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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27m

That science may be taught as a set of formal and technical exercises is only too true. This happens whenever information about the world is made an end in itself. The failure of such instruction to procure culture is not, however, evidence of the antithesis of natural knowledge to humanistic […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

yes: what matters is what works i feel just about intelligent enough to say (1) intelligence is vastly overrated for success in life (2) intelligence is not a scalar and not an inductive set

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

When the great old ones returned they made just one demand. “W̵̤̺͋̏̍͒Ḣ̸̲̩̍Ǫ̷̱̗̻̀̎ ̶̜̜̩͉́̈́I̴̼̝͔͆̋̄̕Ş̴̨̮̠͝ ̴͓͖͚͌̔͝R̴̳̔̇͊Ȅ̸̗̜́͝ͅS̶̮͚͋͜͠P̸͍͈̒͋̋O̵̡̹͗͋̈́͠N̵̠̂̀̈́͒S̵̆̐̆͗͜Ĭ̷̧̜̦̊B̸̭̣̼̺̐̐̏L̶͚͚͖͕̎̇̋E̷̬̜̬̽̏̐ ̴̜͕̎͛̕F̸̬͙̞̫͛̾̓͘Ò̸̺͘͜Ŕ̵̗̜͌͊̈́͜ ̵̜̟̜̿̃ͅT̷̬̫̬̎̉͑̎H̵̛̹̝͕̍̚I̵̠̠̿̿̈́S̵̱̓̓̀ […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

future org: PETAI you know it's coming

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Work is psychologically simply an activity which consciously includes regard for consequences as a part of itself; it becomes constrained labor when the consequences are outside of the activity as an end to which activity is merely a means. Work which remains permeated with the play attitude is […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Where something approaching drudgery or the need of fulfilling externally imposed tasks exists, the demand for play persists, but tends to be perverted. The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. So in leisure time, there is an imperious demand for […]

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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I've been wondering, what if we think about LLMs as a solution rather than a problem? like, there are problems with LLMs, but consumers are paying for them because they genuinely solve problems. Maybe it's better to focus on the problems they're solving? The kinds of problems I'm thinking about […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

i guess the way we treat AIs now will be part of the training data of much more powerful AIs to come

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human. Democracy cannot flourish where the chief influences in selecting subject matter of instruction are utilitarian ends narrowly conceived for the masses […]

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

*Man, that's a darn good video. For a one-shot, with no editing, good lord www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-an…

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

If you're faster than a rocket I'm not sure who would care if you're also swifter than a jet

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Knowledge which is mainly secondhand, other men’s knowledge, tends to become merely verbal. It is no objection to information that it is clothed in words; communication necessarily takes place through words. But in the degree in which what is communicated cannot be organized into the existing […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@npr/science-uk3a4d92… such a good idea. luxury space ai data centers "The chips will run a version of the company's Gemma AI model for 15 minutes at a time due to heat management constraints"

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/11736086… "American fascism is ruining everything, and these women and their wrong ideas are half of its source of power."

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

people in the hacker culture of the early 2000s: "there is no patch for human stupidity" people in the hacker culture of the late 2020s: "we have ported the unpatchable human stupidity to the computer"

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

THE YAK TREE Pop a yak it's fun to do Pop a yak it's scrumcheroo Yaks all stacked with possibility In the infinite pushed yak tree Push a yak it's been a while Push again to be agile Yaks all stacked with possibility In the infinite pushed yak tree - as sung by AI Anita Bryant

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

In #NewMexico, I continue to work on election protection. The best defense is a good offense. So, graphics for early voting. I made these. Grassroots activism calls for learning new skills. 1/

VOTING IS THE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

For we live not in a settled and finished world, but in one which is going on, and where our main task is prospective, and where retrospect—and all knowledge as distinct from thought is retrospect—is of value in the solidity, security, and fertility it affords our dealings with the future.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

We sometimes talk as if “original research” were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

One wholly indifferent to the outcome does not follow or think about what is happening at all. From this dependence of the act of thinking upon a sense of sharing in the consequences of what goes on, flows one of the chief paradoxes of thought. Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its […]

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

An ounce of experience is better than a ton of theory simply because it is only in experience that any theory has vital and verifiable significance.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

All authorities agree that that discernment of relationships is the genuinely intellectual matter; hence, the educative matter. The failure arises in supposing that relationships can become perceptible without experience—without that conjoint trying and undergoing of which we have spoken.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The nature of experience can be understood only by noting that it includes an active and a passive element peculiarly combined. On the active hand, experience is trying—a meaning which is made explicit in the connected term experiment. On the passive, it is undergoing. When we experience […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

To organize education so that natural active tendencies shall be fully enlisted in doing something, while seeing to it that the doing requires observation, the acquisition of information, and the use of a constructive imagination, is what most needs to be done to improve social conditions.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Persons whose interests have been enlarged and intelligence trained by dealing with things and facts in active occupations having a purpose (whether in play or work) will be those most likely to escape the alternatives of an academic and aloof knowledge and a hard, narrow, and merely “practical” […]

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The ideal of interest is exemplified in the artistic attitude. Art is neither merely internal nor merely external; merely mental nor merely physical. Like every mode of action, it brings about changes in the world.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

For sympathy as a desirable quality is something more than mere feeling; it is a cultivated imagination for what men have in common and a rebellion at whatever unnecessarily divides them.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

But, most of all, the present industrial constitution of society is, like every society which has ever existed, full of inequities. It is the aim of progressive education to take part in correcting unfair privilege and unfair deprivation, not to perpetuate them.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. We say of an interested person both that he has lost himself in some affair and that he has found himself in it. Both terms express the engrossment of the self in an object.

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Dave Ackley @livcomp.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: c.im/@cdarwin/117176520684455610 aand doesn't that make the conspicuous consumption of them even manlier

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 28/08/2026

I am going to point out again, and repeat again that I have discovered something I LOVE about @phanpy . If I want to interact with a post, even just boost or like, there is one extra click worth of friction in order for me to do that. I cannot do anything from the scroll of my home timeline. I […]

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