Finnucane

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by Finnucane 1mo ago
"His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices." Previously it was only his greed, resentments, racism, and dementia driving him to irrational policy choices. Also, Stephen Miller.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
That's a fairly limited view of what books can be for.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
It doesn't really matter. The article suggests that they are selecting and tracking books by ISBN, which means: books that have been published or at least reprinted in the last 50 years or so. And they are trying to get as much of that
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
That is the problem: they are digesting it. They are not creating a new kind of library, where you could say, show me the text of "How to Fix Your Ice Cream Problems". (An actual book I own) It is not being done for our future r
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
That is not where his head is.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
The title is wrong: it is easy to believe.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
"Anthropic's . . . Claude is a Perversion of Writing." FITFY. I have no sympathy for writers whining about what the AI is doing to 'their' writing. It's only your writing when you write it. There's any
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
Because Moses asked Pharaoh for a day off and Pharaoh said no, get back to work.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
Or we could resist the notion that age verification should be legally required. Because it won't just be for 'adult' things.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
But the presumption in a liquor store is that pretty much everything in the store is for sale to adults only. That's why liquor stores exist. It's not really a good metaphor for the internet, where the opposite is (or should be) t
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Xitter.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
The law isn't ambiguous.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
The FCC mainly regulates broadcast. CNN is cable. Also, there's a difference between a station being in more than 39% of households and being 39% of the total market. Other stations still compete with CNN.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
There's a spot where you could just lift up the mower over the rocks to get from one side to the other. Or at least, that's how I would have done, but I have a tiny lawn and a reel mower.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
But it recognizes the dog. Priorities.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
It's the same company isn't it? So they share the unfortunateness.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Some years ago I had a similar situation--a claim letter from the IRS that didn't account for quarterly payments. I was able to resolve it by mail, sending copies of checks. Another time, they misread a 1099. Again, a copy in the mail
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
When I was in college I took a class in modern poetry. The teacher showed us a film about Bukowski. Before the film, there was a trigger warning. "I must warn you," he said, "Charles Bukowski is an asshole."
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
I live in the Boston area, where academia, research, and the biotech industry bring in a lot of people and money. Visa restrictions, research funding cuts, mishegas at the FDA, CDC, etc., and so on and so forth, have clearly had an impact o
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
As a production editor at a uni press, who has to occasionally translate jargon into English, I find Orwell's essay to still be entirely relevant. The kinds of writing Orwell warned about still flourishes in the pablum emails we get fr
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
So robots: yes. Water: no.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
There's some older stuff, but it seems kinda random. I see also two cameras in their collection (a Speed Graphic Pacemaker, and a Fuji GW690ii) that I have in my cabinet. I will refrain from telling them they are 'extinct' (a
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Quartz watch movements are reliable, accurate, and consistent.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
He arrived just in time for the 'Snowmagedden' winter--four blizzards in the space of a month, dropping a record snowfall. That's going to leave a mark.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Get rid of cars and they'd take down all the lights.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Also "histrionics".
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Or slowly boiling a human. The frog is actually smart enough to not fall for that.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
They're not anywhere close to how bad the software business is.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Because software producers don't have to give a shit if their product actually works or solves a problem? Programmers moved fast, broke things, but didn't fix anything they broke.
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by Finnucane 2mo ago
Rich people are screwing over the slightly less rich, get out the silver pitchforks.

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