Laeth's Blog, page 5

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedthe patterns of machine text are not arbitrary. and they help reveal what antihuman communication is.what i've seen so far of 'ai' chat bots leads me to believe that were they to inhabit humanoid bodies, they would fit already existing patterns of human behavior, but only within that spectrum starting in sociopathic white collar criminal and ending in psychopathic street thugmy pessimism stops whenever i have the ...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*trusting chance and randomness is trusting in more wills than just your own. flipping a coin is often better than careful consideration. throw those lots. Matthias was a good choice for last apostle, Barsabbas had better things to do.bears repeating, badgers repeatedly, bugs repetitionwalk the walk, not just talk the talk. but it's also necessary to talk the walk. to adapt our beliefs to what is actionable. and ...

hors d'œuvre

i was already avant garde
during the belle epoque
and art nouveau
was for me deja vu

i was a bon vivant
sometimes risqué
that i was bourgeois and passé,
was a canard and a cliché

enthralled by every femme fatale
my coup de grâce
was la petite mort
very fin de siècle

i was an artiste
and an auteur
a blasé raconteur
without panache

such was my naiveté
i had a nom de plume
and a nom de guerre
for every single metier

suffering such malaise
perhaps even ennui
sapped of elan vital
and drained of joie de vivre

under an...

Wee Wisdom (31)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*if you give in to them, they'll take it out on youi've heard people say that we live in times of unprecedented peace and prosperity, and that dooming is just a false perception. and some of these people are religious, supposedly. all it proves to me is that being religious means absolutely nothing. they can be just as blind as anyone else. i guess i still hold some fantastic notion that ideas may shape people, but cl...

Wee Wisdom (30)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*'AIs' are not sentient. but they do have souls. yours. you gave it to them.last night i prayed to the Earth Mother and the Sky Father for rain and fresh air, a respite from the heat, and the gods delivered.everything never does not happeni need to be more pessimistic. trust less. assume the worst more often.come to your senses, be sensuallike someone who brushed against nettles too often, i have beco...

Wee Wisdom (29)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*farmers' markets against merchants' farmsi don't know what i'm doing until i've done itOrwell really was wrong about everything. but especially that if there's hope it's in the proles. it's anywhere but in them.an antichrist law is one that on the surface is meant to protect something good, beautiful and true, but in practice only serves to destroy it. many such cases. so many. and most people don't get it ...

Wee Wisdom (28)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*the prospect of 'designer babies' raises an important theological question. ultimately, whether God 'designed' you, or rather gave you a body that fits your pre existing spirit. and once again, conventional theology has no real way of answering the machine challenge. it's the same with oneness and the singularity. ultimately they are just doing what the omnigod supposedly did. and there is no way to argue against it fro...

The Rot, a novel

My second novel, The Rot, is now out.

It’s about the end of the world.

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The blurb:

What do we have for today, It’s called the rot, Does it say anything else, It says in the back, the world is ending, can you see it, That’s cryptic, Should we ask the seniors, But they never tell us anything important, We should try anyway…

Oh, that one, yes, we remember, What’s it about, It says right on the back, it’s about the end of the world, Which one, The one the people in th...

Wee Wisdom (27)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*i never adopted any stance or any pose. i always make sure to give birth to them myself.Jesus can only be the foundation for an illegal orderJesus was saying the oppositethe real fertility crisis is the obsession with quantity and the disregard for qualitya cloud of mushroomssplitting into atomsnuclear familiarityartists are not exempt from morality. they are in fact bound to obey a higher law....

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*Miles Davis did many different things, at different times, and innovated a lot. then everyone copied him. but Charles Mingus did everything at once. an integrated whole of past, present and future. unsurpassed and uncopiable. this kind of thing (Mingus being one example) has always been where i felt real genius is. you have to be both traditionalist and modernist, primordial and avantgarde, and at the same time, in ever...