@failedLyndonLaRouchite i wasn’t criticizing (your post or really endorsing it either). just rephrasing the Barr-endorsing tweet in an attempt at mild humor…
@failedLyndonLaRouchite even Satan agreed this was over the line.
much of superstition is just reading reality like a novel.
#MoeTkacik on private equity, reviewing two recent books that both aptly characterize the industry as *plunder* https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-06-02-days-of-plunder-morgenson-rosner-ballou-review/
Got to love the #FreeSpeech coalition. https://www.rawstory.com/new-college-florida-desantis/ ht @GreenSkyOverMe @fawfulfan
some people can never die, will be forever young. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-astrud-gilberto-dies-20230606-2uwzmrfs55dafeb5kp5tdreqci-story.html
Rooftops, Brașov.
orange tile rooftops of Brașov, plus a view if Biserica Neagra (“the Black Church”) under blue, partly cloudy sky.
@CoolerPseudonym i don’t know! i should read (or better yet see) it!
@CoolerPseudonym it’s not logical though to presume he can’t fly.
@CoolerPseudonym i’m unna become the main character on Qsite today with this one:
Socrates. Is. Mortal.
@akhilrao i myself am a very small language model.
@WisdomExplained@mastodon.sdf.org i’m in detention.
claiming to prove or disprove things by recourse to (contestable and contested) definitions is not “science”. when you construct syllogisms out of a game of telephone, because the same word shades to different meanings in different contexts, those syllogisms need not “by logic” be true.
compare and contrast: orgiastic, orgasmic
i could be a big fan of virtuous reality.
@guncelawits (thanks!)
a thing i don’t get is what is new. i mean, computers have long been much, much “smarter” than humans in, for example, their ability to perform arithmetic, or to remember things. recent AI tools are interesting for sure, but what superior competence of theirs makes these new systems so threatening, compared to older superior competences?
[new draft post] Quietly expensive desperation https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/06/04/quietly-expensive-desperation/index.html
Good analysis of the recent inflation by @DolanEcon https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-inflation-of-2021-22-was-different-what-we-should-learn-from-it/
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