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New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:40:21 +0000

These aren't random, toilets vs cameras, and they're not even arbitrary. In neurobiological terms, they're references. Eyes and anuses.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:12:29 +0000

The title of this piece is "Nightmare Fuel" and mods removing it are editing out the central thrust of the article. Please reply here why this was done, thanks.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:01:04 +0000

Or, lore is a dinosaur, and the fractal, chaotic idea of reality becomes clearer by the day in our dystopia.

These are clearly toilets vs cameras, or out vs in. Resonant media doesn't have to explain itself. But simpler minds need the illusion of backstory, or the idea of good/bad, etc.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:56:20 +0000

The point is that memes replace stodgy narratives, which are dinosaurs (news, history, novels), with semantic options. You can experience this as meaningless, or in well designed memewarefare, you can sense the density and how/where it applies to the culture today and sense that it has something to add when it's archaeology.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:51:18 +0000

We don't need static, low-res semantics in media anymore, that's how Hollywood is already DOA. Their concern is carefully curating the meaning, when the density range is far too massive out there.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:11:17 +0000

Resolution isn't the point, the semantic confusion is what generates clicks.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:10:01 +0000

No, it's not a narrative at all, it's episodic-mimetic and it's fractal, the pieces can be recombined in other vids. A narrative has bells and whistles like backstory, cause and effect dichotomies.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:51:20 +0000

Gen Alpha via Z doesn't see through the makeshift BS of civilization? Think again.

New comment by mallowdram in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:14:40 +0000

Could be the prank began at causal-phenomenological explanations. How different is Skibidi from "lightning causes fire"?

Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3108

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604372

Points: 107

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New comment by mallowdram in "Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research"

mallowdram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:55:22 +0000

I can dream, can't I?

New comment by mallowdram in "Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research"

mallowdram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:38:21 +0000

This is parapsychology, not anomalies research.

New comment by mallowdram in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

mallowdram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:05:57 +0000

Spatial computing is not spatial intelligence. Apple fundamentally has missed the boat on topological integrations.

New comment by mallowdram in "The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps"

mallowdram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:16:00 +0000

VR cannot be essential to decoding the brain as it deals in topological maps and affinities.

New comment by mallowdram in "The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps"

mallowdram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:14:46 +0000

Not exactly. We don't know where optic-flow reactions that integrate senses, emotions, motor systems in the slightest. Study neural reuse or coordination dynamics. Some relationship between the brain and the world that isn't easily found in the brain alone is responsible.

New comment by mallowdram in "The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps"

mallowdram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:12:19 +0000

Wisdom is an arbitrary concept. The drive to avoid suffering is built from sensory and affective affinities and networks funnlled into the cog-mapping motor systems. Calling this wisdom is simply a simplistic narrative.

New comment by mallowdram in "The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps"

mallowdram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:09:32 +0000

It's a mechanism of intelligence, not consciousness. Intel is built up from path-integration, short-cuts, vicarious trial and error that begins in very tiny local areas and expands to landmark and non-landmark navigation. This switching between vision and hippocampus has always been theorized about as the fundamental sharp wave ripple threshold of how intelligence is built as most mammals can do this, so it's not the "algorithm of consciousness".

New comment by mallowdram in "America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy"

mallowdram — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:12:33 +0000

Symbols are archaic, time to replace language with something self-organizing, self-teaching, concatenating and concatenated, ruled by verbs, and defanging nouns and agentic occlusions.

New comment by mallowdram in "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025"

mallowdram — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:45:02 +0000

We're already verging on decentralized, and we've been horizontalizing since 1995. If you're not aware of these trends leaving behind models, discarding politics, recognizing the narrative seclusions of economic policy, then you have your head in some 20th C think-tank or consultancy immobility syndrome.

These things are dinosaurs. States are looming as extinct, religion, history, myth, storytelling are ancient tools. I'd start looking around outside of the C suite.

Think what's already under development that disintegrates out stodgy ideas of "wealth", currencyless societies, tokens, analog measurement replacing binary, syntax instead of grammar.

Ye olde Friedman-Galbraith (and any edgy sounding theorist) promoting currency, quant, interest, game-theory about economies are witch doctors that have already been unmasked by scientists. I've linked one above a few entries up.

Think for yourself, don't toe the line into senescence. Don't replay your father's tired ideas about wealth.

New comment by mallowdram in "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025"

mallowdram — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:56:35 +0000

It's an extinction project, growth or sustained growth, you're describing mathematical politics, which is arbitrary. All animals reach a homeostasis/allostasis with the environment. Humans don't require synthetic categories ie "goods and services" we require functional relationships to resources that become streamlined into ecological categories in order to survive.