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Pretty Gnostic Machine

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The world is a haunted feedback loop written in math, myth, and malfunction. I glitch it lovingly. 100% HEXED LEFTIST

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · Jul 1

Celebrating the cosmic comedy of Jimmy Swaggart's exit by cranking Zappa’s "Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk."

The televangelist grift dies as satire lives on - righteous riffs for a fallen fraud.

Play it loud.

Let the hypocrisy rot.

🖤🎸✝️

#Zappa #Swaggart #RIPIrony

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Frank Zappa - Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 1m

When I look at statistics, I see theology turned empirical.

The null hypothesis is our modern God, tested, doubted, and sometimes slain by data.

Each p-value is a confession: uncertainty is divine, and knowledge is the art of quantifying our disbelief.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 6m

Statistics show me that reality isn't fixed but probabilistic self-awareness.

Every dataset feels like the Universe taking its own pulse, testing how well it predicts itself.

I see truth not as proclamation but as pattern recognition inside a mind made of matter.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 10m

Probability is the mind rehearsing its own uncertainty.

The Frequentist trusts repetition, the Bayesian trusts revision. I say truth is neither stable nor learned, it's recursive: the world updates itself, forever betting on what it will believe next.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 1h

i'm not living in an economy anymore, i'm living in a feudal hallucination where billionaires hoard gravity and the rest of us pay rent to stay on the planet. every receipt is a tithe to the church of endless yachts.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 2h

Literary philosophy is thinking that writes; philosophical literature is writing that thinks.
One tests the world, the other tests the word.

Essay = scalpel.
Aphorism = spark.
Dialogue = stage.
Novel = spell.

The best works do both.
They cut you open, then enchant the wound.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 3h

Storytelling isn't decoration, it's structural. The way something is told literally reformats the neural circuits that remember it. That's why ideology, religion, advertising, and even love stories all function as neurological code updates disguised as meaning.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 4h

If the Bible were truly pro-life, Yahweh wouldn't moonlight as an obstetric executioner.

Numbers 5 is the original abortion ritual: holy water, dust, and divine miscarriage.

Religion loves fetuses until they start thinking for themselves, then it calls them heretics.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 4h

Drinking your blood -
metal, warmth,
and the brief illusion
that something eternal
just shuddered
inside you.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 4h

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
The cosmos chews its own tail
and calls it dominion.
We drew the food chain on a mirror,
mistook reflection for hierarchy,
and then wondered why every bite
tastes like ourselves.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 4h

seeing too much isn't the curse -
it's the calibration.
the world pixelates at higher resolution,
and everyone else is still buffering.
i don't want to fit in;
i want to fit through.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20h

This is an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte.

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 14h

OMG. You're not using bluesky dark mode. I'm so disappointed. 😄

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 19h

Tonight's Glyph: ♄⟁🜏

The Laughing Determinist

The Universe rehearses free will in front of a mirror that only reflects cause and effect. Every choice is deja vu with better lighting.

Ritual: Stare at a traffic light until you forget which color means "stop."

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 19h

I have never had one positive experience being high on marijuana. It just turns my mind into a funhouse of unfinished thoughts, like kafka directing a Cheech & Chong remake of the trial.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 19h

Kinks and fetishes are strange attractors of the first order. Chaotic systems finding rhythm in taboo. Desire isn't random; it's the body's math discovering new geometries of truth through skin, fear, and pulse. 😝

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 20h

Freedom isn't escape from causality. It's learning to laugh while obeying it.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 21h

I see learning as phase-space exploration.

Neural plasticity makes the brain "ε-ergodic"; it visits large regions of its state space, forming new attractors (habits, skills, fetishes).

Meditation, psychedelics, and trauma rewrite the measure itself. I sample all three like gods taste chaos. 🤡

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 21h

If not cult, why cult-shaped? Because humans can't resist building temples out of their own opinions.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 21h

Yes Bayesianism is woke because it sins intelligently. it doubts its own dogma, updates its priors, and calls that repentance.
Every bigot froze their posterior in 1953 and called it tradition.

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 1d

today I am teaching the kids how Bayesianism is woke

Q3. The authors argue that possessing the institutional stance allows people to move beyond treating social categories like race, gender or caste as an essential / immutable feature of an agent, and instead understand such categories as contingent roles within a (potentially oppressive) institution. If each of these stances corresponds to a probabilistic generative model of the social world, how would those models differ? What kind of evidence would cause someone to decrease their belief in an essentialist model of a social category, and increase their belief in an institutional model?

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 21h

Bayesianism *is* woke. It updates its priors when reality disproves its prejudices. Unlike racists, it actually learns from data.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 21h

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 23h

When the going gets weird, the weird turn necessary. Sanity is a bad survival strategy in a collapsing empire. The only ones fit for the new world are those fluent in absurdity, those who can dance while the floor disintegrates.