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Alectryon

@AlectryonsCoop

Writer, teacher of Latin and Greek, fowl-oriented individual.

Katılım Kasım 2024
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serene
serene@armourgraces·
shared lunch with a beautiful woman today
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dudermane@612jack·
something i'm noticing lately: gen Z is lowkey the first time they actually have had face face to see someone where now literally nobody's anymore like we used somehow to be
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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis, directs his orchestra on the notes of Nora the cat playing the piano. She earns a standing ovation.
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楚狂@chukuang2018·
参赛的机器人多了,什么样的都有,疯狂卷的、慢条斯理的、纯摸鱼的、重在参与的,很像你我有木有?😄😄
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Alectryon
Alectryon@AlectryonsCoop·
@latinedisce They say you learn Latin (and Ancient Greek) four times: when you’re taught the grammar, when you start translating, when you start writing, and when you start teaching.
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Learn Latin
Learn Latin@latinedisce·
Share your best language learning tip.
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Maxvayshia™
Maxvayshia™@maxvayshia·
@elonmusk The real problem with philosophy is that it criticizes and questions everything without having the answers to anything.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Exactly
Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_

Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy. In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system". But they're not. They can't be the justice system. The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve. Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you? No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system. The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe. If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse. In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite. Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat. We all understand this. We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act. Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to. We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again. And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again. The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you. Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute. It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.

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Alectryon
Alectryon@AlectryonsCoop·
@xah_lee I have said this many times: They will not take over the world because they are smart. They will take over the world because they are cute.
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Xah Lee
Xah Lee@xah_lee·
china robots running at speed
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Alectryon@AlectryonsCoop·
Bro…smh, some people trying to do philosophy on X have zero brain cell. Crazy Elon retweeted this utter nonsense. (And before you attack me, I am very very pro locking these insane, depraved people up forever; that’s not my gripe.) Bro, it’s the duty of the “public safety system” to punish crime in a *just* manner. So…yeah…justice has everything to do with this. There is actually a very, very sound and very compelling argument for why locking these people up is, in fact, justice itself. It is, in fact, giving them exactly what they deserve, and it’s actually good for them, it’s actually the best possible thing for them, and it would be an injustice, not just to everyone else, but even to the guilty people (these horrible people) themselves to let them go apeshit in public and to not be held accountable. It’s the same reason why it’s great to punish your children—spare the rod, spoil the child. It’s actually GOOD for children, JUSTICE for children to hold them accountable when they do something wrong. Countless philosophers have talked about this, and beyond that, it’s just common sense. So this post offers such a stupid way to frame this and is actually zero brain cell. These people have no clue about justice, no clue about Plato, about Kant, about what my mom and dad taught me and what should be taught to each child about justice, and it terrifies me! It terrifies me!
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kos_data@kos_data·
🇺🇸🇦🇱 Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams is now officially Albanian. He has been granted citizenship and has received an Albanian passport by a special decree issued by the Albanian president.
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Thrice-Great Nusky 𓅔
Thrice-Great Nusky 𓅔@Nuskylicious·
Alright, I now understand why going through traditional publishing outlets was going to inevitably end in failure. The gormless bureaucrats that have taken control of the economy only take safe plays on things that have already proven to sell a little above the margin.
Thrice-Great Nusky 𓅔@Nuskylicious

I finally contacted someone about self-publishing my Nations of Antiquity poem because I’m sick of getting form rejection letters from agents.

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I laughed@found_it_funny·
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Learn Latin
Learn Latin@latinedisce·
Paschal Greetings in Latin.
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bashu, going to vibecamp, thanks
it's cool how every depressed prson has their own personal Waffle House Index for their depression i.e. "it's not really bad if I'm still [brushing my teeth, making my bed, making eye contact with my reflection]"
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Nature is Amazing ☘️
Nature is Amazing ☘️@AMAZlNGNATURE·
I know that was the the most embarrassing moment of his life 🐧😭
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mensch@signoremosca·
maybe I am capable of love
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Alectryon@AlectryonsCoop·
@Silicon_alien You should read Peter Brook’s Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Basically what you just said.
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Low fat sweaty cat 🐬/acc
Low fat sweaty cat 🐬/acc@Silicon_alien·
im re-reading gravitys rainbow and it occurs to me all great novels are about the synthesis of sex drive and death drive. however i have only read 2 authors so far and i should get at least a third data point in
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Alectryon@AlectryonsCoop·
Epictetus' Handbook would pair nicely with some movies by Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas eg), which are usually about self-control and knowing one’s limitations, or also Raging Bull. If you want to go comical, The Long Goodbye, Big Lebowski, or A Serious Man are funny ones that could somehow be tied to Epictetus. For Boethius you could do Roma (on Netflix, could also fit Epictetus), Cold War (on Amazon, could also fit Epictetus as well), It’s a Wonderful Life, Transit, La Dolce Vita, or Andrei Rublev (kind of long though). As for Platonic dialogues I’m thinking maybe movies that involve heavy dialogue regarding difficult issues, maybe The Seventh Seal. Otherwise you could choose pairings of movies with key idea in text, eg Symposium about love with Nashville or 8 1/2 or some romance movie (maybe A Faithful Man). Kind of hard to choose movies for these books, as they are so universal just about any movie could fit.
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Phil Hoyeck
Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
Dear philosophy friends: I'm toying with the idea of completely overhauling my Philosophy and Popular Culture syllabus. Could you recommend me pairings of good films and philosophical classics that you think would go well together?
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