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I re-read a prose poem I wrote two weeks ago and didn’t delete it

That scene is incredible. I didn’t know at first all those actors were French refugees

The 9 Magic Cards that “made”me, helped define my play style. I may be old…

#My9MTGCards #私を作ったマジック9枚
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Support me on Ko-ti 19:41 Become a member 72 There has been altogether too much talk about whether A.l. chatbots are capable of thinking like humans, and too little talk about how much humans actually think like A.l. chatbots. The unfortunate truth is that for the vast majority of humans, the vast majority of the time, we more or less operate like the machines (including you, the brave reader, and me, the wise writer). We get almost all of our knowledge not by actually understanding the world, but by basically just repeating what other people have said. The more something is repeated, the more true it is. It's why propaganda is so successful, and it's why some people have recently put so much money and effort into buying up social media sites. Not so they can actually educate people, but so they can get certain things repeated more often, to train us like they train A.I. chatbots. If something is repeated often enough, most people simply believe it, and start repeating it themselves. It's also why you can predict someone's ideas very well by simply knowing where and when they lived. We seem to mostly just absorb ideas passively in a kind of statistical approach, much like self-learning machines do. The only way to counter this is for humans to be more like humans, and less like machines. Which means we have to use the one thing we have that machines don't: our consciousness. We have to be conscious not only of our ideas, but where we got those ideas from, and whether or not we actually understand them, and actually know them. This, I suppose, is the role of the philosopher, but ideally we should all be a little bit philosophers. Unfortunately it is a lot of work, so we can't be bothered most of the time. As George Bernard Shaw put it: "few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

Best note about AI I’ve seen lately. From Existential Comix

So this post broke containment and lost a little of the context when it did but Bikini Kill are the ones donating to TCP, not Bandcamp. We generally choose a different org or mutual aid fund to support on Bandcamp Fridays and this is what we chose this month.

This was always a favorite esp when multiple people had one

I almost choked I laughed so hard

ai is driving people to suicide, but it also destroys the wages and working conditions of multiple industries without adding real value, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

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What was the original slide?

It’s def. clearer wording than the ghoul, which was highly taken advantage of. A Xenic Poltergeist to turn your artifacts to creatures made it even more fun.

People hated that deck!

I expect they changed the rules to say he has to be in play for that to count? Reminds me of everyone’s favorite Khabal Ghoul/Wrath of God combo. I’d have him in an oubliette and make sure I had blue mana for counters and bounce the oubliette back to my hand

*and make sure, not to

this is who runs this account

You’ve been warned

Rob Schneider

*now with small pebbles and measles

And, once again, why I have it as a contract point that all art/translation/etc done for my work is done by a human, and why I write all my work myself (aside from the fact I can do it faster and better than if I used "AI" and then had to massage its extremely median text).

I have 666 followers. I’d like to thank Bluesky for helping me achieve this…um..thought I had more there..

My favorite point on centrism: what even is the center when one party’s starting point is concentration camps and mass deportations? “Center” is meaningless

Devil's Roof YouTube video by Throwing Muses - Topic

Throwing Muses playing Boston in April. Spring is officially awesome

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Spicy autocorrect!

No one wants to hear this in tech circles, tho.

Vacation read

#booksky

A pigeon stands next to an egg and a scattering of sticks.

“Stanley, don’t forget you promised to put together the crib this weekend.”

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The price of Heating Oil 3.49$ a gallon this morning, has now gone to 3.99$ a gallon. It took 5 hours.

I would advise everyone who uses heating oil to fill up Your tank now.
Also petrol. Fill Your car.
With this war and the Iranian blockade of Hormuz, Prices are going to skrocket.

Print, that is. I think spell check is watching too many football videos

I’ve edited the piece I started with this, and as the memory rolled over me I realized it was prime GenX musical real estate:

Romeo Void
Talking Heads
Throwing Muses
Juice Newton

Not sure if I’ll ever try to punt it, but it makes me smile to read it

I still see local Dems acting like there’s some mystical formula they’re missing for winning elections.

"“Unfortunately, ease has never been a defining characteristic of learning,” he said. “Learning is effortful, difficult, and oftentimes uncomfortable. But it’s the friction that makes learning deep and transferable into the future.”"