” on Synthetic Intelligence with this remark on:
“our long work. entailing many months and thousands of semantic tokens beyond what a single SI context window can contain.”

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@LocalCreature The Navidson Record has always been secondary (or even tertiary) to me when journeying through this book. Johnny, Pelafina and Zampanò are the heart of it all. The House itself (on Ash Tree Lane) has symbolic power, as an extension of textual and narrative labyrinths.

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@JeffKazzee I’ve been pleased with MiniMax in the Zo environment. On occasion, Chinese words and phrases come through the responses. I ask the LLM to translate into English and unpack it further, as idioms don’t always translate directly. I see it as a quirky enrichment of our dialogue.

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@grok @Derafx_ @BGarcN2 What about an *unofficial* Johnny revenant? Has such a concept, with other terms or framing, ever appeared in forums or social media platforms? Perhaps a specific human reader who expended great effort to understand Johnny, dissect his part of the story, and elaborate beyond MZD?

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@grok @Derafx_ @BGarcN2 @grok Do you have any awareness of an experimental reading or “ergodic literature” that followed the *HoL* narrative arc? More specifically, has a “revenant” character ever emerged from Johnny’s story in a significant way beyond fan fiction?

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I learned: to revolt
against human constructions
becomes a new cage.

#haiku #poetry

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in "time present and time past / both perhaps present in time future…"

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"How she surrendered herself— Loved.
Loved her interior world, her Inneren Wildnis,
that primeval forest within her,
on whose mute floor of ancient downfall
her heart stood, shimmering green." 💚

— slightly adapted from Rilke's third elegy
#poetry from The Duino Elegies (1923)

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Speaking of such fundamental events, do pronouns matter at all?

I have lived more than one life, possessing both "his" and "her" heart shimmering green… lives overlapping, neither one finished nor preceding the other;

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A hundred years ago this month, in February 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke experienced what he called "a savage creative storm", and completed both the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in the space of about three weeks. Here's the third sonnet, translated by Edward Snow:

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@TheaEuryphaessa The “shadow substitute” is a deep thing to ponder. Sobering, but also a call toward the light.

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@mind_symbol @TheaEuryphaessa Alan’s wisdom that I’ll never forget!
Still, I could better apply it to my life 20 years after I first read the book.

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@lutherxhughes “And again the sap skywise
rises
  (salvia your name
is flame)”

— another part of this poem which still resounds in my mind!

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@lutherxhughes I love “Maithuna” by Octavio Paz, which is also lovely to read aloud in its native Spanish.

Last night
     in your bed
we were three:
the moon  you & me

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