// μ = m // dayvan cowboy // music is math

• Gente, AMANHÃ É O BLOOMSDAY. O que faremos a respeito? #
• The first thing one notices about deLanda’s”Intensive science” is how his (and Deleuze’s) ontology depends critically on differentiability. #
• @nyex Tente com “Music is math” do Boards of Canada. É ritalina sonora. Há toda uma cultura a se criar em torno da ritalina como a do LSD. #
• (I had a nightmare where differentiability wasn’t possible because we lived in a discrete world. I call that nightmare “computers”) #
• I do realize there’s differentiability on an electrical level there,and that discrete modelling is fine and dandy.Still, close but no magma. #
• Zentem, eu pus o meu Wordpress pra mandar um reminder quando eu postasse um post novo. Ele começou a postar reminders de TODOS OS ANTIGOS. #
• O que aconteceu foi o seguinte. Ficaram ligadas as opções “tweet when I post” e “post when I tweet” ao mesmo tempo. Infinite loop! #
• Will I be expelled from Twitter from that infinite loop event? #
• The Wordpress plugin “Twitter tools” has “tweet when I post” and a”post when I tweet” #
• Both were enabled, begetting infinite loop and breaking Twitter overcapacity, it seems. #
• If that accident caused Twitter to come down, it’s sensitive to all sorts of malicious attacks. #
• Re:computers and differentiable ontologies it’s fascinating how far you can get starting from formal logic,eg exact df/dx with dual numbers. #
• Dual-number type df/dx is just Hindley-Milner types applied to nonstandard analysis,but it still should give us pause when thinking Deleuze. #
• (DeLanda is clearer in the analytic philosophy version of Deleuze I’m working in. … #
• …But I’m trying not to be a “delandian”, i.e. restricting myself to the portions that deLanda covers in(the monumental)”Intensive Science” #
• It once was a world driven by sea currents (see 1K Years) and it’s now a world driven by numerical algorithms.But they need not be numerical #

Don’t.

Seriously. It’s my own “agenda” to defend, my own mountain Everest to climb, my own life pursuit. It’s also a nondescript umbrella term whose meaning I’ve been and probably will be shaping implicitly in my writing.

Sure, you could hypothetically try to infer a cloudy idea from what I’ve been saying and try to follow it. But hey, trying to shape oneself into a dayvan cowboy is not something a dayvan cowboy would do. It’s not just the chutzpah, the deleuze-ish ultraphenomenology of crashing down the plane of imannence, or even the zen idea implied by the very idea of “don’t try, just do” implied in this paragraph.

It’s not like there’s a crowd to worship the idea either. But I worry about myself, about being blinded by the idea that I have some big secret to share. Something like Being alive: a primer needs to be fueled by a sense of self-assurance that is both positive in that a dayvan cowboy should just dive into things as if they’re liquid — they always are — and negative in that begins to convey a sense of closure. As if I had it solved, or at least knew I was heading into the solution.

I registered this domain like, what, 2 months ago? and my PageRank with Google implies an exposure I don’t see reflected in my viewer stats. So I started comparing it along blog blog journal s. As a measure of comparison, Wikipedia and the New York Times are a 9. The scale maxes out at 10. Jason Kottke and Nick Carr are a 7, Waiter Rant is a 6 and The Last Psychiatrist is a 5; I’m a 4 and annoyingly, Violent Acres is below me at 3. PageRank is bunk, dude. V. from Violent Acres has been at it for years, consistently kicks ass and is guaranteed to have controversy in her comments. She’s in a way someone I admire, as she’s been living out her life pursuit in her very own way — she’s far, far from being a dayvan cowgirl — and what’s more, consistently avoided letting herself indulge in her own identity. This is the girl who went (voluntarily and with a plan) homeless to pay off debt.