one long token soup

[idea:birdkeeping]postsystems2026-08-11 Birdkeeping We need new ways of talking about large language models.

[idea:taming-jagged-intelligence-with-beads-and-jj]postsystems2026-07-17 Taming jagged intelligence with beads and jj There’s no need for a prelude on how agential harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and Opencode are changing the political economy of so…

[idea:writing-weeknotes]postgeneral2026-06-07 Writing weeknotes These past few days I have been inspired by Anil Madhavapeddy’s and Jon Sterling’s online presence to start a practice of weeknotes.

[idea:muskism]postreviews2026-04-09 Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian: Muskism After buying a hard copy of this book at the RiffRaff launch with Quinn Slobodian—Ben Tarnoff pulled out briefly before on account of illness—it has sat on my bookshelf for a few…

[idea:writing-in-typst]postsystems2025-11-01 Writing in Typst | Hacking on Neovim with Claude What is a ‘good’ writing system?

[idea:mladen-dolar-rumors]postreviews2025-06-15 Mladen Dolar, Rumors First on the syllabus in Rohit Goel's current BICAR course is Mladen Dolar's 2024 book Rumors.

[idea:alma-steingart-axiomatics]postreviews2025-06-14 Alma Steingart, Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism (introduction) I started reading Alma Steingart's 2023 Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism in preparation for a readi…

[idea:writing-with-rheo]postsystems2025-06-09 Writing with Rheo You’ve no doubt already heard about Rheo, the hot new typesetting and static site engine from the Free Computing Lab (FCL).

[idea:karl-marx-capital-volume-1-chapter-22]postreviews2025-05-16 Karl Marx: Capital, Volume 1 (chapter 22) Chapter 22 of Capital Volume I– following the chapter structure in the 2024 English translation - builds on the previous chapter on simple reproduc…

[idea:is-psychoanalysis-a-science]postgeneralreviews2025-04-10 Is psychoanalysis a Science?

[idea:karl-marx-capital-volume-1-chapter-21]postreviews2025-03-07 Karl Marx: Capital, Volume 1 (chapter 21) Up first today, some notes from chapter 21 of Marx’s Capital, Volume I, his chapter on Simple Reproduction.

[idea:erich-horl-sacred-channels]postreviews2025-02-10 Erich Hörl: Sacred Channels: The Archaic Illusion of Communication (chapters 1 and 2) Last week I read the first two chapters of a book recommended to me quite some time ago by a friend: Sacred Channe…

[idea:terry-eagleton-why-marx-was-right]postreviews2025-02-05 Terry Eagleton: Why Marx Was Right Over the holiday period (which I count as the entirety of January, as my wedding took place on the 11th January, and I have not seriously returned to work unt…

[idea:using-nixos]postsystems2025-01-27 Using NixOS My NixOS configuration For about a year now, the operating system that I use on my daily driver has been NixOS.

[idea:writing-academic-essays]postgeneral2025-01-01 Writing Academic Essays As an undergraduate student in the US, I feel like I never properly learned how to structure an academic essay.

[idea:fall-semester-2024-update]postgeneral2024-12-27 Fall semester 2024 update The pause in proceedings here has been principally due to a (final) semester of coursework and teaching at Brown University; the other side of a PhD in the U.S.

[idea:cycling-typing]postgeneral2024-11-13 Cycling typing Last summer I got into cycling.

[idea:using-two-remarkables]postgeneral2024-11-06 Using two ReMarkables I'm a PhD student currently, which means that I spend most of my work life reading, or thinking about what I should read next.

[idea:svitlana-matviyenko-and-sarah-pourciau]postreviews2024-05-02 Svitlana Matviyenko and Sarah Pourciau Today's log discusses two projects, Svitlana Matviyenko's and Sarah Pourciau's, as a follow on from the last log;.

[idea:amanda-holmes-and-adrian-johnston]postreviews2024-04-24 Amanda Holmes and Adrian Johnston I have been at the institute (the IWM) for nearly a month now, the first month of three.