Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Had known there was a new Tom Waits/ Massive Attack protest song coming, but hadn’t heard anything ahead of time about the video that goes with it.

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Wild Middle-Earth Thyme

Our new LP The World Is to Dig is everywhere 4/14, but grab your headphones and tuck in for the weekend because you can download it NOW. It’s a fundraiser for our studio work! Help sustain our project and hear all 18 new song before the rest of the world does! Exclusively at TMBGshop.com.

I've created a list for Bluesky users who were part of philosophy Twitter back in the day. Help me populate it! Also happy to add people who wish they had been part of the old community. I've added a few names already. (Ask if you'd like to be removed.) bsky.app/profile/did:...

No to a sequel, but yes a Magic School Bus style cartoon with Grace teaching Eridian kids about science.

Lost an ear bud.
Found it in my ear.

So, obviously not what “disarray” means, but also, there are no shortage of examples where fields being cleared and candidates going untested is why they later lost in the general. This is what the process is supposed to look like.

List of security questions from NY’s DMV website

These security questions are all only things I either have no answer to, or a wishy washy answer I won’t be able to remember 5 years from now when I need it.

Not nearly enough Oscars went to The Toxic Avenger.

I grew up a big Heinlein fan and Destination Moon has always been one of those things I was aware of, but never thought I would get a chance to see. But, it looks like the whole thing is now on YouTube, so I guess tonight’s the night.

Man, as someone finishing a PhD, I would be scared to death of having to do an oral defense of a dissertation I let A.I. write for me.

But also, maybe it works and you get a fancy degree out of it, but no one is going to hire or publish you if all you’re doing is regurgitating pre-existing work.

If just five of you buy an annual Bundle in the next few days, it would make a huge difference. If ten of you did, I could breathe easy for a while.

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Not really sure what the AI future looks like when there is nothing new being written by humans to summarize.

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So, what exactly are the constitutive features of a ‘world war’?

This is such a weird book to have been this prescient.

First image is the cover of Outsider Magazine. Second image is a picture of the page that has my article on The Toxic Avenger

First image is the cover of Outsider Magazine. Second image is a picture of the page that has my article on The Toxic Avenger

If you find yourself anyplace that carries Outsider Magazine, my article on Macon Blair’s recent The Toxic Avenger reboot is in the new issue out now.

It is kind of a marvel. For a live recording it’s a fairly clear sound, the vocals are up in the mix, Stipe has a powerful controlled delivery, the instruments aren’t overpowering, the pacing isn’t terribly fast, but after the first 5-6 words I’m just completely lost.

I could be sympathetic to someone with the radical free speech take that a platform for anyone needs to be a platform for everyone. It’s not my position, but I get it. It is something else though when you’re intentionally cross promoting nazi content and knowingly taking a cut of their profits.

Not sure how getting rid of the sports section appeases Trump.

A Puppy Bowl Coach’s Pre-Game Locker Room Speech Alright, you sad excuses for athletes, listen up. If you were expecting some uplifting, motivational bullshit, too fucking bad. Go cry to your godd...

"We came here today to play the game, and we came here to win. I don’t give a damn if you’re only ten weeks old--when their linebacker hits you in the face like a bag of dicks, you need to get up, nip him in the belly, and run the ball down the field."

WANT!

Muting the phrase “says all that you need to know”, as I’m finding that any post ending that way only ever seems to be reiterating something I do in fact already know.

New muppet special is kind of perfect because it’s not trying to be anything more than a new episode of The Muppet Show. Would watch however many of these they want to do.

Netflix graphic for The American President, feature a very serious looking Michael J Fox.

Not really sure how Netflix comes by their graphics, but marketing The American President with a picture of a very serious looking Michael J Fox is a crazy choice.

Sent!

There’s also a very good 2017 paper by Vanessa Lux about a seemingly entrenched problem all empathy measures have distinguishing empathy from sympathy

Would be very interested in what you’re working. I wrote a paper last semester on the definitional problem of empathy, and my MA thesis was challenging Bloom’s notion Empathy.

Recommend Beltzer’s newest one “The Problem of Isolating and Measuring Empathy.” Had to email her for a copy. Can forward.

Great premise. Psyched to see this series unfold.

Nope, Harry Potter has just been replaced with Dungeon Crawler Carl.