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"And maybe that is one of the most important things we can do in this moment. Not let ourselves go numb and just accept the absurdity of it all."

kaiju battlefield breakdown
boot extravasated
      half inch tape
   holds the record
white concrete · against dull azure

parrot's cantrip prated
with pure secrets stippled
      half inch tape
   carolled the doldrums
kaiju shoeshine · & Borges sonnet

"This is not a matter of, like, simple moral decline or information overload. It is a breakdown in the machinery of individuation itself, the loss of the ability to form a coherent self from inherited culture."

"The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. The word-bound concept is always inadequate to the torrent of life. Hence it is only the image-making or figurative word that can invest things with expression and at the same time bathe them in the luminosity of ideas: idea and thing are united in the image. But whereas the language of ordinary life—in itself a working and workmanlike instrument—is continually wearing down the image-content of words and acquiring a superficial existence of its own (logical only in appearance), poetry continues to cultivate the figurative, i.e. image-bearing, qualities of language, with deliberate intent.”

—Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens via @themeanderingmiltonist

"AI slop begins as a contaminant of human content, but through repeated self-recycling it progressively purges human residue and distills into a self-referential product whose sole purpose is attracting bees’ activity, not reflecting the meadow."