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El Tipo de la Brocha @tipodelabrocha.bsky.social · 4h
🎞️ Pelis cutres con carteles y carátulas que molan:

Nocturna (1979)

#Pcccm
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 11h
“I dreamed I was a toreador in my maidenform bra,” Glamour, May 1951. Interesting use of blur/boke/bokeh to direct the viewer’s gaze to the centre of interest and, I suppose, to enhance the dreamlike quality of the image.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d
Cause for canonization of the Theatine Andrea Avellino 18 Aug 1620. This is Luke Wadding’s working copy. Avellino who d. 10 Nov 1608 was beatified #otd 14 Oct 1624. Canonized 22 May 1712.

The massive 1029 folio dossier - ipad for scale.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 18h
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18h
There's this model of life popular among ethicists in analytic philosophy, as well as bits of political and legal theory, wherein the world is this intricate rule bound system of Reasons, conceived of as part Kantian part Platonic normative constraints existing near independently of our will.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 18h
"The cover art on these books were just part of a far bigger transnational market for Spanish pulp art that existed in 1960s and 1970s"
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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 21h
Yes, maybe. I sort of addressed this in my most recent Substack post

andrewnette.substack.com/p/under-the-...
'Under the tinsel and glitter - something ugly.'
Australian pulp fiction's Spanish connection
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 19h
"I kissed the saint—and I'm exhausted"
"O Cebreiro Gurls"
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Revista Mondo Sonoro @mondosonoro.bsky.social · 20h
La gran estrella pop Katy Perry se convierte en el día de hoy en la primera gran confirmación del festival gallego O Son Do Camiño, que se celebrará el mes de junio del próximo año.
www.mondosonoro.com/noticias-act...
Katy Perry, primera gran confirmación del O Son do Camiño
La estrella pop estadounidense Katy Perry se convierte en la primera gran confirmación del O Son do Camiño, aunque mañana habrá más nombres.
www.mondosonoro.com
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1d
"It used to be the case that young men received both an ox and the name of an ox (a young man’s ‘cow’ name)"
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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 1d
"One could say that cows derive their names from creatures in the world, but the reverse would be just as accurate: cows provide the patterns according to which the world is comprehensible."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d
i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1d
yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1d
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2d
Lot of people should read this exhaustive list of life improvements from the 90s: gwern.net/improvement
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
gwern.net
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Antón Porto @antonporto.mastodon.gal.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Este 12 de outubro houbo moito que celebrar no Domingo das Mozas.
#SanFroilán
#lugo
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Sergio Jiménez @craselrau.bsky.social · 1d
JD vance, entonces candidato a VP de EEUU después de lo de los haitianos comiéndose perros dijo que no dudaria en mentir si eso trae el foco a los temas que les interesaban…
Y aún así (o por eso) ganó su candidtura
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 1d
‼️El PP, tras confesar Miguel Ángel Rodríguez su 'bulo' ante el Supremo: “Mentir no es ilegal”
El PP, tras confesar Miguel Ángel Rodríguez su 'bulo' ante el Supremo: "Mentir no es ilegal"
La vicesecretaria de Coordinación Sectorial, Alma Ezcurra, defiende que "el Supremo conoce el completo de todo el procedimiento judicial" y "sentará en el banquillo de los acusados" al fiscal general,...
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O’Fins @ofinsgz.bsky.social · 1d
Encastrados... @ceosgalegos.bsky.social #CometSWAN
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d
Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 2d
Religious movements are *always* internally contested. It is not for historians/outsiders to decide which party to the contestation represents the “true“ version or deserves exclusive use of the movement’s name/label. Their job is rather to describe the internal diversity as accurately as possible.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2d
You know who I’m sick of? Astronauts. “The eagle has landed” “I’m on the moon”. Shut the fuck up
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
Do you think the luddites joked all the time with "Jacquardian Jihad now!"
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
"For those who make the case, they can argue that the lookup table is like looking at a thesaurus"
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 2d
I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
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Natalia Pérez @nperezbarrio.bsky.social · 2d
Hoxe hai lugrisismo metafísico no xornal de dentro do xornal 🌊⚓💙
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
reverse Omelas
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 3d
expedition 33 is about how its fine to destroy a city to ease an aristocrats suffering
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C-3PeOr @c3peor.bsky.social · 2d
El perro policía: I have no idea what I'm doing 💭

El Perro Sanxe: Ojalá yo fuese tú y tú fueses yo aunque solo fuese por unas horas, amigo 💭
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d
WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Manuel Gago @magago.bsky.social · 3d
A historia deste exiliado da Pobra, loitando nas forzas especiais norteamericanas no Pacífico, en Italia e en Alemaña, lembroume ás vellas historias clásicas de guerreiros expulsados das súas cidades e loitan como mercenarios ao servizo dos grandes reis.
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/barb...
El pobrense que huyó en trainera de la Guerra Civil y acabó en la élite del ejército americano
El Grupo de Investigación Manuel Otero busca a familiares de Juan Chouza para completar su biografía con la parte humana
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 3d
Leaving aside the antiwoke ragebait, the feeling I got from watching the cutscenes in YouTube is that the game is about avoiding falling prey to the male loneliness epidemic by getting back in touch with your old buddies, who appreciate you and stand by you. Very wholesome.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 3d
rhyming dictionares, precursors of the "computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs"?
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Metalanguage carries out a code-clarifying operation by establishing an equivalence between two terms in a sequence. “‘Unicorn’ is a one-horned horse” makes the predicate equal to the subject to explain the semantics of that subject. The poetic function reverses this operation; Jakobson says that the two functions are in “diametrical opposition.”35 Poetry uses an equation to build a sequence; it “projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence.”36 Rather than explanation, we get equivalence based on rhyme, or placement, or some other principle. The final rhyme pairs coupled with internal rhymes that allow the rhyme to move off their initial scheme creates a pattern that is not explanatory but productive. Metalanguage is about the code; poetry is about the message. Poetry illustrates this generative function in language, demonstrating the peculiar play of making equations of terms that are not semantically equivalent: “In poetry one syllable is equalized with any other syllable of the same sequence; word stress is assumed to equal word stress, as unstress equals unstress; prosodic long is matched with long, and short with short; word boundary equals word boundary, no boundary equals no boundary; syntactic pause equals syntactic pause, no pause equals no pause.”37 Rhythm and sound create nonconceptual equivalence. Jakobson’s mantra for the poetic function’s ability to produce that effect was that words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning. Poetics was the arena in which Jakobson hoped to realize a truly structuralist phonology, one that operates by combination and recombination of sound-level paradigms that are then extended into sequence to generate meaning. Rather than crystallizing a concept, it uses sound to explore the regions around given concepts. But the poetic function has long since left adherence solely to sound behind. There is something like a textual poetic function in which we all participate when we communicate in the secondarily oral systems of social media and short message service communication. And now there is, for the first time, a computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs. We could think of it as matrix poetics, although it is almost certainly too early to characterize it aesthetically with any surety. While the poetic function is most easily spotted in art, however, it is, for Jakobson, everywhere. His famous example is Dwight Eisenhower’s campaign slogan “I like Ike.” In its asymmetrical echo, it imparts a “paranomastic image of a feeling which envelops its object.” Sticky is indeed a major effect of the poetic function (my term, not Jakobson’s). It generates by remaining in mind, by holding its place in the high-dimensional matrix of language as such. Little rhythms with word combinations stick to us; we use them as chunks to navigate things; we sing-song our way through the day. A word or phrase can get stuck in your head just as much as a song. This is why the poetic function is good for advertising. Those dactyls are everywhere: “no one outpizzas the Hut” (the final two shorts are implied). Equivalences emerge laterally and vertically and leap across apparent boundaries, failing to obey representational or cognitive common sense but remaining (indeed, defining) “natural” for speakers of the language. I don’t have informational knowledge laid out in referential terms and only then access to the web of rhythm and phrase that makes up language.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 3d
rhyming dictionares, precursors of the "computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs"?
bsky.app/profile/thes...
Metalanguage carries out a code-clarifying operation by establishing an equivalence between two terms in a sequence. “‘Unicorn’ is a one-horned horse” makes the predicate equal to the subject to explain the semantics of that subject. The poetic function reverses this operation; Jakobson says that the two functions are in “diametrical opposition.”35 Poetry uses an equation to build a sequence; it “projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence.”36 Rather than explanation, we get equivalence based on rhyme, or placement, or some other principle. The final rhyme pairs coupled with internal rhymes that allow the rhyme to move off their initial scheme creates a pattern that is not explanatory but productive. Metalanguage is about the code; poetry is about the message. Poetry illustrates this generative function in language, demonstrating the peculiar play of making equations of terms that are not semantically equivalent: “In poetry one syllable is equalized with any other syllable of the same sequence; word stress is assumed to equal word stress, as unstress equals unstress; prosodic long is matched with long, and short with short; word boundary equals word boundary, no boundary equals no boundary; syntactic pause equals syntactic pause, no pause equals no pause.”37 Rhythm and sound create nonconceptual equivalence. Jakobson’s mantra for the poetic function’s ability to produce that effect was that words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning. Poetics was the arena in which Jakobson hoped to realize a truly structuralist phonology, one that operates by combination and recombination of sound-level paradigms that are then extended into sequence to generate meaning. Rather than crystallizing a concept, it uses sound to explore the regions around given concepts. But the poetic function has long since left adherence solely to sound behind. There is something like a textual poetic function in which we all participate when we communicate in the secondarily oral systems of social media and short message service communication. And now there is, for the first time, a computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs. We could think of it as matrix poetics, although it is almost certainly too early to characterize it aesthetically with any surety. While the poetic function is most easily spotted in art, however, it is, for Jakobson, everywhere. His famous example is Dwight Eisenhower’s campaign slogan “I like Ike.” In its asymmetrical echo, it imparts a “paranomastic image of a feeling which envelops its object.” Sticky is indeed a major effect of the poetic function (my term, not Jakobson’s). It generates by remaining in mind, by holding its place in the high-dimensional matrix of language as such. Little rhythms with word combinations stick to us; we use them as chunks to navigate things; we sing-song our way through the day. A word or phrase can get stuck in your head just as much as a song. This is why the poetic function is good for advertising. Those dactyls are everywhere: “no one outpizzas the Hut” (the final two shorts are implied). Equivalences emerge laterally and vertically and leap across apparent boundaries, failing to obey representational or cognitive common sense but remaining (indeed, defining) “natural” for speakers of the language. I don’t have informational knowledge laid out in referential terms and only then access to the web of rhythm and phrase that makes up language.
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