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Not true, they like the art that celebrates the rapacious imperial murder, the intellectual achievements which justify the rapacious imperial murder, and those civil liberties which can be withdrawn on a whim from the targets of the rapacious imperial murder.
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Not true, they like the art that celebrates the rapacious imperial murder, the intellectual achievements which justify the rapacious imperial murder, and those civil liberties which can be withdrawn on a whim from the targets of the rapacious imperial murder.
Bentham's note that "the delay itself, should, after it had been spun out to a sufficient length, be employed as a pretext for final relinquishment" is giving me flashbacks to dealing with the UN over the decades. Although I'm not sure if they can be classed as flashbacks if they're still happening.
August 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Bentham's note that "the delay itself, should, after it had been spun out to a sufficient length, be employed as a pretext for final relinquishment" is giving me flashbacks to dealing with the UN over the decades. Although I'm not sure if they can be classed as flashbacks if they're still happening.
Thank you, I found your review very thought-provoking. I agree broadly with both you and Rosen, but something was not quite filled out for me. Through certain activity we become fully human, but what is the nature of that activity? I tried to sketch out my own response at currion.net/2025/07/23/a...
Are we experienced? – the unforgiving minute
currion.net
July 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Thank you, I found your review very thought-provoking. I agree broadly with both you and Rosen, but something was not quite filled out for me. Through certain activity we become fully human, but what is the nature of that activity? I tried to sketch out my own response at currion.net/2025/07/23/a...
Philip K. Dick in the sheets and the streets,
Neal Stephenson in the seas and the skies;
Shutting out the real with more yoga retreats,
To fold further inwards with closed eyes.
Neal Stephenson in the seas and the skies;
Shutting out the real with more yoga retreats,
To fold further inwards with closed eyes.
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Philip K. Dick in the sheets and the streets,
Neal Stephenson in the seas and the skies;
Shutting out the real with more yoga retreats,
To fold further inwards with closed eyes.
Neal Stephenson in the seas and the skies;
Shutting out the real with more yoga retreats,
To fold further inwards with closed eyes.
plus murder prediction www.statewatch.org/news/2025/ap...
Statewatch | UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system
The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.
www.statewatch.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
plus murder prediction www.statewatch.org/news/2025/ap...
Many SOE agents during WW2 were foreign, or at least dual nationality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... - Noor Inayat Khan is probably the most well-known? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_In...
List of SOE agents - Wikipedia
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April 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Many SOE agents during WW2 were foreign, or at least dual nationality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... - Noor Inayat Khan is probably the most well-known? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_In...
And four of the local libraries have been shuttered, of course.
March 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
And four of the local libraries have been shuttered, of course.
surely a use case for your favourite LLM
January 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
surely a use case for your favourite LLM
Well it looks like they realised that "foreign aid" includes the life saving shit and walked back some of the stop-work. Still a lot of damage done, not least to the reputation of the US. On the bright side, hopefully this will hasten the decolonisation of aid www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio backtracks on near-total foreign aid freeze, issues humanitarian waiver
Secretary of State Marco Rubio backtracked on Trump’s near-total foreign aid freeze and approved potentially billions of dollars in “life-saving humanitarian assistance.” Many aid groups are still uns...
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Well it looks like they realised that "foreign aid" includes the life saving shit and walked back some of the stop-work. Still a lot of damage done, not least to the reputation of the US. On the bright side, hopefully this will hasten the decolonisation of aid www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
What should worry us is that now that the Emperor is naked, they have no reason to pretend to any kind of social responsibility or ethical consideration, which could lead to a race to the bottom at the same moment as the US administration has removed the minimal amount of AI regulation that existed.
January 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
What should worry us is that now that the Emperor is naked, they have no reason to pretend to any kind of social responsibility or ethical consideration, which could lead to a race to the bottom at the same moment as the US administration has removed the minimal amount of AI regulation that existed.
It's not the fact that VCs and governments are going to be wary about throwing good money after bad that matters now (remember web3? me neither), but there's been a narrative shock which will break the spell of AI.
January 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's not the fact that VCs and governments are going to be wary about throwing good money after bad that matters now (remember web3? me neither), but there's been a narrative shock which will break the spell of AI.