G.B. Gabbler πΊποΈπ
@CircoFootnotes
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Just some tweet "annotations" from the ''editor'' of the mythpunk ''novel'' THE AUTOMATION. I put the foot in your notes. Full name TBA.
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C. S. Lewis; the best reason for reading anything is the enjoyment it brings you
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this admin is sending a more militant response to "big balls" being jumped by a 15 yo teen boy and girl than january 6.
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'Obviously, there are fiscal problems in American higher education. But itβs quite a leap to suggest that the humanities are responsible for them, or must pay the greatest price.' https://t.co/YnEDTGuvZZ
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The crisis is not one of resources but of values.
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I have beef with Theseus. He's not even real. But I hate him.
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Breaking: The US military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two US officials told Reuters
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Is the cost of living crisis getting you down? -we should give another billion to israel for child murder -another 100B to ICE for kidnappings -send the troops to DC to do policing -cut 800B in medicaid america first btw
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Pringles creator was buried in a Pringles can, father of modern frisbee became frisbees, there's gotta be so many more
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When evaluating claims claims being made about AI, a really simple question you should keep in the back of your mind is: βis the person making these claims about AI literally trying to sell me or others AI?β A lot of the claims you hear about AI are really just advertisements.
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βThe humanities must be divorced from science.β No. Carl Sagan called it βunthinkable for an aspiring physicist not to know Plato, Aristotle, Bach, Shakespeare,β and STEM without the humanities has yielded a Silicon Valley that increasingly canβt read and has no conscience.
A Yale Professor says βit is the humanities that have sinned,β and so they should be separated from the sciences. βI am confident I can make my most persuasive case for a university of science, engineering, and medicine, if the humanities are not housed under my roof.β
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@GraceRoe5142 the actual effect of age verification laws is the destruction of organizing and community spaces. let's stop pretending that a lot of that doesn't happen online, including on this site
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@ArmandDoma He said (correctly!) that 9/11 was a direct result of US foreign policy in the Middle East. This is just an objectively correct fact that no serious person should dispute, especially given what we now know about that era
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Decades ago the philosopher GΓΌnther Anders commented on how (among machine worshippers) a feeling of inadequacy in the face of technology can give rise to a sense of βPromethean shame.β A deeply misanthropic shame at being human and not a machine. Hereβs how that looksβ¦
SAM ALTMAN: βA kid born today will never be smarter than AI, ever β¦ We will think how bad those people of the 2000βs had it.β
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What a Halloween treat, reading this interview of @scottrhawkins . Never identified with the vibe of an author so much. Except, cats?
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Sometimes the books just donβt work.
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πππππ ππππππ β The Blacksmithβs Circus: Combined Vol. 1 & 2, 10th Anniversary Edition by @CircoFootnotes is releasing 10.31 #PreOrder today β https://t.co/HAkWixz9qL ππ¨π―ππ« πππ¬π’π π§ππ« β SOBPublishing
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