Journeying the slopes of a peak I'll never reach.
Joined February 2007
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12 Jun 2024
The wealth of recorded knowledge is too important to diminish a resource like the @internetarchive. What a sad, myopic act by the publishers, removing 500,000 books that library visitors could only ever borrow for an anodyne hour at a time (fantastic for references/citations).
12 Jun 2024
📚 Attention Readers & Researchers 📚
More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead
👉 forms.gle/G2GXK6xwMZ3t8oHh9
ALT Internet Archive logo in white on a black background.
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11 Jun 2024
“Men must surely have some lurking suspicion of this great truth, seeing they never govern their conduct by reason. It is instinct and sentiment lead them. They obey their passions,—love, hate, and above all wholesome fear.”
—From p.1 of Anatole France's essay, “Card Houses”
11 Jun 2024
"If a book angers, wounds, or alarms you, then you will not enjoy it, whatever its merits...If it seems to you a really pernicious book, likely to influence other people in some undesirable way, then you will probably construct an aesthetic theory to show that it has no merit."
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30 Apr 2024
Text from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” (Ch. 9).
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14 Mar 2023
AI is typing in a room different from the one you are in now. It is typing the words summated from its model, and AI will be trained on it again and again, until the resonant distributions of its probabilities reinforce themselves, so that any semblance of coherence is destroyed.
14 Mar 2023
We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data.
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8 Mar 2023
I was going to make a “hey look it's the first Sherwin Williams logo haha” joke, until I saw that the first “Cover the Earth” design (1893) actually precedes this image (1900) by about seven years.
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25 Feb 2023
“We had best forgive pain, and frankly admit it is impossible to imagine a happiness greater than what we enjoy in this human life of ours, so sweet and so bitter.…Yes, that is our garden-plot, which we must dig zealously.” —Anatole France
24 Feb 2023
After I was convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 years in prison, when the earth dropped out from beneath me, and global shame rained down on top of me, I had my first ever epiphany.
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26 Jan 2023
“Understand also that within you are the birds of the sky. Marvel not that we say these are within you. Understand that you are another world in miniature and that there is within you the sun, the moon, and the stars.”
—Origen, “In Leviticum Homiliae” V, 2
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26 Jan 2023
Also pictured is Jung's “Systema Munditotius” mandala, first published [anonymously] in 1955.
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Joe Bauldoff retweeted
20 Jan 2023
the horses have
unexpectedly returned
with fireflies
Hekigodo
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17 Dec 2022
An extract from Part V of T.S. Eliot's “East Coker” (1940), the second of his “Four Quartets”
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29 Nov 2022
A real noodle-baker is when we can easily rattle off 10–20 people on the horseshoe ends that behave this way AND are ALSO ideologically opposed to us, but we oft have greater trouble finding the analogous rabble rousers w/in our own ingroup w/o enacting more-charitable apologia.
29 Nov 2022
What's interesting, sociologically, is while the claims are *absolute* opposite of one another, the methods are similar.
It's usually an out-of-context, misrepresented, or even doctored screenshot, with a claim about me/my views, that will only work on people who don't check.
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29 Nov 2022
To be human is to find it all too easy to miss the [local, contextualized] beams for the [hazy, abstracted] motes.
Joe Bauldoff retweeted
27 Nov 2022
Students from the elite school Tsinghua University protested with Friedmann equation. I have no idea what this equation means, but it does not matter.
It's the pronunciation: it's similar to "free的man" (free man)—a spectacular and creative way to express, with intelligence.
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29 Nov 2022
We're living at a moment when merits of liberty & free speech are being hashed out & relearned in real time on an SMS-ish microblogging website ffs—not fought w/ arms btw armies, but [partially] w/ capital btw corporations; not in law, but in civil decorum.
Unironically, wattba.
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29 Nov 2022
Wave your hand through the fog and see it. Through tribal hooliganism. Through petty games of ingroup/outgroup signaling. It's right there. You can see it, but only for a moment. The honorable. The ideal. Just out of reach, but so worthy of the reaching. Wave again and see it.
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29 Nov 2022
It's messy, clumsy, lumbering, but it's out loud and it's here. There's something to that. Something that almost makes the “society without community” take on a communal affect, if only momentarily, in the same intangible fog as all else here on-screen, behind glass, behind eyes.
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