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I will post this for convenience of access on here. 'Litany of the Irish Saints', Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol XVIII (1921), pp. 532-536.
Irish people - including people of Irish - or even part Irish - extraction - should pray this every day. It only takes a few minutes.
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Another Indian attacked in Ireland by Catholic gangs . This has gone on for 2 weeks now with 0 arrests so far .
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I don't think I have ever blocked another account for a reason unrelated to AI.
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Were Jill Barkley not an Englishwoman her Brambly Hedge books would stick out as an egregious knock-off of the works of Beatrix Potter. But their shared nationality makes their names an atemporal pair like 'Tasso and Ariosto' (which of those came first?).
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This is why Georges Lucas and R. R. Martin's plagiarism of Dune is less offensive than Warhammer 40k's plagiarism of Dune, and less offensive even than Martin's much lesser debt (which has the grease of grubby fat fingers on it) to Tolkien than to Herbert.
Pretentious juxtapositive speculation as to why Tolkien hated Dune is a Redditism. Tolkien was a Christian, gentleman and philologist in an unbroken European tradition and Herbert was an American atheist who gave his villain a Finnish surname because it sounded 'Soviet' to him.
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Plagiarism appears less untoward from a compatriot as it is understood as one of those requisitions which are a family business. Warhammer 40,000 works as a nationalised product (a kind of British anime) because everything it plagiarises from except for Dune is also English.
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A plain example is that the Dublin accent is triply grating to me because the Irish population should not be majority Anglophone in the first place, and should not be disproportionately gathered in what for eight centuries was an English garrison town.
Two British writers who were otherwise very fond of Ireland independently provided impartial confirmation to me that the Dublin accent is objectively vile. V. S. Pritchett, 'The Irish Character', At Home and Abroad (London, 1963); David Thomson, Woodbrook (London, 1974), p. 60.
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I have realised that I find my countrymen more irritating than other nationalities because I am conscious of the historic causes of their traits and thus experience the irritation caused by these traits as abrasion with sores on wounds on the national body of which I am a member.
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RT @lwsjms: @turbarius A funny thing I find about the left is that >99.99% of the time they're just obviously wrong but about once every ge….
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Go back to Africa.
Grok Imagine is AI Vine!. Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive (thought it had been deleted) and are working on restoring user access, so you can post them if you want.
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Palestine and AI are the issues of our time on which the left have in general been more correct that the right, with the strange caveat that with regard to AI serious leftists (those who have read more than a paragraph by Marx and/or Engels) have been even worse than the right.
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RT @alkhanic: @turbarius I feel very strongly that time has been cleaved apart: now and the before times. In conversation with others I fee….
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RT @AnInnes3: I followed a poet, author, and self-proclaimed bard on YouTube for a while. In recent weeks, this older man who had dedicated….
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I am continually startled to realise that people did not see this coming.
When I said this last year the near-universal reaction to the song and video below was complacent scepticism about the possibility it could improve. 'I think songwriters are safe for now' etc. said in a facetious tone. The technology is better now. Are they still safe?.
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It is is a very literal threat to the male of the species' ability to procreate. Man is a songbird species. Can mankind function once the guitar, verse and chorus have been made wholly obsolete as means to catch the attention of the female of the species?.
I am serious abut this because it is a serious question that I have not seen anyone else ask. What are the consequences of a world in which the male songbird's song is drowned out by mechanical songbirds and cannot be heard by any potential mate?.
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Outside of religion, art is the only justification of life. Even Nietzsche could only justify the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. The attempt to castrate man of his prerogative power to create is an unprecedented treason against the human race.
You do not get to joke about how AI is punishment by obsolescence for artists on twitter being annoying liberals while also denying that you are cheerleading an advancement towards the end of the artist as a human type. You have to pick one or the other.
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Art is the highest use of human life short of sanctification. Antipathy to the artist as a human type is antipathy to the higher use of life. Hatred for the poet is usually accompanied by hatred for the priest and the warrior also.
Terms like 'paintpig' and 'drawslave' make me think of an envious hatred perhaps less intense but much more vicious than my jealous furious hatred. It is obvious that love of AI art is rooted in a cold bitter envy of human souls and wills capable of art.
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Generative AI has always been about the emasculation of man as a creator.
I've noticed Youtube is already getting flooded with AI music now. There seem to be a dozen Turkish channels uploading made-up 70s Anatolian-Rock albums. The worst part? Some of it even sounds decent, and the drop in quality wasn't that stark when they came up on autoplay.
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RT @promptborzai: Master morality is when you assume the political opinions of other people and calibrate your own position in contrast to….
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RT @real_eire: All legal avenues of deportations are being closed. “If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obli….
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