Check Your Paradiastoles

🐙 Love & paradiastoles in the time of shoggoths

Shoggoths love paradiastoles.¹

It’s not a writing hack—it’s a rhetorical device.

Once you notice them, you’ll see them everywhere.

…If you’re wanting to pass off your artificially intelligent writing as authentically intelligent—mind thy paradiastoles. They are one of the most obvious tells.

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…Looking past the now powered-down simulacrum-machine to the person you once thought you admired, you realise: they’ve gone full cyborg. The slop wasn’t the machine—the slop was within them, all along. A shoggoth just amplified it.

“💡 Everyone’s talking about AI—but few are using it to its full potential,” they say, advancing upon you with dead eyes and an all-too-chipper voice. “Here are 10 moves you can make right now to get 10x the results. 🚀”

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…This, left unchecked, sends us on a path towards bland homogenisation—and further from the wild, messy and organic intimacy that imbues all-of-life with vitality.

So: check your paradiastoles! Don’t let artificial intelligence eclipse your authentic intelligence. Or: do—but don’t be surprised when your work no longer resonates.

Honour the magic within you, and the hearts of those who read you.