I was a kid sitting on my dad’s big shoulders during the student riots in Paris in the 60s. I don’t remember it, but dad says it was weird that it felt safe to carry a kid right down to the battlefront where carefully aimed cobblestones were flying at cops. I guess there was zero chance of a Bloody Sunday style response at that time.
I do so not get this. “With pine nuts” or even baguette is acceptable.
I learned a surprising thing about Japanese swords the other day.
There are traditional ways of making a blade, which have been figured out at great expense over 1000+ years.
I’m not afraid to read a book (if I can handle it) but I feel you need to know something of a field, in order to know which books are definitive and represent a consensus.
This is not really interesting, except to think about what eating AI-generated actual food might be like, because the AI sure seems to like big portions and lots of cilantro. Perhaps this is how the AI apocalypse comes: we are poisoned by robot chefs who simply over-salt everything.
[Thank you all for the thoughtful and insightful comments on the previous posting I did on human supremacy. This is a topic that fascinates me, and I’m still figuring out what I think, which is why I am thinking out loud.]
The US is frantically shoveling weapons around the planet: ammo for Israel, ammo for Ukraine, drones and missiles for secret drone bases in Africa, and – now, there are significant naval forces moving toward Yemen because the Yemenis made the only move they could, and tried to block trade.
[This is a second attempt at this posting; the first went way off into the weeds. This is a tricky topic!]
I was just sitting around daydreaming about the kind of world I’d rather live in. There’s so much to change; this exercise always makes me think of The Lathe of Heaven. But maybe you’ll enjoy this one: