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Natalie Brender

@nataliebrender.bsky.social

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Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 25m

Have you considered scaling up the Socratic dialogue pilot project

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 1h

Look closely at his neck and the weirdness emerges.

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 1h

It is a spectacularly weird cover photo. Expect he'll sue Time, bomb it, demand a re-issue or all of the above.

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 4h

It is just wild looking at new philosophy journal ToCs and seeing everything proceeding normally in an untroubled parallel universe.

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 4h

Such a cheerful conference agenda

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 5h

I absolutely don't trust any for-profit academic publisher (in this case Wiley) to provide a non-boosterish overview of AI, so the fact that they're highlighting researchers' concerns alongside AI enthusiasm is significant. Check out the report preview here: www.wiley.com/content/dam/...

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 5h

It's worth scanning this article and then looking at the Wiley research report summary it refers to: there's a chasm between them in overall AI boosterism and assessment of how significant rising concerns are compared to rising use.

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 5h

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

Israel-Hamas peace deal signed in a ceremony by leaders of the US, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, but not Israel or Hamas, nor any other Palestinians.
Has that ever happened before? The famous US-Japan peace signing ceremony featured US and Japanese leaders. Sadat and Begin signed the Camp David Accords.

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 16h

Springtime for Hitler, more or less

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 16h

This is a great comedy premise, like if Don Giovanni were done by Mel Brooks.

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 18h

Do you know the approximate facts of various stories I've been reading that Isr has and continues to arm to various militant clans in Gaza that are foes of Hamas? How would Isr have been arming them these past two years?

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 18h

I'm so much appreciating the strand of your book that's all about how the maelstrom of the inner life (religion, art, fantasy) is or isn't permeable to the reality of other human beings and their merely embodied humanness.

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 18h

Stopping By Truly on an Unsnowy Evening

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 18h

The enormous cavernous mouth of Dean Jones and the desperate eyes of Elaine Stritch! The fear of Sondheim's little furry self in front of them all, finding every singer inadequate to give sound to his genius. What are mere humans supposed to do in face of that?

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 18h

Villette is the greatest psychological, romantic, militantly Protestant and anti-Jesuit, gothic Victorian novel ever written, and is just astonishing.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 18h

Truly and with respect, an unhinged take.

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 19h

!!! I am having out-of-body or out-of-mind experiences reading your book right now and may hallucinate this in my copy. Has anyone asked you yet about your intense reading of the Company/Sondheim video?

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 19h

This is true. Ralph Fiennes was testing out his Schindler's List character.

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · Mar 20

Guys I’m starting to worry about the width of this gyre

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 20h

Clearly and distinctly, as called for.

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 22h

The curdled new Canada-US bromance

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 22h

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 22h

Of course! I can also excavate my two aunts' and best friend's numbers.

Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 22h

After you called your home, relative or friend's number for enough years that string of digits looked, felt, vibrated like the place/person it reached. You imagined a face and the numbers moved into your fingers automatically.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 1d

Critique of Commercial Reason

Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 2d

Nordstrom Rack at the mountains of madness

A gently glowing blue sign on the wall of a department store reads “prices below reason”

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 1d

The spirit of Kermit has guided America's better angels all along.

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