Interested in history, languages, software, dogs, dog software, and weird stuff from the internet. Swagless normie. Email me: [email protected]
Madison, Wisconsin
Joined December 2022
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It does you a great disservice when you're vengeful or snarky on this website about a subject that you believe is extremely important. No one who believes some thing is a live question and of critical importance will act that way.
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Writing is not thinking, and one does not have to write well to think well. But that does nothing to undermine the fact that writing is one of the best tools we have to train thinking.
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If you think that AI—even if it works safely and fabulously—will make future human pursuits ‘pointless’, you don’t have a very pro-human anthropology
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I agree with the urbanists on so much, but the false consciousness argument is the right point to get off of any political/policy bandwagon.
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What LLMs think about my company:
'Interintellect sits at the junction of the Substack/independent-intellectual world, Silicon Valley's institution-building impulse, the post-2016 "heterodox" conversation ecosystem, and an older European salon tradition.'
Cool and accurate!
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We did indeed make a shitty bargain and now it’s coming back to bite us in the ass.
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Devastating #tornado damage in Menasha, WI, from a large tornado that hit the area late this morning. At this time, there are no reports of deaths from this tornado, and it is advised to stay out of the area to let police and fire clean up. @NWSGreenBay @MaxVelocityWX @WxFront #weather #wiwx
More photos will be released later tonight of the damage!
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HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHUPS
Barnes 44% - Tiffany 40%
Rodriguez 42% - Tiffany 41%
Hong 40% - Tiffany 43%
Brennan 39% - Tiffany 42%
Roys 38% - Tiffany 42%
Franklin notes that these are all very close races.
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My theory is that Doctorow is so threated by AI because he is the original slop generator. He uses superficially clever phrasing and rhetorical devices to say mundane, nonsensical or just shockingly ignorant things.
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Evening at the Crystal Corner.
Madison, Wisconsin
ALT Golden-hour street scene of a brick corner bar with vintage neon signage and glass block windows. Two people walk dogs along the sidewalk beneath the “Crystal Corner Bar” sign, while warm sunlight and red-green neon reflections highlight the building façade.
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“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts”
— #WorldCup announcer on Fox
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I get why so many people are frustrated or skeptical about this Iran MOU. On paper, it looks like a massive compromise: $300 billion in unfrozen assets, a fixed schedule to lift sanctions, and immediate oil export waivers for Tehran. But what were we expecting when on one side, Trump is facing an apocalyptic regime that wants the world to burn and on the other, an American public that has no stomach for war? He played the cards that were actually on the table.
I’m sick and tired of the politicians and podcasters who bitch and complain no matter what Trump does. They scream that the war has to stop, but the second he stops it, they turn around and yell, "what kind of deal is this?!" If the goal is to actually end Iran’s regime, history shows there's only one model that works: total WWII-style defeat, occupation, and denazification. That requires American boots on the ground and an Iranian people ready to build a free country from the rubble. But NO ONE, myself included, wants boots on the ground.
Is this MOU what Trump wanted? I doubt it. But he did exactly what a leader of a Republic should do: he listened to the people and found a way to end this. A dictator would have kept on going. At the end of the day, a president can only go as far as the people will carry him. Right now, our appetite for war stops at the gas pump.
