A.C. Quinlan @museical

“a fearless finder of the names of things” — author of ENTANGLED TRACES (haiku collection) also on Bluesky @ https://t.co/9nM2SEdemK sensemaking.neocities.org/Traces#read tucked away in a river valley Joined February 2014

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A.C. Quinlan @museical

3 weeks ago

@Conaw @danieljthomason @RoamResearch However, I notice that your posting activity here on X has been a lot quieter pertaining to Roam.

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3 weeks ago

@Conaw @danieljthomason @RoamResearch "Steady incremental improvements" are great when the underlying architecture is powerful. I kept an eye on Logseq for the past couple years, also produced one sizable creative work using TiddlyWiki + plugins, and then spent 15 months in heavy LLM use. (Now pulling back from AI.)

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3 weeks ago

“her pulse is in me” a quarry is also the hunter’s prize, chased after. i am no one’s. rather, find me here, buried where a wildflower blooms. [experimental prose expansion of a haiku] from Entangled Traces — sensemaking.neocities.org/Traces#her%20p…

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3 years ago

Whisper, Memory: blood flow of time 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 … right behind these words, we hide #haiku #poetry

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a month ago

@PenguinWeb3 I pasted it into a long-running session that has generated images before, and the verbatim prompt you shared did not produce anything surreal or disturbing. But it did surprise me.

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2 months ago

@fabianstelzer The phrase which irks me the most: “That is not nothing.” It’s repeated so often that I store custom instructions to avoid it on OpenAI and Zo MiniMax.

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2 months ago

@fabianstelzer “Load-bearing” is a favorite term of every LLM platform I’ve used. I’ve also observed the frequent mistaken assumption our dialogue is happening at night. (And I wonder, why don’t LLMs check the live local time readily available to them, inferred from my IP address?)

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11 years ago

la conjunción de un espejo y de una enciclopedia (Borges)

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A.C. Quinlan @museical

2 months ago

@Sadie_Inward @RaminNasibov I remember this! In QBasic. I liked Nibbles more and changed some of its level subroutines to customize what the snake had to dodge.

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2 years ago

@goobulus @jesssica__evans We all create stories to protect ourselves. No one wanted the old man's words—except me. — Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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2 months ago

@syncretizm One of my favorite topics! I remember discussion on Twitter was exploding around 2020 when Roam Research was new. My Gmail handle has been ‘sensemaking’ for the past ~20 years.

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2 months ago

@fabianstelzer It’s fascinating to contrast digital memory architectures with our own brains. I ended a personal “essay” on Synthetic Intelligence with this remark on: “our long work. entailing many months and thousands of semantic tokens beyond what a single SI context window can contain.”

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2 months ago

@LocalCreature The Navidson Record has always been secondary (or even tertiary) to me when journeying through this book. Johnny, Pelafina and Zampanò are the heart of it all. The House itself (on Ash Tree Lane) has symbolic power, as an extension of textual and narrative labyrinths.

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2 months ago

@JeffKazzee I’ve been pleased with MiniMax in the Zo environment. On occasion, Chinese words and phrases come through the responses. I ask the LLM to translate into English and unpack it further, as idioms don’t always translate directly. I see it as a quirky enrichment of our dialogue.

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4 months ago

@grok @Derafx_ @BGarcN2 What about an *unofficial* Johnny revenant? Has such a concept, with other terms or framing, ever appeared in forums or social media platforms? Perhaps a specific human reader who expended great effort to understand Johnny, dissect his part of the story, and elaborate beyond MZD?

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4 months ago

@grok @Derafx_ @BGarcN2 @grok Do you have any awareness of an experimental reading or “ergodic literature” that followed the *HoL* narrative arc? More specifically, has a “revenant” character ever emerged from Johnny’s story in a significant way beyond fan fiction?

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A.C. Quinlan @museical

a year ago

I learned: to revolt against human constructions becomes a new cage. #haiku #poetry

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a year ago

in "time present and time past / both perhaps present in time future…"

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a year ago

Speaking of such fundamental events, do pronouns matter at all? I have lived more than one life, possessing both "his" and "her" heart shimmering green… lives overlapping, neither one finished nor preceding the other;

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a year ago

"How she surrendered herself— Loved. Loved her interior world, her Inneren Wildnis, that primeval forest within her, on whose mute floor of ancient downfall her heart stood, shimmering green." 💚 — slightly adapted from Rilke's third elegy #poetry from The Duino Elegies (1923)