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Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Possibly a panpsychist. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on https://dettelblog.wordpress.com/.
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Adding to the fugitive works of the day.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Somebody needs to explain why Kristi Noem can walk in an out of the El Salvadoran Slave Labor Camp but nobody can confirm where Abrego Garcia is or how it would be possible to get him home? WTF is going on!!!

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

A thing of beauty.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Read the Wikipedia bio, imagine surviving, and go down the rabbit holes of quarter-tone scales and the Ghetto Swingers.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

That’s a very good point.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The penguins sent them.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

submitted 24 days ago • 68 comments

A favorite from today in Boston

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

This. The violence is theatrical.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 33 days ago • 1324 comments

Part of me really hopes that these posts come back to haunt these people, when a new regime finds it more dangerous and unamerican to support the forcible arrest and removal of someone--anyone--for writing something, than to protest a war.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I think the real point here is that Herr Trumpf has created plenty of room to reinstate the ban, and if PW thinks it has solved anything, even lengthened the hangman’s rope, it’s dreaming.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

If true, if Skadden, Ropes, etc were really taking the opportunity to poach clients, then fuck them all.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

JFC

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

“At the same time that federal support for public education is imperiled, two private online education programs whose seeds were planted with Musk and SpaceX are getting a second wind. Both could see even more growth under the country’s emerging educational environment.”

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

submitted 43 days ago • 94 comments