m-hodges

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by m-hodges 1y ago
We live in an attention economy where beliefs are shaped by fleeting stimuli. Two decades of digital conditioning have habituated people to embrace the narratives they desire, regardless of contrary evidence. What becomes of our discourse,
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Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage(bsky.app)
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Scraping the Federal Reserve with VisiData(matthodges.com)
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Large Commercial Banks(federalreserve.gov)
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by m-hodges 1y ago
> In July, Cornyn and Cruz successfully added language to the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" championed by President Donald Trump, which enabled acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy to then identify Discovery for relocation. The
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by m-hodges 1y ago
There are similar¹𝄒²𝄒³ ideas for Mastodon / ActivityPub: ¹ https://jszym.com/blog/mastodon_blog_comments/ ² https://jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jekyll-Mastodon-Comments/ ³ https
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Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.
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I think we are already aware of that, yes.
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China's new K visa beckons foreign tech talent as US hikes H-1B fee(reuters.com)
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China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers(freakonomics.com)
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Thanks, I’ll look into Jumper! On Overcast: it works, but I find that I spend more time trying to trim the clip than anything else. Probably takes me at least 5 minutes to get the 1-minute clip right. Maybe that’s just a normal and expected
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Ask HN: How do you share info within podcasts?
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This Man(en.wikipedia.org)
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Thanks for the recommendation. I’m currently reading Journey To The Edge of Reason,¹ which is nominally a biography of Kurt Gödel but the first third is about the rise and fall of Austrian intellectual dominance and the Vienna Circle is a c
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The Vienna Circle(en.wikipedia.org)
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Einstein talked him out of presenting it. Recent HN conversation on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812159
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I’m currently reading a biography of Kurt Gödel¹ and the first 60 pages are about Austria’s authoritarian-driven brain drain almost 100 years ago. ¹ https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Edge-Reason-Life-G%C3%B6del/d...
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Hofstadter's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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A few years ago I wrote up a brief introduction to Lambda Calculus with Python¹ ideas while remaining light on mathematical notation. ¹ https://matthodges.com/posts/2022-07-17-exploring-lambda-cal...
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ChatGPT Got Me Reading Plato(matthodges.com)
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No. I hold my reaction even with OP’s “given”. You can, in fact, read a text more than once, given the number of compelling works and the limited time available to us.
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Quite often, the meaning of a text relies on the contexts you bring to it. I’ve had many experiences where I’ve returned to a text after reading others, and gleaned entirely new or different insights from it. I disagree with the idea that f
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It’s a fine perspective, but: > We can only read a text once Is clearly false. OP is expressing a choice, not a truth.
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This is an amazing little subthread here because in Book 2 of Plato's Republic Socrates lays out three classes of "good" in response to Glaucon. He categorizes physical training as the type "good only for their consequen
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Documents show Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as vacation home(reuters.com)
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Stumbling Upon(thehistoryoftheweb.com)
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Good example of shovelware that some say is absent.¹ ¹ https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware...
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Teen coder made first millennial Catholic saint(reuters.com)
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I thought this was going to be about Kevin Rose.¹ ¹ https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/26/milk-completes-1-5-million...
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In 1954, an Extraterrestrial Bruiser Shocked This Alabama Woman(smithsonianmag.com)
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