@DiscussingFilm It's said that the best two actors who worked with the Muppets were Michael Caine and Tim Curry. Michael because he treated the muppets as fellow actors, and Tim because he treated himself as a fellow Muppet.
@lukeburgis The default counsel for those with difficult family members (esp. spouses, parents) is to break the covenantal relationship. It is rare to find anyone suggesting that it's possible to cultivate virtue that tends toward heroic. Exceptions don't prove the dogma (caritas) wrong.
Since I was a girl, I have heard numerous, general messages from Catholic leaders about “the feminine genius” and “the dignity of woman.”
--Bronwen McShea
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A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.
@joel_denney@SimonSimplicio@ryanburge@ThomistAnimals In any event, I'm horrified but not surprised by a future where ChatGPT is considered more of a person than, e.g., a human being in a persistent vegetative state.
@michaeljknowles As I have learned, to my horror, that many people don't know Stan and Ollie or THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE, here's the original video:
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@johnhboyer Had a half-hour oral exam for a master's level class this evening. No way to AI that thing. The test was a waltz but not a cakewalk. I revealed exactly what I knew and didn't b/c of good questions. I teach 100 high schoolers and I wish oral exams were possible in my setting.
@HippyMomPhD We hosted a Japanese exchange student many years ago. He had done origami in kindergarten - it teaches precision among very many other things.
@resetmerlin@MattNoahSmith At some point students need to develop the discipline to power through assignments that aren't designed to entertain them, because life isn't always like that.
Good relationships & salary IRL will depend on strong habits of self-motivation and perseverance. And integrity, too.
Money, name, and property, if divorced from good sense and skill in living one's life and directing the lives of others, lapse into total degradation and supercilious insolence. 2/3 (or 4...)