raining - nyc 2024-05-05

一笑江湖

苍天一笑 笑不老

 豪情却会了

 对月饮 一杯寂寥

Nobody's Home

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3gmQcX/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3gmmbH/

 

赐我

我好像独自站在那三尺红台

 

星月落

 

思索着 与谁说

星月落 落入世间

使得花败人断肠

多执着 惊鸿怎让人遗忘

 

2024

It's a new year. For parts of the world that are in conflict: we bear witness to your suffering, and carry your pain.

Python on LLVM

Warframe: The Duviri Paradox - Combat Music (Extended Mix)

Dot selection

 Koka is a function-oriented language where functions and data form the core of the language (in contrast to objects for example). In particular, the expression s.encode(3) does not select the encode method from the string object, but it is simply syntactic sugar for the function call encode(s,3) where s becomes the first argument. Similarly, c.int converts a character to an integer by calling int(c) (and both expressions are equivalent). The dot notation is intuïtive and quite convenient to chain multiple calls together, as in:

fun showit( s : string )
  s.encode(3).count.println

for example (where the body desugars as println(count(encode(s,3)))). An advantage of the dot notation as syntactic sugar for function calls is that it is easy to extend the ‘primitive’ methods of any data type: just write a new function that takes that type as its first argument. In most object-oriented languages one would need to add that method to the class definition itself which is not always possible if such class came as a library for example.

 The Koka Programming Language 

Minimal but General

Koka has a small core set of orthogonal, well-studied language features – but each of these is as general and composable as possible, such that we do not need further “special” extensions. Core features include first-class functions, a higher-rank impredicative polymorphic type- and effect system, algebraic data types, and effect handlers. 

Koka - A Functional Language with Effect Types and Handlers

New frontiers for safe and expressive programming languages

Against the Storm - OST

The Banished Vault - Menu

萬千花蕊慈母悲哀

So, get away

So, get away
Another way
to feel what you didn't want yourself to know

After rain

 

Exiles

 

The Banished Vault

Stars grow cold. 

Flee into the long night between suns.

Can You Hear The Music

It feels like I've forgotten something

America Has Dictated Its Economic Peace Terms to China

Optimal design of Mars immigration by using reusable transporters from the Earth-Moon system 

Ein Traum

Workweek - PSP

 

you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well

"What led us here? You did. You vile blasphemies. 

Machines... thinking... breeding... you were to bear us a new, promised land.

But when you arrived at that distant world... you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well.

As we had to Earth..."

A.I. parenting

We can imagine that A.I. would be better at parenting than the vast majority of humans. Parental pathologies and neglect are the inheritances that impoverishes everyone across all levels of the economic strata. By being freed from them, children would receive the attention that they deserve, and can grow up to be well adjusted and functioning. And by intervening early, this will have a larger effect over entire life times. This, I believe, will do more to narrow inequalities - of uplifting entire generations - than most other uses of A.I..

NYC - Raining 2022.11.11

 

The End of Space-Time

 "... having control of what that matter looks like - that was offered by this deep understanding... was what was eventually needed to harness this enormous magic that was hugely beyond the reach of any individual or even large collection of human beings."

evening rains in NYC fill my soul

 

elementary particle fields in art deco style

 

 

 

Stable Diffusion

conf

 

Cutting taxes for the rich and taking away women's rights. This was all our last generation managed.

i was laying in bed last night scrolling through tiktok and kept hearing this song every three seconds so i went downstairs and whispered it to my piano so here we are

♬ original sound - marianne

NYC - Raining 2022.06.01

 

 The China Initiative

The Great Translation Movement

 

And so they’ve pretty much given up on trying to sway the Chinese public to the “Light Side of the Force”, and have chosen instead to poison the well - by depicting the Chinese people as wholly alien, fanatical, weird, irredeemable, and inhuman.

In other words, "hate the Chinese government, and the Chinese people too".

 

The Great Translation Movement 

140 years

 The Chinese Exclusion Act

Ceremony on Angel Island Marks 140 Years Since Passage of Chinese Exclusion Act 

yeah, ok

The next time the U.S. talks about human rights, it should clarify that those rights do not apply to women.

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights

NYC - raining

 

we can only depend on ourselves, our own strength, our own preparation, our own will

The coming war will be more tragic and bloody. There will be no mercy and no reinforcements. For everything we can only depend on ourselves, our own strength, our own preparation, our own will, and our own ability to prevail in all out conflict. There is no retreat.

"将到来的战争将会更加惨烈，也会更加血腥，不会有仁慈，也不会有援军，一切都只能靠我们自己，靠我们自己的力量，自己的备战，自己的意志，自己的拼杀，没有退路可言。"

original

translation

 

The banality of writting for the NYT

What is the “The banality of evil” in China? 

As we are, we two, we three
As I alone can never be.

How I lost my past

... the United States that[sic] has created during the Cold War a formidable machinery of open and concealed propaganda. That machinery cannot be easily turned off. It cannot produce narratives that do not agree with the dominant one because no one would believe them or buy such books.  There is an almost daily and active rewriting of history...

How I lost my past

 The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: ‘a once-in-an-epoch windfall’

"you could have it ranging up to $1,000 a dose"

"There’s a significant opportunity for those margins to improve" 

"we saved the world"

"to say that they are wielding their power fairly, openly, with a sense of compassion, is manifestly untrue.”

“I think it’s immoral for anybody to profiteer to the extent that has happened out of a serious crisis for humanity as a whole.”

Skog

 This big brown bear always greets you with open arms. Cuddly like no other and with a lovely giant stomach where you can feel safe resting - in other words, a real softy.

Djungelskog

 

Courage born of fear

"To place our faith in a desperate, hopeless attempt to save everyone...and to see it amount to naught in the end.

What else could we do but offer up that tiny remainder in a final, futile effort? Even knowing, deep down, it was worth but a few moments more..."

We All Lift Together

 

 China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring in Sweeping Overhaul

The out-of-school education industry has been “severely hijacked by capital,” according to a separate article posted on the site of the Ministry of Education. “That broke the nature of education as welfare.”

 

functional programming toolkit

Oh girl it's you

@sarahcothran

new view

 

Tiny

 

Where are the space arks? 

The great and terrible scientific and technological inventions we associate with the present are almost all more than half a century old... During that axial age, humanity dreamed of ecumenopolises, of heavy industry and its by-products removed off-planet, of giant cylindrical worlds in orbit, of towers stretching into the heavens, of Dyson swarms of man-made infrastructure harvesting the full power of the Sun, of a Kardeshev II civilisation capable of re-engineering the solar system. These dreams already seem absurd.

what do we do with all that history – all that rage, all these memories?

 Ethiopia’s Long War

Isabella's Lullaby

The Insulindian Miracle

Exhale

Down by the river

Cosmic Clock

 

From brooding gulfs are we beheld
By that which bears no name

Its heralds are the stars it fells
The sky and Earth aflame

Corporeal laws are unwrit
As suns and love retreat

To cosmic madness laws submit
Though stalwart minds entreat

In luminous space blackened stars
They gaze, accuse, deny

Roiling, moaning, this realm of ours
In madness lost shall die

Carrion hordes trill their profane
Accord with eldritch plans

To cosmic forms from tangent planes
We end as we began

Motherboard

Elysium

A moment's respite

Oranjese lit

What is beauty

This was all our last generation managed

The logic of the system is totalizing

The most working class way to go

K - "Looks like one of the locals..."

YOU - "We know who this is. It's the working class woman's missing husband -- dead on the boardwalk."

K - "The woman you met at the bookstand?... why do you think it's her husband?"

YOU - "[Because] this is the most working class way to go -- completely alienated and forgotten."

Mass murderer

"You can live *entirely* outside of that suspicion. Billions of people go about not being guilty of mass murder." He nods up. "Just not her."

The greatest innocence

Shipwrecked

"I was born healthy in the arms of a dying civilisation, and throughout my existence, I have had the feeling of surviving ... while so many things around me were falling apart; like characters in a film who are crossing streets where all the walls are crumbling, and who come out somehow unscathed, shaking the dust off their clothes, while behind them the entire city is no more than a pile of rubble."

Covid-19 in America

humming

The heart asks pleasure first

"A moth flaps its wings. There is a cold breeze."

Quality of the 'Economist'

‘Cosmo’ for Capitalists

"It was always a dull stupid paper even when it was honest. But to read sophistical arguments in no better style than Wilson’s is a task I would not condemn a dog to."

Another age of ignorance

Facts don't matter. Lies don't matter. Deaths don't matter. Lives don't matter.

Footsteps of the sun

Revolution? How novel.

The LRB at 40

Origins of the LRB: 0:00
Editing:  21:10
Form of the essay: 37:11
Escalators: 40:21
Proportion of female writers: 1:18:38

1:22:57
"I've observed it recently and I've observed it and I am observing it now myself I guess that the book reviews in the paper... very often don't address the books a great deal..."

Hic sunt dracones

Approaching the Avid Horizon

In life, as in your art, you sought the sun and the stars.

A Moment's Memory

In-flight

Where were we?

Oh yes... in-flight. In-transit. Remembering. Forgetting.

This is What You Are

Dream.

Dream. Not of what you are. But of what you want to be.

A singer's regrets

"Did you know that I was a zee-captain's daughter? I could have been a pilot; a merchant; or an explorer. But I ran away from sea. And now I'm stuck on the stage, until my looks give out and my voice fails."

"One life," she says, eventually. "That's all we have."

Broken Photosynthesis

Bruno's Theme

Sing a song of sorrow in a world where time has vanished

Le dîner

Beneath a sky on the verge of falling

a glimpse of other stars

Was a glimpse of other stars all they longed for?

ensemble

看过了世界，读了（太多）书。从现在只希望，和一个特别的人，在我们一起选择的生活中，共同快乐。

Ruins

Acquire a ballroom of incomparable splendour

The Wandering Earth, movie

I am probably not the intended audience for this movie as I disliked it quite a bit. The thing that irked me the most was characterization:

Yes, just as portrayed in the movie, human beings are capable of compassion, kindness, cooperation, and even self-sacrifice while working towards a common goal. But these are not revelations or keen observations of human nature.

A Metamorphosis

Magdalene's

"The staff at Magdalene's promise treatments for the deleterious effects of the High Wilderness: loneliness, desperation, folly, regret, love."