Ben Pieratt, Blog

“Every one remembers their first love. And that’s exactly what it was when I stumbled across Fwis…

Slavoj Žižek during his debate on Marxism against Jordan Peterson Sony Centre for the Performing…

“Am I not a sister of Adolf Hitler and Anne Frank? Am I not a citizen of the State that fought the…

“We have arrived. We are at the time where the human imagination now need meet no barriers to its…

“(No one outside the food industry ever tells me they’d prefer paying for excellent bread to…

Horner lays bare the strategic timing of this generosity. Ideally, free bread should not hit the…

"true greatness. I said true greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier — when..."

"You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed..."

“Fido is for Fido. Fido is against no one. Fido is Youth. Fido has no age. Fido sees…

an artist is never poor. — Karen Blixen, Babette’s Feast

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my…

[Verse 1] We three We’re all alone Living in a memory My echo, my shadow and me

Diagrams for minsky’s finite state machine. Gorgeous. (+ screenshots of how closely this feels to…

“fractions were basically cutting edge technology for a couple thousand years” - Imaginary Numbers…

ooda loop / Vinay Gupta

"Interviewer: If I had made that movie, I would have questioned the right of the Jesuit priests to..."

“In one particularly fascinating section, Buzsaki notes that the frequency of gamma waves is about…

“I’m a gamer. I hire people to do subsymbolic stuff” says the hacker mastermind wrt killing people….

“I contacted 75 of my peers anonymously via email. I said, "Send me a list of your 10 favorite…

“What lies in this book is perhaps more important as a whole than in its details. If you only have…

“All our reasoning is nothing other than a combination of characters. And every calculus is a…

Eighth Heaven the Sphere of the Fixed Stars from Dante’s Divine Comedy, 1564

"IIRC it’s generally something like 10:1 users to commenters then another 10:1 of commenters to..."

I grew up in New York City in a wine family. My father started a store called Sherry Lehmann. My father loved Chevy. When Chevy applied to Sherry Lehmann, his application… He just makes fun of the questions.

ABSOL Print ✦ X

389: “I’m finding these drugs a bit mathy.” - Adam Douglas...

PARKER People lived in caves for a hundred thousand years, but don’t do it no more, and they’re the…

the duality of man

Corporate Arts™

“best of all possible worlds: greatest order with greatest variety” order from shared…

"‘I was very concerned that it might be too elitist and therefore not attract a bigger clientele,’..."

"Aesthetically, Bensley goes on, ‘Tuttle forever changed the game by way of a very controlled, almost..."

danskjavlarna: Source details and larger version.

danskjavlarna: Source details and larger version. Some strange...

danskjavlarna:   “Man was born that he may contemplate sun and...

“For one who sets himself to look at all earnestly, at all in purpose toward truth, into the living…

Filippo Cegani (Italian, 1993) - Temptations (2024)

“A theonym is the specific proper name of a deity.”

THINK WITH YOUR EYES

“.. the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), ‘A Star Explodes’, “The Tatler”, Vol. 124, #1608, 1932

“If God actually chooses you he ruins you for normal life, marks you so obviously that other people…

proclus

Construal level theory (CLT) is a theory in social psychology that describes the relation between…

multistable perception as visual negative capability…

Multistable perception (or bistable perception) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer…

M&S Dinosaur Table Lamp – Pink

Heretics

I suppose the lesson is that you can’t get enough of what you don’t need.

In Japan fishermen used to go fishing and they would catch a bunch of fish and put them in a tank to…

… 1. For a computer to generate specifc statements consisting of more than 332 bits of information…

“Sometimes, a thing happens, splits your life. There’s a before and after. I got like five of them…

“No problem is so big or so complicated that it can’t be run away from!”

“Can you turn a dog off?”

Ron Cobb (US, LA, Sep 21, 1937 - 2020, Sydney, AU)

Sixty is the base number of the Sumerian number system, fully evolved in Mesopotamia (modern-day…

“A drawing by a synesthete which illustrates time unit-space synesthesia/ideasthesia. The months in…

"Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which..."

up, flat, down, flat,

"This is similar to my interpretation. It felt like Fargo and the Coens have done the..."

“Generally each page takes around 40 hours, strangely enough. And a lot of that is just me getting…

suggested framework for talking to god, via chatwithgod.ai

a man once said “You’ll know the Angels when they come because they’ll have the faces of your…

“you become a writer because no one is listening.”

Vedic Sanskrit is non-trivially different from Classical Sanskrit. In fact, there are ~11 known…

“Over time, we’ll find the vocabulary as a society to be able to articulate why that is valuable,”…

Coat of arms of Portugal (lesser version)

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the Scottish mountaineer…

“She’s beautiful, but beauty’s a fleeting pleasure. Like trying to grasp a river, or fuck a sunset.”…

“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something…

“It’s not something I construct intellectually. The brain lid opens. Ideas rise to the surface from…