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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Embedding all my earthly knowledge in the collective grimoire known as twitterdotcom.My fingers have literally bleed from tweeting too much. https://t.co/BqUu7QPRFW

Naval@naval• over 7 years ago

To write a great book, you must first become the book.

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

OTOH, I write tweets mostly for future me, so a non-linear book that embeds notes about my thinking is probably a non-standard use of Twitter.https://t.co/5IhZENykmO

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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In the past, people who read books likely also had the knowledge and experience to re-bind their books. You could make compendiums and stitch in your own notes. As books turned into precious commodities, we lost this hidden feature.https://t.co/L7YecF4gLm

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago

Made a difficult decision today: I’ve decided I’m going to start dog-earing my books. My subconscious finds this disrespectful, but I’ve decided that if it helps me read more, that’s a higher class of respect (to actually engage with the material) A book is a thread of chapters https://t.co/pkRZaZo12H

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I'm tempted to grab a sharp knife and start clipping bits of books and threading together a custom zettelkasten. If darwin made his own indexes, why not go one step further and weave the ideas together more directly. A physical xanadu.Pepe_Silvia.jpghttps://t.co/Bs85ShhHlm

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago

Incubating a new way of engaging with & relating to my books. Every time I talk about my books I get a couple of randos in my mentions calling me weird or overdramatic, but it’s a simple truth that the history of my relationship with my books is foundational to who I am https://t.co/bA7gkiOWcX

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Hyperlink all the things.https://t.co/ZZzpOjhoXK

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Looking up this quote and related ideas (did Koestler keep a memex?). In A nother dimension of thought, I find a collection of notes on alan kay. https://t.co/Q1QhtbDLU1Who was the author? Stumbling upon a familiar face!A @cryptowandererhttps://t.co/AjE4RCVYpX

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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Become the book?https://t.co/cenK15eepF

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

A link? A connection? A bridge between ideas.https://t.co/y2lcuG9Cib

UltimApe@ultimape• about 7 years ago

RT @chumulu: love how one random word is enough to open a bridge between two previously unrelated concepts. conversation as source of creat…

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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A stick that you sit on that acts as a conveyance between two sides of a river. A boat? An impromptu bridge.https://t.co/5jlMxCXFIG

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Tools for Thought:Thomas Edison's Laboratory Desk Henry O. Studley's ToolboxSome random bridge that Bill Hamilton decided to carve math into.Lukasa boardsTotem PolesWorry StonesFidget CubesDanceDiceCasting LotsTarot CardsSticks https://t.co/Okxm8hLtGm

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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Funny looking hanging boat.https://t.co/1fjTKmAVqy

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Ferry a boat across a river long enough, and the ants will reinforce it.https://t.co/6jlEPYwef7

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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A bridge over troubled waters.https://t.co/qakmH9ZHds

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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Reading between the lines of thought until the connection solidifies itself like neurons reaching out to form an idea.https://t.co/MPrYJzlHSS

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

And so now, sitting at this bridge between communities of ideas - I try to find a way to explain what I am seeing.https://t.co/dyQtN5r7vy

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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A living book. Ideas not on paper, but held within one's head. Concepts that exist as a collective. A meta-memetic holon.https://t.co/4CiZgShUPs

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

My thoughts jump between threads in the same way that someone blurts out "oh, I remember" late at night while laying in bed. But I have a memex to record the connection being made.https://t.co/wjokEImdVl

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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"The word was used by Arthur Koestler in his book The Ghost in the Machine (1967, p. 48) and the phrase to hólon is a Greek word preceding the Latin analogue universum, in the sense of totality, a whole." https://t.co/EjUE9UtqzChttps://t.co/MCZ2R4K5nb

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

@chumulu what are "Koestler's ants"? found https://t.co/EjUE9UtqzC but it doesn't talk about ants too much.

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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"Much of what may be labeled as 'religious' artefacts in prehistoric collections appears in a very different light to folks who use memory techniques that use features and patterns in landscape or textures as 'hooks' to which narratives are anchored." https://t.co/qbDwNfXhYv

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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Ancient Memory Techniques -> Embodiment as Memex.https://t.co/NiQqAuGePz

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

Lukasahttps://t.co/usL9j40ms7

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Dancing between threads to channel a thought that only exists in the weave.Become the book.https://t.co/NiQqAuGePz

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

Lukasahttps://t.co/usL9j40ms7

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Don't distract yourself with dead trees and plant fiber. They are merely the vessel that carries the broth of ideas.The medium is only part of the message. https://t.co/Kz34QLsTtO

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 7 years ago

Why do we embed knowledge on dead trees?https://t.co/LYDDeFmLrH

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11/13/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Weighing down my thoughts in the ocean of ideas using a leaded anchor. Hoping they don't float away like a message in a bottle.https://t.co/xZRxuDNpQX

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

What amazing pencils we have built, we children of slime and sand.A pencil that can remember a shape, is a hand. https://t.co/IMQKNLdEeV

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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Re-imagining social networks not as points, but as fields.Modeling connections as probabilities. The chance that an idea will spread modeled as quantum eigenstates, and poteniates.https://t.co/e7X8Z6KG42 https://t.co/zaiINobBaG

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Musing at similarities at all scales of existence.https://t.co/fjNpcEFP9l

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

I'm trying to figure out if I can use a quantum based model of information spreading to simulate lensing effects & information flow among networks of ants as an analogy for computational fluidics and phononics, as a proxy for memetics as a form of emergent networked computation.

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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"The applications of the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics, especially quantum information and the probability calculus, outside physics can be considered as one of the fruits of the quantum information revolution"https://t.co/Au9uSwnLGRhttps://t.co/QiUR3RG2Fo

UltimApe@ultimape• over 6 years ago

Ideas who's meaning depend on who's observing them.Context sensitivity of quantum tweets.Meaning is relative to the ontological framing of the observer.https://t.co/4njZiiTKPK

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Sneeze of bees.https://t.co/E3pybqrTYZ

UltimApe@ultimape• about 7 years ago

Quantum Tweets

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I invent words that already exist.https://t.co/vR3dfQUluG

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

I invented a word "Electromemetic" and it turns out it may a real world that is relevant to my conception of quantum meme spread.https://t.co/TJwzwcHdX2 https://t.co/8PNg3DpZ9o

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

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I think "this ought to exist" and bam, Hypermemetic already does.https://t.co/CeRrFmdzluOne day i'll invent a word that doesn't exist yet.https://t.co/sCF8Jqw2sG

UltimApe@ultimape• about 6 years ago

Memetic Parasitehttps://t.co/KKIIsWnt1S

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Writing an idea about imaginary ideas.Ideas that don't exist yet. Thoughts sitting just outside of the adjacent possible of memeing.Thoughts that can only be thunk by those whom can't think it.https://t.co/GDRojVTy9x

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Let's stop the world. I'll collapse the waveform. Dream of frequencies, superpositions which never negate. An eigenstate of imaginary grace.

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Keeping memes as pets. Bringing them on playdates to mingle with your friends. Having idea puppies.https://t.co/Vkxxw2jh76

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Do old quotes get lonely? Do they wander aimlessly like orphaned meems?Make them happy. Create something. https://t.co/G5QuKiT297

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Unthinkable thoughts, vs thoughts that are taboo.Toxic thoughts. Infectious pathogenic thoughts.https://t.co/G2EpSbGjLu

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 7 years ago

One of my tuplified selves came back one day foaming at the mouth. I diagnosed it as a Wendigo and had to put it down. Keep your mind on a tight leash less it summons the elder ones.

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Growing an immunity to viral thoughts, so that I can infect the outgroup with badthink.https://t.co/Qe1aip0P7j

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

It would seem if the collective memescape is rife with viral ideologies roving around and trying to indwell reproductive memeplexes within various hosts.... An effective means of behaviorally inoculating yourself is to lower your Epistemic Motivation.https://t.co/c09QDFywvg

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Memetic hyperparasite.https://t.co/vz65kRvlDI

UltimApe@ultimape• about 7 years ago

"bold behavior could also influence their peers. [...] Small decisions made by individuals can translate into large collective movements by the group. And if certain individuals are infected by a mind-controlling parasite, to an extent, the group is too."https://t.co/HHyFs7Auo1

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11/15/2020

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Books are neat. I want all of them.https://t.co/G1UpGrAk9W

Adam Strandberg@strandbergbio• over 4 years ago

“But books are not separable units of wisdom. Books are tiny fragments of conversation... Books (especially old books) throw us into the middle of an alien conversation: what is the author up to? who is he subtweeting? what does he mean by that word?” https://t.co/DfNgj2yImp

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4/2/2021

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

If I can figure out how to regrow skin without scaring, I can use my body as a rewrite-able book.https://t.co/E5OqWu2IVc

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

@literalbanana @pelavarre One of the other side effects in writing things down; we forgot how to tell these intergenerational stories properly. Then things started being burned.We're stuck with it now. Metastasized. https://t.co/iTghcyk3Xd

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4/2/2021

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

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Mapping the ineffable with a tile-able series of cards.1s and 0s in endless forms most beautiful.https://t.co/FFdDxgX4oI

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4/2/2021

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

The history of reading books front to back is a tradition stemming from the use of books for pleasure. Before the trends in fiction, they were often used nonlinearly.https://t.co/aAkiu7ZDWi

agoston nagy@_stc• almost 9 years ago

books are nonlinear #media https://t.co/9kLRw6BDTs

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5/3/2021

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Books are dumb. They can't even talk! https://t.co/F5ZHOjZeIf

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

If I set a book sit on my shelf long enough, latent effect it has on my attention leads me to consuming it's content by way of streams of thought I digest. My interests guide me.One of my primary-school teachers joked once on reading a book thru osmosis.https://t.co/IoKIsWgbOn

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5/3/2021

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Tell stories to each other about shared experiences.These word of mouth histories are more durable than memory palaces.https://t.co/7iTf1Dr78IWrite your own books.https://t.co/h7xYdOxN7D

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

"Talked about this idea of multiplicity of meaning.Lukasa is a mnemonic device, it's a memory device.You can see it's an object and it's attached with all this stuffAll those attachments & ideagrams can be read.They hold knowledge."Old Braille Memeshttps://t.co/cYBQhoDW7p

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5/19/2021

UltimApe@ultimape• over 3 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Let words shine like gold,and the meaning become drip.https://t.co/d4tpheouBj

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

“dynamism in language seems to represent a kind of healthy symptom of a culture. Ya'll feelin' me or what?” https://t.co/13YTUohLsf

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4/25/2022

UltimApe@ultimape• over 3 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Let your ideas shine.https://t.co/ybXQSnYL8N

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

My brain is in a flow state. ideas drip from my fingers like electricity into the keyboard and I can see again. My web spreads before me.https://t.co/31gqXqyYi5

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4/25/2022

UltimApe@ultimape• 12 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Tired: bookwormWired: brainwormhttps://t.co/GNhEZe3Giu

Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)@nosilverv• 12 months ago

I recall when gf and I got together a period where I shared A LOT of my references. It was spontaneous but I think the motivation was to develop shared context so our communication could be chunked. I now get that classical education did that FOR EVERYONE, via the western canon: shared references means chunked comms means you can get (much) further faster. Ofc we don’t do classical education anymore, ergo, context collapse, Tower of Babel like

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9/20/2024

UltimApe@ultimape• 12 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Someone is burning my book.https://t.co/76sFA0n71z

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago

OTOH, I write tweets mostly for future me, so a non-linear book that embeds notes about my thinking is probably a non-standard use of Twitter.https://t.co/5IhZENykmO

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9/20/2024

UltimApe@ultimape• 11 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Good thing we got that oral history.https://t.co/DWnxndjlPC

UltimApe@ultimape• 11 months ago

if you read enough books, you can start to predict what authors are going to say. Then you don't need to read the books anymore.At that point you've become part of the ebb and flow of the conversation.https://t.co/kAwFm8ViVg

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10/8/2024

UltimApe@ultimape• 11 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

We should be doing that more.https://t.co/gvLeCZIc9e

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

"I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life"<3https://t.co/kBjdb5gB4k

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10/8/2024

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Books are stupid.https://t.co/U2MrfXSUjz

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

@Pet_The_Bridge I don't read books anymore really, they tend to be too out of date or generally biasing the studies they cite to meet their agenda.I tend to get reference manuals and stuff to fill in knowledge gaps and do my own research.

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Reading a book because other people are is dumb.https://t.co/ZjAHq690MU

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

@BronskiJoseph If you wanna IQ signal, talk about books you don't need to read. Or ones that you read entirely because they're considered experts in a field and you think they're wrong. It's way more impressive.https://t.co/RQxYoWeIYg

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Buy books that you can use as toilet paper when you are done.https://t.co/b7l7KTNRMQ

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

@BronskiJoseph I like books. I'm learning how to eat them. Did you know someone figured out that non-westerners have gut bacteria that can digest cellulose? https://t.co/3k1QXlgKby

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Distill thoughts into trees, then drink them.https://t.co/agwj1xp9l9

UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

Back in 2012 I made an argument at a party that in the case of the apocalypse, you'd be best off if you stockpiled toilet paper and built facilities to make alcohol (as antiseptic), to barter with.Ya'll gut any that delicious loo roll?https://t.co/q6nB6uj0pz

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

"Where can I find a writer who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?" Tired, antiquated, wordcel pilled. "Where can I find an artist who has forgotten how to draw so I can view his latest WIP" Alive, future thinking, shape-rotator maxxed

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

"Where can I find an intellectual who has forgotten discourse so I can share a vision with him?"Transcendent, timeless, concept-weaver ascendant

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Books can be trolls, reminding you of another's suffering, and of your own.https://t.co/dkiFyZvnlr

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

My gram's inheritance is a $200+ book on medicine, the only page that is 'dog eared' is the one on IBD.https://t.co/ASMxIMfRzT

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

Sorry, i'm waiting for grok to answer a question on poems and it's already up to 7 minutes.I love trolling the AI with deep thot. Got it stumped on paradoxes.https://t.co/NRKL8udNxO https://t.co/aTkLGV6jSa

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

"Where can I find a shaman who has forgotten rituals so I can feel his untamed spirit?"Glowing, unending, soul-guide upliftedHad grock make more of these, they're fun.https://t.co/CehTMxKrIA https://t.co/qXZKFsDxp2

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4/28/2025

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

Replying to @ultimape

"Where can I find an AI who has stopped processing so I can think for myself?"Awakened, liberated, humancel fleshbaggedhttps://t.co/gaU7dUEKS4

UltimApe@ultimape• 5 months ago

help, I broke grok. :KEKW: https://t.co/dKC0cPqBFf

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4/29/2025