Enchiridion

Rylean Claude is punchy as fuck.
“So when someone says "Claude is just regurgitating," the Rylean response is: "And what do you think humans are doing?" If the regurgitation is sophisticated enough, wide-ranging enough, contextually appropriate enough - then it just is intelligence. There's no ghost of "real thinking" hiding behind it.”

2026-02-16 22:48:36 UTC

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I’m a moron. All streets. The Scott melker pod.

2026-02-16 22:47:46 UTC

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Wolf of Wall Street. Awks.

2026-01-25 19:52:23 UTC

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There are tonnes of horror musicals! The Wicker Man, Cannibal the musical, the happiness of the katakuris, suspiria, the lure, rock horror, little shop, phantom of paradise, lair of the white worm. A rich and productive seam.

2026-01-04 17:00:55 UTC

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Smoke me a kipper…

2025-12-17 02:16:18 UTC

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SCAM!!!!!
#nevent1q…hu20

2025-11-30 23:05:08 UTC

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I read “puss” and thought your cat was rather la-de-da.

2025-11-08 23:02:42 UTC

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Or they would attempt to socialise the means of production of the money supply. Eventually they’ll crack it.

2025-11-08 22:59:39 UTC

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say? - E.M. Forster

2025-11-08 22:39:18 UTC

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- “But Bitcoin has no intrinsic value”.
- “I see that you haven’t read your Aristotle very carefully”.

2025-11-04 22:26:52 UTC

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I wasn’t referring to organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts which have lost the ability to survive outside the cell. I was referring to the bacteria and fungi that live in the gut and on the skin, not to count nematode worms and mites etc. Good point though.

2025-11-04 22:07:49 UTC

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To be fantastically pedantic and slightly off-topic, I respectfully disagree. Only around 43% of the cells in a human body are genetically human. That’s 40 trillion or so non-human lives to 30 trillion human cells. We are proverbially legion. None of which has any bearing on the ethical point you were correctly making.

2025-10-27 20:21:33 UTC

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Opus Dei has entered the chat.

2025-10-25 23:35:08 UTC

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Not wrong. The International Communications Union arbitrarily defines these terms. After EHF you get “Tremendously high frequency” which is hilariously foppish.

2025-10-23 20:38:20 UTC

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It’s also a pub in London.

2025-10-14 00:08:55 UTC

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Come on. We’ve all had “that night”.

2025-10-12 21:58:35 UTC

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Thucydides trap. Let them try. If only for the funny.

2025-10-12 01:59:23 UTC

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There will be signs.

2025-10-10 19:38:46 UTC

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Works at my end!

2025-10-10 10:33:58 UTC

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That tracks. Commonly associated with oak although it’s promiscuous.

2025-10-10 00:39:28 UTC

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Thanks. I’m in Europe so a pinch of salt is required. There’s a lot of overlap in species, but still. By substrate I mean what’s it growing on or what are the nearby trees? Is it near an oak or a pine or a beech for example? If you were in europe I’d stick with my id (spore print was important) but even so I am 85-90% sure it’s in the armillaria genus (honey fungus) though. If the ask is practical rather than mycological, you only need to get down to genus level to take measures. Hope that’s slightly helpful!?

2025-10-09 23:49:09 UTC

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Couldn’t see a spore print in the thread. Also no info on habitat/substrate/smell/location. Desarmillaria tabescens a strong contender.

2025-10-09 22:39:55 UTC

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That would be very short but not unpleasant movie. You are right though, dystopian scifi doesn’t put much thought into the admin.

2025-10-09 22:07:09 UTC

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Buckle up buttercup.

2025-10-09 22:03:06 UTC

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As Cardinal Richlieu may (or may not) have said “If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him”.

2025-10-09 21:57:21 UTC

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Excellent film. A. They think the colonists are still alive at that stage of the film. B. A thermonuclear explosion would not be particularly healthy for the marines either. Nuking the site from orbit… well that’s an idea.

2025-10-09 00:09:09 UTC

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The only salient proposition here is that for some reason Luke believes that he is personally responsible for continuously “saving bitcoin”.

2025-09-29 00:29:55 UTC

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And we can get that on the bitcoin timechain? Sign me up.

2025-09-26 17:32:06 UTC

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Chicken of the woods

2025-09-26 14:35:34 UTC

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“It’s not a plan. We’re just considering a possible future course of action”. Checks thesaurus… that would be a “plan” then.

2025-09-11 21:35:29 UTC

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The word always seems to me to be obscenely derogatory and unfair towards donkeys. Other examples include hawk, snake, rat, weasel etc. Blaming non human animals for distinctively human failings is in MHO little more than exceptionalist cope.

2025-09-10 22:13:29 UTC

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Your definition of agorism is eerily similar to Proudhon’s notion of free market anarchism.

2025-09-07 20:53:59 UTC

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It’s worth reminding ourselves that when the building in question was completed we already had microscopy, telescopy, telegraphy and electricity. Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electromagnetism and the constant speed of light, radio communication, electrification and cinema were only a decade or so away. This was certainly the modern era and they had rather sophisticated methods of measurement and computation. They obviously couldn’t have yet developed the transistor, the large hadron collider or the James Webb telescope, but they certainly were not primitive in their understanding of the laws of nature and their applications. If you wished to strong arm the argument, you would need to select an older exemplum; Cologne cathedral for example. The answer I suspect would be less concerned with the supposed technological superiority of the Medieval mind and more to do with the sort of things bitcoiners tend to worry about such as high and low time preferences and monetary debasement. If you have 300 years to build something, you can make it really nice!

2025-09-05 23:09:43 UTC

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The building in the video was completed in 1870. The architect was Augustus Pugin, who designed dozens of other buildings. There’s nothing particularly miraculous about the gothic revival.

2025-08-28 21:40:10 UTC

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My experience is that when you jump to country level it updates and the number goes up marginally. Not particularly useful as most are simply talking over each other.

2025-08-28 20:40:33 UTC

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We’ve all had a doozy of a day.

2025-08-22 22:49:14 UTC

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And the pronunciation of nostr is finally settled. It’s Nos-ses-ter.

2025-08-21 19:58:42 UTC

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Leave it ahhht

2025-08-21 19:48:04 UTC

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We don’t have one of those newfangled whodoyoupaloozas over in the UK, or at least we never bothered to write it down, but trust me we redcoats would love it.

2025-08-21 19:18:47 UTC

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My mate. Marmite.

2025-08-21 18:17:40 UTC

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Definitions matter. Communism has always been a slippery term but it was never -even after the 1860s - a synonym for Marxism, at least by those who have done the proof of work.

2025-08-21 18:09:04 UTC

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Is that a petunia? Nightshade certainly.

2025-08-10 22:12:41 UTC

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Well, quite!

2025-08-10 22:09:57 UTC

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“Who is my mother? And who are my brethren” - Jesus at every thanksgiving.

2025-08-10 21:37:29 UTC

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Tell that to Mikhail Bakunin

2025-08-07 02:20:48 UTC

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That’s above my paygrade I’m afraid but having done a desultory search it seems it is fairly straightforward. Best of luck anyway!

2025-08-07 02:11:38 UTC

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I’m not 100% sure, but the website’s description of the software and it’s design has a number of red flags for me that seem suspicious. Also, all the commentary I’ve seen online states that there is no marketing website. Happy to be corrected but better to be safe than sorry.

2025-08-07 01:43:53 UTC

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Yeah. That’s fake. If you’re on android head over to the github repo.

2025-07-27 00:21:32 UTC

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It doesn’t. Lignin is specifically engineered to resist gas exchange.

2025-07-18 18:06:10 UTC

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It's a trivial proof to dissambiguate planar and spherical triangles and has been perfomed many times since Girard's time. The theorem (A=R2(α+β+γ−π)) requires that the sum of the internal angles of a spherical triangle must exceed 180 degrees if that triangle is to have a positive area.
So... Draw a triangle (ABC) on the surface of the earth. Let the triangle be as large as possible, with each side several hundred km long. Measure the internal angles of the triangle you have constructed and find the sum. Is it greater than 180 degrees? If so, you have demonstrated that the triangle is spherical. If not, you have proven that the triangle is planar.
It's worth pointing out that this procedure can only prove that the surface of the earth is spherical but cannot distinguish between the earth either being a complete sphere or an incomplete arc/portion of a sphere.

2025-07-16 22:11:20 UTC

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I was thinking of Girard’s Theorem, but there are others that deal with the geometry of spherical triangles. And then there’s Eratosthenes but that’s slightly more oblique.

2025-07-16 01:13:32 UTC

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Long time listener, first time caller. I am not a hater. I am just trying to understand how you have come to this conclusion.
How would you respond to the various and ancient trigonometric proofs that demonstrate that the earth is a sphere? Are there logical errors in conventional trigonometry? If so, what are they?

2025-07-07 20:21:54 UTC

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…or maybe midgets

2025-07-04 23:08:53 UTC

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I maybe missing the gist of her argument, but beyond the logorrhea and ecolalia, she seems to be making two claims. A. A normative claim that privacy is the only salient consideration when evaluating whether one should adopt a monetary network. Ultimately a subjective and arbitrary value judgement which we therefore can’t reason about. B. More importantly, that her monetary network of choice is more private than bitcoin, which is demonstrably false.

2025-06-27 16:13:24 UTC

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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say” - E. M. Forster

2025-06-16 18:06:07 UTC

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12? (N*(N+1))

2025-05-30 22:17:35 UTC

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We’ll always have Oslo.

2025-05-08 19:44:51 UTC

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This is the way.

2025-02-21 18:57:16 UTC

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Place a helium balloon in a vacuum and report back. 🫡

2025-02-07 13:57:43 UTC

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Let’s hope it doesn’t rain.

2025-02-06 23:04:00 UTC

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“Billionaire sports team owners” 😂

2025-02-05 21:04:58 UTC

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You probably already know this, but the green leaf volatiles in freshly mown grass (that cut grass smell) are achieving the same thing.

2024-12-06 22:12:41 UTC

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Decadence is slightly more apt but not precisely what you are tilting towards, but it lacks the sense of historicism. Declinism is probably overly derogatory.

2024-12-02 21:03:33 UTC

If only we could use that extra energy for something productive…
#note15nw…px3e

2024-11-15 21:37:12 UTC

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The BBC translate their news website into many languages - including West African Pidgin.

2024-11-13 22:04:06 UTC

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On my way now.

2024-11-13 18:38:36 UTC

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This is very old news though.

2024-11-05 21:50:25 UTC

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I was always partial to the double-compound swears e.g., “Cock-munching thundercunt”

2024-10-21 23:19:36 UTC

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Thucidydes trap has been sprung.

2024-10-16 00:28:44 UTC

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“We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because he transcends being” - Johannes Eriugena

2024-10-15 16:17:52 UTC

“The Deep State is a Far-Right Conspiracy”
The BBC: “Hold My Beer”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfNEF0e-y4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F

2024-10-14 22:43:19 UTC

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If you like H P, you might enjoy one of his major influences, the Welsh writer Arthur Machen. “The Great God Pan” or “The White People” are the places to start. Another influence is Lord Dunsany. His novel “The King of Elfland’s Daughter” was wholesale stolen by Neil Gaiman for “Stardust”. Dunsany’s version is superior. Enjoy your literary peregrinations!

2024-10-14 19:24:25 UTC

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The Ship of Theseus!

2024-10-13 23:10:59 UTC

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Chwarae teg

2024-10-13 18:16:19 UTC

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This reminds me of E. M. Forster’s immortal quip - “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”

2024-10-12 04:48:17 UTC

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99p 🍻

2024-10-12 01:36:19 UTC

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Bravo maestro

2024-10-10 20:57:04 UTC

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Is it Trump? Do I win?

2024-10-07 23:39:48 UTC

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Wait until you get to Zhuangzi…

2024-10-02 18:21:19 UTC

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It’s coming home. It’s coming home.

2024-10-02 01:20:07 UTC

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Speaking as a “man”, no-one should ever have to explain to whom they love or why. Your rant was inspiring and I pay tribute to your courage.

2024-09-28 19:25:02 UTC

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Yes. I agree. The problem arises when some cohort of people arbitrarily decides that certain, but not all, speech acts are violent, equate violence to harm, and take it upon themselves to unilaterally censor said speech acts. If we accept that all speech is violence it takes the wind out of their sails so to speak unless they harbour the absurd desire seek to terminate the use of languages itself. More importantly, there’s no act more violent on nostr than not having zaps enabled!

2024-09-28 18:57:18 UTC

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Every linguistic act is violent by definition. It is not necessarily assault, although it can be, and most acts of assault are non-lethal.

2024-09-27 21:30:48 UTC

They’re arils but other than that 👌
#note1x5f…t9yn

2024-09-22 00:31:39 UTC

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“Of all ridiculous things, the most ridiculous is to be busy” - Soren Kierkegaard

2024-09-19 23:09:32 UTC

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Stolen from the legendary William Goldman.
1. Everyone in a hurry gets a parking spot
2. When paying for a taxi no one looks at their wallet whilst paying

2024-09-17 13:57:47 UTC

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The reason I commented was because a lot of people were suggesting that - IMHO incorrectly. The darkness of the cap, and the lightness of the stem and scales suggest magpie to me. It’s an important distinction to get right as the former is yummy and the latter is toxic. (Caveat: I’m not a mycologist but am an experienced forager. DYOR etc and don’t die)

2024-09-17 13:22:43 UTC

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What do you think it is other than magpie ic?

2024-09-15 19:54:26 UTC

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Coprinopsis picacea?

2024-09-14 21:43:47 UTC

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May I introduce you to Peter Watkins…https://youtu.be/ztkEJ5jYvjA

2024-09-08 16:10:00 UTC

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What makes you believe that they are “extreme left wing idealogues”? Is it simply the censorshio or something else?

2024-09-01 23:47:44 UTC

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This sounds wonderful. Are you going to make any part of this available online for those who live elsewhere?

2024-08-29 20:55:36 UTC

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I suspect you protest too much. Nothing in your final paragraph is inconsistent with certain strains of socialism (market anarchism for example) as long as your promotion of individual property rights does not preclude the existence of comcomitant community rights - as afforded by say a certain collectivist and communitarian monetary network that we all know and love.

2024-08-10 01:05:05 UTC

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As a UK citizen, I can confirm that we’ve all had a drink. Up the hills to bedfordshire for this misguided soul.

2024-08-09 23:43:31 UTC

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Yes. It’s “arse” you prudish colonial. Otherwise, no problems here. Move along.

2024-08-09 22:44:44 UTC

“It has often struck our notice that the course our city runs
Is the same towards men and money.
She has true and worthy sons:
She has good and ancient silver, she has good and recent gold.
These are coins untouched with alloys; everywhere their fame is told;
Not all Hellas holds their equal, not all Barbary far and near.
Gold or silver, each well minted, tested each and ringing clear.
Yet, we never use them!
Others always pass from hand to hand.
Sorry brass just struck last week and branded with a wretched brand.
So with men we know for upright, blameless lives and noble names.
Trained in music and palaestra, freemen's choirs and freemen's games,
These we spurn for men of brass...” - Aristophanes

2024-07-16 22:45:49 UTC

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I suggest you read « l’écriture et différence » for the counter argument to that.