Frank Frazetta is fine but he shouldn't get a whole museum gallery
Eric Linus Kaplan
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Podcast "Terrifying Questions and How not to be Terrified by Them" -- book"Does Santa Exist?" -- tv shows-- Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Big Bang Theory, Malcom in the Middle, Krapopolis &c.! blog ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com He/Him
bodily decrepitude is wisdom, young we loved each other and were elephants
when there was a peace chief and a war chief how did they get the war chief to give up power when the war ended?
Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
Kākāpō population reaches new milestone
The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.
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@hntdove.bsky.social are you related to Tarski, the Polish logician, nee Turteltaub?
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The Bold Yet Winsome Humanito
Long after human beings had become extinct and passed into cyborg legend there was still a role to be played by the being who would adopt the ways of the human in the triennic festival, who we called ...
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A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
my father was the only man in history to be killed twice
Wallace Stevens is Better with the Smiley Face Emoji Poetry is a Destructive Force A lion sleeps with its head on its paws It can kill a man. 😀
Goofus: What should the speed of research into pesticides be? Faster? Slower? Zero because pesticides may destroy the Earth? Gallant: What pesticides cause what harms and how can we stop those from being made and sue the companies that release them out of existence? NB this is about AI.
feeling like a copy-editor for the Pnakotic Manuscripts
"that can't be real, it's gotta be AI (checks) huh. I guess it's real." For me the latest instance of this is adults at a MAGA rally wearing diapers.
My number one rule about culture writing is that craft cannot compensate for contempt. If you hate the people, you cannot write about their culture. Apropos of nothing.
for the sake of all that's holy just *let me upload my already thought-out and carefully-written letter of recommendation.* Don't give me a webform with seven different specific and slightly off-kilter essays boxes each with its own idiosyncratic word count.
We have been asked the question. Now we must answer. Can we find it in ourselves to meet the far-right international’s challenge with strength, conviction, and a proud commitment to a vision of democratic pluralism that is so much grander that what the right is able to imagine?
on this day 25 years ago Parker and Stone were doing their jobs.
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
@karenhao.bsky.social how do you interpet Altman quote? "Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We’ll have more to share soon.”
counter-point; there is just the right amount of extremism
don't have highly-processed food. and don't have highly-processed sex.
I made a pretty solid joke a few years back. the set-up was a show called "God Friended Me". And the joke was -- spoiler, the main character was actually befriended by Ialdabaoth. Unfortnately the joke is unusable because nobody remembers that show. It may have other problems as well -- not sure!
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if we could -- per impossibile -- swap out JD and Usha for Jack and Vivian it would be an adVANCE!
Notes Towards a Supreme Non-Fiction by Robert Louis Wallace Stevenson
some believe it is offensive to make jokes about 9/11. others that it is offensive not to make jokes about 9/11. but as americans we can all agree on the aniversary of this unimaginable day that our capacity to make or fail to make jokes and be offended is among our most precious and useful rights.