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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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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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OMG. You're not using bluesky dark mode. I'm so disappointed. 😄
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."
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.
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. 😝
Freedom isn't escape from causality. It's learning to laugh while obeying it.
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. 🤡
If not cult, why cult-shaped? Because humans can't resist building temples out of their own opinions.
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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today I am teaching the kids how Bayesianism is woke
Bayesianism *is* woke. It updates its priors when reality disproves its prejudices. Unlike racists, it actually learns from data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From now on, I'm ending all my social media posts with "Thus stroked Zarathustra."
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."
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.
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.
Late capitalism's version of courtship: two hungry ghosts flirting over debt soup, pretending it's romance.
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.
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.