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Today's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a national holiday here (obviously), so time for a quick daylight walk.
(I'll tire of this new camera eventually, don't worry)
(I'll tire of this new camera eventually, don't worry)
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Today's the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a national holiday here (obviously), so time for a quick daylight walk.
(I'll tire of this new camera eventually, don't worry)
(I'll tire of this new camera eventually, don't worry)
Loading up the last of the olives.
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Loading up the last of the olives.
Nice, just discovered Google's Linux VM on Android 15. Fun, fun.
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Nice, just discovered Google's Linux VM on Android 15. Fun, fun.
Heads up (to those interested) to an attack by the French state on the FLOSS project @grapheneos.org which produces an exceptionally secure (and privacy-minded) Android-based OS.
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Heads up (to those interested) to an attack by the French state on the FLOSS project @grapheneos.org which produces an exceptionally secure (and privacy-minded) Android-based OS.
It's not a lake, technically speaking, it's actually a giant pond.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It's not a lake, technically speaking, it's actually a giant pond.
One of my favourite places in our local city, the courtyard of 'the museum of the history of the Jews', a restored 14th building containing a synagogue and school/hospital, with the entrance to the mikveh at the top-right corner.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
One of my favourite places in our local city, the courtyard of 'the museum of the history of the Jews', a restored 14th building containing a synagogue and school/hospital, with the entrance to the mikveh at the top-right corner.
This group is unmanageable.
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This group is unmanageable.
Franco died 50 years ago today.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Franco died 50 years ago today.
"So there is no support in physics for the idea that the past is “fixed” in some way that the present and future are not, or that it has some ontological power to constrain our actions that the present and future do not have."
![Nor does 20th (21st) century physics countenance the idea that there is anything ontologically special about the past, as opposed to the present and the future. In fact, it fails to use these categories in any respect, leading some philosophers to argue that they are merely perspectival and, in a physical sense, illusory.[10] So there is no support in physics for the idea that the past is “fixed” in some way that the present and future are not, or that it has some ontological power to constrain our actions that the present and future do not have. It is not hard to uncover the reasons why we naturally do tend to think of the past as special, and assume that both physical causation and physical explanation work only in the past present/future direction (see the entry on thermodynamic asymmetry in time). But these pragmatic matters have nothing to do with fundamental determinism. If we shake loose from the tendency to see the past as special, when it comes to the relationships of determination, it may prove possible to think of a deterministic world as one in which each part bears a determining—or partial-determining—relation to other parts, but in which no particular part (region of space-time, event or set of events, ...) has a special, privileged determining role that undercuts the others. Hoefer (2002a), Ismael (2016), and Loewer (2020, Other Internet Resources) use such considerations to argue in distinct but closely related ways for the compatibility of determinism with human free agency.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yp5dm3i6mgo7iip5tjxyszht/bafkreidqw54xqxkrx4q6t5ccibgfh2jafhff5lepxcdn7y7js4cxog2pwu@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"So there is no support in physics for the idea that the past is “fixed” in some way that the present and future are not, or that it has some ontological power to constrain our actions that the present and future do not have."
![1846, introduced by William Hamilton for "doctrine of the necessitarian philosophers" (who hold that human action is not free but necessarily determined by motives, regarded as external forces acting on the will or character of the person). See determine + -ism.Determinism does not imply materialism, atheism, or a denial of moral responsibility; while it is in direct opposition to fatalism and to the doctrine of the freedom of the will. [Century Dictionary]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yp5dm3i6mgo7iip5tjxyszht/bafkreiay2uluuui5zthxfcyl54xt6usv4vxgtpe6p552lr6nm3yfe5d4ly@jpeg)
Pretty in pink (it also has a wonderful smell).
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Pretty in pink (it also has a wonderful smell).
A town 40 minutes away by car which we'd been to several times over the years, but whose old quarter we'd never visited. I'm often surprised by the standing history that surrounds me here, cultural wealth I'd somehow managed to ignore for so long.
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A town 40 minutes away by car which we'd been to several times over the years, but whose old quarter we'd never visited. I'm often surprised by the standing history that surrounds me here, cultural wealth I'd somehow managed to ignore for so long.
Hi people. Hope you're doing well. Here it's warm, and the leaves have turned.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hi people. Hope you're doing well. Here it's warm, and the leaves have turned.
To me this implies the defeat of the US state by a foreign power in a military conflict, yet I'm convinced that that is not what he meant.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
To me this implies the defeat of the US state by a foreign power in a military conflict, yet I'm convinced that that is not what he meant.
Some people don't remember toothing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Some people don't remember toothing.
Finally something we can all get behind.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Finally something we can all get behind.
According to this study, avoidable deaths are way up all over the US, and not just with infections as a cause. All of them are up. You're right that it's surprising this isn't bigger news:
www.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
www.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
According to this study, avoidable deaths are way up all over the US, and not just with infections as a cause. All of them are up. You're right that it's surprising this isn't bigger news:
www.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
www.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
I've no idea who this guy DeLong is, but he seems kind of confused if these two snippets are anything to go by.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I've no idea who this guy DeLong is, but he seems kind of confused if these two snippets are anything to go by.
Difficult to believe that 49% of twitter users don't endorse violence, even if their endorsement is by omission. Do they not endorse Ukraine's fight against Russia, for example?
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Difficult to believe that 49% of twitter users don't endorse violence, even if their endorsement is by omission. Do they not endorse Ukraine's fight against Russia, for example?