Joe Hendel

practice-based artistic research doctoral candidate living in the West of Ireland

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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@hotdamhistorian If I'm trying to understand what something is, immanently, then I want to know what it is. Negative parallelism not only distracts me with "what that thing isn't", it also subtly changes the object of discussion from "what it is" to "why it is" (i.e. it is Y because it isn't X)

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

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@SketchesbyBoze i feel like I've seen this engagement farming tweet from this same person before. Unadulterated beauty, visceral disgust, anyone who disagrees is...this is not someone sensitive to literature.

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@John_Attridge I don't understand why we even bother to talk about Hamlet. It lacks an objective correlative and must be considered an artistic failure.

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@thezachloeffler If this anecdote also came with a cup of black coffee, it would have everything I need.

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@JTasioulas This is the best response according to this language game.

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@abs_sweetmarie Those songs are real. Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke, himself, transcribed them.

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@LetovCCRU this is a factoid

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@peligrietzer Comic genius is much more fun to say. You can kind up go up in pitch on the Gee.

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@14JUN1995 He had such negative dialectics.

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@katherineveritt Deterritorialize, reterritorialize. The dust blows forward and the dust blows back.

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Another phenomenon written about by Adorno in his (recently disparaged on X) Culture Industry writing. Reducing works of culture to their "takeaway", turning symphonies into jingles, bringing cultural consumption as close as possible to a logic of the assembly line.

[NomDeNonWayne @NonwayneWayne]

I agree with the sentiment, but no book worth reading can be reduced to a five-minute summary. This is a lie advanced by tech bros and managers. These people are basically illiterate and cannot fathom that there is any purpose for information which can't be monetized

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@_Zeets Lots of people looking for a Tiresias to come provide prophecies in these apocalyptic times. The funny thing about Pynchon's heroes is that the wisdom they gain usually leads them to silence. Slothrop himself dissipates into the background noise.

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@TotalPhilo As it should be.

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@mom___88 Banquo's ghost

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

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@Biedersam It's "A Tale of Two Cities" level classic.

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@HerrJohnssen @JakeTropila I remember recognizing the Penderecki piece played during the explosion sequence and thinking it a bit quaint and on the nose. I liked the Nine Inch Nails sequence in the roadhouse though. And all the radio stuff. As for the occult mythology stuff, great, but a bit overexplained.

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@bordemwins1 @jasonwblakely There's no correct amount of theory and, anyway, knowledge comes in multiple forms. I'm also not in charge of who can do what and when (thank God). I just don't understand the value in dragging reading Adorno, given that it equips people to better understand their world.