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Don't Call Me Francis(persuasion.community)
3 points by lordleft 8mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 9mo ago
IIRC, Ricky Gervais advised the showrunners of the US adaptation to make Michael Scott more optimistic than his UK counterpart. Quite savvy on his part.
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by lordleft 9mo ago
As much as I love American upbeat-ness (I'm American) I think that our hatred of failure and our strained optimism puts a tremendous psychological pressure on us. Sometimes, we fail, and that's okay. Sometimes, we lose, and that&#
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Unix Signals?(math.stonybrook.edu)
3 points by lordleft 9mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 9mo ago
Truly amazing software. I only recently learned that Crossover, which enables running windows software (mainly games) on MacOS, is built on Wine and significantly contributes to Wine Development.
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by lordleft 9mo ago
I love Linux and use it daily, but this paragraph gave me pause: "I’ve spent dozens of hours combing through Reddit threads, analyzing old Stack Overflow solutions, and, in times of true desperation, asking AI chatbots like Mistral’s L
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by lordleft 9mo ago
If you need to murder thousands of people to legitimate your regime, your regime ain't legitimate.
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Problems in the Theory of Ideology, by Joseph Heath [pdf](induecourse.utoronto.ca)
2 points by lordleft 9mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 9mo ago
Not to minimize the significance of this but prohibiting a portion of a reading is like slapping a "parental warning" on a Rap CD in the 90s -- if I was an undergrad, I'd only want to read those excerpts more.
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Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You? – Chris Wilson [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lordleft 9mo ago|1 comments
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Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders(nytimes.com)
120 points by lordleft 9mo ago|137 comments
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by lordleft 9mo ago
I just want to say that the AI companies themselves use extremely hyperbolic, apocalyptic language. What else do we expect?
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52 Things I Learned in 2025(probablyinteresting.substack.com)
4 points by lordleft 10mo ago|0 comments
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We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lordleft 10mo ago|0 comments
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The 19 best Linux resources I know of, in 11 minutes [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lordleft 10mo ago|1 comments
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Stoic Logic(plato.stanford.edu)
1 points by lordleft 10mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 10mo ago
I am highly sympathetic to this sentiment, but I think it's hard to name things in software because a) it's easy for the obvious names to get overloaded and b) many of the things we are dealing with are basically abstract relation
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My Backyard Office Studio (568 sq/ft Full Tour) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lordleft 10mo ago|0 comments
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The World Is Wrong about Your Attention Span(manujoseph.substack.com)
2 points by lordleft 10mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 10mo ago
The irony is if I quit social media, I start devouring youtube, including both high quality video essays and general video slop. If I quit youtube, I'm inclined to binge watch TV. I sometimes wonder if I need a more dramatic act of &qu
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KOReader: Open-source e-reader App(koreader.rocks)
3 points by lordleft 11mo ago|0 comments
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A skeptic's guide to whether AI is conscious(figsinwintertime.substack.com)
3 points by lordleft 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 11mo ago
I understand that a comment such as mine would rankle. I acknowledge that art is subjective, that there's no accounting for taste, etc. And yet, I don't really believe that, deep down. If I did, I'm not entirely sure how I co
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by lordleft 11mo ago
Sure! When I think of why I love Bach, I often think of works where he demonstrates an ability to express often conflicting emotions at the same time. For example, in St. Mathew’s Passion, there’s a famous piece entitled “Mache Dich, Mein
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by lordleft 11mo ago
Bach is the greatest composer and perhaps the greatest artist in human history. Full stop. He is able to condense so much complexity into his works, and he speaks to the heart as equally as he speaks to the intellect. He is proof that the m
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Pope John Paul II's Secret Cardinal(old.reddit.com)
3 points by lordleft 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 11mo ago
I would like to thank autocorrect for ruining my title :)
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Two long-lost organ pieces by JavaScript Bach performed for first time(theguardian.com)
8 points by lordleft 11mo ago|5 comments
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Pope Leo calls for academic excellence in the church(usccb.org)
4 points by lordleft 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 11mo ago
The language around AGI is proof, in my mind, that religious impulses don't die with the withering of religion. A desire for a totalizing solution to all woes still endures.

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