jmnurick.bsky.social
Retired, King George Sound. Makes things including photographs, furniture, recipes, software, coffee. Not enough time for reading.
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I've been wondering about that too. Probably he'd hold out for Mt Rushmore as well.
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Psychopomp Paddington. I like the idea (and also that I finally have an opportunity to use that word).
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Ah, she'll be right, mate
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Entirely a matter of chance.
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When I hear an unknown pianist on the radio playing a piece I love, all the right notes in the right order, but leaving me cold, there's a good chance that the back-announcement will say "...Alfred Brendel."
So far I've encountered one (1) other person who felt the same way.
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Fortunately @archive.org has a copy.
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Thank you so much for this thread. I read The Last Englishman not long after it came out and it was wonderful to be reminded of his extraordinary attitudes and exploits.
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A bow tie for kindergarten? What a very strange society.🙂
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I propose two terms:
Automated Inference, for stuff like medical data sets.
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Arsehole Infringement, for making ice cream van art rip offs and hallucinating advice about poison mushrooms.
We’ve got to be able to tell the difference between AI and AI.
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That makes me very happy.
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I like to tell Americans that the right to jaywalk is in Magna Carta.
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Strong constitutions and media don’t guarantee immunity. They rely on shared epistemic foundations, on people believing in facts, institutions, and accountability. Once those collapse, even the most robust democratic architecture becomes performative. That’s the real threat.
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Making people care that they are being lied to is also key.
It is easy to expose the lies of Trump and other populist politicians, but people want the lies. Even when those lies are against their material self-interest.
Like the X-Files motto, they want to believe.