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"All the principal participants in this episode emerged with great fortitude and with sanity intact, with the exception of Grothendieck himself."

"AGIs might become more capable of changing our values than we are capable of changing AGI values." —Forgotten Languages Full via

"The promise of lore is that of a web that sprawls endlessly, thus allowing readers to discern the equally endless nodes of connection contained therein."

"In Occupied Shuttilon"

1.
jagged white line
circusy classical
another
another

Parnassian switchblade

2.
so far up the mountain
it just struck me how far
good luck & bad luck
from here
nothing matters from here
& there's decades more of climbing
& you will never reach the top

3.
voice swallowed by echoes
cold feet in wet socks
rosary of waiting rooms
& the far off fall of demons

dressed stern in the worst way
second guess my choices
why hustle a croissant down
it may rain all day

these rooms that are borrowed
makes them most of all my own
black coffee like an edict
you return to your book

"This dichotomy between an unsettling, hostile future and an eerily comfortable past coalesces in the aesthetic category known as ‘dreamcore'."