Brian Walter

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs"

Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness.
Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs.
And of self awareness.

1927 poster for the film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang of a woman beautiful face a futuristic looking helmet

Gutsy but unconvincing win for Aces? Even w/ Satou's foul trouble and Dana's dead-eye stroke, LVA barely pulled it out against aggressive, confident Mercury. LVA also got a pretty friendly whistle? (Cheryl R.'s tirade worked, just too late for Lynx?) If ultra-thin LVA wins, cements A'ja's GOAT case?

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship “There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

Eman talked about why she was taking the risks involved with attending these protests here.

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Cover of Donald Harington’s 1975 novel The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks.

Novelist Donald Harington’s hand-drawn family tree for the Ingledews, the first European American settlers in his fictional Ozark town, Stay More.

Author Donald Harington standing next to an oversized reproduction of the cover of his 1975 novel, The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks.

My latest for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas: an entry on Donald Harington’s 1975 novel, THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ARKANSAS OZARKS. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/the-...

58 Million Pounds Of Corn Dogs Are Being Recalled The USDA initiated the recall after pieces of wood were found embedded in the batter.

About 58 million pounds of corn dogs and other sausage-on-a-stick products are being recalled across the U.S. because pieces of wood may be embedded in the batter

Morning Bluesky.

Spain has blocked US planes and ships carrying weapons to Israel from stopping at bases in Cádiz and Seville.

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation," Gov. JB Pritzker said.

As federal agents marched in Chicago this weekend, a top U.S. Border Patrol official told a WBEZ reporter that one of the factors in who agents are arresting is “the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look.”

Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist.

No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.

The silence is deafening.

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"Where be your gibes now? your gambols?"

It helps debunk the "divided nation myth" -- in reality, we're a nation where most people hate Trump -- but your general point is dead on. None of these officials care how we feel. They don't care if they're popular. They care about wielding power and removing the means to remove them from power.

Apparently they know they're mutually exclusive? 😅🤓

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Here's why a group of NYC teens is rejecting cellphones and social media These Brooklyn students formed a group to try to beat their own addictive behavior around technology.

"A Luddite is someone who is against the *abuse* - not the use - of technology."

The kids get it.

Last time I checked, a White man is suspected of murdering CK.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Now is the time for churches, synagogues, mosques, and Meeting houses to be out and visible at protests. In Portland and everywhere.

Two Bay City Roller fans outside the Hammersmith Palais, 1976.
Photographer Al Vandenberg.

Rare Portraits of Enslaved Mississippians Displayed at Art Museum The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.

The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.

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If you can help this delightful Native artist and advocate, please do!

YouTube video by Adrian Bliss Making art in 2026

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Mario Guevara

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

"[V]iolence," that should read. (English prof. mea culpa. 🤨)