The Constant

The Constant

@constantpodcast.bsky.social

A History of Getting Things Wrong. But in podcast form. One time I discovered that a submarine wasn’t. Constantpodcast.com

244 Followers 93 Following 559 Posts Joined Oct 2024
2 days ago

Perhaps 4d chess is pataphorical?

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6 days ago

And the nights are a living hell

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1 week ago

A grounded table just means it won’t get electrocuted.

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1 week ago

Eating off the table, not off the ground. Don’t eat off the ground. Or the boots.

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1 week ago

This is simply wrong. You can’t put boots on the ground on the table. The table must go on the ground, and you can put the boots on the table, but you shouldn’t if you’re planning on eating off of it.

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1 week ago

We’re all supplicants at heart.

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1 week ago

Word

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1 week ago

“Until and unless I learn the bomb pushed him out a window, I will continue to call this unlawful act out as the crime it may be.”

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1 week ago
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The Michaels agree

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2 weeks ago

Can you hear the fugheles sing?

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3 weeks ago

Maybe my favorite line reading of all time. That whole speech.

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3 weeks ago

Acid?

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3 weeks ago

My brain has spent the last two hours workshopping David vs Brit jokes and I can only hope my wife is more-or-less used to that Valentine’s experience by now.

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3 weeks ago

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

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3 weeks ago

Or rediscovered it, if you’re gnostic.

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3 weeks ago

Hume might not be a liberal, but he’s sure as shit not whatever David Brooks thinks he is.

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1 month ago
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Upright Citizens Brigade boardroom skit YouTube video by Jeffersonian By Nature Videos

Double decker bus apple cart in summary.

youtu.be/ZR1NN3dYCng?...

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1 month ago

Also, if I’ve got my history right, literally one person in American history managed to pull it off and he got shot in the back a couple months later.

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1 month ago

Also: I dislike your correction on her number of terms because it makes me acknowledge the terrible throbbing of time.

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1 month ago

That’s a good point! Although it’d be hard to envy Ryan’s fate. Then again, it’d be hard to envy his anything.

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1 month ago

That could be. What I mean is: young two term (?) house member to president is a big jump. Senate seems like a safer leap, career-wise. What’s the downside for her if she goes straight for the big game and loses? In the past, that might’ve seemed like a death sentence, but maybe no more?

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1 month ago

If you’re her, is the risk of loss a downside relative to a probable cakewalk to the senate? I’m honestly asking, because that feels like it would be a consideration, but I don’t actually know what gets considered.

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1 month ago

I liked the image of Trump rummaging through the White House walls for copper wire up until he made the analogy obsolete.

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1 month ago

Respectfully, this is not very clear. What LLMs are capable of is genuinely amazing, and raises tons of questions both practical and philosophical. However, there’s still no evidence that this tech is headed towards AGI, and strong reason to suspect AGI isn’t doable in the first place.

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1 month ago
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Peace Forever Your second favorite series about putting right what once went wrong

Hey maybe you would like to listen to this episode of @constantpodcast.bsky.social about a previous rise of fascism that also featured Nobel Peace Prize shenanigans. A reminder that we are living in quite precedented times.

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1 month ago
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Peace Forever by The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Here’s a story about Nazis, antifascists, corrupt political movie-making and The Nobel Peace Prize, which has zero contemporary relevance.

megaphone.link/ARML4304032796

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1 month ago

This story is all the more dumbfounding if you, like me, primarily know said professor as one of the Unabomber’s victims.

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1 month ago
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(Screams in Duverger’s Law)

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1 month ago

Hooray!

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1 month ago

There aren’t a lot of things I’d like less than a Kid Rock performance, but Actual Kid Rock is one of them.

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