Steve Jones

"Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous non-ideal philosopher."

Yes, and sometimes I forget to sit in silence, and end up listening to music for hours before I remember

The scythe is perfect for staying on top of the invasive, noxious species'. You can be very selective. I have better results if I use it early in the day, when there's still a bit of dew. It's not great, though, if you have a lot of fallen limbs or roots in the grass.

Yeah, I do still use battery powered trimmers. But there are particular uses that a scythe is especially suited to. I find I can be more precise with a scythe. My blade is a bush/mowing hybrid. I have a couple areas that I maintain as sort of mini meadows.

I toyed with Icon back in my Amiga days.

Very nice. Up till now I've just been spawning new isolated session in the same directory.

"The Call and the Response" and "Incarnation: A Philosophy of Flesh"

New reading:

Shades of Arendt.

The Bad Song Challenge

I hate myself:

chatgpt.com/share/67f956...

Yes, I remember those days.

Process thinking *is* intriguing and refreshing to me. But I'm not entirely persuaded, tbh.

Nor am I sure media such as this are a great way to discuss it.

Camel case #halfjoking

I wake up in the morning. I sit at my computer. The internet screams at me that the world is on fire. I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

Add "ability to refrain from travel" and I subscribe.

Maybe Gadamer, indirectly, in the sense of cultivation and Bildung?

Kind of a stretch, I guess.

I'm fighting the same fight as we speak; struggling to finish a rather short, mundane document that, for all I know, will never be read entirely.

The crucial question, then, is whether this came to your attention before or after publication. I'm getting better at not pre-critiquing drafts; better, but not good.

OK, I have to know...

I might agree. What do we mean by "own"? What's appealing about it? What are it's downsides?

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Yeah, like day one. I (mostly) unconsciously scroll by any such thing.

I could be wrong, but I'm don't think Melody Maker can take credit (nor blame) for any of those albums.

Internet Archive: 300 Musicians Sign Letter Opposing Copyright Suit Over 300 musicians signed an open letter backing the Internet Archive as it fights a copyright suit brought over its preservation of 78rpm records.

Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive.

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Murder's bad. But I have to wonder if they'd be going to this level of trouble and expense had it been you or I that was killed.

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

So, CliffsNotes, but less extreme.

creativeness

I will never, ever get over this.