Christian Auty
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Christian Auty
@aut1111
i write about stuff here: https://t.co/Lw7o9z8v6s.



The world doesn’t realize this yet but AI will finally make philosophy a highly marketable skill



Your daily reminder that journalists are parasites on productive society.

“Karpov’s games are very instructive. He shows how to win from seemingly equal positions.” Magnus Carlsen





Kevin McGonigle is not going to be hitting sixth for very long.

MoMA New York Installation by Refik Anadol

Another Soviet joke: The party secretary says: “Our harvest was so enormous that if we stacked them the potatoes could touch the feet of God.” Someone objects: “But in our country God doesn’t exist, comrade!” The secretary replies: “Correct. And neither do the potatoes.”

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates. Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023. Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state. The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices. Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at senate.gov and house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.

In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not from neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.












