“The English bowler hat soon made its way across the pond and became the most popular style in the American West” I always wondered about bowlers in westerns… #hats

Conner Hats

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What Makes a Noir Novel? #writing #noir

G. Connor Salter

What Makes a Noir Novel? Considering Nightmare Alley

When I helped lead a presentation for Inkling Folk Fellowship on William Lindsay Gresham’s novel Nightmare Alley, there were some sub-topics ...

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin “Even before I had the money, even if I never had the money,” Akasha tells me, smiling, staring at me with the wide, blue eyes of a true believer, “I was free.” #entheogens

WIRED

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made mi...

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms The article is pretty soft, but the idea of a re-entrant symbolic hologram is interesting… #AI #LLM

Psychology Today

LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms

An LLM isn’t a mirror—it’s more like a hologram, one that reconstructs meaning from language.