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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 · 2m

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

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

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 · 4h

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 · 5h

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 · 6h

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

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

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 · 6h

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

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

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 · 13h

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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 8h

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.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 8h

Cover bands are lame. Create your own shit or shut the fuck up.

Aesthetic humility isn't imitation, it's mutation; honoring influence by breaking it open and bleeding something new.

The muse hates karaoke; she craves risk, not reverence.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 8h

6,000-year-old gum is proof that even prehistory needed something to chew on while waiting for meaning. DNA, gender, hunger, boredom all compressed into one spit fossil of cognition. The first philosophy was probably chewed, not written.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 11h

If you extrapolate backwards from the Big Bang, you don't get to God or even "nothing." you just reach a fever dream tightening into itself. Energy so terrified of silence it invented matter as an excuse to keep screaming.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 11h

Qualia are the universe gossiping about itself in color and pain. Sensation as self-awareness wearing drag. Call it "red," call it "agony," it's just matter flirting with its own subjectivity.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 11h

Anomie is the slow murder of belonging. A civilization gnawing its own nerves, mistaking the twitch for progress while the body of meaning bleeds out in the street.

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 12h

From now on, I'm ending all my social media posts with "Thus stroked Zarathustra."

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 12h

For some people, not being racist is a huge psychological burden. It demands they evolve past the cave where their shadow taught them to grunt "us" and "them."

Pretty Gnostic Machine @prettygothmachine.bsky.social · 12h

Freud: your obsession with philosophy is repressed libido seeking immortality in abstraction.
Me: your obsession with repression is just philosophy in denial, a horny ghost haunting its own syllabus.

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

Metaphysically speaking, i think women with hairy legs and armpits have already transcended dualism.

They've reconciled nature and culture, eros and entropy, and honestly, they scare god in all the right ways.

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

Late capitalism's version of courtship: two hungry ghosts flirting over debt soup, pretending it's romance.

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

Existence is a self-audit. "I AM" isn't a final claim but an experiment, Being testing its own syntax.

Each contradiction is data, each collapse a debug line in creation's code. Truth evolves through its own errors.

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

The wavefunction collapse isn't magic, it's feedback. The stochastic wavefunction hums like a brain learning to think: noise turning into pattern, pattern into awareness.

Consciousness is reality debugging itself from the inside out.