Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
Band name of the day: burnt maps emanating from a dead moon
Band name of the day: burnt maps
mapping the cartography of the nickland-scape
Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.
Making maps with noise functions https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/
with enough samples, it shouldn’t be hard to extract a content filter’s opinions, for example you could use your botnet to map what twitter really considers bannable and then generate maximally bannable tweets
Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4
Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two [â¦]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html
and if you take someone out with a headbutt, the map plays a cheering football stadium sound and you get the Zidane achievement
More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Int… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broadband-map
Did you know that maps are voodoo dolls? When you draw a line on one, people will often try not to cross it in real life
the game map is all of wikipedia and you move around by following links, also the main page is full of campers, avoid
Deep in the royal archives is a dorian map. The kingdom’s long been existing outside of time, history advances only on this parchment
You leave the atlas on your bed and as you return, the map has spilled, unknown continents and seas now adorn your bedsheet
Interspecies translation is a delicate task, requiring not only intimate knowledge of both cultures but also an accurate qualia mapping
LRE Map http://lremap.elra.info/
These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps
minecraft, but instead of a huge map you have a fractal map and escape into ever more precise coordinates
“To complete the ritual, we need a really bloody book. Fortunately, I brought a map of Europe
Ever looked at a map and thought about how many million deaths drew some of those lines↵The Necronomicon is child’s play compared to this
Do you consent to having your blood vessels mapped by our therapeutic nanobots and uploaded to Google Blood View™ [yes] [n
there is skin where her eyes should be, but her fingers are deft and slender and map your face before you can protest
Appendix: Excurses on cryptid fauna, treasure maps showing the locations of memory palaces, proper usage of the duodecant for navigation
Long years of collating trip reports, interviewing psychonauts and some expeditions of his own. He’s finally mapped the known noosphere.
Confined to the ghetto, our druids adapted. They still guard the lore, but now also memorize sewer maps, teach asphalt magic on the roofs,
Hey we just map’d $u↵And it’s an array↵But here’s my pointer↵So call me maybe
there is a place that cannot be found through maps and cannot be described - show the way or tell the story, and you will never see it again
In Fractal City, maps are intricate and expensive. And if you leave them unguarded, squatters will move in and turn them into territories.
to still have sailed the seven seas, of which one dried up and one was simply lost, no one remembers where it lay, maps don’t show it
2031: Memetic entropy is now well studied, Carnot cycle mapped. We create engines out of people, semantic firewalls and logical conclusions.
Black will-o’-the-wisps do not glow and cannot hunt in the night. As an alternative, some pretend to be treasure locations on maps.
Don’t be fooled by the parchments, I draw territories, not maps. Not sterile like the competition’s, alive! Kingdoms of ink could be yours!
We mastered time travel, mapped the possible routes and found them to correspond to an origami pattern. It seems we live on a paper ship.
They separate the visible from the invisible and run along ideological chasms and schelling fences rather than rivers. Have fun mapping!
The pirates didn’t bury the treasure, they golemified it: put the map in its mouth and told it to walk the seafloor to the other side.
The source of the mysterious blight in the outer provinces has been revealed: The kingdom’s map had been stored wrong and gotten moldy.
a river of ink is drawing itself across the plain, it is its own map
“And she did really steal a street?“↵”Yeah! It was gone even from the maps!“↵”I wonder what her hoard looks like with loot like that?”
Sent by unscrupulous media companies and black operations, they map dreamtime and drill for promising wells.
One day the Giant King ordered to have his own map made.
He instructed to create a 10:1 map of his kingdom, so that he could study it in more detail. Every flower, bush, animal, ten times the size.
what if [part of map] were [part of territory] instead