One of the things I did during the pandemic was a deep dive into Greek Mythology. Hesiod, then "Homer" The Illiad and Odyssey describe the colors of the sea as "wine-dark" over and over again... So I asked myself: what is up with all the "wine-dark"?????

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live: Peter Gabriel King Crimson Jane's Addiction Robert Plant Alice in Chains Primus Wilco Spoon David Byrne Lord Huron

The problem of loyalty to a king is that the king may be capricious in acknowledging loyalty.

Les Claypool is experiencing some kind of creative peak, and I have tickets to see it.

For the Ancient Greeks the "Muses" were the one (later nine) goddess(es) of music. Mnemosyne was their Mother. In our tongue her name means "memory."

There are almost no crossings in Big Bend because the terrain is difficult to traverse as is. But, Trump would rather ruin a beautiful piece of the Earth than not build his wall.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

New NBER research asks a simple question: does an ICE enforcement surge create jobs for U.S.-born workers? The answer, based on federal labor data across 58 regions, is no.

There are two, too many libraries too many libraries ..... now lost ..... lost to translations pandemics and costs....

I am reading "1984" for the first time. Today, I read the appendix, "The Principles of Newspeak." An important thing "Newspeak" does is a reduction of the meaning of words so that they are stripped of historical meaning. Words only reflect the meaning as condoned by the "Party."

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This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Happy Lennon_Claypool delirium album release date for those who celebrate

the numerous Hydra "according to sophists"

The Library is a sophist's delulu about man and god and law the Library is carefully constructed the library has a tragic flaw...

There are no integers in nature Imagine you are prancing through the forest... ... and you stumble across a "two"?!?!

We can all be critical of the world, but there is a difference between informed and uninformed criticism. Personal insults introduced early in a dialectic are an obvious indicator of an uninformed critical position.

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“Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific.” — Bertrand Russell

when I was in high school there was this ridiculous ideal about conflict in fiction 1 man v man 2 man v machine or 3 man v himself. forgive the casual misogyny .... it was the 80's ... in my time before dying ... I've seen machine v machine become a tense conflict in fiction

Someday, soon, my boss ... will ask me to confirm a statement from an LLM

For Immediate Release: 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater', the novel, by Kurt Vonnegut, seems to have some relevant comments about the power of rich people. ~ σωφροσύνη

In Jule Korneffel’s most recent exhibition, the artist weaves her interest in light with Roman mythology, Italian Renaissance paintings, and color relationships. Korneffel “both memorializes and celebrates the fading of the light,” writes art critic John Yau.

the goddesses are always there... I love to watch Τερψιχόρη ....as she calls herself ... Her, who delights in dancing

If you are doing twice a 50mph speed limit, you are doing 100mph. If you are doing half a 100mph speed limit you are doing 50mph. Twice and half are percentages.

ASTAM, got damn!

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

I’m late with #TombTuesday but here’s the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae. It’s a tholos or beehive tomb built for elite burial (c1300-1250BC). Pictured is the processional entrance with its huge door & the corbelled dome. Until the Roman period, it’s thought to have been the largest dome in the world

Oh, yeah!?! Well, that robot will never enjoy a post-race beer as much as I do.

It would be reasonable for the governments of Earth to have a treaty that the tidally locked side of the moon be "environmentally" protected. That is, that the view of the moon from Earth not be obstructed by unnatural constructions on the surface by human beings.

Tom Waits and Massive Attack!!!

The parallels between what the world was going through when this photo was taken and the Artemis II mission are incredible.

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Kenner Star Wars 1979

"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead." -- Kurt Vonnegut, who died #OTD 2007

___asymptote___ an asymptotic battle with Borgesian platonists that begins once upon a time ...in the land of the Eleatics...

my ex-wife watching with horror, as I clean our toilets.

I'm in the echo chamber that is filled with people who believe they are not in the echo chamber.

Call me ill-informed, I was a math major, but I think it was Socratic arrogance.