Life is 103% an elaborate version of fetch. Without ”print to file”, our belief in The Nature of Fetch, would collapse.
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Life is 103% an elaborate version of fetch. Without ”print to file”, our belief in The Nature of Fetch, would collapse.
Photocopies are indispensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labour he (sic) exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neo-capitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap; as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.
umberto eco on the alibi of the photocopier
Beauty in Common Things, black cover with elaborate gold decoration of flowers and foliage.
Book Cover of the Day:
Baumard and André (B&A) responded to the (many) comments that their original piece (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...).
Their response is linked in Alberto's post. I just got a pdf copy and will read it now; this will be a thread with my first thoughts...
This is one of 2025's best movies. But you won't get to see it compete at the Oscars.
It's called Nobody, and it earned almost $250 million on a $10< million budget. A future is coming for small, risky films — with or without the Oscars. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-t...
This podcast episode with @rethinkingjames.bsky.social and @rupertwegerif.bsky.social is fantastic.
"Education as expanding dialogue"
soundcloud.com/rethinking-e...
#EduSky #UKEd
god finding this is like stumbling across a buried USB drive in the woods. bizarre
Glimpses of Nirvana
Kids grow fast, and so do we.
This fall, we're adding more than 1,000 seats for universal 3-K in 56 zip codes. Childcare will be more accessible and affordable across all five boroughs.
The outcomes of this collaboration extend beyond a single tool. They point toward a model for public-purpose AI grounded in lived experience, shared learning, and accountability rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/co-desi...
LLM the Conjuring
“As with Nixon’s missing 18 minutes of tape recordings, the 53 missing Epstein pages smells like a coverup.” @derekcressman.bsky.social
“If Trump is innocent, why is Pam Bondi breaking the law to hide these files from the public?”
Sarah Matthews
bsky.app/profile/robe...
bsky.app/profile/gtco...
A terracotta horse with a lively facial expression, a slightly open mouth, ears pricked up, and a bobbed tail. It seems very eager to be where it's at. It is Chinese and from 24 to 220 AD.
Look at this incredibly enthusiastic, 2,000-year-old terracotta horse at the Seattle Art Museum. I love a derpy animal sculpture.
“Shield Maidens”, 12x12 inch acrylic on wood panel. Appalled by the war. These three took many layers to reveal their comforting message. May we be the “warriors” that end this. Just finished and listed on my website. www.jeanietomanek.com/new-products...
NEW: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Alfred North Whitehead
#Photography #TidesOutTuesday #ClassicMono #Winter #Textures #SensoryArt #Time #EastCoastKin
Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!
Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future.
PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6!
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requiem for vanished birdsong
open.substack.com/pub/safeonli... “The design of these platforms — engagement optimization, behavioral profiling, automated amplification — produces manipulation as a structural output.”
We’re just innocent men
We get lifted up and we lift other folks up. This is the way we thrive and they thrive and then we thrive some more.
Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
when Fred Rogers embarked upon his quixotic adventure, television was understood by the intellectual to have one purpose: selling things
it was a thin medium of small ideas, superficial, beneath respect
toxic
it was absolutely not a mechanism for education, for redress of social inequalities
A humorous meme about a spooky shopkeeper's warnings being misunderstood.
What's the most ominous shopkeeper encounter you've had in a game?
#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity
Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going
Completely fucked the world for their kids and now their kids have to fix it tooth and nail or literally the whole world will be a wasteland
