行くな meaning “don’t go” and 行きな meaning “go (please)” might just kill me lolol
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Alonzo is like Rihanna before Umbrella, like James Blake before Limit to your Love, like Charli XCX before I Love It Alonzo is the artist project of Brooklyn polymath Robbie Lyman
I don't know that I really appreciated it very deeply as a child, but as an adult I fckin LOVE that somehow Code Geass manages to make "a high school's normal culture festival" into "the stage where many of the characters in an international guerilla uprising meet"
when my subway crush gets off a stop earlier than me after I imagined our whole life together
Squirrel Wave
Alt: Squirrel in Tornado gif
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僕らのAIがヤバい的な話、AGI教の布教活動（投資を集めるためのプロモーション）でしょう。マジメに取り合う必要はないと思うんだけどね。 人を殺す装置はGPUで動いてようがサイコロ乱数だろうが、確率的に人を殺すんだから。 社会実装の実態に目を向けること、そしてオリガルヒによる開発を解体するところから始めたほうがいいんじゃないのかね。 https://www.bbc.com/japanese/articles/cqly75jr4050o
AIの「キルスイッチ」義務化も検討すべき アンソロピック共同創業者がBBCに話す - BBCニュース
人工知能（AI）に、第三者がチェック可能な「キルスイッチ」（強制停止機能）を搭載することを、開発企業に義務付ける必要があるかもしれない――。そうした考えを、世界最大級のAI企業の共同創業者の1人がBBCの番組で述べた。AIの急速な発展と、それが人類にもたらすリスクに対する懸念について、AI企業の幹部やスタッフが相次ぎ警告を発しており、一気に注目されている。
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(first sign: “it is forbidden to sleep in the park overnight.” response: “but why are people sleeping in the park? i forbid looking away from the cause and pushing rules”)
ササムソン高橋@samsontakahashi.bsky.social · 3w ago
今日も一日
This week the thing rattling round in my head was this idea of the purpose of taking classes being, ultimately, to learn that you don't need to keep taking classes. read.alonzo.zip/in-practice/
In Practice
Have you noticed that if you want to improve basically any skill beyond a certain point, the only way to do that is to do the thing a lot? You can learn fingerings and practice scales and embouchure o...
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speakers of English slang will be glad to know that expressions like “my singular brain cell” have progressed in Japanese to where 単細胞 (nearly literally “single cell”) means “simple minded”
me and all the millennials in this cafe just discovered together that MIA sampled The Clash for Paper Planes, it was a cute moment
… i didn’t practice at all really but although it’s slower than reading a font, i can read mangaka handwriting much better than a year ago ???
i just KNOW 吾峠呼世晴 was like “ah yes, yes excellent very clever” when they chose 那田蜘蛛山 (mount natagumo) as the name for the setting of the place with lots of spider (蜘蛛)-type demons…
read.alonzo.zip/alignment/ "This morning I woke up in a small room mostly unfamiliar to me. The walls were bare and white and the sky outside the window was gray. The floor was carpeted, a tight carpet with almost no shag, similar to many rooms I'd been in and yet somehow unfamiliar."
Alignment
1 This morning I woke up in a small room mostly unfamiliar to me. The walls were bare and white and the sky outside the window was gray. The floor was carpeted, a tight carpet with almost no shag, si...
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Sometimes (often? always?) if you're seeing that things are intricate and complex, those are the lenses you've put on, not something inherent to what you're looking at. read.alonzo.zip/what-if-its-...
What If It's Just This?
I don't quite remember the website where I found Owl City's music, but I do know that wherever it was I downloaded "Hello Seattle" for free: at the time I was a cheapskate high school student in love ...
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何となくやがて漫画を読めるくらいになってきたけど、普通の日本語はまだまだだ。日向翔陽の「高い高い壁」のようだかな、普通の日本語は。自由に使いたい「景色」に見える。
I guess a certain amount of culture writing really is just being grabbed by the lapels and shaken up by something enough that you can't not write about it. read.alonzo.zip/just-another...
Just Another Girl – The Killers
Who knows what sort of media from our current dark age will last as long as The Odyssey, of course, and if the past is anything to go by, music seems a good deal less sticky than words. And in any cas...
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Pop punk never dies it just slowly pays down its mortgage and gets older and more out of touch
Breaking Heartbeat is streaming everywhere! Tell me what you think, it'd tickle me pink to know you listened :) open.spotify.com/track/5h3id3...
Breaking Heartbeat
Alonzo · Breaking Heartbeat · Song · 2026
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Since I run my own Bandcamp page, I figured I'd press publish *now* rather than tomorrow, when this song goes live on streaming It's about trying to do too much, a place I find myself in too often. For fans who wish Justin Bieber and James Blake would collab alonzo-zip.bandcamp.com/track/breaki...
Breaking Heartbeat, by Alonzo
track by Alonzo
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i'm not totally sure why this one wanted to stay a draft so long, but new post about the YA book I just read :) is it a flex to include my translations of a couple paragraphs of Japanese? read.alonzo.zip/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy
Around this time last year, I started watching ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ, titled Welcome to the Classroom of the Elite or just Classroom of the Elite in English, and sometimes shortened to よう実 in Japanese. The ...
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“Outta My Way” by Kylie Minogue is notable for having a bridge hook so frickin good they reprise it as the outro
My only manifesto is that I think some of you are thinking about this shit too much. Time spent being clever in your head is time that could be better spent working it out in the art instead. You need to embrace being a dumb bitch if you wanna ship
Japanese update: I finished volume 10 of Death Note in about one day (although two calendar days bc I’m jetlagged and fall asleep at like 8p 🙃) Lotta factors made it easier than reading that number of words in even another manga, but I’m excited! more fluency!!
Fame Is A Gun by Addison Rae is fckin amazing compositionally?? Hats off to her, Luka Kloser and Elvira Anderfjärd. The "prechorus" is only 2 bars, which sets most of the choruses off from the 4-bar rhythm you expect for a pop song... BUT THEN ALSO the bridge ends HALF A BAR EARLY!!! bpm: 69*2 lol
i don’t know if i’ve ever seen a more “why do we even *have* that lever?” command line argument than “—dangerously-skip-permissions”
On Contingency Plans: Yzma's Lever Dilemma
Alt: Yzma (The Emperor’s New Groove) “Why do we even HAVE that lever?!”
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