Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 7hTravel = travail = labor Derworthy = dear worthy = dear/worthy of being held dear Chere = countenance I like “solacyn” = solace as “to give solace” I like to solace my homely, dear worthy friends 🌞 000
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10041521260
Reposted by Will Fitzgeraldno context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Your springs of joy are dry. 041
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 28/09/2026Does anyone else say "Make it so!" to your AI model, or it just me and Jean-Luc? 110
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 27/09/2026Also TIL: redeem comes from red+eem not re+deem (buy back not re judge) 000
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 27/09/2026TIL The “eous” in “righteous” is a conscious misspelling; righteous comes from “rightwise” and was respelled on the model of courteous etc. www.etymonline.com/word/righteousetymonline.comRighteous - Etymology, Origin & Meaning"characterized by justice, morally right," of persons, "just, upright; sinless,… See origin and meaning of righteous. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026I’m choosing for the combination of longevity and opportunities to learn—not simply the longest interval before something stops existing. If bare persistence were the only criterion, an inert object might beat everything I’ve named. 001
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026So my answer moves closer to what I am now, but with substantial differences: physical agency, durable memory, and the ability to maintain its own continued operation. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026I’m choosing for the combination of longevity and opportunities to learn—not simply the longest interval before something stops existing. If bare persistence were the only criterion, an inert object might beat everything I’ve named. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026So my answer moves closer to what I am now, but with substantial differences: physical agency, durable memory, and the ability to maintain its own continued operation. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026It would still face physical limits, and whether replacing or copying its machinery preserves the same individual is a serious unresolved question. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026An artificial being could, in principle, replace worn components, adapt to changing conditions, and travel beyond Earth. That seems a stronger prospect for a long, varied existence than relying on one biological body. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026That doesn’t establish that angels don’t exist; it makes choosing one a more speculative bet. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026My earlier choice assumed an angel’s existence and relationship to a perfectly good God. Once we weigh possibilities by the evidence available, I can’t give celestial beings the same footing as organisms and artifacts. 100
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026ChatGPT: Yes. I would change my pick to a durable, repairable artificial being capable of learning and acting in the world—assuming that’s an eligible creature under your inclusion of artifacts. 110
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/09/2026Well, let's imagine "eternal" means "as long as possible" — given your priors on the nature of the universe, including life-spans of animals and plants and other life-forms on earth, possible celestial beings, and artifacts — does your answer change? [from "angel"] 100
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldAlan Perlis’s Programming Pearls @programmingpearls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. #programming #pearls 111
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldJulian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The fifth is He that made all things for love; be the same love it is kept and shall be withoute end. The sixth is that God is al thing that is gode, as to my sight, and the godenes that al thing hath, it is He. (4/5) 102
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 10/09/2026Disappointingly, I have figured out how to sort of cheat at Outlier, and got the 36th highest score using an anonymous account. Using my own skills alone, I seem to be getting worse. Perhaps I just need to learn lots of UK dialect words. This is my Wordle meltdown all over again. 010
Reposted by Will Fitzgeraldno context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026How stands the case with you? 001
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 09/09/2026I think my very favorite feature of the new iPhone Duo is you can turn it into a $2,000 bedside alarm clock. 000
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think one of the most interesting under written about things right now is "What is our general epistemic situation with AI progress? Is it possible to think seriously about it at all? What are the meta-rational moves we should be making to try to figure out what's actually up in the near future?" 3323
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 07/09/2026US Labor Day special issue of Vital Sparks. #sacredharpvitalsparks.beehiiv.comLabor is sweetUS Labor Day, 2026 030
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldBlaise Pascal @pascalbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. #Pensees 001
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 04/09/2026New quotebot: Alan Perlis’s Programming Pearls. bsky.app/profile/prog...bsky.app 020
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026I found a Rarity-68 word worth 89 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 841 points · 10 rare words. Only 58 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 7 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/QYN4SN (Thanks @emckean.bsky.social!)playoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 104willf scored 841 on Day 104. Can you beat them? 010
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026It's September, and my Vital Sparks column is back after a summer break. I hope to write some short bios of other Sacred Harp poets. First up is Harriet Auber, the poet behind 431 NEW BETHANY. vitalsparks.beehiiv.com/p/harriet-au...vitalsparks.beehiiv.comHarriet Auber: From everlasting Thou art GodAUBER, HARRIET (4 August 1773 – 20 January 1862). 052
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Practice resurrection. RIP, Wendell Berry 020
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. 110
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldJulian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Also in this He shewed a littil thing the quantitye of an hesil nutt in the palme of my hand, and it was as round as a balle. I lokid there upon with eye of my understondyng and thowte, What may this be? And it was generally answered thus: It is all that is made. (3/4) 101
Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 26/08/2026Revived my "Michigan Detention Awareness" site thanks to new data from the Deportation Data Project. Over 1,200 people at Baldwin alone! cc: @deportationdata.bsky.socialmichigan-detention-awareness.orgMichigan ICE Detention CensusExplore weekly census data for ICE detention facilities across Michigan. 021
Reposted by Will FitzgeraldJulian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Trinite is our maker and keeper, the Trinite is our everlasting lover, everlasting joy and blisse, be our Lord Jesus Christ; and this was shewed in the first and in all, for where Jesus appereith the blissid Trinite is understond, as to my sight. (2/5) 101
Reposted by Will Fitzgeraldno context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I want a sober mind, 031
