telemetry 27oct25

Unclassified: Resident Shadows

I caught Just Mustard on Jools Holland last night:

Just realised I have two issues of THE WIRE magazine and at least one TLS waiting to be read.4

https://newmodels.substack.com/p/nm-talkcore-kevin-munger-on-spiraling – what’s here is the “preview,” somehow I got the entire episode on my podcast app even though I don’t pay for the full New Models feed…?

If you rede­fine “thinking” to mean “arriving at a solu­tion through an iter­a­tive lin­guistic loop” … yes, that’s what these models do. That def­i­n­i­tion is pretty thin. We talk about humans thinking harder, which is not the same as thinking longer. I think most people know from expe­ri­ence that thinking longer gen­er­ally just makes you anxious. But that’s what the models do, and not only longer, but in parallel, all those step-by-step mono­logues spilling out simultaneously, some­where in the dark of a data center.

The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at the train wreck, it’s this. I find it impossible to feel fullness, even in the slightest, after having spent just a bit of a day in the thralls of the algorithms.

“Dreams of the Past“, dir. Dmitri Frolov, 2022 (via)

Japan’s space agency successfully launched Sunday its most powerful flagship H3 rocket, carrying a newly developed unmanned cargo spacecraft for its first mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.