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I’ve never understood why some people sign their emails with just their initial, as though I would end my letter by just writing E.
What is that supposed to signify?
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When I first saw Pearblossom Hwy it blew me away.
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David Hockney, painter, 1937-2026 ft.com/content/dccf17cb-1f15… via @ft
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My guess is because with almost everyone the right foot is dominant. Even left handed people.
"Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking" nytimes.com/2026/06/10/scien…
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A taxi driver told me they should require all electrical bikes and scooters to have a license plate and be registered. I think that would solve a lot of the problems.
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Game 4 was rigged and the American people know it. There was tremendous fraud, and nobody wants to talk about it.
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Darwin: About 30 years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorize; & I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel pit and count the pebbles and describe all the colours …
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How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!
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Norman Mailer on ambition
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Looking through and cleaning up old notes etc
"Scruton: I am I to myself only because, and to the extent that, I am You to another. Every I requires a You, and the two subjects meet in the world of objects."
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The Immortals nybooks.com/articles/2026/06… via @nybooks
Scarily excellent!
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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky retweeted
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💯. If the music is too evocative it will distract us. Philipp Glass works. Some of Hans Zimmer can work too, for example the Inception soundtrack
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I cannot run or exercise to podcasts or music. Huge distraction. BUT ... today I discovered that Phillip Glass' Glass Pieces is just perfect for that.
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It's something about the almost periodicity and yet variation and yet no meaning to inflict on you or make you think. The Ballet by Jerome Robbins to it is fantastic too, can watch it forever
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“Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward,” Sacks wrote on Friday. One can only laugh at "I'm-for-private-enterprise" guys looking for bailouts. 2008 but AI companies instead of banks
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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky retweeted
It is because the dominant, publicly acceptable scientific paradigm (especially among journalists) is rational determinism. Among its 5 key assumptions is that mind is an epiphenomenon arising from matter. Thus, many people believe machines made of matter may gain consciousness. The other thing is that as a culture we are trapped by a broken metaphor that the brain is a bio-based computer. [Hint: it is not.]
Consciousness is fundamental, not matter.
Thank you for stating something that should be obvious, but (weirdly) isn't
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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky retweeted
Go look up Rod Laver’s forearms.
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