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Preamble to a Psychofauna Bestiary
On compiling a list of memetic perils 👹
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Feb 2
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January 2023
All Video Games Are Set in Winter
And other pedantic criticism of clichés 🌲
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Jan 25
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The Strawman, the Steelman, and the Gold-Plated Man
Turn other people's arguments into the most interesting version of themselves 🥇
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Jan 19
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Yes, I Judge Books by their Cover
A cross-cultural review of books as physical objects 📗
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Jan 12
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Is Hard Work Virtuous?
Or is it just a proxy for things we care about? 🏺
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Jan 4
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December 2022
This Blog Considered as a Cabinet of Curiosities
Collecting paintings and creatures 🖼
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Dec 29, 2022
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Why Do I Feel Inadequate at Coming Up With Research Ideas?
And an attempt to anoint myself as an Asker of Questions 🙋
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Dec 22, 2022
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The Overfit Theory of Everything
What is the point of dreams, fiction, art, novelty, even boredom? 🧚♂️
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Dec 14, 2022
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All Slopes Are Slippery, Also None of Them Are Actually Slopes
Society as a vast expanse of ice 🏂
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Dec 8, 2022
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November 2022
Adventures in Finetuning Stable Diffusion
Some research on image generation, featuring Pokémon and (once again) pre-Columbian codices 👨🎨
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Nov 30, 2022
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Infinitely Many New Pages from the Mexican Codex Borgia
The history of the last 500 years as foretold by the indigenous people of Mesoamerica (not really) ☄️
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Nov 24, 2022
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The Vibes Are Off
Very brief history of a very brief golden age 🌧
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Nov 17, 2022
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