consciousness, compilers, and criminal languages

Sunday, June 14, 2026

They drowned me in the sacred pool with golden amulets.

1. Erik Hoel defends consciousness against the machines
2. Self-replicating programs emerge from random noise
3. Deer antlers remember their injuries
4. Human routers of machine words
5. Soviet prison slang now spoken by cyber-criminals
6. Has AI already killed how-to nonfiction?