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@apoorplayer Of course, that makes total sense for you, a Yankees fan – the Yankees are always in the playoff mix; for someone like me, a Twins fan, the start of football season comes as a welcome relief from the Twins’ annual droop into mediocrity. LOL

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I don’t “do” 9/11 memorial events. But if we were remembering what Rebecca Solnit describes, I would.

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@apoorplayer Derek Thompson did an interesting interview with Tyler Austin Harper. [Plain English with Derek Thompson] Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’
\npodcastaddict.com/plain-eng… via @PodcastAddict

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@manton We’ve had a very bad year for mosquitoes here – you seem to be having a similar experience with Fediverse twerps. Surely they have better things to do.

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@davoh Beautiful!

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@apoorplayer So you finally got your “boss” to recognize your last season?

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@apoorplayer LOL

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@apoorplayer Bernie’s my guy, but this seems an overreaction to me. When you start using the word “potentially” to mean “any dystopian happening I can think up,” you’ve crossed a line. The 2008 crash was because of housing loans – should we have banned them?

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@apoorplayer Henrik and Elon would be good buds.

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@apoorplayer anyone who listens to contemporary pop, country, and rap music knows you only have be in the neighborhood of a rhyme for it to work! Lol. If you get too rigid, you end up with classics like “I am, I said / to no one there / and no one heard at all NOT EVEN THE CHAIR.” I mean, what does that even mean. Neil???

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@JohnBrady Come on: “corn-on-the-cob, sir” is RIGHT THERE!

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@manton Yeah, it wasn’t cataclysmic, but it was unnerving, even for this mostly pro-AI person.

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@kfitz I’m not a huge fan of DHH, but I’ve listened to his podcast, read a few of their books, and I use Hey as my email provider. When I read that post, my thought was that, as a culture, we are throwing around the word “genocide” WAY too freely. DHH sometimes let’s his mouth get ahead of his brain, and he’s a bit too into his “provocateur” reputation.

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I bought Wendell Berry’s collection of stories, Fidelity, on my honeymoon 31 years ago as a statement of intent. Of course, still have have the book, and my wife, and have lived up to my statement of intent. RIP, Wendell Berry.

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Losing Dolly Parton and Wendell Berry should serve to remind us that it is possible to live with kindness and responsibility in this world.

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The Hugging Face Takeaway We're Ignoring: scottwalters.blog

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@ayjay Beautiful

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@manton It’s interesting–I never got into using a recording device to record memos, reminders, etc., mainly because I didn’t like listening to my voice and my umms and uhhs. But recording a note and having it convert it into words…might be different.

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@apoorplayer I just consciously admitted that I have ringing in my ears, and have had for decades. I just thought that everyone had it, and ignored it. But now I know that’s not the case.

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I think Peter Thiel and Palantir is who we should be most worried about. So does Dean Blundell.

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I sincerely wish that some reporter would ask Trump the following question: “Sir, is your strategy for the remainder of your term to just keep doing stupid shit day after day? I think US citizens want to know.” (Brought to you by Lake America)

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@dancohen congratulations! That sounds like a valuable contribution!

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@JohnBrady Ah, the allure of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Tom Brown would be proud (unless Hay believes in a gatherer-only culture).

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@apoorplayer Didn’t something similar just happen to MB. I vaguely remember seeing @manton posting something to that effect…

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Scott Santens has a wonderful description of Dolly Parton’s effort when Gatlinburg was burned in a massive fire. Worth a read.

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I think this famous line from G K Chesterton’s Orthodoxy describes Dolly Parton beautifully: “Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”

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@apoorplayer Nice!

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@From78 I’m with you. I think MB is the most humane platform I’ve been on.

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@apoorplayer That’s sad. I used to love driving to Springfield when I was living in Normal. I liked the drive more than anything.

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@apoorplayer Have a good trip!

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Bye Bye James Carville: scottwalters.blog

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@apoorplayer Thiel isn’t associated with PayPal anymore. He sold it to eBay. But I was reading about Palantir in, I think, the London Review of Books and his takeover of England’s NHS was scary.

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@apoorplayer I agree with both of these articles. You know what concerns me more than AI? Palantir. Peter Thiel is and seems to have focused on getting government info sources on his software.

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If I’m reading this correctly, L. M. Sacasas is offering insights by both C. S. Lewis and Wendell Berry to encourage us to avoid obsessing over the recent OpenAI/Hugging Face jailbreak incident.

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@apoorplayer That’s me! Lol. Actually, I wonder how much of the so-called “aging process” is the result of our sense of how old we are. “This is how I’m supposed to feel when I’m X years old.”

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Timelessness: scottwalters.blog

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Remind You of Anyone? scottwalters.blog

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Should you retire your gas car and buy an EV? scottwalters.blog

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Is This Really What We Want the US to Be? scottwalters.blog

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Podcast Rec: The Movie Racket: scottwalters.blog

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Every time I read an anti-AI article that makes impassioned claims about the irreplaceable humanity of our unique minds followed by a demand that AI should be “stopped,” I swear I can hear Tennessee Ernie Ford humming “John Henry” in the background.

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Two New Posts about Theater (on Substack): scottwalters.blog

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This Is How Change Happens: scottwalters.blog

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Love this! A library checkout receipt – look at the bottom.

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New Stuff Over at the Other Site: scottwalters.blog

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My wife and I went to the Clark Institute of Art in Williamstown (MA) today to celebrate our 31st anniversary. We saw the new exhibit, An Exquisite Eye, which had beautiful art from the 15th to the 18th century. Tonight, we’ll go out to dinner. Nice day being together.

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Eliminating National News from My Daily Diet: scottwalters.blog

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The Future Is Solar and Wind Power: scottwalters.blog

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Thoughts? My first was that Zisek sees life as a fight, which I wouldn’t subscribe to. My second was that escape from the self is an odd goal.

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