pedter.bsky.social
an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato
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I hear it was still a great success, because they were able to collect a lot of data trucking it over the interstate.
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Iran is bigger than Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
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It should be noted that Kirsten Gillibrand not only voted for the bill, but she co-sponsored it, helped introduced it, and wrote a whole op-ed in support of it on a crypto website.
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I have a working theory that 100% of the people who believe that brains and LLMs operate in the same way have a strong inner monologue.
Wager for 10 years: Can AI write a meaningful fourth novel to Beckett's trilogy? I say it can't.
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Hab mir das Wort Präzedenzfall verkniffen, weil es wirklich nicht der erste war. Aber in den letzten Jahren ist die rote Linie des "Aussitzbaren" immer weiter verschoben worden (man denkt ganz nostalgisch an die Plagiatsaffären) und mit Spahn wären dann wirklich alle Dämme gebrochen. Weg muss er.
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Wenn Spahn es schafft, das auszusitzen und als politische Kampagne zu verkaufen, dann wird das auch hier zur gängigen Strategie. Und wie verheerend das für die politische Kultur ist, sieht man am Beispiel der USA. Spahn muss weg.
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worst Motown group ever
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I wouldn't be surprised if the script read: "Sayd uhn pleh-zeer det'r uh-vek vooz oh-zhoor-dwee..."
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Kali Malone going into the Trallaleri is perfection.
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The Atlantic's really burying the lede in their About The Author section. She's one of the most hawkish figures in foreign policy debates & acted as adviser to George W, Cain-Palin 2008 & Giuliani.
Publishing diverse viewpoints has some merit, but obfuscating their ideological provenance does not.
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You just know there's a 4-hour-long blooper reel of that fucker trying to sound sober for 45 seconds.
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The way the characters move about in the room, and the camera around them, creating all these different groups and arrangements constantly shifting and turning - if you'd put ballet slippers on their feet, it make for the prettiest ballet.
The Bad Sleep Well is another great Kurosanoir.
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"In a war where both sides suck ass, I'm rooting for attrition." Sun Tzu
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brown thrasher = red jeer/scoff thrush (Rotspottdrossel) in German. I love that they can't agree on the colour, but they do on their attitude.
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I really did not see it coming. Maybe from a yard away, I did.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Berger's All Quiet... was an exercise in style that completely missed the point of the novel, but in Conclave he seemed genuinely interested in telling the story.
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(Sorry for the tangential essay, but I needed to get that out.)
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that is evil itself. It always favours destruction, simply because it's so much easier to destroy than to build. It's infinitely sad that so few Holocaust survivors are still around as moral guides as we're finally facing the fact that it is morally indefensible to look the other way.
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distinction between Rabin and the instigators of his murder, we not only failed the Palestinians, but also those Jewish Israelis who fought for a humane, dignified coexistence.
Arguably, Germany had no moral license to intervene in Israel's decisions, but it's precisely this blank permission...
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Here in Germany, the prevailing idea for decades was that our historical responsibility consisted in unconditional support for the state of Israel, regardless of its policies. But by making no distinction between those who sought genuine peace and those who wantonly destroyed this process, no...
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From the deceptive summons to the transport without ventilation... they are literal Nazis.
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This reminds me: Reading Blue Machine, I started logging sites you wrote about, even an estimate of the canoe trip. It really helped me visualise scale, context & the huge terrain (merrain?) you covered. If you ever publish a deluxe edition, I think a large map as an insert would be beautiful.
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May I choose the conditions, pretty please?
Choice of weapon: hand grenade
Number of paces: one
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I love the Ursonate. I learned about it as a teenager and it made me even more of a pain in the arse to my schoolmates.
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there's something in these books that isn't outside of them. That was my unimpressive path to literature. I didn't learn about nonlinear narratives through Faulkner but Choose Your Own Adventure books. I don't remember a "break" into serious literature, because it was all serious to me. (3/3)
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I'm just reading Grimm's tales for the first time since my childhood (the gnarly 1812 version) and so much of what I love about Flaubert's St. Julien, for instance, is in these stories, too. Things I couldn't name as a child, but that stirred something nonetheless. Enough to believe that... (2/3)
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Also, too much brains for my liking. I'm not sure whether I'm selling myself short here or tall, but it didn't take a Sierpiński gasket plot structure to impress me as a young reader. (1/3)
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Apparently, everyone in this thread started out with DFW or Vonnegut, but smut like Enid Blyton was enough for my little self.
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The origin is the Marine Corps' 1989 doctrine of the same name focusing on manoeuvre warfare. It's been part of military language since. Hegseth loves it because he thinks it makes him sound all tough. Same with "lethality". A militarisation of political speech is part & parcel of fascist movements.
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*I sorry.
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Ah, I didn't see the context, I'm apologise. I just assumed you posted unprompted Dalmatians because it's free for all Friday.
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This one's on you. Bad form. That's a VHS skeet if I ever saw one.
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Digitised representations don't do justice to the textural depth inherent in Dix. You really need to witness Dix in person to appreciate the rich, tactile experience.
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The Man Ray of witchsploitation
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I think it's a version of what's called Wimperg in German, an ornamental gable.
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The translator did a good job throughout, but that title is... an interesting choice.
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I'd love it if we could just adopt Harvard to some extent, perhaps include them in the European Universities initiative or offer them sinecure professorships. Really hope there's some concerted European effort to bring in the disenfranchised scientific talent from the US. All stand to benefit.
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Been a bit worried since your article about the whirlpools of meaning, but thought it inappropriate to ask about something so personal. So glad to find this comment and hear that you're good now!
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Das geht mir auch wahnsinnig auf den Sack. Trump ist bestenfalls zu der Art Gespräch bereit, die er im Oval Office mit Selenskyj geführt hat. Auch wie oft in den deutschen Medien jetzt unironisch über mögliche "Deals" gesprochen wird. Es sind Erpressungsversuche, nicht mehr und nicht weniger.
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I'm sorry, but Yoshi is a fat-nosed platypus. That's canon.
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You're being very kind, but entrusting pivotal large-scale policy decisions to a technology you don't fully understand is very, very stupid.
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Don't hold me to it, but that long, wooden handle and the sharp, rectangular blade remind me of a spade... Will we EVER get past these performatively deliberative statements?