I used to raid my dad’s library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer I grabbed Robert Paul Wolff’s In Defense of Anarchism, which sits beside me as I write this. [Umass Amherst]
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I used to raid my dad’s library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer I grabbed Robert Paul Wolff’s In Defense of Anarchism, which sits beside me as I write this. [Umass Amherst]
I saw over at PZ’s that it is “What about the menz?” Day. [pha]
This hasn’t gotten a lot of press because, frankly, it shouldn’t matter. But, every political issue – big or small – is contentious.
Don’t worry, if you are inclined to.
Is this 15,000 year old artifact evidence of a MAGA time machine?
[Content Warning: Highly Indecent Erotic Art]
That’s one of the third rails of philosophy. It’s like starting a land war in Asia, when you’re not the Asian.
I’ve been struggling with a problem: “what happens if someone tells an AI to ‘code a better version of yourself?’ and – whoosh – the singularity happens?
In 2021, I did a posting about Smedley Butler and the great Wall St banker’s plot to overthrow the US government. [stderr]
I used to work for a consultancy called Trusted Information Systems, back in 1990-1994, which was a big contractor for DARPA and NSA. That was how I wound up building security systems in some pretty interesting places including the Clinton White House.
I have this fantasy, which is that someone gave Donald Trump a laminated card that said “launch codes: man, woman, camera, a plan, burma shave” or something like that. He’s kept it, of course, because it’s valuable.