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Mr. Boo Hoorah himself. Makes sense. I mean once you realize that moral judgement is not received wisdom you're free to reason yourself to a good one.

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Yeah but I don't understand how it works so it sucks.

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Strunk and White is trash, return to Puttenham.

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Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 12h

Writer's group be like

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That guy's wrong, no one cares about the Ontological argument for multiple centuries, but the Hard Problem of Consciousness is one where even philosophers aren't sure it's a real problem or just some people mistaking their intuitions for reality.

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I am doing my own classification though.

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I replaced Gemma for some use cases with Nimble and it was a huge perf boost with not much hit to accuracy. I haven't tried Jev directly though I'm trying to stay local.

I was looking to get a used 3090 because my 3080 is struggling on vram and found out no i cant get a 3090 anymore.

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Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 14h

I haven't seen it yet but I've been reconciling myself to the fact that I probably won't get to hear Jamie Bell say "came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men"

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I'm too lazy to make a meme so impute one is an all timer.

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Avoid Losing Work with Jujutsu (jj) for AI Coding Agents

A coworker recommended jj to me: www.panozzaj.com/blog/2025/11... I still haven't tried it yet. He loves it.

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Someone in the Indy Hackers Slack shared the following post:

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Which, if they solved consciousness, would be what happened again, so it still wouldn't be the greatest advancement in philosophy ever.

The only way it would be the greatest ever is if you steal philosophy's historical advancements and call them science.

I remember reading something from Golding's Ovid and being shocked to realize I'd read this exact passage in Tempest.

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He even lifts whole passages from other authors or just versifies historical books with barely any changes. His genius was often just in psychological observation, but he gets a reputation for his glittering word choices.

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Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 16h

Shakespeare is sometimes so workmanlike you can see the seams in his construction. It's brilliant but not as shockingly virtuosic as people say it is. He often repeats a varied device multiple times in a row almost as padding. (see: Now entertain conjecture of a time...).

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That's correct because the extent of critical thinking and reasoning philosophy teaches you is Aristotelean propositional logic and when they see a chart their brain falls out.

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Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 16h

I don't even know what Comms does. Philosophy is OP at training people to think, they routinely score highest on LSATs. Classics is the crucible of a lot of modern science techniques because it's about wringing every last bit of infromation from a closed corpus.

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The father of all computer dweebs was ken thompson who coded unix up from scratch on a PDP-7 in his spare time at Bell Labs so he could play a video game called Space Travel.

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Not for nothing Steve Jobs was not even a computer dweeb. He was a design geek.

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Most software engineers aren't even computer dweebs. Tech bros usually couldn't give less of a shit about actual technology they just did it for the paycheck.

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Tech ceo's are not computer dweebs, they've only written a handful of shitty programs usually when they were 22 and are basically just investors. Computer dweeb: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W... Predatory tech CEO: www.businessinsider.com/dogecoin-cre... Spot the difference?

Pelasgus @pelasgus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wonder if they saw the news about Erik Prince's outfit in DRC this morning lol.

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False consciousness is a slur by ideologues that don't like that people don't accord with their pre-existing expectation that they behave as strictly rational agents, projection on economists who they accuse of doing the same.

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And this applies just as strongly to "What's the matter with Kansas" people that don't see identity formation as a braided network of demands and personal belief and even personal interest in standing out from one's peers or conversely feeling comfortable with them.

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You can see the shape of society and recognize overlapping tendencies and groupings and ideologies and have complex discussions of them without flattening them into strict top down narratives that describe "nation states are an elite project" or "loyalty was to the village."

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Every human interaction is a complex collection of instincts and beliefs and people examining the past and present society will naturally develop ways of viewing trends and popular beliefs that flatten society, but saying you can't reason to any trends and popular beliefs is equally wrong.

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I think if you're thinking about human society, as a human, you can't help but generalize and reason from abstractions, and it's a mistake to be a platonic reasoner about the past and human nature but it's equally problematic (as I might be falling into here) to be a strict nominalist.

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Judson, The Habsburg Empire I come back to this passage a lot because it always seems the most clear eyed view of how people interact with the state in every time that gets missed so often when I hear people arguing about nation states and premodern history.

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> Many peasants knew quite well that their situation had generally improved after the partition of Poland, when Austrian had replaced Polish rule. So peasants opportunistically cited the authority of the Austrians whenever they could, to counterbalance the authority claimed by their masters.

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> that mistakes the fundamental nature of peasant views about power and authority for a particular love of the Habsburg dynasty. Above all, Galician peasants mistrusted all officials, whether they represented a local estate owner or even the emperor in Vienna...

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> Peasants frequently legitimated their revolts in early nineteenth-century Galicia by citing alleged decrees from the emperor... ... > The trope of peasant devotion to the Habsburg dynasty is frequently invoked today in a simplistic and nostalgic pro-Habsburg fashion...

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> In this sense, the myth of the good emperor, which was confirmed by the legislation of the 1770s and 1780s, lent peasants a symbolic form of agency in the brutal ongoing struggle against their masters.

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> This view of the emperor was highly useful to peasants who used it to justify their refusals to carry out noble demands or their determination to lodge legal complaints against their masters with the local authorities.

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> If the emperor had known what exactly was going on in Galicia, according to peasant lore, he would not have allowed things to continue. This attitude was hardly a manifestation of peasant isolation or naivete, as some today might see it. Far from it.

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> Apparently, Galician peasants were well aware that little love was lost between their noble masters and the imperial regime in Vienna. This specific knowledge fed their view of the Habsburg ruler as an almost mythological power who exercised a fatherly concern for their wellbeing.

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and they are fully capable of intense self-interested advancement and also of intense broad body politic patriotism and loyalty under multiple frames and cleanly arguing from these events one or another narrative is a huge mistake.

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I think there's this way of viewing peasantry, esp. european peasantry pre-nation state formation, that has an almost noble savage tinged way of viewing it but people in every society are a complex interaction of superstition and sophistication

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