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The last man in the Canterbury waste land
Cold misty rain, supposedly all week. it’s not a soaking rain, but the damp chill seems icier than even the silent cold days of midwinter. The forecast for the week is gray and dank; every day shows rain. I wonder how long weather forecasting will continue. I wonder about the mediocrity of “the world’s richest… Continue reading
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Wilhoit’s Law
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. … The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires… Continue reading
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What about word-agnostics?
Sometimes a root word or prefix ends up attached to a bunch of words that are particularly interesting to “logophiles,” or word-lovers. That’s certainly the case with the prefix “logo_,” which means “word” (from the Greek “logos,” same meaning). For instance, if you go a bit to far in “logophilia” you might be described as… Continue reading
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Tomorrow
From The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot, 1924 “I. The Burial of the DeadApril is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.Summer surprised us, coming over the StarnbergerseeWith a shower of… Continue reading
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Paul Robert Lloyd nails it
And you know what it is. It’s been other things too. And there will probably be more to come. Continue reading
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Just forget it
In software development the word “deprecate” has come to mean “no longer to be used.” This is actually jargon; “deprecate” isn’t used that way in any other context. It originally comes from the Latin word “deprecari,” which means to “pray against.” “Deprecate,” when it appeared in the 1600s, meant a prayer — specifically a prayer… Continue reading
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When night comes…
This opinion piece by Max McCoy of the Kansas Reflector now seems disquietingly possible. I’m not sure about the shortwave radio though; are there that many of those still around? Although receivers are readily available and inexpensive. Continue reading
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The latest tool
This is about a very specific use of a particular large language model. The model is Claude, from Anthropic. The use is assistance in coding. I find that coding with Claude makes me a lot more productive than I am without. I’ve used language models quite a bit by now, and I don’t think what… Continue reading
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Greenland
The vance quisling seems to think that Greenlanders really ought to want to become part of the US. Presumably like the people in Puerto Rico or Guam, who are US citizens but not really, particularly in the eyes of the orange baby and its mob. Why, exactly, would a Greenland resident prefer to be a… Continue reading
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I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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