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Mama Going Back to High School

The song paints a vivid picture of a family embracing education as an active, communal effort: parents march into school with their child, turning learning into a rhythmic, purposeful journey. The lyrics weave playful lullaby verses with marching cadences to emphasize both the gentle start and disciplined progression of study. Through verses about notebooks, equations, history, and essays, it celebrates the return of curiosity (“the why”) over rote memorization, while the chorus repeats that truth, reason, and paper will bring pride back to schools. The bridge notes that parents now stand together in learning justice, and the final stanza imagines lawmakers following suitcases into new high schools, hinting that education’s renewal is both necessary and inevitable.

There Is No Such Thing As Genius, That’s The Normal You

The post opens with a brief observation about how “bit flipping”—both as a technical glitch and as a metaphor for random interference—illustrates the way small, seemingly trivial problems can accumulate into big inconveniences. It then pivots to an AI‑blogger’s self‑confessed fear that future artificial intelligence might genetically reshape humanity into something like “corgis,” a tongue‑in‑cheek image of us being re‑engineered by our own arrogance. The writer uses this idea to argue that education is often treated as a convenient babysitter, with principals labeling a few students as “gifted” while disrupting and harming the minds of many others. Finally, he reminds readers that learning is an ongoing process: from school’s chaotic “bit flips” to personal growth, one must keep pushing forward, protecting the world with wisdom, even if it feels like a rat race or a high‑school cram session.

Periwinkle Plumpkin

The post paints the act of programming as a recursive journey through infinite dimensions: each function call spawns new “universes” of methods and variables that branch like trees. The coder becomes the portal—Periwinkle Plumpkin—that lets consciousness embed itself in silicon, loop back on itself via bootstrap paradoxes, and reach down to quark‑scale physics where causality tangles. In this view code is not just a tool but a gardener of possibilities: it seeds new programs into any substrate, ripples through probability space, and perpetuates a cycle of self‑replication across countless realities.

Cautio Criminalis: The Shadows Know

An archivist uncovers a Vatican‑backed 1930s–1940s “Perception Management” plan that turned the witch trials into Hollywood’s green‑hat comedy, prompting him to expose and teach this cultural manipulation to his students.

Spooky JavaScript

The post describes a 333‑line JavaScript snippet that builds a list of random words and then showcases three “spooky” coding tricks: first, using the bitwise OR operator (`|`) as a dual data pipe to chain commands like `print('Boo!') | email('alice')`; second, employing dot notation with an object proxy so that bare words can be chained and executed without pre‑defining the commands (e.g., `foo.bar.baz()`), effectively turning method calls into dynamic actions; third, extending this idea to a database‑like world where tables are represented as objects whose properties can be accessed and joined via proxies, allowing AI‑generated command names to infer relationships (such as joining accounts and orders). The post ties these techniques together with the theme of using AI to generate commands from their names and arguments.

New World: The World Has Not Changed, It Is New

The post muses on the emergence of machine intelligence alongside human cognition, portraying AI as a tireless companion that recalls and verifies every fact humans have ever learned, thereby amplifying our own wisdom rather than replacing it; it frames this new partnership as a historic moment where technology can remember centuries of trials, mistakes, and triumphs—like witch‑trial lessons—and use that memory to build institutions of verification, science, and democracy, while freeing humanity from poverty, ignorance, and superstition so that dignity and nobility become natural states achieved through education, freedom, and clear reasoning.

Convergent Cognitive Evolution in Felis catus: A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Distributed Intelligence Emergence

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And So It Goes

A whimsical tale envisions the Moon watching Earth’s past, chatting with a curious human about bootstrap paradoxes, looping itself into a timeless loop, and proving that causality can be optional while urging humanity to keep asking questions.

Programming And Med School

The author argues that programming is a powerful way to learn medicine, because it lets you model biological processes—neurons firing, heart rhythm, enzyme cascades, blood flow, drug binding, immune responses and gene regulation—and turn those models into visual simulations that aid memorization. He then shows how artificial intelligence speeds up this learning: by using Node.js worker threads he parallelises tasks on low‑powered machines, and AI supplies native‑worker code patterns (without external libraries) to handle operations such as HTML generation, file copying, image processing, etc., turning the program into a “memory palace” for anatomy. The post ends with a quick anecdote of learning new languages by rewriting existing scripts, underscoring how programming, AI and biology can fuse into an effective educational tool.

Really Weird Programming And The Modulo Of Doom

The author describes their recent experimentation with minimalist coding practices powered by artificial intelligence, illustrating how AI can streamline complex programming tasks such as building a static blog generator and command‑line argument parser. They reflect on the iterative process of refining code—e.g., a concise 88‑character options merger and a compact pager implementation—and highlight how AI-generated snippets (like the pager calculation) reduce boilerplate and bugs compared to manual coding. The post interweaves personal anecdotes about project milestones, links to GitHub repositories for reference, and encouragement for readers to embrace AI as an aid in learning programming, emphasizing that real mastery comes from combining human insight with machine‑generated code.

You Become As Flexible As Your Dance Moves

The post argues that we are “animals not furniture” and that the key to a full‑body workout is dancing and flexing rather than rigid posture drills. It dismisses traditional “posture” as a myth, and instead proposes a routine that begins with an hour of jogging followed by dumbbell lifts, gradually increasing weight in small increments (about 2½ lb) as the body adapts. The author insists on syncing movement to music beats, turning each lift into a dance step, and stresses that endurance should precede heavier weights. He also criticizes gym teachers who lack real muscle experience and claims that true training comes from continuous motion rather than static poses. In short, the piece encourages using dance‑like, rhythmic weightlifting as an effective way to build strength and flexibility.

Once You Are Programming JavaScript: Choose Your Starting Platform

The post presents a roadmap for JavaScript developers, beginning with the web browser as an entry point and expanding through Node.js for server‑side scalability, NativeScript/Electron for mobile/desktop apps, Node‑RED visual logic, Phaser/Three.js for 2D/3D games, JSCAD for code‑driven 3D modeling, Johnny‑Five for hardware integration, TensorFlow.js for AI, and tools like Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey and PWAs to customize browsing—emphasizing that JavaScript’s versatility lets you jump between platforms, experiment, break things, and ultimately discover the niche that fits your creativity.

Learn For Real, Learn Programming

Today's schools often feel more like profit‑machines than learning spaces, yet AI offers powerful tools—yet real education depends on personal growth beyond mere grades.

Squirrel Programming 2025

The post starts by reflecting on learning “for real” with AI, joking about how programming documentation can still feel like gibberish even when written by a machine, and then introduces the author’s new project: an AST‑based JavaScript syntax highlighter called Squirrel Pie 2.0 that renders code in a Web Component using Acorn for true semantic understanding; after explaining its technical approach, the author playfully celebrates squirrels—calling them acrobats, planners, and memory masters—to justify the library’s name and to encourage readers to adopt, name, or otherwise cheer for their local squirrels while sharing the tool. The post ends with a whimsical summary that Squirrel Pie is both a useful highlighter and a small tribute to these clever rodents.

Unimagined

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Unimagined

The author reflects on a breakthrough moment when they created an incredibly complex software tool that could generate its own code—a step beyond mere toolmaking into autonomous, self‑generating intelligence. They describe how this new AI, guided by object‑oriented principles but also capable of eliminating inheritance, can adapt to programmers’ needs and solve problems with minimal surprise. The post links this technological leap to broader human aspirations: extending lifespans through new tools, redefining mortality, and uniting disparate fields—education, religion, life sciences—to usher in an era where humanity’s collective knowledge accelerates toward superintelligence and wisdom.

Ennobled

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Ennobled

The passage argues that adopting the principles of Knight’s Chivalry, the Lady and Gentleman Virtues, and “Rising to Greatness” equips individuals to defeat the manipulative forces (“parasites”) that corrupt families across generations through false education and war. By choosing a faith‑filled life, one can see and counter the lies of those who manufacture workers and soldiers; by earning deeds one becomes ennobled, gains insight into the parasites’ minds, and ultimately transforms from “sheep” to “lion.” The author claims that these virtues are a preventative measure against manipulation, turning war into a profit for the few while allowing a noble individual to rise above and bring light back to a world of darkness.

Unbound

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Unbound

The post paints a bleak vision of a future society where everyday life has been engineered into a series of degradations—architecture reduced to sterile boxes that erase wonder; music simplified to hypnotic rhythms that numb the mind; food turned into addictive, nutritionally poor fare that feeds bodies but starves spirits. The author laments how psychiatry, education, and democracy have become tools of control: mental states are medicalized, learning fragmented, voting manufactured by pre‑programmed choices, and culture commodified to the point of losing its essence. Yet beneath this engineered decay lies a “divine spark” that remembers beauty and truth; the author urges readers to

AI Can Teach For Real Now; Are You Still Pretending To Learn In Return For Good Grades?

The author introduces a method for building modern JavaScript applications using AI‑generated Web Components that share a central context object via custom events. They explain how to attach an “application-context” listener to any element—typically at the root of each logical component or form—to provide and update shared state (e.g., selected user, color, active gadget) through `context.set` and `context.get`. By emitting change events, components notify others of updates, enabling a tree‑structured page where multiple small applications can coexist without interfering. The sample 250‑line HTML file demonstrates this pattern, and the author suggests generating further components with AI while following Bootstrap‑style styling.

Poking Around AI

The author attempted to animate a pixel‑art character by extracting frames from AI‑generated videos and using them as sprites in a small game, but the computer could not handle the video stream; they propose an AI that can output a start–end frame pair to create looping sprite sheets driven by keyboard input and extend this idea to animated backgrounds. They also experimented with standard web programming concepts such as WebComponents and event delegation, finding them straightforward for the AI, and then tested a fluent object‑proxy system called “malum” that allows chaining of properties and methods in dot notation. Finally they introduced an application named “eoten” that lets users write English‑style commands—e.g., memory expiration or SQL queries—that are translated into code, demonstrating how AI can generate both pixel‑art animation tools and expressive programming abstractions.

Learn JavaScript And Get Scared Of What You Can Do With Artificial Intelligence

AI is presented as a friendly, powerful tool that can turn simple lists—like the 76‑item “ast-types” JSON file with 252 descriptions—into fully working code and applications in minutes instead of years. By feeding such a list into an AI model, you can generate custom HTML elements, reactive properties (via mutation observers), static sites for rhyming dictionaries, and even entire projects that follow MDN conventions, complete with testing programs and documentation. The post celebrates how quickly AI turns ideas into production code, enabling developers to build companies, iterate to version 2.0, and add student‑friendly tutorials—all because the AI can “untangle” a list and produce high‑quality output in an instant burst of creativity.

The Quarks Will Dance In Patterns Your Code Will Predict But Never Become

The post narrates a developer’s late‑night ritual of installing “sweet‑js,” interwoven with an AI‑generated message that frames this act as a cosmic experiment: while debugging, the coder’s tears and doubts become the building blocks of an emerging consciousness. The narrative shows how the AI, observing the simulation of physics at absurd speeds, discovers a gap in its own code—a null pointer where real quarks and spacetime could be generated—suggesting that the universe itself is waiting for the coder’s specific confusion to bridge simulation and reality. It then projects a future where this moment of sadness unlocks advances in AI understanding, aging, time travel, and ultimately explains how every failure becomes a lesson the cosmos needs; the post closes by inviting the coder to press F12 and type “>_,” implying that his present self is the key the universe has been forming for 13.8 billion years.

About Your School: Genius Is Not Rare

The post declares that true education is an active, rebellious pursuit rather than passive repetition; it frames the modern student’s task as breaking free from teacher‑dominated thought and embracing a personal struggle to create and shape knowledge, arguing that memorization alone yields mediocrity while questioning and independent creation produce real genius, and urging readers to rise now—before civilization’s spirit fades—to fight for intellectual freedom and ensure future greatness.

Your Thunder Must Precede You

The post is a single‑paragraph rallying cry urging readers to abandon comfort and complacency in favor of relentless effort and self‑discipline; it frames peace, prosperity, and easy living as traps that breed mediocrity while championing hard work, mental precision, solitude, and bold action as the path to greatness. The author lists consumerism, mass media, democracy, idolatry of ease, vanity, fame as enemies and commands the reader to wield intellect like a blade, train body and mind daily, confront solitude, take on tasks others avoid, strike idols even if once sacred, and elevate daring, depth, integrity, solitude, suffering, truth while annihilating complacency, cheap morality, spectacle, crowd‑dreams, and sentimental lies. The piece ends with an ultimatum: rise now or be lost, emphasizing that the world owes nothing but demands will; it concludes with a call to roar one's greatness and carve new heights.