Durwood
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Durwood
@fugitive_druid
Dear Lord, I said, "Surely hope you're coming 'Cause you really started something"
@razibkhan A little bit of Quran study would probably be useful for understanding 25% of the world's population.
>be me >3-yr-old dryer leaving streaks all over my clothes >call three repairmen can’t identify issue >order new dryer >have to rewire electricity to make it work >finally get it working >leaks water all over my floor >mfw 🫠
@Kali_de_Armas I dismissed this pic as a meme for so many years, but I'm starting to reevaluate it
@atlanticesque who said anything about a right to live in the United States? why should i, an American business owner, be denied the right to employ whoever i want in my private business? and that's before we get to "hurting productive people and making us all poorer"
@CameronCorduroy There's no right to live in the united states
How to Grow a Chair in Your Backyard by Italian design studio Nucleo.
Not going to top this one but I think some (not all) Great Books programs give short shrift to American ideas and literature and educate for a general "Western" orientation rather than for a specifically American self-understanding: x.com/Scholars_Stage…
I’ll take a stab. The concept of the Great Books was invented in the 1910s and 1920s and is not some civilizational tradition as often claimed; the implicit version of western civilization it teaches is a false one, giving the Greeks too much credit and erasing the Germanic contribution wholesale; there is also an implicit teological vision built into the current version of the canon that sees the whole affair of human reason, and in particular the enlightenment, as culminating in WWI, the Holocaust, and the incoherence of modernism, thus presenting a nihilistic vision of human potential and of the civilization to which we are heirs; as the canon is frozen in the 1930s it does not incorporate any of the compelling ideas that have transformed the world since then; philosophy is a poor way to understand the world and is less useful for this purpose than history, poetry, rhetoric, language and all of the other things punted out of the canon to stuff more philosophy in; there is no correlation between studying these books and living a virtuous life, or even an efficacious one.
Sam Altman met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick yesterday to discuss GPT-5.6, and the US Government decided to intervene because it has 'Mythos-like' capability according to Axios. They also said OpenAI has been trying to get GPT-5.6 released since before Fable was banned.