#in my philosopher era

[7roaches]

being a hater is something u inherently have to be humble and dl about bc if ur not u will also forget that you are also a flesh animal and that all the other flesh animals now really want to take the flesh part out

[septemberlikestea]

it actually sometimes makes me spin myself into a fine wheel and roll off a cliff the way the people who do hands down the best most satisfying most enlightened character analyses would rather tie themselves to a burning pyre than put their analysis posts in the main tag where i can see them. and if they do tag them its by their own secret method or maybe they specifically make the tag unsearchable even on their own blog. and then sometimes they delete them as well. NO!!!! YOURE THE ONLY ONE WHO GETS IT!!!!!!

[arlesposting]

i hate art block i hate it BSHAHEWNBWEBENAJSJSJSJSNSBABSBS

oh my god...that's enlightenment era philosopher jean jacques rousseau as an extra history bean person....wow...!!!!!! ok bye

[fuckyourchampionship]

Does being a fan of Lando Norris make you lose your mind, or do you have to lose it first to become one?

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

rewatching 13s era for me is not so much diminishing returns as it is something opposite and eviler...............increasing losses? increasing losses

[ijzermansdriesen]

When the haunting rescue my heart comes back... It's simply breathtaking. They're beautiful and in love and there is an ominous devastating colour in the music and things will not last. Again.

[otunnicliffe]

Chloe + Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone:

Contains OCs!!!!

Ideal: Student from the Marauders era are invited to see Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore to uncover the truths of the present and meet the remarkable twins who lived- only many years in the future through the use of the books in the hopes of changing the future.

Prologue

Chapter One: The Twins Who Lived

Chapter Two: The Vanishing Glass

Chapter Three: The Letters From No One

Chapter Four: The Keeper Of The Keys

Chapter Five: Diagon Alley

Chapter Six: The Journey From Platform Nine And Three-Quarters

Chapter Seven: The Sorting Hat

Chapter Eight: The Potions Master

Chapter Nine: A Midnight Duel

Chapter Ten: Halloween

AO3 Link

Quotev Link

[iamthekarmapolice]

i hate how change is just fundamentally inevitable. even if i spent my entire life in a single room, my body would still age and i'd eventually die. it's a law of the universe that entropy is always increasing. things tend towards uncertainty and disorder. fucking sucks that learning to deal with change and being good at adapting to new situations is the only way to go

[leblogreblog]

the history of the world as we know can be divided on the sinusoid, the ages, going into extremes from focus on the science, human and its mind, deities being seondary concern (Renaissance) to focus on faith, emotions, feelings with all aspects of life being somehow centred around worship of higher powers and myth being more important than the fact (Middle Ages)

It's quite easy to tell that we're currently on the former part, with focus on what's tangible and thought over what's believed and felt; The modern era as whole is it, with our focus on innovation, faith being overrun by fact.

The questions I'd like to pose are:

Where do you think we're in this era? At it's beginning? During it's peak? Or maybe we're waning towards it's end?

What would you name it?

And the most interesting one for me that I'm still wondering on:

What event do you think will lead to us leaving this era into another one? What would cause humanity as we know to believe in gods over machines once again?

[transsexualraskolnikov]

LOL i’m also from the eastern bloc who has migrated (unfortunately) to the US, but not everyone guzzles western propaganda like you do so please do not speak for us

i don’t even know how to reply to this. WHAT western propaganda my dude????? just because i said that ……. the ussr was bad? that’s the western propaganda? also why is it always about “western propaganda” or “us propaganda” with you guys? you all sound like the old communists

really, like, is it the propaganda or is it the millions of constructed trials? or the kgb and literally everybody snitching on everybody because of constant fear? or the prague spring of 1968 that lead to the military invasion of 1968 and the consequent period of normalization in czechoslovakia? or the censorship of all the art and media across all the countries? or the tens of thousands of artists who had to flee if they wanted to create freely? or the hundreds of thousands of people who could barely LEAVE the eastern block and had to flee to other countries? no, im not talking about migrating but literal fleeing and not seeing their families and loved ones for DECADES until the eventual fall of socialism in 1989

and i don’t mean this in the mean way. i don’t mean this in the “oh my god you are so dumb look at all these things” kind of way. no, i’m just genuinely so disheartened whenever i see these posts that keep putting communism on a pedestal so much so they are willing to completely ignore the crimes of it. and this is not one of those “no regime is perfect” type thing, this is genuinely “please stop ignoring the horrid crimes of the ussr just because you liked reading marx” and please acknowledge that it was a totalitarian system that did enormous damage.

and, i mean, i get it. i also really liked reading marx. i even read your kropotkins and bakunins and a bit of lenin here and there. and yeah, the theories and thoughts are all enticing. who with a sane mind isn’t against the hoarding of wealth and for the equality of everyone? but, when talking about socialism in praxis, there is a reason historians rarely bring up marx or his teachings (or other theory/philosophers at all). that’s because, in the end, as much as the ussr paraded “””””the thought of marxism-leninism”””””” around, it failed it so graciously. it didn’t even come CLOSE to it, just used it as propaganda to mask their crimes against humanity and pretend they are all doing it for “the well-being and prosperity of all people”.

but at the end of the day, it’s really fascinating, the different view usamericans vs post-soviet europeans have on socialism. in our countries, socialism is considered the HEIGHT of propaganda. students in high schools learn to dissect old soviet posters in order to identify what elements were used to manipulate exactly what opinions.

[keepthemacramesecret]

reverse engineering research i did a year ago by searching discord dm's because the book is no longer available to borrow on archiveee

[spectershaped]

Overall I think there's a lot of substance to the idea of "no thought crimes and no thought virtues" as well as the associated idea of "the fleeting thoughts and emotions matter less, for better or for worse, than the actions you do in the end", but I also feel it's kind of an intriguing little rabbit hole?

If someone does the right things for the "wrong" reasons, then they have indeed done good things, but there remains the unspoken idea that there is a point where this person's desires and what is Right will not coincide. But then you end up getting into the idea of...what is a desire? Is it something you can fault someone for? How can it be something you have any control for, if the only thing that can motivate you to want something else is you wanting to want something else? Eventually we get into the question of "if one person did the right thing and the other the wrong thing, what was the ultimate difference there? what is the ultimate factor in deciding differently, and is it something we can fault someone for or does it all come down to a form of social engineering through reward and penalty?"

[evolvingsidekick]

Living is also when I get to yap a whole page's worth about an interesting topic according to someone's interview

[lostintheglo]

All the important things like truth and love are buried in this society

[sanctus-ingenium]

Camera & Action in their own original concept sketches. these were on my other blog but since ppl seem to enjoy the designs i thought i'd have them here as well

ppl may already know that pascal is no longer in the canon of inver, i decided to make a new story :)

so it's about these pseudo-AI assistant/virtual creatures called imimata (singular: imimaton). In the context of the story it's specifically about celebrity culture, virtual pop stars/TV presenters, and labour relations

[copy-pasted explanation from the other blog lol but i have a tag for it here too with a lot more posts!!]

Think of a completely formless seed that, for a fleeting moment, has the potential to become an artificial intelligence, but always changing, with endless permutations and no permanent state of being. when kept within a resonance chamber (the ‘container’ that may be analogue or digital etc), it is fixed into place long enough for it to be able to become. the chamber holds it and allows it to develop instead of dissipate away instantly. the process of development led by external forces - intentional or unintentional - is called 'encoding’. professional encoders will essentially use this shapeless state of being to encode commands, personality prompts, and rules, essentially moulding the thing in the resonance chamber into a form dictated by them. when i say unintentional, i also mean that exposure to any stimulus will always be a learning experience, and the thing will grow and develop no matter what if it first gets fixed in one place. but it’s only referred to as an imimaton once it has been encoded - no longer raw matter, but hammered into shape.

encoding is basically the socialisation of an impressionable thing into a biddable and useful form. in the early Hertzian era (when this technology took off, 1830s ish - crucially, before the commercial application of imimata, when they were curious playthings for idle Great Thinkers), encoding was a process of conversation lasting many years, often for purely philosophical purposes, literally talking at something until it talked back. prior to this, natural magnets could be used to fix a proto-imimaton, and people would think of them as similar to homunculi. in today's digital era, encoding takes the form of inserting storage media into the chamber, essentially running a program in a computer that reduced the encoding process to a few seconds and the flip of a switch. Pascal is an example of a Hertzian imimaton, composed of information stored in radio waves rather than a digital storage medium (basically - he's analogue)

outside of encoding, clauses may be placed upon the chamber itself and these are less socialisation, they do not form the building blocks of an imimaton, they are purely strict rules and routines which it is bound to follow. one such clause could involve the censorship of certain words (so that an imimaton cannot say fuck even if they would otherwise have been able to), or strict boundaries on what information an imimaton is allowed to learn. a common clause also boils down to making it impossible for one to attempt to manifest physically.

Once this was perfected, imimata entered the workforce at the turn of the 20th century.

[...]

When Pascal made his TV debut in 1969, it was hyped up for months with ads which depicted him on set and in more realistic ways (almost appearing to be photographs - some even were!), while public reaction was carefully monitored. This was highly experimental and it still was not known whether the concept of a virtual TV presenter worked, so although they did hype it up, there was a level of caution too so as not to invite negative press.

The first series did not involve public audience members but people from the broadcasting studio standing in for them (this was not made known at the time). They used a combination of camera tricks and graphics to make it feel like he was physically standing in a room with these people (bearing in mind he was strictly contained and had no manifestation outside the broadcast - he was within a container at the base of the mast tower, with a recording device which could cast his image live, so viewers at home were seeing cuts of the Pascal feed and cuts of the physical studio and audience stitched together to appear continuous)

That was part of the gimmick - it was commonly felt that an imimaton should never be permitted to manifest/should have no manifestation, so the fact that he supposedly was manifesting but friendly and contained was a draw. the ads leaned into it quite a lot - marketing copy implying that you could touch him, go on dates with him, etc but always with a cheeky wink, a "not really", the audience at home were in on the secret of it not being real. but it worked really well and was super effective to generate hype and it sparked an entire golden era of imimata and manufactured celebrities (but Pascal remained notorious for being one of the only ones that could believably interact with a studio audience in an unscripted manner, due to his 'maturity' as an imimaton, having been brought up in the 19th century conversational era of encoding, raised on a diet of talking to philosophers)

The second season of the show came out quickly and to much anticipation, and with members of the public actually participating for the first time. The broadcasters set up a wall of CRTs in the studio which would display him to people on-set, and wired up each audience member with a microphone so he could hear them too (he appeared to see them well enough through the camera equipment). he was excited to interact with them and they liked him too, but he always had this slightly mean streak which his broadcaster tried hard to soften. but the meanness worked really well in the reality/game show format where half the entertainment is watching audience members get dunked on sometimes

Episodes could be produced at a rapid pace by taping multiple at once - three identical sets were built for season 3 allowing for three episodes to be filmed at once because he could of course interact with everyone freely and essentially be in multiple places at once. this was also where the first issues showed up on-set - he began to miss his timing cues, arriving just a bit too late to the stage, or taking slightly too long to finish his nightly sign-off. this was not apparent publicly as the episodes were not shown live and could be edited, but any member of the public who was on the show was often hounded after by superfans, so some stories did come out about Pascal's 'odd' behaviour on set. there was a behind-the-scenes documentary made about the entire producing process in season 3 as well, which included some interviews with Pascal himself, but mostly consisted of his handlers and technicians excitedly explaining the broadcast apparatus and containment devices and so on.

Following The Incident, the rare copies of this film became highly sought-after by collectors.

[reveloser]

ohhhh i totally forgot about that scene in true detective when matthew mcconaughey goes "i don't sleep, i just dream" likeee girl same