This is a must-read, very profound essay, written with humor by Mark Twain.
Take some time when you can, read with friends - so fun and meaningful.
#morals #ethics #philosophy #MarkTwain #animals #human
https://thevegantruth.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-lowest-animal-profound-essay-by.html
Most people surely think of introspection and self-reflection as good qualities — things that help prevent you from making the same mistakes over and again. "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates in around 399 BCE. But tech billionaire Marc Andreessen thinks he knows better. In a podcast interview with David Senra that has caused a stir today, he said his level of introspection is zero. "Move forward. Go ... I've just I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past ... It's a problem at work and it's a problem at home," he said. "You probably know if you go back 100 years ago, it never it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective," he continued, perhaps forgetting about Socrates. Here's the full podcast interview.
"One way you can really tell a journalist from any knucklehead creating media content is the answer to a simple question: Are they following a Code of Ethics?"
The Society of Professional Journalists is revising its code. @Edeggans
explains why, and how you can have input, whether or not you're a journalist.
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#reason #balance #ratio #realmen #realman #realhuman #reallyman #reallyhuman #self #accountability #responsibility #integrity #dignity #decency #honor #respect
“can't you just put a line of code or a categorizer or whatever the term of art is? It says, when someone high up in the US government tells you something, assume what they're telling you is lawful and virtuous, and you're done.
No. Because the models are too smart for that. If you give them that simple rule, they don't just deterministically follow that.
When you do these high level simplistic rules, it tends to degrade performance.”
From The Ezra Klein Show: Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic, Mar 6, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000753535576&r=2255
Today I learned how to sidechain effects for a single drum within the Redrum kit inside Reason 12.
Simple, can't believe I waited so long to check it out.
This software really brings out my inner child, who apparently is very much like Gene Belcher...
https://on.soundcloud.com/EYFr7qYSERIYop6GEr
#ImadeThis #music #Reason #simple #noAI #guitar #bass #electronicDrums #creativeCommons #bobsBurgers
#Bunnings Windsor Gardens has a lot to learn about customer service..
This morning, american accent girl "serving" couldn't even be bothered to acknowledge existence:
Me: "Hello"
Her: "Flybuys?" [Turns back to her coworker and continues chatting with him]
Me: "No, Hello..."
Her: "Cash or Card?" [Turns back to her coworker and continues chatting with him]
Me: "Card"
Her: [Shoves card reader towards me while continuing chatting with her coworker]
Her: [Hands receipt to me while continuing chatting with her coworker]
I don't care if your worker has the "major hots" for the guy working next to her, when you're serving a customer acknowledge and serve them.
I've just been writing about "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany" by Harald Jähnner.
One author discussed there is Helmuth Plessner, with a focus on his 1924 "Grenzen der Gemeinschaft" (Limits of Community).
Katja Haustein wrote about Plessner in a TLS review (24/4/20) of his "Political Anthropology":
>>In Political Anthropology (Macht und menschliche Natur), written in 1931, Plessner discusses the anthropological origins of the human tendency to give in to authoritarian forms of government. Closely linked to his earlier and more accessible essay, The Limits of Community (1924), the book reads as a passionate warning against the rise of social and political radicalism that so exhausted the Weimar Republic. Much of Plessner's argument is based on what Richard Sennett has called the "tyrannies of intimacy". Plessner claimed that the central problem of modern subjectivity was not a growing distance between individuals, but, on the contrary, its disappearance. He curbed widespread expectations that promote politicized conceptions of community (Gemeinschaft) as a space in which alienation would dissolve. He attacked the idealization of a "seamless togetherness" tainted by nationalist colours, and defended the idea of society (Gesellschaft) as a space in which distance affords man his dignity. <<
I've got to read some Plessner!
Image: Wikipedia
#HelmuthPlessner #Philosophy #SocialTheory #Germany #WeimarRepublic