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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 17h

Implicature resists the computerization afforded by any conventional set based logic. This is the Large in Large Language Models. The way to force the computerization of implicature, it was seen in the 80s was by sheer expansion of the corpus of data. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/mr-g...

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Mr. Grice's progeny

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I understand the relic-mania of the Middle Ages, for I like relics myself. Not that I collect them – I don’t really have that collecting vibe in my life. I’m a great thrower-outer, too great in fact. I have regretted certain trips to the dumpster. #Pascal

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The psychology of the relation btw Trump and his Maga base is very similar to the Epstein routine of grooming - first compliments then degradation. The AI of Jesus cleaning King Trump's shoes is about a blasphemous image as any in the western canon.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-s... I drove in Ireland on the right side – instead of the American left – this summer. I drove down country roads that are so narrow that one is always confronting the situation of who concedes, the driver coming towards you or you yourself?

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On sidewalks, cities, corruption and laterality

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Netanyahu knows he is a war criminal. That is why he is hooking up with the party descended from the most evil of all war criminals, Hitler, in Austria. No words for this obscene man. english.elpais.com/internationa...

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Israel moves closer to Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by former SS members and Nazi Party affiliates

The Netanyahu government had until now boycotted the formation, with which it now seeks to build ‘a political bridge’

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The affluence/Neolib crowd is of course in the mode of mocking Berlin for nimyism, because the Left wants to expropriate housing from its corporate owners. For a history of neolib success in driving housing costs and homelessness up, here's a good article: www.acash.org.pk/what-happene...

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What Happened To Social Housing? A 50-Year Decline

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Following the German press freakout over Die Linke winning the German elections is hilarious. Neolibs can cozy up to neo-fascists, no problem. But the very idea of nationalizing a public good that should never have been put in private hands: it is criminal! #dielinke

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Artificial intelligence is an advertising name, like Wonder Bread. The bread is not that wonderful, and the intelligence is all in the fact that with massive amounts of energy we can computerize implicature. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/mr-g...

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Mr. Grice's progeny

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Somehow, when the far right wins in Germany, it is a big news item for American media, but when the far left - Die Linke - wins by using the model of Sanders and Mamdani to capture the mayor's race in Berlin, it is crickets. #eliferalp

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump can't ban media from the white house. But paradoxically the less embedded the media is with trump the better for the consumers of news. Access is where democracy dies. Ne hostile.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP Catherine Ringer: Back in the 00s, I needed a lot of cheering up. Coincidentally, Youtube appeared. This expanded the field – of my own musical appreciation, to say the least. And it is through Youtube that I discovered Les Rita Mistouko. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/les-...

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Les Rita: mon amour

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't at all think Bari Weiss was hired to "break" CBS news. She was hired because the little elite bubble of tech failsons and rightwing journo freaks think they have the secret sauce that gave Trump his majority in 2024. There's no secret sauce, and Trump is going out fartfirst. Sorry, Bari.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Credit where credit is due: although the NYT recounting of the rise and fall of a Ponzi pre-school outfit named Guidepost Montessori, founded by an Ayn Rand cultist named Ray Girn, doesn't dig deep enough into private schools, still, it is good: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/b...

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Inside the $440 Million Collapse of Guidepost Montessori

A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"vibe shift" is nyt-ese for 'not being openly racist but you know what we mean...' Usually followed by heh heh.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In the lexicon of cognitive states, brooding has a distinctly low ranking. We meditate or reflect to achieve illumination; brooding is the prelude to a tantrum. To think means trying to see the object of thought whole – but the brooder is peculiarly averse to letting go of the object of thought...

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump's lies about 9/11 - and especially the new one about being rescued from some building that also was hit on 9/11, if that is the claim - are simply the random ejecta of his gonorhea addled brain that come at us every day. I suppose every falling empire gets the crazed tyrant it deserves.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"All those destroyers that he had followed for an instant are possessed, in one way or another, by the demiurgic, Nietzschean pride in this one thing, that they all believed in the plasticity of human nature. If they burned the old man, it was to hasten the coming of a new man."

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am so surprised - oh snark! - to see that Cambridge still hosts James Orr, the fascist who was caught on camera talking about laundering money for the Reform party. So, well, upper class of them. Orr, a theologian cough cough. Orr's buddies need to sign a petition for him - calling Stephen Pinker!

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It should be easy to both oppose MAHA as a bogus carnival of fraud and corruption without presenting the pharmacological and medical institutions as shiny and good in all ways. Both are whack. The career of oxycontin was a sort of trace element that showed how bad corporate medicine is.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Trump's tariffs are batshit crazy, but they are also demonstrative of the emptiness of the neoliberal assumption that the president has his hands tied vis a vis the Fed and the economy. Turns out that the president can do quite a bit. Note to next Dem president: the neolib schtick is over.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The way the press is fluffing Rahm Emmanuel reminds me of the old Bush days when the press, especially the NYT, was all about how Chalabi was wildly propular in Iraq and would be the next pres there - and how, finally, when his party was in an election, he got 1 percent. Emmanuel is our Chalabi.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Memoir is not so much a genre as a congery of genres that include essays, autobiography, autofiction and other circus animals. Memoir is, itself, popular in the hinterlands but not so much in the academic canon, where it is difficult to locate its coordinates, its trajectoy, its landings.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unfortunately, comparison, as the elementary student of dialectics knows, simply fossilizes the embryo idea – leaving it forever in a pre-natal state unless it is vigorously moved forward via the forceps of antithesis and inversion. Thus, the revelatory smack of Diderot's The Nephew of Rameau.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From my first steps to my now, more than 500,000 Americans have been murdered. Yet I have managed to scrape by without ever being in proximity to a bloody hair or twisted face. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/08/an-o...

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An old fear

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Outside there was still the war, and in the darkness of the hall, this tiny man with “a face so mobile that its couldn’t be pinpointed, penetrating and exotic, like the face of an animal, but a new, a different face, an unfamiliar one.”

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cofnas the racist is now entering the exciting martyr market, reaching the WSJ. My previous prediction that Maher, Freepress and Quilette will follow is looking good. But he doesn't have staying power - even Nick Fuentes has more charisma than that drip. The Maga carnival is coming to a close.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Am I the only one who has noticed the stark similarities between Cofnas's Philosophical Psychology paper, "Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiryI" and the series of articles in Slate written by William Saletan in 2007 entitled: Liberal Creationism.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The NYT fLuffing Meloni is the NYTist thing ever. An antiwoke fascist - a Sulzberger dream come true!

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In Yeats’s poem In Memory of Major Robert Gregory there is a verse that goes: “And then I think of old George Pollexfen, In muscular youth well known to Mayo men... That could have shown how pure-bred horses And solid men, for all their passion, live But as the outrageous stars incline…”

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Didn't is friends Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein to tell us Hanania is someone we must listen to? His screed celebrated Arday's suicide. Hatefilled shit - the usual variety. I'm not worried - these racist pigs don't know it, but they are already receding in the rear view mirror. A new day is coming.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love how political concepts get floated away from material political circs in the U.S. The "left" so often ends up about opinions rather than practice - wh/ the DSA is changing.merely. "Electability" is about appeal to centrist pundits, rather than, vulgarly, being merely elected.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On the last day here, in the sauna of Dublin’s Boddington Hotel, to be exact, I saw, or perhaps the sensory word I’m looking for is heard, the origin of Joyce’s Dubliners. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/08/note...

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

. The fifties was the heyday of the Hegelian notion of the master-slave relationship – you can call it the Partisan Review effect, or at least I will call it that, ho ho. It turns up all over as the master trope to understand American society, and particularly America’s system of apartheid

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Maybe I'm just a gunshy guy, but I am still nervous about Michigan. Still, looks like El Sayed won, so I can be happy about the upcoming defeat of the Trumper running for that Senate seat.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hey, bluesky Platner-phobes. You might want to look into this GOP representative's abuse of his wife, from throwing boiling water on her to other things. Because you are certainly not partisan GOP bots seeking to retain a seat for Collins, right? I would hate to think you don't really give a shit.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve always believed that you will only see a culture in its totality, see it thoroughly, sees its wonders and damage, when you go through the cracks. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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The prisoner of cool, or down among the zeros

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It is easy to think of Berkeley as a man who developed from philosophy books his own philosophical account of perception, the perceived, and the mind. To trace from Locke to Berkeley to Hume a certain theme.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Loafe” is one of the great verbs, I think. Partly, this stems from the homonym “loaf”, as in a bar of something – bread, for instance. The loaf of bread is not something that can loafe – alas, it exists either on a plate for you to eat

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In 1941, an 18 year old fresh out of school, Reinhart Koselleck, volunteered for the army and was sent to the Eastern front. On May 1, 1945, the war “ended for him” in Oderberg in Mahren, which is now called Bohumín and is now located in the Czech Republic.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Among Leo Steinberg’s great monographs, the one entitled Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper holds its place as one of the controversial art historical pamphlets, as it were, after The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I've noticed, and been disheartened by, comparing the number of people on Blueky outraging on Gerald Platner's nazi tattoo compared to the number outraging on ICE's David Brouillette killing in cold blood Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford ME www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

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ICE Agent Defended Shooting of Immigrant in Maine, Ex-Wife Says

The agent, whose identity has not been confirmed by officials, has a history of abusive and frightening behavior, according to a former wife and others who knew him.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hold the phone - scott jennings has reported that he just talked with Lindsey Graham for 20 minutes. Topics covered included Graham's views of the ethnography of the fore people in Borneo, whether Trump is Jesus come back to take revenge on the world, and Graham's idea of a perfect honeymoon.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

So by my count the Senate is 51 to 49. And Trump fucked Cornyn. Time for revenge?

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Modern political science is sadly enmeshed in models, a form of disciplinary capture by the science of economics, and sadly inattentive to the rich world of folk motifs. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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The King Fink

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Weirdly, Americans always conflate, when being Islamophobic, Sunni Islam and Islam altogether – for instance, in the American conviction that all Moslems forbid portraying Mohammed. In many ways, the Shi’ites are a better match for Americans,,, limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/07/us-v...

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US versus the Shi'ites the puzzle of the great Satan

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This motif resonates with a very common political opinion, which can be summed up by the phrase: “if the Czar only knew.” People in an authoritarian order, an ancien regime order, had to guide themselves with regard to the powers that be –

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The King fink It is a widely distributed, old motif. It is Harun Al-Rashid in the Arabian Nights, who, in order to “secretly to observe for yourself the manner in which justice is done and order is kept throughout the city,” as his advisor says, disguises himself as a foreign merchant.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think it is a genuine step for progress that Planter is held to account for an alleged rape. Maybe at the next Dem convention they will quietly bar bill Clinton who is credibly accused of 2 rapes from speaking. Fingers crossed. America in spite of itself just got a bit better.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Here she is. This woman means business. Platner the rapist was not elected to the candidacy of the Democratic party in Maine, and he has to fuck off.

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