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"to be immersed in the digital stream is to drink from the waters of Lethe, and daily we drink for far too long like the unwise souls in…the Land of the Dead. The most powerful tools of externalized memory, by a straightforward logic, have induced a profound forgetfulness." @lmsacasas.bsky.social

@davitivan.bsky.social (when i was young, being not so normal was a thing i thought worth taking pride in…)

just as a matter of rhetoric, i don't understand the appeal of "this is not normal." it's not persuasive, if you are not already settled in your view of "this". it's not inspiring if you're already on-side. it's not blistering if you're on the other side.

just a reminder that we are still in, perhaps even pretty early in, the fuck around stage of the current administration.

so, do long bonds do well or poorly on news that means short-term rates are likely to decline?

i can't really tell if it's bad news or good news.

from Zephyr Teachout the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-pro-mona...

i feel pledgy! is that good enough?

bad news was good news but all of a sudden it's bad news.

i thought i'd just ask Xi for some printed organs.

in my logs, i see a lot more organizations than in the past apparently indexing my sites, organizations quite far afield from search engines. i'm tempted to interpret these as organizations experimenting with training their own LLMs, though it's just a conjecture.

will great trains be the Sputnik Moment for a declining America?

so, do we fire the new guy?

the man didn’t know the value of his own franchise. nice guy, i guess, but not much of an entrepreneur.

we did gray goo millennia before the machines.

cancer is by definition a form of abundance, no?

are any of these new stories?

why don’t they rename it the “department of lethal”?