God is the entity that gets all the jokes the waves and storms are powered by Their laughter.
how long until AI puts only fans out of business?
my alma mater, a site of great beauty and intense transformations. they complain about low enrollment at 700, but i opposed expanding it from 500 when i was there. there is so much does-not-compute in this. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/gov-ron-desantis-wants-conservative-overhaul-at-new-college-of-florida/69784941007/ ht @mdslock and others offline
they made a kids movie about when emacs saves a backup file of your mom.
Search engine Neeva has integrated AI generated text. https://neeva.com/
How many roads must a man walk down? neeva Al answer: The answer to the question "how many roads must a man walk down" is five. ' This line is proposed as the "Ultimate Question" in the science fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ? The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous". *This answer was generated by Neeva Al using the following websites: 1 lukemckernan.com 2 en.wikipedia.org 3 en.wikipedia.org
I hope this year the wars will end.
but of these scenarios, which, in fact, is the counterfactual?
what if there’s a heaven for every wave that ever struck a shore?
life is a free trial.
@hyperplanes the best thing about the metaphor of a lost thing is that lost things can be found!
even when tallying is perfect, i think #ApprovalVoting is usually superior to #RankedChoice for single-winner elections.
but i usually think the critique that #rcv is "complicated to implement" is a bit of a strawman (although "complicated to understand" is an important critique).
sometimes, however, the strawman rises from the haystack.
via @ben
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-admits-tallying-error-in-17682520.php
"There are eerie parallels between the Chinese strategy for cross straights reunification in this era and America’s parallel bid to incorporate China into a Western led world order." ~Tanner Greer https://scholars-stage.org/we-can-only-kick-taiwan-down-the-road-so-far/
// I pray this can gets kicked into a future far enough that its contours today are entirely obsoleted. Greer seems to want a kind of clear decision his own analysis suggests we won't so deliberately make.
Deliberative democracy depends on speech being referential, ie the speaker's words are referents to objects and concepts that meaningfully exist beyond the speaker. The words represent the speaker's thoughts and interests with respect to those.
But in practice speech is often instrumental: Ppl decide what to say in order to get what they want, based on the social effect they believe it will have.
cf Matt Bruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2022/12/30/the-contradictions-of-deliberative-democracy/
Pitch-perfect by @crookedfootball on misguided accusations of "collective responsibility" of citizens of a criminal tyranny. There is no righteousness, only self-righteousness, in holding people to a standard that we citizens of relatively free democracies, who can do so without consequence, are often called to and rarely meet. https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/30/on-the-alleged-responsibility-of-the-entire-russian-people-for-the-war-in-ukraine/
I can't wait to see what it says about January 3rd.
Calendar Notification: Jan 2 — Tomorrow: Day after New Year's Day
the people you hear it from are disproportionately likely to have an agenda. which doesn’t make it wrong. or right. you just have to take it into account.
if you act before midnight, your toots will be 100% matched and have twice the impact!
Time keeps on ticking ticking ticking into the future.
Happy New Year.
time spent on the toilet is a convex function of age.