@krislindbeck.bsky.social BTW, is it to much to ask whether you could perhaps have a glance at two of my latest blog posts? simsa01.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/t... & simsa01.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/h... ?

More the challenge of corpora being frozen in time due to values embedded within language. Long version of the idea here: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/g...

Amelia Schafer, "AMERICA 250: How the Haudenosaunee shaped America’s democracy" ictnews.org/news/america... A pretty detailed account of the "Great Law of Peace", the "constitution" of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Recommended (as read and as inspiration).

The new essay collection by George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia", came with the mail. Lovely.

Adam Kredo, "US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists" freebeacon.com/trump-admini... I'd love to see more respectable sources on this. But beside that: Defund UNRWA!

New blog post : "The Omertà That Is Family" simsa01.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/t...

♪ Elai Botner and the Children of Abroad, "נעים עכשיו" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB8... Very much like the upbeat tempo.

Timothy Jones, "Armenia election: Prime Minister Pashinyan declares victory" www.dw.com/en/armenia-e... The interesting thing is less Armenians' orientation towards the EU but their rejection of Russia's grip on their country — despite Putin's threats. Armenia joins Georgia in that regard. Yay!

The astonishing fearmongering about #AI (extinction of humanity, loss of control) pivots on the idea that people cannot stop self-improving systems. But the problem is people who gain the most by gov subsidies to develop AI who would lose the most should they have to shut down the internet. 1-11

Had to grin hearing Ben Rhodes confirm my point www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGs... (28:24) "I think the Gulf states [...] turning to China: Over time, that puts at risk the dollar as the reserve currency because the reason the dollar's reserve currency is 'cause petro trades are made through it."

"Totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible in the West. They think they can negotiate with a psychopath like Putin, like Hitler." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbU... A conversation between Andrea Chalupa and Jonathan Fink.

"I don’t really believe in truth—not even in the truth of the imagination—just in the sound of a voice.” — Harold Bloom

George Scialabba has a new book out : "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia" (2026) A new collection of his essays (although some were already published in other collections of his). Still, it's great to see such an eminent voice talk about utopia.

German media freak out over Germany not getting a seat on the UN Secuity Council. Gee! Germany already got the presidency of the UN General Assembly. Why should anybody offer Germany *another* high profile position at the UN? Stop being greedy and lachrymose at the same time.

As I currently use my blog to prompt #AI responses, it's interesting to see how it starts "hallucinating" and, when pressed, propagates these fudges. In the lexical field, e.g., it lists synonymous or technical terms, posits them as my actual use, then extrapolates and generalises from there.

As we have way too many texts by way too many writers and way too few receptive readers, the rise of #AI as automated reading utility may only on the surface sound alarming or ridiculous. 1-16

It's interesting how accurately #AI can estimate one's age on just contextual evindece from one's blog writings.

The main problem with #AI facilitated lexicographic information based on web crawlers is that they don't seem to have a proper mechanism of what in the humanities is called "Quellenkritik" (source criticism). As long as these do not exist, every search return is hallucination until proven reliable.

When times lose their ambiguities, their multiple layers of meaning and possibility, when they become literal, then these are times that not only invite but bring about war. 1-9

I don't worry about AI wrecking writing skills. I don't worry one bit. I learned to write from story tellers, drawing comics, reading poetry, and music listening.

♪ Rembetiko (1983, Greek, with English subtitles) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXS... When I first saw the nmovie in 1984 or 1985, it hit me. I drowned in these songs. Rarely has pain been made so relatable, it seems. (The film is said to be loosely based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou.)

US Impressionist Daniel Garber plays with light and shadows in ‘The Old Mill’ (1921)

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Watching the sci-fi anime "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" (1987). It's not the story that impresses me but the detailedness of the alternate world depicted. Only "Le Garage hermétique" (1976-1979) by Moebius comes to mind as on a par in visual playfulness and richness.

Being hawkish doesn't mean being conservative or on the right. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

@brightbyte.bsky.social @vrandecic.bsky.social Is the thread below too silly? Would you mind chip in a comment? Thx.

I find Brave #AI more adequate than Grok. Its summaries of arguments of mine in recent blog posts and the assessment of their context, theoretical sources, and overall plausbility is better than with Grok.

@livable4all.bsky.social Ah, there you are. I was wondering and though about sending an email. Are you well?

I let #AI assess repeatedly my writings on my blogs. On various topics, the LLM returns similiar contentions: That not the ideas expressed are what makes the originality of the writing but their fusion and presentation in a clear, argumentative, and often sardonic style. That's an interesting point.

When one asks #AI about a topic or to assess one's personality, skills, and achievements, the LLMs differ widely in their output, even with themselves. The result is comparable to that of inconsistent chatty people who throw around anything, overly grateful to be listened to.

@krislindbeck.bsky.social With regard to "sycophantic AI", just take this snapshot of what Grok fabricates (and fantasises) about me. Now I have proof that AI hallucinates. My goodness.

Reading Dostoevsky feels like listening to Wagner — both are overly long-winded and think that in these endless crescendi lies the true nature of their art. Well, I don't like Wagner; and Dostoevsky is a piece of work. But he reads smoothly, strangely similiar to colportage novels.

♪ Ehud Banai, סרט רץ www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N9... Lovely echo of Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams".

omny.fm/shows/kan-en... This is a stellar interview w/ former Israel ambassador to the US, MichaelOren, & Israel public broadcaster Kan's host David Ze'ev. Insightful, to the point of the various complications that tie but also set apart the U.S. & Israel in the current war w/ Iran. Recommended.

Easter McCraney explores the ornithological intrigues lurking in an early-20th-century Theosophical journal — from our Conjectures series: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-the-third-bird-kenneth-morris-and-the-three-unusual-arts

"I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards." — Fran Lebowitz

"A book is the closed thing there is to a human being." — Fran Lebowitz

Intaglio print from William Blake’s series For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93). More from the series here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise

Sue Surkes, "New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces" www.timesofisrael.com/new-ptsd-fri... A great idea. With links to the initative's website (in Hebrew, most which can easily be translated). How to accommodate restaurants to the needs of trauma and PTSD sufferers.

Nan Ransohoff, "The third wave of American philanthropy" nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-...

Sarah Perez, "Google Search as you know it is over" techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... "AI Overviews are now used by more than 2.5 billion monthly users; meanwhile, its conversational #search mode, launched last year, now tops 1 billion monthly users." Astounding numbers.

A clear trend in #search: • Wikipedia still organises information like a printed (!) tome, w/ lemma, article text, sources. • #AI provides texts according to prompts, sources become irrelevant to display but are still available. • AI search results demand cash to display sources and their URLs. 1-8

Barney Frank has passed away! R.I.P. www.axios.com/2026/05/20/b...

♪ Otis Gibbs, "It Was A Train" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sghc... With obvious reminiscence to Townes Van Zandt. But his singing floats more freely.

Thirteen years ago I wrote a piece on the impact of unemployment and the place of labour in our sense of personal identity and self-esteem: Who are we when we no longer define ourselves in terms of our work, our goals, even our call? simsa01.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/a... 1-8

The U.S. Department of Justice bars the IRS from conducting any investigation or probes into any past tax declaration of Trump, his family, or any of his companies, *for ever*. www.justice.gov/opa/media/14... THAT'S how you run a country!

Repost in honor of my Uncle Jim, a model railroad enthusiast (he worked for the Rock Island Railroad back in the day, too). When he got back from serving at an Air Force listening post in what was then West Germany, he took me on a trip on the Sante Fe line, 1967, I was nine. Thanks, Jim.

♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjIn... Lovely.

i24news i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan kan.org.il/content/kan/... are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.)

Greenfinch, Barbara Regina Dietzsch, ca. 1750.⠀ ⠀ Part of series on birds by the Bavarian painter and engraver Barbara Regina Dietzsch.⠀ ⠀ Available as a print in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/greenfinch