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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations !

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Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon @propanon.bsky.social · 1d

Very Happy to Announce that my book, "Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson" is this year's winner of the S.I. Hayakawa Book Award from the Institute of General Semantics!

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 1d

This was where my favorite historian of religions, Ioan P. Couliano, worked. He was mysteriously assassinated in the bathroom of the University Divinity School (probably tied to Romanian Politics)

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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 3d

I’m fascinated by the idea of a game like No Man’s Sky where infinite new civilizations could be generated dynamically with their own languages as the player explores the universe.

Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 4d

ConlangCrafter could potentially be used in pedagogy, typological and NLP work, and many entertainment applications. Imagine a video game where aliens can speak countless new procedurally-generated languages.

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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 4d

Try out some of the newest languages on our project page:
conlangcrafter.github.io

ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline

A fully automated system for constructing languages using large language models. Our multi-stage pipeline creates coherent, diverse artificial languages with their own phonology, grammar, lexicon, and...

conlangcrafter.github.io

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 7d

Ordered. Exactly my field of interest !

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot help thinking about Grant Morrison's The Invisibles where origami is used as a basis for time travel.
Also, the amplituhedron often comes up in Donald D. Hoffman's "idealist" theory of conscious agents.

Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 8d

A recent proof has revealed a deep connection between origami and particle collisions.

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.

www.quantamagazine.org

Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 11d

Weird theory of the day...
scitechdaily.com/what-if-the-...

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred years, physics has rested on two foundational theories. Einstein’s general rel...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 12d

This is wonderful. I had no idea ideas per Lakoff about the centrality of metaphor in language go back so far. Delighted that my Alchemy book stimulated such thoughts.

Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 12d

Today's post is of course about #metaphor, but also about #alchemy, about the history of science and about what we can learn from it for today's #genomic talk and #scicomm makingsciencepublic.com/2025/10/03/m...

Metaphor, alchemy and lessons from the 17th century

Philip Ball has just published a magnificent book on the history of alchemy: Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science. This made me think about metap…

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 13d

Our work on how to model language in humans, animals, and machines with more realistic deep learning approaches in the Communications of ACM today.
cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 13d

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 19d

AFAIK, Michel-Yves Bolloré is the brother of Vincent Bolloré, our little “Rupert Murdoch” who owns various ultra-conservative right-wing media in France. According to Wikipedia, Michel-Yves is also a member of Opus Dei, so it’s funny he dodged your question about “the Christian right.”

Vincent Bolloré — Wikipédia

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you ! This helps me a lot. I will read your next book with great interest ! (but unfortunately it will be past my deadline 😪)

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 21d

A question for all Bluesky occultists : I'm writing a paper (in French) where I want to introduce the term "occulture" a concept completely unknown to french readers. But who is the first creator of the concept : Partridge, @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social, P-Orridge ? Somebody else ?
#OccultSky

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Gary Lachman @garylachman.bsky.social · 23d

I had argued with David Bowie, gotten drunk with Iggy Pop, and Debbie Harry had ironed my skinny ties, but if I was ever starstruck it was then, getting through a bottle or two with the man whose work had changed my life. - www.amazon.com/Touched-Pres...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28d

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

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Nature @nature.com · 28d

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back

go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

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Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 28d

A fascinating essay on LAM by the talented Ben Joffe!
perfumedskull.com/2025/09/16/a...

Alien Gurus and The Mother of the Soul: On the Etymology of the Tibetan Word Lama and Why More Occultists Should Learn to read Tibetan

I’ve written about LAM, the according-to-some extraterrestrial entity which English ritual magician Aleister Crowley is supposed to have contacted, in an earlier article about ‘Tibetan …

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 28d

And for those reading French (or using deepL) , my own article about Ben Joffe (no, I am not talking about LAM here) :
www.lemonde.fr/blog/interne...

Jour : 24 septembre 2016

InternetActu.net sur LeMonde.fr

www.lemonde.fr

Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · Sep 13

Was "Mimsy were the borogoves" (with Kuttner, as Lewis Padgett) part of her early career? I discovered it as a child and it was one of the more influential stories I ever read...My fascination for games came from it (and it was long before video games)

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Gavin Fox (Author) @gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social · Sep 13

New #Article up on my #Portfolio #Blog, something for those who need to hack their imaginations when calling internal spaces to mind during either meditation or ritual. Especially useful for those working the Cthonos Rite via the excellent audio instructions.
theacceleratedchaote.com/2025/09/13/g...

Gaming The System

This old fox has been a gamer for almost as long as such digital fantasies existed. I muddled through with the ZX Spectrum. Marvelled at the graphics on the Nintendo NES. Sat in awe of the Sega Meg…

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Sep 10

The cells of your body follow simple rules and play off one another to form a complete organism. The researcher Alexander Mordvintsev has developed “neural cellular automata,” building blocks that can self-assemble into any form. @georgemusser.com reports: www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · Sep 9

in this old thread, I explored a lesser-known aspect of the works of one member of this group, Fred Alan Wolf 2/
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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · Dec 16

There has been some discussion here about cross-cultural analysis of the magical aspects of language, following ‪@philh.bsky.social‬ recent threads on tantric mantras. 1/

Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social · Dec 13

I'd be very happy if someone else did the cross-cultural comparitivism, although I'd like (eventually) to get into the cognitive linguistics stuff - that's a long way off though.

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · Sep 9

I remember that when I first read Cosmic Trigger, the chapter about the Fundamental Fysiks group fascinated me the most. Then I didn’t hear about these people again until David Kaiser’s book came out. And then, of course, the Nobel Prize...1/

Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon @propanon.bsky.social · Sep 9

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What does Robert Anton Wilson have to do with the 2022 Nobel Prize?

How a far-out underground writer like RAW scooped every other writer on Quantum Entanglement!

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks !