Colin Danby

There was a joy in him, even at the most serious moments, that you never forgot.

How to Do Things with Words

Commerce is good.

IOW, and I'll bow out after this, you can say that the Ben Collins "Tim Onion" persona is *supposed* to be a bullshitter, haha.

But you cannot claim that the Ben Collins who had a long career in serious journalism does not know what words mean.

All kinds of horrible or not-necessarily-good things happen *normally*. Looking at the world, and naming what goes on, is not advocacy. It's what social scientists are supposed to do.

Your position boils down to repeating that lots of people miss or ignore is/ought distinctions, which, yeah.

I ask you again.

How do you get "should" out of "thing that happens"?

Making up the bit about white-collar roofers is the least of the lies. More serious is converting "thing that happens" into "should."

Reinforced by "things would be fine so relax."

What am I missing? MD said

"This is a thing that happens. People switch sectors when We Are Having An Economy."

TO turned this into

"people getting laid off from white collar work due to things like DOGE cuts should simply become roofers and farmers and things would be fine so relax."

Yes! This is what I.F. Stone did: read everything no matter how boring.

The Daily Mail Song YouTube video by Undercurrents Media

On the very slight chance that anyone on bsky has not already seen this:

An interesting feed requires that some % be incomprehensible. Not sure what level is optimal.

Shaun the Sheep

Take your cues from "Me Too went too far" because that train only goes one way.

And Mark Twain Churchill and Einstein, speaking through history with one voice.

Pardon the irrelevance, but why is she greenish-blue?

You're following the wrong people then.

Seriously, bsky is roll-your-own.

"The brief calls for " a 100 per cent sustainable landmark" that inspires people to take action against the climate and biodiversity crisis."

Actually *take* action? You must be nuts. Far better to waste resources on a hideous stunt to "inspire" unnamed people to take action.

Fun: Lawrence Kraus shares Bari Weiss' piece about me with Jeffrey Epstein.

I used to teach Panopticism with some bits of film, e.g. "Call Northside 777" and Wiseman's "Primate."

If sticking to literary texts, and noting your work, who had a better sense of what's enabled or thwarted by slipping into a discourse than Borges? Or much Kafka: that sense of being pinned.

Baffled.

What Foucault are they reading?

... and that screwy covered passage in photos 12 and 13. Why? How does drainage work?

You would know better, but there looks like water intrusion in some photos, and when I see cheap fixes for flooring I start worrying about deferred maintenance.

We need a new kind of plural.

A lot of the friction on bsky is people who start from 3 are impatient with people starting from 1, and vice versa.

2. What happens when these tools are available to naive, lazy, or unscrupulous people.

3. What are larger political, environmental impacts and why are people being compelled to embrace these things by mgt of universities, businesses etc. Education gets hollowed out...

fwiw there seem like at least three questions in the air:

1. Are there, within the huge category of "AI," tools that conscientious people can put to good use for certain kinds of tasks. The answer seems obviously yes!

We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI.

I'd love to hear more from people in mathematics about the recent Terence Tao interview.

A youthful tall Joseph wearing colourful robes and with strong ruddy features and a fine head of hair looks down at the toddler beside him, who is looking up, and carrying a basket

A wonderfully tender wooden sculpture of St Joseph and a toddler Jesus in St Peter’s Church in Leuven (I don’t have the full details, but guessing late medieval). He is looking down at the baby, who is holding his thumb

Ah, the chewing phase.