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a) You often can: I know that 10 PRINT "I WILL NEVER LOG OFF" 20 GOTO 10 doesn't terminate, and I know that 10 LET A = 10000000000000000 20 LET A = A - 1 30 IF A > 0 GOTO 20 does, eventually. b) Running it only tells you that it terminates if it terminates while you're running it; if it...

I defy anyone, no matter where there sympathies may lie politically, not to find the antics of LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner's antagonists here hilarious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBeouf,_Rönkkö_&_Turner#HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US,_2017_–_2021

Here's how I think about "accelerationism". At any given historical moment you have forces of production - that's what we're able to do and make, what powers we have to transform ourselves and the world around us through labour and technology - and you have relations of production - that's how...

I think absorbing, or half-absorbing, stuff you can't really schematise or represent clearly to yourself, is a valid way of reading, for a first pass over a text anyway. Just attuning yourself to the vibe, getting used to the way it goes. Eventually the mists will part and solid objects will...

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I agree of course with Luka that the gender explosion is a significant shift in the way our reality's put together, and it's weird to me seeing younger people talking about it like it's a kind of common sense everybody should have always had. But a good kind of weird for the most part. The...

On a similar basis I would like to be able to go to my local chemist and say "I'd like some Adderall please" and maybe they'd say "for ADHD?" and I'd say "yes, possibly, I want to try them to see if they help me with things like executive function, and if they do then that will certainly lend...

Well, there are several simultaneous ongoing campaigns whose intended outcome is to get Stonewall and other LGBT organisations out of schools (sort of a new Section 28 flavour), make sure teenagers can't access puberty-blocking medication, make it harder for everybody to access hormones...

I had a bit of a rethink on something I wrote a while back, which my earlier post in this thread fed into: https://thelastinstance.com/posts/what_do_terfs_want/

Whereas Burroughs can still get under my skin, and actually I don't care very much about his ideas, it's the state of being he communicates that resonates.

I've never felt any desire to re-read Borges. Once he's successfully transferred the conceit of the story from his brain to yours, the need for all the ornate trappings falls away. Library of Babel, yup, got it, very clever, thanks.

I found Bend Sinister enjoyable. I've never been able to persevere with Pale Fire or whatever. The surface-level tricksiness is rebarbative, it pushes me out. I always felt Nabokov was writing English as a foreign language in a strangely hostile way, like he was tying it up and prodding it with...

I sometimes think about trying to write something Morbid would be up for publishing, just as an exercise. A protracted stream-of-consciousness fantasy about being a 12-year-old girl being strangled to death by Ian Huntley. That sort of thing. But I don't think I could do it. It wouldn't be the...

Every trained mind has some aspect of the world that it finds comparatively predictable. For people with a strongly-honed awareness of social situations, street smarts, they can see how things are going down in a workplace or public situation, see which way people are going to jump, and make...

I like the way this has sort of petered out (as it were) in a splurge of jokey posts about Hitler and bollocks. Build-up then release of energy, innit. Coming back to @thirdform's "he took French ex-maoist philosophers more seriously than French philosophers took themselves", I think the...

I cannot let the above remain the last post in the k-punk thread

breathes onto mirror, which promptly shatters

Such inhibitions are for ordinary folk. We bearers of the flame of k-charisma know no such restraint.

I imagine it dead-centre, swinging left-to-right like a pendulum

I wonder if it was the right one or the left one or if it just hung straight down the middle