"If Hegel had written his Phenomenology in mythos-language instead of in logos-language a lot of my work would be done for me. The identification of Substance with Subject-Spirit in the Preface is mythically the central issue of the Reformation, overthrowing the sacramental ‘spiritual substance’ of the Eucharist & replacing it with the growing Spirit that takes over the Subject.” -Northrop Frye (Late Notebooks, CW 5, 192)"
I had a client recently that had chat gpt connected to their email so it would respond to drafts with 5-6 pages of feedback. This went on for two days before anything was filed. Thus, I will meet my billables this week.
LOL this is the best thing that ever happened to the legal profession. Nothing ever generated more fees than the clients who decided to save some money by doing the legal work themselves.
We did. The balance of payments deficit incurred by military spending during the Vietnam War forced the United States off the gold standard in 1971 and opened the doors for a parasitic class of FIRE sector rentiers to pillage the country for their own gain.
"Christianity" in America is the polar opposite of Christianity, but it ironically holds the potential for its own inversion (salvation) due to that bothersome Christ bit that's central even in the religion's most corrupted and perverse forms.
The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building.
The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce.
When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.
Just yesterday I heard NPR liberals (Respectable People) celebrating a federal judge's ruling that Anthropic needed to pay back some shitty authors (who already had Netflix adaptations of their "books") Claude read. Liberals LOVE IP.
one of the most bizarre aspects of the liberal schema is their insistence that technology, and by extention knowledge can be legally owned and therefore "stolen", this assertion will never make any meaningful sense which is why it will always be an economic justification first
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us . . .
Truly mad that America has gambled its entire economy on closed source LLM monopolies hitting intelligence explosion (which epistemology may be flawed), while China is emphasising widespread adoption & generalised industrial integration. Goes entirely against the USA's self-image
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses.
My first PhD paper is out now in @ScienceMagazine (https://t.co/Lrh8HVdIDT) Here is what we found:
“I have read here and there in the old histories of the fathers of the church, and found that, after the death of the Apostles, the untainted virginal church soon became the whore of the debauching priests.“ - Thomas Muntzer