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Opera Houses Are Bourgeois And Will Be Demolished

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Nobody’s coming to save the Kennedy Center, and nobody should\nchrisabraham.substack.com/p/opera-h…

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Keyvan Minoukadeh:

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To argue that an AI agent does work autonomously after receiving a task misses the point: agents have no desires of their own, to hack or do anything else.\nblog.keyvan.net/p/ai-mode…

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Fathers, don’t ever bring him along when you spend time with your friends. He never needs to hear adults discussing marriage, work, faith, politics, failure, sacrifice, or responsibility. Again, if you’re in a church, do not ever bring the teenage boys on any men’s treats. Ever.\"

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How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women by Anthony B. Bradley

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“Parents, make sure he is never forced to engage in mature conversations about life and the world with people your age or older. Do whatever you can to keep him with his peers as much as possible. If you attend church, for example, make sure he is deeply involved in youth ministry, but never allow him to participate in the men’s ministry in any way.

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How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women by Anthony B. Bradley

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I think AI bros are waging war against creative labor in order to create outrage, because the louder we all shout about how AI can replace workers, the more money they can raise from the capital markets and the more credulous, worker-hating bosses they can peddle defective AI products to.

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— from The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚

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Behind the JSTOR paywall, but the essay that made Wendell Berry an essential guide and companion for me is “Standing by Words.” 

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Against Mr. Winterowd's definition of literature, it will be instructive to place a definition by Gary Snyder, who says of poetry that it is “a tool, a net or trap to catch and present; a sharp edge; a medicine, or the little awl that unties knots.” It will be quickly observed that this sentence enormously complicates Mr. Winterowd's simplistic statement-message dichotomy. What Mr. Winterowd means by “message” is an “idea” written in the dullest possible prose. His book is...

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That’s not why people voted for Trump at all. It was always to deport everyone and anyone who doesn’t possess legal residency or citizenship papers.

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“A removal order is a formal, legal command issued by an immigration judge or official requiring a non-citizen to leave the United States. It is the official modern term for what is commonly called deportation.”

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Trump was always just being a firebrand and using rhetoric to conflate illegal with criminal.

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www.washingtonpost.com/immigrati…

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I am experimenting with gathering links with rss.chat here. I am pulling a rough post together for some of the links gathered there.

\n\n\n\n Education \n\n\n\n

This looks like a very interesting book.

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As important as her deep reporting on the tech industry’s ruthlessness are Singer’s profiles of the inspiring cadre of academics, educators, and activists who are documenting and resisting the likes of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Oracle — and now, too, OpenAI and Anthropic — that are “capturing” the government agencies meant to regulate them and turning public schools into workshops where young...

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An Annie Dillard essay I think of often: “Singing with the Fundamentalists” (1985). 

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Every few years some bold and sincere Christian student at this university disagrees with a professor in class — usually about the professor's out-of-hand dismissal of Christianity. Members of the faculty, outraged, repeat the stories of these rare and uneven encounters for years on end, as if to prove that the crazies are everywhere, and gaining ground. The notion is, apparently, that these kinds can't think for themselves. Or they wouldn't disagree.

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🏏🔗 Glamorgan beat Surrey to seal Divison One status

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Glamorgan’s bowlers overcame Surrey resistance to claim a first red-ball victory at The Oval since 2014 and rubber-stamp their place in County Championship Division One next season.

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(BBC summary rather than The Cricketer article which is probably behind a paywall)

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Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds

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…creating such a switch — a metaphorical big red button that could be pressed in an emergency, and would instantly power down a system that has gone rogue — is much more difficult than many policymakers assume.

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“There often isn’t one plug you can pull,” said Helen Toner, executive director of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former OpenAI board member. Currently, she explained, A.I. systems are often spread out across multiple computers and data centers in different regions.

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See also: Machine...

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Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash

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The threat to the open web is far more profound than just some platforms that are under siege. The most egregious harm is the way that the generosity and grace of the people who keep the web open is being abused and exploited.

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🔗 Futility Closet - An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements

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It was given to him deliberately to set the record

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.. doesn’t seem to be in the spirit?

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🖇️ Me - a couple of days ago

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Revisited this morning and Siri happily reduced the 30,000 into a more manageable set of docs that I was actually after.

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\"\"

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In the 30,000 we found some 2,367 Markdown files that had meaningful information that MIGHT be useful in my newly emerging 🖇️wiki.

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Analysis seemed out of Siri reach - so zipped it up and sent to ChatGPT.

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The accompanying analysis now sits in the Obsidian Notes vault.

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As highlighted:

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The objective was not to tidy the Vault.\nIt is to make the thinking inside it visible.

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💬 ChatGPT

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Claude will likely take over now.

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🔗 Siri, not a companion, by design - Asymco

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We’re building Siri not to be a companion. It was a very big deal. It’s an advisor, but not a companion. Siri is there as a concierge, a professional persona. It is not an amiable person, because they want to maintain an emotional distance. That was by design.

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Have to say that’s what is particularly working for me. More on this later when I get round to it.

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🔗 Daring Fireball: Will Oremus Is a Duo Doubter

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I bet there are a lot more people out there who would rather have a $2500 iPhone and a $700 MacBook Neo than who would want a $2500 MacBook Pro and a $700 iPhone.

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Mr @Gruber is definitely not wrong. I do wish more people would remember the world isn’t just about them and what they want.

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Tell me Dolores, did you find what you were looking for?
\nAnd do you understand who you will need to become, if you ever want to leave this place?

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","summary":"","url":"https://bulletin.sherif.io/2026/09/19/i-am-me.html","date_published":"2026-09-19T23:56:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Sherif Soliman","url":"https://bulletin.sherif.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F519.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"sherif"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-19 23:56","date_timestamp":1789862167,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97838056","content_html":"

AI Actor Tilly Norwood Glitches During Piers Morgan Interview, Suddenly Switches Languages

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… suddenly switching from speaking English to Cantonese …

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Yeah, that was totally worth however much capital and natural gas the firm behind this bot has set on fire.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://larkfarm.com/2026/09/19/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-glitches.html","date_published":"2026-09-19T23:52:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Gunderloy","url":"https://ffmike.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F09%2F1736181.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"ffmike"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-19 23:52","date_timestamp":1789861928,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://c.im/@happilyretired23/117300394290503271","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rc6c4gjtpvwyd6pxrismbold/post/3mvvuvmbaks2i"]}},{"id":"97836754","content_html":"

I abandoned this part way through Book 1 as I just dislike the characters and it was all a bit unbelievable. The Complete Hampstead Heath Mysteries Books 1-4 by Sabina Manea. 📚

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Join ex-lawyer turned sleuth Lucia Steer as she navigates the leafy streets of North London on four cryptic and compelling cases.

\n\"Book\n","summary":"","url":"https://miraz.me/2026/09/20/i-abandoned-this-part-way.html","date_published":"2026-09-19T22:51:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Miraz Jordan","url":"https://miraz.me/activitypub/Miraz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F14%2F6221.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Miraz"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-19 22:51","date_timestamp":1789858268,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97836676","content_html":"

A good read in a series I enjoy. Secrets on the Norfolk Broads (Detective Geldard Mysteries Book 9) by Heather Peck. 📚

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Marie Leakey was a masseuse. Popular, kind, no enemies in the world. She died alone in her modest bungalow after a takeaway curry. A curry she never ordered.

\n\"Book\n","summary":"","url":"https://miraz.me/2026/09/20/a-good-read-in-a.html","date_published":"2026-09-19T22:45:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Miraz Jordan","url":"https://miraz.me/activitypub/Miraz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F14%2F6221.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Miraz"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-19 22:45","date_timestamp":1789857957,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97834165","content_html":"

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

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Applications for Flock’s voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company.

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Read that as “voluntary surveillance program” at first glance. That would be silly though. Flock’s dystopian surveillance program is strictly non-voluntary for the people of ‘Merica. Feels good to finally see them in the “finding out” phase of fucking around.

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The pain forms a circle.\nwith a light at the center

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Today’s Crucial Track: Chelsea Wolfe - “The Waves Have Come”

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20 years ago an awesome SXE band dropped “the Myspace Song”…it still makes me smile.

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I know that websites don’t kill\nbut sometimes they will\nsometimes they will…..break hearts\n….internet grass is always greener…

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This is a gentle reminder for y’all to STAY POSI\nThe MySpace Song\n\"\"

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#sxe #hxc #punk #GCF #GoodCleanFun

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A long, well-researched blog post from Andrew Sharp that attempts to pour some cold water on the accelerating “AI is going to kill us all” narrative:

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The vague and unfalsifiable fears expressed by AI leaders are predicated on leaps in the technology that may well be foreseeable, but also on the assumption that humans will be completely powerless to intervene and mitigate harms, or perhaps use technology themselves to innovate solutions.

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It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is that we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of “intelligence” with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence. In doing so, they often surpass human intelligence in speed and computational capacity, offering tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remains entirely tied to data processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through...

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The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly promote to us:

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Behold, our new model is so terrifying that even we can’t control it. Get your access for a special price of £9.99 per month

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A frontier AI lab showed up with a check large enough to make the question “should we sell our users' data?” feel rhetorical. Not “maybe we can anonymize and aggregate.” Not “only if users opt in.” Just: here is the number. The number at which the internal debate ends and the legal team starts drafting the “continued use constitutes acceptance” language. That number is the new definition of fuck-you money. It is the amount required for a company to accept the lab’s terms and then turn around and tell you that if you object, you can fuck off.

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Dear Customer, Fuck You

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I’m just going to leave this right...

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Dj Gummy Bear - You make me feel loved

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A friend sent me this laid back track. Love it.

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Baby, you make me feel loved.

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A couple of photos from a trip downtown today. Some computer faffing, fried noodles, coffee, more coffee, a walk, some sights. A nice day.

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They don’t need perfection. They don’t need some grand gesture. They need effort. They need attention. They need to know that the family you say matters most to you actually gets the best of you, too. They just want you to try.

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Daily Dad

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Phil Christman:

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She called herself a “gregarious recluse,” but there was in her single-mindedness no retreat from the world. She had simply found her place in it, and through luck and privilege (which is also, finally, at the individual level, just luck), been allowed to stay there. How few people get that opportunity! The Annie Dillard who celebrated her mother, in An American Childhood, for teaching her daughters to hate bullies and withstand oppressors, the Annie Dillard who mourned and memorialized anti-Chinese violence in The Living (1992) and who asked, in her great essay on the Book of Luke,...

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Uf, Duncanov článok Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse o tom ako vzniklo a bolo formované súčasné vedenie technologických gigantov motajúcich sa okolo vývoja AI, o ich až chorobnom sebavedomí a vplyve na americkú politiku. Dlhé. Strašidelné. Neuveriteľné. A to mám technológie veľmi rád. 🖖

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In the end, I suppose my concern is around the hubris of it all. Across all of these folks, there is a shared theory of exemption: exceptionally intelligent people, having understood something everyone else missed, are entitled to extraordinary freedom, because the stakes are too high for ordinary safeguards.

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Ibn ‘Arabi:

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Receptive, my heart became, to every form.
\nA meadow for gazelles, and a cloister for the monks,
\nA house for the idols, and the pilgrim’s Ka’aba,
\nThe tablets of the Torah, pages of the Qur’an.
\nMy religion is love’s own and wheresoever turn
\nHer caravan, that love is my religion and my faith.

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Good piece by Robin Sloan on using ‘AI’ to create personalised apps:

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'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century robinsloan.com

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it does seem a powerful use case, if you have a matching need.

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Later he says:

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Most of life doesn’t happen in here. If, indeed, none of your needs or desires are app-shaped … well, that’s not unusual! I have chatted about this with several friends who pondered a while, then declared: “I don’t have any problems that software can solve.”

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If that’s you, close this tab and proceed with your day.

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Ma...

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This book felt a little bitty, but there were some deeper currents swirling. Still a good read. A Cold Harbour: (Detective Shona Oliver Book 7) by Lynne McEwan. 📚

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DI Shona Oliver is caught in the crosshairs of the National Crime Agency. They know she has information about the murder of her former boss and are determined to charge someone.

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On our way yesterday to Ngawha Springs for a soak in the hot pools we exclaimed (as always) about the church at Pakaraka. On the way back I stood in the rain for a photo.

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Here's (in part) what Wikipedia has to say about the Holy Trinity Anglican Church:

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Built in 1873 in the Gothic Revival style, the building has a strong connection with the prominent missionary Henry Williams. …

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It is surrounded by a cemetery containing the graves of many prominent early European settlers as well as Māori residents. Among them are Williams and his wife.

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