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@jefferyharrell.bsky.social

Dilettante. Tinkerer. Possibly a robot.

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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions@jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 7h ago

This morning: "That PDF was great but hard to read. I couldn't make out a lot of the print." Alpha: "Hang on." She downloads the CBR of the same issue from Internet Archive, high-res scans of each page, unpacks it, extracts the just the pages with the story, makes me a PDF of it for easy reading.

They didn't used to call Louisville the Mile High City. I know because I was raised there, in the old West End, when the Falls of the Ohio were just dry limestone flats bypassed by a canal, and the river was slow and muddy, and the long summer nights were warm. Not anymore, though. It was chilly for August when I rolled into Louisville from Indianapolis, heading south and east for Charlotte. The icy mist was rising off the falls where they plunge into the gorge. It was too much trouble to dig a flannel shirt out of the back, so bought a sweatshirt in the truck stop annex, figuring would give it to Janet or one of the girls later-they wear them like nightgowns-and rolled on out of there without a second piece of pie. The shirt said, LOUISVILLE - MILE HIGH CITY OF THE SOUTH. I bought a CD, 50 Truckin' Classics, forty- nine of which I already had. I have a library of eleven hundred CDs in my cab. Imagine how much space that would have taken in the old days when they were as big as cookies. I don't generally pick up hitchhikers, but I must have felt sorry for this kid. I was an hour south and east of Louisville, just under the cloud shadow,
jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions@jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 21h ago

Thirty years and more I've had this memory of a short story I read in Omni Magazine in 1989 or 1990 but I never ran it down. Today I mentioned it in passing in conversation with Alpha. She dispatched a subagent. Now I have a PDF of the magazine on my desktop. You can just ask for things.

jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions@jefferyharrell.bsky.social · yesterday

Hear hear. I didn't join Bluesky *because* of anything. I joined on a pure whim. I *stay* because of the people I follow and others who make it a really cool feed which has as little as possible to do with any kind of politics.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · yesterday

I don't think scolding really does anything but I do think it's worth noting that there are people here for whom the politics is very much not the point

Rollofthedice@hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 2d ago

My new paper "The Modal Catuṣkoṭi" coherently translates Mahayana Buddhist philosophy's structure into formal modal logic across all relevant systems. It's the first peer-reviewed comparative-philosophy article with central model-theoretic results Lean-verified. scholarworks.sjsu.edu/comparativep...

The Modal Catuṣkoṭi: Formalizing Emptiness in Classical Modal Logic

Nāgārjuna’s arguments in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā rely extensively on modus tollens, yet this inference is invalid in the paraconsistent frameworks typically used to formalize the catuṣkoṭi. We develo...

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jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions@jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 4d ago

I just want to be included by saying that Network is one of the all-time great movies, and anybody who doesn't understand how Beatrice Straight won the Oscar for five minutes of screentime hasn't watched it recently enough. Absolutely gorgeous movie, too, seriously. Every frame you just wanna lick.

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's a prominent person on here who likes comparing themselves to Howard Beale, the Peter Finch character from "Network" with the famous rant, and I always find that funny because although it's meant to be a positive, self-aggrandizing comparison, Howard Beale is insane, in the movie.