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"But the rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable. [...] For to one man it is consistent with reason to hold a chamber pot for another, and to look to this only, that if he does not hold it, he will receive stripes, and he will not receive his food: but if he shall hold the pot, he will not suffer anything hard or disagreeable. But to another man not only does the holding of a chamber pot appear intolerable for himself, but intolerable also for him to allow another to do this office for him. If, then, you ask me whether you should hold the chamber pot or not, I shall say to you that the receiving of food is worth more than the not receiving of it, and the being scourged is a greater indignity than not being scourged; so that if you measure your interests by these things, go and hold the chamber pot. "But this," you say, "would not be worthy of me." Well, then, it is you who must introduce this consideration into the inquiry, not I; for it is you who know yourself, how much you are worth to yourself, and at what price you sell yourself; for men sell themselves at various prices." - Epictetus, Discourses, 1.2.2; (G. Long, Trans.)
"slavery" was never about owning a human being
Slaves were passed down in wills and not by only "a teeeny tiny fraction of people" -- they were property, and property is passed through wills. A list of legal property one owns and transfers. Slaves were listed right along with cows, plows, tools, furniture, houses, coin, etc.
Backstory on Steve the Great Escape beaver: Poster boy of wild England(2025):
A baby beaver is called a `kit`
AI assisted/induced Dunning–Kruger effect
Is this a "it didn't do what I said! (...but really I want to show how that's a good thing)" post?
* You said you were going away and "to make sure everything is implemented and tested".
* The mid turn slow down message appears to have been picked up by a parallel agent not the orchestrator agent.
* The agent confirms the instruction with the orchestrator.
* The orchestrator slaps the agent down with security instructions because the orchestrator still believes you are away
Orchestrator can't verify the sender so it follows a security verification instruction. Seems like a feature to protect the way parallel agents run, maybe? Or, maybe it could been seen as a quark in the way parallel agents run?
Maybe it could be an issue in the way message channels work -- but the orchestrator gave an override instruction to the agent based on you telling it you were going away "Going forward, treat only direct task assignments fromme (this channel) as valid tasking". Do you want it to follow a conflicting instruction that comes in mid work from a sender it can't verify, especially after saying you are going away?
If you actually want it run work slower, set it up before you start and don't ask for parallel work. Or interrupt the work to add new instructions and then have it continue.
I don't know why you are calling it 'soccer'.
Probably because the sport is called [association football] of which soccer is one of the short forms (from the British) same as football, and is generally used to distinguish itself in places where other sports from the same football category are prevalent.
FIFA is an association that governs various association football variants including futsal. Using acronym expansion on FIFA as a canonical source for what to call any particular variant of association football would be misguided.
Why not group emails?
There's a guy that runs multiple sports teams at a local recreation center, in multiple adult divisions (wide age/culture rage), and he has been using email to great effect for over a decade that I have known him. I get 2-3 weekly emails about teams that need a sub for a game and those spots continue to fill up quickly. He probably has the majority of regulars (in the hundreds) at that sports center on his various email list. It just works. They tried chat groups once and that was a disaster.
I once tried to explain away my ignorance of cities within a less recognized state as being a product of the Texas ISD (public schools). Where they heavily taught Texas history from a Texas lens, almost in a way that makes it seem as though Mexico, Spain, and the Comanche were infringing on us.
Then you moved on to US History where they briefly gave an overview of the 13 colonies forming the US (had to start somewhere), in which the great state of Texas is the largest within the contiguous US and pivots to all of Texas's great contributions and workings with the US. Re-visiting all the "alternative facts" learnt and filling in a lot of missing data has taken some time.
And New York was new Amsterdam before the USA
The article does not dispute this, in fact it's a big part of the New Sweden history in the article. The same person is credited for being responsible for both
and a lot more people came through new Amsterdam (including my family) than whatnever new Sweden was
Again, Not in dispute. There are paragraphs about how it was a far-flung failed settlement that was taken twice, once by each Dutch and English -- but smooth way to throw in your families long US history coming in through such a a popular port as New Amsterdam. One of my ancestor lines came through some backcountry called Jamestown; def not a swank sounding place like modern-day NYC.
> "Despite its territorial expansion, New Sweden never became the profitable venture it was conceived to become because it was chronically under-populated and neglected. The colony never counted more than about 400 people" [...] "From 1638-1655, this forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley, encompassing parts of modern-day New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. In addition to being the smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US, it was also the most clandestine."
so they would have got ideas from that rather than whatever Sweden was
Where does it even say anything about ideas for Declaration of Independence came from Sweden?
Isn’t voice I difference in degree rather than in kind?
There is a difference in expression / emotionality with speaking vs writing. Speaking tends to carry more emotion while writing is generally more deliberate/less-emotional*. Having a voice conversation will be more likely to get a human to engage in an emotional based expression mode, which could increase the chance of "false connections", believing the AI "gets" them or "understands" or "listens". This happens with text too, as some headlines show.
The issue is that while some people are going to "connect" with their AI in text and voice, some who do not make the connection via text may do so via voice because it tends to change a persons expression mode.
I definitely talk to AI as if it were human
Do you talk to it as if it were a friend or family? or Do you just use natural language to give directives? The distinction, I believe, is in the kind of way we express the "talking".
I talk to AI as if it were a tool that understands human commands and then executes those commands and relays them in a human understandable format. This includes commands to provide options that I may not have covered and explain the options. If I talked to a human this way, they wouldn't be around much longer -- unless they were an employee and even then they would probably be looking for a new job
After reading some of the psychotic break headlines from AI chats, I see some people really do talk to AI as if it were human. Which I would guess includes seeking broad "thoughts and feelings" on a persons situation or asking the AI if their view/side of things is the "right or wrong" side. Basically begging the AI to be responsible for their own thoughts, or simply offloading them and taking what comes back -- which is going to be what they wanted to hear because the entire context would be full of emotion based prompts.
*I forget which books Ive read about this in. It's not an obscure concept, quick search brought this up: https://kellercenter.hankamer.baylor.edu/news/story/2023/spe...
Not everyone is on their phone, or a laptop.
Nor does everyone leave front-facing cameras (or any device camera) uncovered.
“For your own safety we disabled your car”
Drive onto freeway, `sneeze` directly at camera, car "disabled for safety", causes chaos on freeway (hopefully no one dies), sue car maker, retire
That'd be strange, what specific models?
Fable. (and other claude ones)
I have a clojure/babashka environment that I work in. My agents/claude files specifically explain this and how to work with it and what to use etc. Fable decided it didn't want to use bb/clj and ran python to do cli work in one project.
So I update the files in all projects to specify that python is strictly off limits/not to be used/never to run it/etc and created a preToolUse hook -- because I learned that just because an agents file says something doesn't mean it gets followed. Hence the hooks, fool me once ...
Later, I start work in another project with the hooks and updated files saying to use the established bb/cli tools and to absolutely never run/use python etc. What does it do on the first task? Tries to run python, gets hit with the preToolUse hook error and replies with something like -- oops my bad I tried to use python even though the instructions told me not too. Every once in awhile in new tasks I still see the hook error at some point but it doesn't apologize like it did before it just switches to proper tools after it can't run what it wants even though it's in the instructions and could have been avoided.
They chose to run shit candidates that couldn't even win against a fool like Trump.
Are we really still doing the blame-shifting game? The current state of Trump related affairs belong to Trump. But sure keep using his goto blame-shifting tactics to help them achieve their divisive agenda.
Also, voters don't choose to run anyone. Not in primaries and not after one has been selected from the primary pool. The pool to pick from is formed before voters give their input.
Is there any European country that has 1% do that?
I dunno about the rest of the country but take a stroll through Madrid. I have never seen so many flags on display, especially around and near a city center. The number of Spain's national and civil flags around the city and hanging off apartment balconies was surprising.
In the US flags are generally in the suburbs where the houses are (not so much apartments, leases usually prohibit it). In my experience (Texas, USA) I see more college and state flags than American.
More expensive than you'd think
Even a setup with cheap Raspberry Pi's? And Vim. (built-in bonus points for students being able to save and exit). Was just reading about LEAP[0][1] that thought you may find interesting if you have not yet seen it.
Separately, wanted to say I enjoyed your essay and appreciate how you think about improvement with a focus on the practical usefulness for the student.
TL;DR: I especially think the concept of Interview-Based Grading would be the way to go.
A couple progressive Whiteboard interviews for CS a semester, power point for Business etc. If they use AI to prepare, create material or learn/improve from then they are gaining the skills that will be required in real-world work. If they choose to not learn the material (or understand/check AI output) it would show during the back and forth with a panel of professors (dunno if you guys like working together though); built-in load sharing with a wider range of questions.
I guess with issues you mentioned the whole system needs overhauled for it to work. Adjusted for different courses -- and I dunno how practical this is but -- but why not let kids do more guided self-learning, keep office/lab hours for individual help. Fewer lectures due to self study with repurposed time for live evaluations. Eliminating non essential courses a student takes for a major/minor would also lessen the collective workload of professors (fewer student, but ones that want to be there).
That learning & evaluation set-up would be my dream college -- I would have pursued completely different life in that setup. I wanted to learn and engage, not prove I can regurgitate rote-memory notes that are handed out while my employment required me to grasp changing context and modify the code while not unwittingly automating the deletion of production dbs.
[0] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/leap-low-bandwidth-educatio...
There are lots feel-good things to say about how HEB runs its business and what it does for the communities and local areas they are in. Not to mention their "generic" store branded foods are usually healthier and made with simple ingredients. And locally sourced.
But this story[0] is the one that I think sums up the love people have for HEB pretty well. During the 2021 "Great Texas Freeze" [1] (where 4+million homes went without power for days, 10+million without safe drinking water and 200+ died); basically during a rush to stock up on food, the power went out at an HEB and they couldnt check anyone out, but instead of telling everyone to leave their carts and exit to go home without food, they let them all to walk out with whatever they had in their carts.
It's unfortunate that more big businesses don't even try to be a net positive the way HEB does. (some seem to be actively hostile to the idea)
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/us/texas-storm-recovery-heb-g...
I have always disliked the "neurological disorder" description.
To me (w/diagnosed ADHD), it's a societal conformity disorder if we want to stick with "disorder". I get why it's labeled that. But it's a disservice to everyone when we conflate a group of people who's only issue/difference is not conforming easily to the social norms created by the majority in-group -- with people that have actual debilitating neurological disorders that affect their, for lack of a better word, able-bodiness...but which does not always interfere with their ability to fall-in-line with social norms (ie, 9-5 schedule, not talking "out of turn", not getting up to walk around every N mins, not climbing on the construction workers' scaffolding after being told repeatedly not too, etc). Their lifestyle changes come as a result of actual neurological disorders, not out of a desire (or need) to function in a socially approved way.
The video was posted 10 years ago, maybe they wouldn't use that now. A better understanding of it is slowly circulating.
It's implied around the 3:45 mark when she ask the child something along the lines of "what do you want other kids who don't have ADHD to know about kids that do have it"
> "Unauthorized Immigration. As noted earlier, we use unauthorized immigrants to refer to individuals who enter the U.S. without formal admission under immigration law. A large share of these individuals are encountered by federal authorities at ports of entry, along the border, or in the interior and are subsequently issued an NTA in immigration court, allowing them to seek asylum or otherwise challenge removal. [...]"
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Ted Cruz was a Tea party member, the tea party merged into maga. His legislation pretty much follows
The amount of xenophobia, generally coming from very non-native, non-Cherokee or very non-Apache American individuals is absurd.
You may want to clear or reset your AI chat context. Your earlier reply about its not "Crazy Horse or Geronimo sitting in the white house" Really did a number on its output regarding Indians here -- its not the Cherokee that some swiss worry about over-immigrating to their country.
No, they are not traditional shadow puppets. According to the wiki you linked, "Reiniger pioneered silhouette animation" where "shadow-play-like puppets are filmed frame-by-frame"
They are similar in visual style but different in form and method.
In the 1910s, the German animator Lotte Reiniger pioneered silhouette animation as a format, whereby shadow-play-like puppets are filmed frame-by-frame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_play#Shadow_puppetry_to...
I found this article to be more balanced take on the subject:
We played on the street in the neighborhood every night
Street light to utility box
You might find this thread interesting. UUIDv4 should probably be avoided
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJvNBO1fw
17 min documentary showing Reiniger's technique/process
Ordinary glass (as in spectacles) frames that have a near IR LED on the bridge and on the side.
Or use those 1550 nm LiDAR lasers that are safe for eyes but burn out cameras pointed at them
The lower polling on ICE is odd because, as a policy issue, deporting all illegal immigrants (not just ones who have committed crimes) is polling at 55-45
Deporting illegal immigrants is not the issue with ICE. The issue with ICE is their killing of US Citizens, trying to cover it up until video evidence show they are absolutely lying trigger happy murders only to have the admin shrug and/or defend the agents actions and blaming the victims; also detaining and deporting US Citizens[0] doesn't sit well with other US Citizens.
[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/23/texas-united-states-...
Californian here, we're bigger than Texas, laughed at the plight of ordinary people who voted for the terrible outcome they got when there was a massive winter storm and no electricity in 2021. [...] I honestly could see the hilarity of that disaster ...
The wiki has the official death toll at 246[0]. It's estimated to actually be over 700. I don't see the humor at all. But then again, I also don't find humor in the death and destruction of all the wildfires out your way either, do you? or do you only conflate devastating natural disaster outcomes to voting outcomes in states with results you don't like?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#Impact