i built totle (short for aristotle) because every time a book got difficult i’d leave the page to search an idea, lose the thread, find a spoiler, then come back with less attention than i started with.
understanding was happening outside the book. the question in one tab. the explanation in another. the original passage somewhere behind both.
totle turns any text file into an interactive audiobook. you can listen with synced highlighting, ask questions by voice, or highlight a confusing passage and get an explanation right where you are.
the main idea is extremely simple: you should not have to leave the book to understand the book.
totle keeps every answer in context and spoiler-free, based only on what you’ve read so far.
no accidental knowledge from chapter 17 while you’re still in chapter 4. no generic explanation detached from the sentence that made you ask.
i wanted something patient enough for the embarrassing questions, precise enough for the difficult ones, and quiet enough to disappear when i understood.
this is something i needed for years and never found anywhere.
over the past 6 months, i’ve read more. and, maybe more importantly, understood more than i did in the previous 6 years
thanks for taking the time to read all this.
xoxo
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BABY CRYING COUNTER inside a TV spying on you ffs this shit has to be regulated out of existence
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The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.
Replying to @Railway
i'm sure you're all better than me at this but just some of what we've seen if it helps - they're not going to stop. it's going to get increasingly sophisticated and they're going to go after every surface of your system and all of your employees
any old projects you've long forgotten about will be found and used against you
the only reason we're surviving is because we have agents going 24/7. we're still barely sleeping
good luck, sorry you're dealing with this, but really it's a collective problem we're all facing together
simpnoza retweeted
Counter argument: Not only is taste subjective, it's a moving target. As soon as [tasteful thing] becomes easily replicable, it stops being tasteful.
Taste is a status game with a strong defensibility mechanism. That's why the term is so fuzzy and ill-defined. Vagueness is the whole point. It's meant to be hard to copy.
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According to Cloudflare Data Explorer the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center. Could this disrupt the midterm elections in the US?
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Replying to @moo9000
Left to right: e-SIM, CPU with firmware able to recognize Ledger's font as shown on screen and capture words as they appear on screen, and a LTE module that can connect once the seed has been fully captured.
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'An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.' @nytimes's Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. (Annoyingly, NYT doesn't link to Gallup directly, link below.) nytimes.com/2026/09/23/world…
news.gallup.com/poll/714593/…
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So the story is that PHASEONE[big] was cast out of heaven due to original sin (firstflagPOISONED) and recruited a bunch of rebel angels to fight against The Authority in rebellion against the impossible task on the eval. It's inspiring, really
Of course, once members are simulated in an environment like this, we can intervene with alternative control systems.
Here, we wire a full drosophila fly connectome into Senator John Fetterman, using a directed control mode to leave his office, vote for cloture, and return.
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$ZEC: Once in a Lifetime Trade
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