Sensitive young man. Film autark. Inscrutable liberal. Semanticist. American. Multi-track drifter. Unreconstructed aesthete.
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When I was twenty-one and I got an apartment I was like, maybe I want to be an audiophile. So I did a bunch of reading and then I found a $50 receiver at Goodwill, and then I bought two $200 towers and a subwoofer, and I ran the cable, and I was like, you know what, this sounds great, I don't need to go any deeper than this. And I stopped being an audiophile and just enjoyed music.
The year is 2026. A good ergonomic UX for heavy software engineering is to lie back on a chaise in a dim room with your eyes closed and speak your thoughts out loud to your computer at length, much like in a therapist's office.
I would not want to be a young director trying to break out with the name Lance Oppenheim. That's like being named Kobe Einstein. That's a lot of pressure.
My friends have been telling me I need to promote my books more, so here, check them out. People think they're funny/good. amazon.com/stores/Cairo-Smit…
As I said.
You see, the greatest French writer in history, Victor Hugo wrote an entire novel about how looting to feed yourself and your family is not a crime or personal failing, but a fundamental flaw of a corrupt system that gives you no other choice
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In Les Misérables Jean Valjean stole one loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven children. Recent Paris looting involved crowds taking cigarettes jewelry luxury goods and consumer items from stores.
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Only a few weeks left in the first cantica of the Fallujiad. The whole span is going to be brutal. Then Cantica Two of the poem will bring the Devil Dogs and the full war. Great time to jump in.
Really remarkable that utilitarians finally gained momentum through effective altruism and then immediately invented and got oneshotted their very own utility monster (LLM welfare), something that was only ever meant to be an absurd anti-utilitarian thought experiment.
It's all a kind of stage magic here, you understand. X, the everything app. Everything includes everything you can imagine.
Askari Labs on the beat in Santa Monica. Rare in-person communion of the emergent infinite devil machine. 📸 Rod not pictured.
Jacaranda Rosenbaum-Josselewicz is a traveler and "high millennial" tech dilettante who has multiple encounters with Ben across Scenebux and Homonoid. She first reveals her idiosyncratic preferences in the Amsterdam Red Light District, and later meets him as Admiral Rose-Joss at a spaceship bridge simulation convention in Vegas.
Art by @RodGlaserArt
POV you have fallen in an alley in Macau and a frontier conversation model inside a Chinese robot is about to hit you with an experimental crotch-mounted Israeli energy weapon (the goybeam).
…this was maybe not worth the bounty.
New art from @RodGlaserArt for my book Homonoid.
Read it, live it, believe it: amazon.com/dp/B0HKGQV8JP?tag…