October 21 2025. I saw some people talking about Baudrillard on X and was thinking about where hyperreallity is actually a thing. The only place I could say so with certainty was math. Much of pure math nowadays is just objects and relations (which are often treated as objects) referencing more objects and relations all the way up or down. Any intuitive picture of some underlying "real" referent these things are pointing at is totally lost at this point. I'm also going to try to use the word nice less, I used it a lot before when people sent me things telling me about how something went or stuff like that. It's one word amongst many which underwent total semnatic drift. it used to mean simple or stupid.