He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.
June 17, 2026 at 4:17 AM
He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.
In both academic work and public-facing venues, my colleagues and I have been pushing back against the mystification of LLMs since 2020.
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September 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM
In both academic work and public-facing venues, my colleagues and I have been pushing back against the mystification of LLMs since 2020.
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A bit of member mystification.
August 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A bit of member mystification.
The ruling class saw some leftward movement last week and are attempting to punish us. Anything about party or tactics or logic are a mystification
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The ruling class saw some leftward movement last week and are attempting to punish us. Anything about party or tactics or logic are a mystification
ACAB includes attacked mystification P.D. since 2023 Tokyo Japan
October 19, 2024 at 6:17 AM
ACAB includes attacked mystification P.D. since 2023 Tokyo Japan
I said as much in the Q&A, pointing out this pattern of mystification in his talk, asking why he didn't frame any of the phenomena he was describing in terms of a Marxist analysis of the ways in which tech companies are seizing the means of mental production to enrich a tiny power hungry minority +
June 17, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I said as much in the Q&A, pointing out this pattern of mystification in his talk, asking why he didn't frame any of the phenomena he was describing in terms of a Marxist analysis of the ways in which tech companies are seizing the means of mental production to enrich a tiny power hungry minority +
She is more trying to claw up his soul than express genuine mystification.
June 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
She is more trying to claw up his soul than express genuine mystification.
Destination Mystification 🎤 🔊 🔥
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(Original Game designed by: @phantomarcade.newgrounds.com)
(Original game programmed by: @ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com)
(Friday Night Funkin’ by: @fnf-developers.bsky.social)
(Original Game designed by: @phantomarcade.newgrounds.com)
(Original game programmed by: @ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com)
January 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Destination Mystification 🎤 🔊 🔥
(Friday Night Funkin’ by: @fnf-developers.bsky.social)
(Original Game designed by: @phantomarcade.newgrounds.com)
(Original game programmed by: @ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com)
(Friday Night Funkin’ by: @fnf-developers.bsky.social)
(Original Game designed by: @phantomarcade.newgrounds.com)
(Original game programmed by: @ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com)
Mystification: ou Histoire des portraits
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1142400
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1142400
September 28, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Mystification: ou Histoire des portraits
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1142400
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1142400
The law in a capitalist state is the codification of capitalist property relations. It enshrines the right of the capitalist class to legally kill the working class. People are falling for this kind of liberal mystification of the rule of law in capitalist society less and less:
September 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The law in a capitalist state is the codification of capitalist property relations. It enshrines the right of the capitalist class to legally kill the working class. People are falling for this kind of liberal mystification of the rule of law in capitalist society less and less:
I don't like to wax poetic or engage in mystification but I truly think that being a part of the unbroken chain of inspiration is one of the most fulfilling things you can do
January 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I don't like to wax poetic or engage in mystification but I truly think that being a part of the unbroken chain of inspiration is one of the most fulfilling things you can do
"The 'living Constitution' theory attracted a great deal of criticism for being non justiciable ... What originalism offers instead is—the same thing, but obscured under a heavy layer of mystification and lies."
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The 'living Constitution' theory attracted a great deal of criticism for being non justiciable ... What originalism offers instead is—the same thing, but obscured under a heavy layer of mystification and lies."
our "queer & trans academics" keep framing transfemininity as ontologically white and lesbianism as ontologically white and yet have an eternal problem of doing a racist mystification of the global south to effectively just uphold a colonial gaze of heterosexuality as the natural mode of transness
June 20, 2026 at 12:05 PM
our "queer & trans academics" keep framing transfemininity as ontologically white and lesbianism as ontologically white and yet have an eternal problem of doing a racist mystification of the global south to effectively just uphold a colonial gaze of heterosexuality as the natural mode of transness
Doing the CIAs job for them and falling into full idealist mystification of the world like a good socialist
September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Doing the CIAs job for them and falling into full idealist mystification of the world like a good socialist
The people who are unable to think of racism materially are also the first to accuse those of us who do of “mystification”
May 22, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The people who are unable to think of racism materially are also the first to accuse those of us who do of “mystification”
Irish Times headline hitting the right note of slight mystification at the whole thing:
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Irish Times headline hitting the right note of slight mystification at the whole thing:
Hey it's me, I'm the guy who tells prestige TV writers not to split their casts up in season 2 and tell their stories as a series of deflated vignettes that trade on puzzlebox mystification. I was fired a LONG time ago
March 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hey it's me, I'm the guy who tells prestige TV writers not to split their casts up in season 2 and tell their stories as a series of deflated vignettes that trade on puzzlebox mystification. I was fired a LONG time ago
finally trying to get into Manilla Road today, starting with Mystification
October 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
finally trying to get into Manilla Road today, starting with Mystification
7/ an intellectual pursuit, a matter of scholarship and thought but rather a system of mystification and pure power than what are you doing exactly? Then it's just PR work for people who got great grades as undergrads and nailed the LSATs. I'm not saying that's the entirety of it.
September 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
7/ an intellectual pursuit, a matter of scholarship and thought but rather a system of mystification and pure power than what are you doing exactly? Then it's just PR work for people who got great grades as undergrads and nailed the LSATs. I'm not saying that's the entirety of it.
"theyre out of ideas" is consumer mystification, its always always been about fucking over any remotely organized workers
Reminder that these remakes are happening solely because labeling a thing as "live action" that's like 90% cg animation avoids having to pay union animators, and instead can use cheap un-unionized VFX animators
First look at Stitch in the live-action #LiloAndStitch movie
November 9, 2024 at 12:16 AM
"theyre out of ideas" is consumer mystification, its always always been about fucking over any remotely organized workers
The fetishization and mystification of the “ideas” of the “artist” in comparison to everyone else’s is also fascinating
February 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The fetishization and mystification of the “ideas” of the “artist” in comparison to everyone else’s is also fascinating
An incredible admission by these authors that "efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption."
But the upshot of this research is that de-mystification works. It's not magic, folks.
But the upshot of this research is that de-mystification works. It's not magic, folks.
Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
January 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
An incredible admission by these authors that "efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption."
But the upshot of this research is that de-mystification works. It's not magic, folks.
But the upshot of this research is that de-mystification works. It's not magic, folks.
And came to the conclusion that the basic unanswerable questions remain unanswerable & the main contribution of theologians was to bury the basic questions in an avalanche of obscure prose & conceptual hoo-ha, mystification & obfuscation, to effectively conceal them -- and how simple they are.
April 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
And came to the conclusion that the basic unanswerable questions remain unanswerable & the main contribution of theologians was to bury the basic questions in an avalanche of obscure prose & conceptual hoo-ha, mystification & obfuscation, to effectively conceal them -- and how simple they are.
Right, it has a lot of what they aspire to in government: a top-down unquestionable hierarchy, a rejection of post-Enlightenment modernity, a mystification of power, an institutionalized and naturalized misogyny.
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Right, it has a lot of what they aspire to in government: a top-down unquestionable hierarchy, a rejection of post-Enlightenment modernity, a mystification of power, an institutionalized and naturalized misogyny.
The mistake sequels could make is elaboration or mystification, not explanation.
September 29, 2026 at 8:04 AM
The mistake sequels could make is elaboration or mystification, not explanation.