Andrew M. Reichart

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For strategy to be effective, it must be based on a detailed analysis of the terrain.

I love that Dick Halloran from THE SHINING has a cameo as a teenager in a flashback in IT.

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I think you misunderstand the point that jagoff was making; he didn’t say they were *of* the republic, just that the organization that first used the name “Antifa” as a shorthand name arose during the republic.

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The Holmes Basic boxed set came with chits instead of dice for a while in 1979. I always heard / assumed it was because of a manufacturer’s shortage, but I just learned that in classic TSR mismanagement fashion, they wanted to manufacture their own but got the timing wrong & needed a backup. 😆

I’ll read further, but I suspect I reject her premise with all of my heart, all of my soul, and all of my might.

(Oh gosh, yeah, I think the whole Doctrine of the Double Effect is exactly what I take issue with — that by presuming to identify the exceptions to moral justification, it just trains the thinker to generate those exceptions, e.g., reasons it’s ok to kill civilians in wartime or “self defense.”)

Anyway, I only learned of Foot last year, and now that I’ve ranted a bit I’m inspired to repair my ignorance about her work.

Not even a little bit. It’s very much the opposite.

Out of context, though, I think it offers a great illustration of what’s wrong with philosophy. Training people to think about ethics with tidy, unrealistic, decontextualized thought experiments that highlight an imaginary choice is, like, not a good way to learn how to be a good person, actually.

(I guess I bring these things up because they’d affect how much I care about the decontextualization. My current attitude is “eh that’s how ideas work, they evolve, often badly” — but if I knew the paper was brilliant and pivotal I might feel more reverent.)

I haven’t studied it in situ so I don’t know how effective it is in her original paper. And I don’t know the details of that thread of history to know how significant its impact (the paper or the thought experiment) was on the social change.

Sadly, perhaps, it is now a feral meme with a much larger existence outside its original context and divorced from its original intent.

Sadder still, its prevailing cultural function is now to train people to justify killing innocent people, sole exception being Kobiyashi Maru answers like the OP.

I’ll never understand people who step up to practice with a partner and don’t have a deep and refined sensitivity to modulate their intensity to match their partner’s capacity and current desire.

And maintained plenty of friendships that would have otherwise atrophied.

Met plenty of people who became lifelong friends.

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nothing but cute quaint cuteness here

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Telling old stories because we don't have new ones yet — Soul Writing We can only spin narratives for so long before they become overworked and threadbare.

"Is there something you’ve been struggling to solve that perhaps just needs to simmer? Can you trust that that is happening? How can you tell what is old versus what is current—not in the world, not in the headlines, but in you?"

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Lovecraft, Wodehouse, and M.R. James up late drinking coffee as they come up with increasingly snarky golfer jokes

“Tellin’ my whole life with his echolocatory clicks and buzzes…”

Maybe you should rewatch some Sesame Street to get clarity around the distinction between “big” and “small,” so you can learn how to describe the world accurately and meaningfully.

I mean…

nice ace!

Oh!

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I’m listening to the audiobook of IT and the kids just saw this in the theater. (Double feature with the Landon werewolf flick, natch!)

Have you expectorated on the memory of Charlie Kirk yet today?

אוי געוואלט!

*Today*, no less?!

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Visual output generated by LLMs all just looks like this to me.

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zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔