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Newsletter Nr. 1.480
Amsterdam, December 22, 2025


Empire in Anti-Imperial Drag: Putin's Multipolar Rhetoric Revisited - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Vladimir Putin's widely circulated statement—presented as a response to Emmanuel Macron and framed as a meditation on the end of Western hegemony—offers a near-textbook example of how contemporary geopolitical rhetoric operates in the age of social media.

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How a Meaningless Chatbot Produces Meaningful Essays, On Prompt Understanding, Memory, and Innovation in a Niche Intellectual Domain - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

The short answer is that meaning is not generated inside the chatbot but reconstructed in language through statistical modeling of prior human meaning-making. The longer answer requires unpacking four distinct capacities: prompt interpretation, domain competence, memory, and apparent innovation.

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The Precipitation of Waking Reality, Indra's Net and the Rain That Becomes the World, The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 17 - Joseph Dillard

In the Vedic image of Indra's Net, the universe is imagined as an infinite lattice of jewels, each reflecting all others. No jewel acts alone; no reflection originates in a single place. When rain falls upon the net, it does not belong to any one node. It appears everywhere at once, yet differently at each point of intersection.

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https://www.integralworld.net/dillard167.html