Sentence of the Day: Truth today is not so much fact as fact retained. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

How many times a day do you have to tell some AI to REDACTED off? For me, the most recent of which took place while I was typing the previous sentence. So nine, no, ten, including the other one that happened just now. #AI

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The modern politician, cut off from so much of the real action and driven by a highly honed but aimless desire for power, presents himself increasingly as a consumer good. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Parliaments have become colourful circuses and to the extent that they attempt to exercise power, it is increasingly as the public arm of lobby groups. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Haiku of the Day: AI Substitutes We think it is what it’s not Hallucinations Ted

Any leader who has condemned Russia’s illegal attack on Ukraine but withholds condemnation of US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran is an abject hypocrite.

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: This insistent bombing of cities had so little to do with the idea of fighting wars to win them that it cannot simply be attributed to strategic incompetence. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The generals of World War I never had enough men in exactly the same way that today's generals never have enough equipment. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Whatever Israel tells him to stand for.

Sentence of the Day: The commander of reason is equipped with sufficient self-confidence to persist no matter how wrong he is. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Every important strategist from Sun Tzu on makes clear that the best defence is the avoidance of war through superior leadership. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: In reality, even the traditional key questions — who lied, what law was broken, who knew — are now irrelevant. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The facts, the figures, the historic events used to set the direction of lines on graphs are all arbitrarily chosen in order to produce a given solution. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

What else does one do on a late February evening when the temperature exceeds zero?

Sentence of the Day: But again, constitutions and laws are abstractions and subject more than we can accept to the will of those who manage them. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It was then they needed leaders capable of explaining that the true glory of freedom was something as boring as an honest politician. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The threat or promise of change brings out the frail nature of mankind's psyche. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: As for Locke, he certainly did not think that facts would rapidly become the weapons, not only of good men but of evil men, nor only of truth but of lies. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it. Voltaire’s Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West; John Ralston Saul. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The history of literature is littered with the debris of attempts to utter water: a vast Oort cloud of fragments shrouding a presence which declines articulation and resists correspondence. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: If you interrogate a mystery, don't expect answers in a language you can understand. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Wow.

Sentence of the Day: Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: We are all bodies of water, receiving, circulating, giving onwards; all participants in the hydrosphere, with the flow of the wet world running through us. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Then I recall Yuvan's gently warning words: “Barrenness is almost always a state of mind, rarely a state of land.” Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Within thousands of chrysalises under the leaves of the city's trees and bushes, cells merge and swirl as life reformats itself. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Hurt people often hurt people. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The dead fish were too toxic to be eaten by humans, so they were dried, powdered and sold to the poultry-feed industry. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: I've never more strongly than here - in the seethe and ooze of the forest, in the flow of the river - perceived the error of understanding life as contained within a skin-sealed singleton. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It is normalized that a corporation, in the eyes of the law, is an entity with legal standing and a suite of rights, including the right to sue - but that a river who has flowed for thousands of years has no rights at all. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: To be silenced is not the same as to be silent; to go unheard is not the same as to be speechless. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Numberless nows become thens. Is a River Alive?; Robert Macfarlane. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Strangers... strangers... we were all aliens, one to the other, even those of us who were cloaked in the same fleshly shapes. A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: However, this we do know: the bonds between a mated pair are of legendary tenacity; and if this be not love, then love is nothing. A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Now she must have known fear; for a great whale that goes aground at high tide is almost certainly doomed. A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: He taught me much about his species but perhaps the most surprising discovery was that he had a voice and, moreover, one that could be heard by the human ear, in air. A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

This is Catherine's sister, Mary Margaret O'Hara. I imagine she is in mourning now, like so many of us. #canada youtu.be/Z14wPTz6PdY?...

Where I live in Canada there is a moment in winter when snow accumulation matches the exact amount required to provide your home with just enough R-value for the outside’s bitter temperatures. #elbowsup #canada #proudcanadian #whereIliveinCanada

Sentence of the Day: From this fierce struggle man ultimately emerged with the most highly developed brain of any land animal, and he used it to become the most ruthless and destructive form of life ever to exist. A Whale for the Killing; Farley Mowat. #Booksky