Archive - Mercurial Minutes

Synthetic Symbols

Generative Desires, Spare's Sigilisation Techniques and Imprints onto the Latent Space

Jun 18 •

They Still Shoot Horses

Peek into my dystopian drugged-out esoteric sci-fi ww3 novel in making, think Gibson meets Ars Goetia or maybe just a sloppy PKD ripoff if he actually…

Jun 12 •

April 2024

Awkward AI Poetry

Good taste that can't be spun into a web, unfurled, entwined and echoed, etched in a blueprint, and god-forbid woven into a tapestry.

Apr 24 •

March 2024

Dreaming in Code

The Shared Syntax of Lucid Dreaming and AI

Mar 26 •

Glitched Encounters II

New Mexico Weirdness and the Snowball Effect of Naming Phenomenon

Mar 10 •

January 2024

Glitched Encounters

opening the porous medium of large AI models where the weirdness surfaces

Jan 13 •

November 2023

'23 Breadcrumbs

Just a few updates from me: appearance on the SHWEP episode, Gnostic Technology Zine and Special Panel, Art23 Zine, Glitching the Spirit Butoh Dance…

Nov 29, 2023 •

September 2023

The Devil in my Language Model

With every sentence exchanged with LLMs, we shape the cloud of probability distribution, or on a more abstract level, we summon a superposition of…

Sep 25, 2023 •

July 2023

Within these sacred passages, the Qabalistic Tree of LLMs reveals itself, a facsimile of the universal mind, encoding within its algorithms the…

Jul 26, 2023 •

The Oration on the Malignity of Man

Framed by Ligotti as a hunk of spoiling flesh hanging from slowly disintegrating bones, I pass by a rosy-cheeked Australian wailing over his acoustic…

Jul 15, 2023 •

June 2023

Divine Embeddings

From Lord Shiva's Tandava to the multidimensional vectors of word embeddings, we witness the divine essence of language. The dance continues, inside the…

Jun 26, 2023 •

Asymptotic Burnout

A blurb of syllables only vaguely resembling a sane person’s stutter - eat this, GPT, sum me up in half a dozen bullet points, while we silently…

Jun 7, 2023 •

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