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I wonder if I should be concerned that I have a mental list of bad driven songs for when the caffeine fails mentally loaded up and ready to go at all times

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• Wing - Dopamine DnB remix
• Liquid Tension Experiment - pretty much anything?

@[email protected] In a variety of styles...

• Propellerheads - Spybreak!
• Bon Jovi - Keep the faith
• Gravity Kills - Guilty
• Paul Simon - You can call me Al
• KMFDM - Ultra

my best buds you guys, do not do anything if someone says your account is suspicious and they are from mastodon security team, just report and block. do not click on their link.

For years I've been hearing that "One day AI will be smarter than humans and we'll all be doomed."

"Nonsense," I said. "AI is very stupid, and not getting noticeably smarter." And I was right.

But I didn't think about the fact that there were two ways that prophecy could be fulfilled.

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And now I feel old. Also, Creative Commons is great.

@[email protected] Have you come across Dabrowski? The over simplified version is that he postulates that high development potential ("giftedness") isn't comorbid with emotional over excitability, but is driven by it. Well, that, or you self implode (he refers to growth via positive and negative disintegration as the excitability refuses to allow statis). I'm enormously over simplifying to the point of being dangerous inaccurate, but it may be worth a look if you haven't seen it before. dabrowskicenter.org/developm...

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One thing deeply lacking in the UK school system is some study of philosophy. I'm actually really glad my son has had the opportunity to study some here in Italy even if he's aiming towards engineering as a degree (and so is he!). I can't help thinking that the world could do with more people thinking about why we do things just at the moment.

Want to study #philosophy? We're nearing the enrollment deadlines in Leiden, where there's a Dutch BA, but also an English BA in global and comparative philosophy, and several English philosophy MAs (including the new 2-year programma Philosophy of the Arts)! And a lot of great teachers, such as my colleagues. 😎

@[email protected] Makes sense, I'm from down south with a some years in the Midlands, so I obviously speak proper like and don't know how you northerners would mangle the language :). I think I tend to use post for the postie and as a verb, and mail as the noun ("The postie delivers the mail" "I'm going to post the letter") but I'm pretty sure I'm not consistent in using either.

I mean, I did also set up a new database, fix some backups, add health monitoring to a server, and find a new potential business partner. I just didn't actually mean to do any of that and the washing still isn't hung.

Had a whole chat conversation with someone this morning in which I mentioned I was really struggling to get things done today.

Reader, did I check I had taken my #adhd meditation? No, of course not. I just carried on struggling all morning before seeing the medication after lunch when I took out the next dose.

@[email protected] @[email protected] English English would use mail or post interchangeably for 'is this thing physically being sent to me'. Here in Italy though, 'mail' is often used to refer to email in Italian so if you use mail speaking in English to an Italian they will often assume you mean email (and will often use mail to refer to email even in English)

None of the original text from Wikipedia's article on the Ship of Theseus remains in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ship_of_Theseus&diff=1348278736&oldid=1154003

@[email protected] @[email protected] Now I'm trying to work out if that would be better or worse. Is it more arrogant to claim to be able to heal people in general, or claim responsibility for healing a specific individual?

@[email protected] I recently discovered that here in Italy you can sell nude properties, which amused me no end. Literal translations are such an unending source of fun. (It refers to buying a property but granting the current resident leave to continue living in it, and is used in situations where a pensioner is running out of money but doesn't want to leave their house)

@[email protected] @[email protected] "I spent more money, give me a raise!"

Just a quick test as I've moved Bonfire to a new server. Nothing to see here, move along now.

No - wait - is that a ... nope. Really nothing to see here.

@[email protected] I wonder if you could get a good rendition of Azimov era scifi describing the modern world by deliberately translating back and forth from unrelated languages focussing on literal translations.

"The lightning carriage accelerated down the complimentary path with torque unmatched by the older confined burn machines..."

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