ㅁ "No time like present" - except all those other times that were just like now.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Month: October 2024
Caveat: Links #78
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Utopia is never a place you arrive at, but it’s a journey you’re on” – Sherryl Vint, discussing Ursula Le Guin’s novel, The Dispossessed.
Caveat: Poem #2983 “The old house, again”
ㅁ I dreamed that Arthur became possessed by some remodeling demon. So while I was gone at work, He began adding things - random additions - to his odd house: stray basements, towers, leaks.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Links #77
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- “the most cost-effective treatment for even severe depression was problem-solving therapy”
- On the matter of sovereign wealth funds: obvious, but needed to be said
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The only possible excuse for God’s behavior is that He does not exist.” – Stendhal
Caveat: Poem #2982 “In praise of the banal”
ㅁ Banality is worthy stuff: it centers things, and pulls the fringes back from fevered dreams, it moderates the fools.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Links #76
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- D&D is anti-medieval, despite appearances. Actual genre: Western
- Something bothers me about this argument, but it’s hard to explain. Where does the presumption of god’s GOODNESS come from? did I miss something?
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Facebook was a mistake. Books were not meant to have faces.” – someone on the internet
Caveat: Poem #2981 “Zzzap!”
ㅁ Twenty years later, I still get "brain zaps" sometimes. Yay SSRIs.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #75
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Here is one trick to see the future. From the standpoint of the domestic American economy, the difference between outsourcing to robots and outsourcing to China is negligible. China’s impact is a preview of AI’s impact.” – Curtis Yarvin (grains of salt, and all that: Yarvin is an extremely weird neo-reactionary monarchist, but I think he’s not wrong on this point)
Caveat: Poem #2980 “Grounded beside the parking lot”
ㅁ Wind rushed through, bashed the walls of our building. The structure creaked like an old sailing ship.
– a tetractys.