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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous non-ideal philosopher."

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Yes, and sometimes I forget to sit in silence, and end up listening to music for hours before I remember

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The scythe is perfect for staying on top of the invasive, noxious species'. You can be very selective. I have better results if I use it early in the day, when there's still a bit of dew. It's not great, though, if you have a lot of fallen limbs or roots in the grass.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yeah, I do still use battery powered trimmers. But there are particular uses that a scythe is especially suited to. I find I can be more precise with a scythe. My blade is a bush/mowing hybrid. I have a couple areas that I maintain as sort of mini meadows.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I toyed with Icon back in my Amiga days.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Very nice. Up till now I've just been spawning new isolated session in the same directory.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The Bad Song Challenge I hate myself: chatgpt.com/share/67f956...

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Yes, I remember those days.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Process thinking *is* intriguing and refreshing to me. But I'm not entirely persuaded, tbh. Nor am I sure media such as this are a great way to discuss it.

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

I wake up in the morning.
I sit at my computer.
The internet screams at me that the world is on fire.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Add "ability to refrain from travel" and I subscribe.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Maybe Gadamer, indirectly, in the sense of cultivation and Bildung? Kind of a stretch, I guess.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I'm fighting the same fight as we speak; struggling to finish a rather short, mundane document that, for all I know, will never be read entirely.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The crucial question, then, is whether this came to your attention before or after publication. I'm getting better at not pre-critiquing drafts; better, but not good.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I might agree. What do we mean by "own"? What's appealing about it? What are it's downsides?

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Epoché Magazine @epochemagazine.org · 19/12/2024

Been a while, but issue #77 is now live! Last of 2024, and that's 405 articles we've put out now. Tune in on your e-device to read about the Kierkegaardian demonic, Schellingian freedom, Freudian art, and what happens when we confuse the political and the rational. epochemagazine.org/issues/77/

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December 2024

A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly

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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"[I]t does appear the #AI -generated replies are trained on his own comments, at times replicating previous comments he made word for word, but many of the suggested replies are strangely personal, wrong, or just plain weird": 404media.co/youtube-enha... #ethics #YouTube #business #tech #socialmedia

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YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense

YouTube’s rollout of AI tools shows nonsensical AI-generated audience engagement and AI slop thumbnails.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yeah, like day one. I (mostly) unconsciously scroll by any such thing.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I could be wrong, but I'm don't think Melody Maker can take credit (nor blame) for any of those albums.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Murder's bad. But I have to wonder if they'd be going to this level of trouble and expense had it been you or I that was killed.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So, CliffsNotes, but less extreme.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And gunning em down in the street is some next level outcry. We'll never know how things would have gone had the timing been different.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Of course! I mean, aside from the cursing, naturally.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Yes, I share your concern. I'm not optimistic. (I say that a lot these days :/ )

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fromm told me what to think about my individuality. :) Of course, all my ideas are necessarily informed by those I've read. But I try to synthesize and to hold them lightly and I am perpetually unpersuaded. When I'm forthcoming, I manage to anger everyone in the room, if that's any indication. :)

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

That's comforting to hear. I've slung a lot of Perl, but it's been a long while. I periodically quest for a better scripting experience, but I never really find what I'm looking for. And really, scripting's pretty imperative by nature anyway (by my own definition).

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 18/11/2024

One big problem with induction stoves is that you'll be trying to heat up some soup or whatever but it will keep drawing general principles from specific instances

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The American Association of Philosophy Teachers @theaapt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hello world! We're excited to support philosophy teaching on this platform. Let's get started.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Seems to me we could just as easily replace the founders with AI without the negative impact to society.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My standard quip is, "If you wanna kill something, name it".

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

And even the Manifesto should be viewed as a reasonable starting point. If we only got the autonomous teams bit we could at least do Agile-in-a-Box like we did before Scrum was broadly productized and adopted. It *was* actually pretty good for a brief moment there.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'm actually entertaining reviving my Perl chops lately.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Indeed. Agility would have been a much better course.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I mean, I'd have to move some stuff around.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I wouldn't say social media is the cause. I think it's built in. It's what society naturally does. But I think social media makes it far worse than previous communication channels. My mental analog is electrical. It's a short circuit.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What's the word the stratospheric tower of books on my nightstand that threatens to crush me when I roll over in my sleep? The coroner will want to know.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

OO Ooooo! Ooooooo, we went with Haskell? Nice!

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yes. Gall's Law would always have us aim for simplicity and complexify as actual need dictates. I really like starting with scala-cli. Of course, if I *know* up front how to characterize a project, giter8 is still a nice option. I'm glad to have both.

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Steve Jones @sjfloat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

They do facilitate transitioning to sbt though, which makes for a nice continuum.

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