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pedter.bellowing.socially@pedter.bsky.social |
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an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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There's a whole machinery in place to dissuade people from revolting; the disheartening thing is that it works so well. I'm reminded of Timothy Snyder's first rule in his pamphlet On Tyranny: "Do not obey in advance." I understand why they would, but I really wish they wouldn't.
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So enormously sad. I can't think of another contemporary artist who brought so much value to my life. In the many beautiful things he did and the many beautiful things he taught me about. I will miss him tremendously.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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There are no words better than his own: Requiescat Steve Albini. 🎈
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@electricalwsop.bsky.social Just saw an awful headline, please write back that you're alive.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Call me an astronomical bigot, but I also don't think they should interstellar.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Seagulls truly are apex predators at the top of every food chain. I once saw a seagull swallow a pigeon whole and then wear the pigeon's wings like some strange handlebar moustache protruding from its beak.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I used to end e-mails all hoity-toity with "Punctum, Streusand drauf". It's a phrase you'd find in letters from the 18th century and translates to "Period. Sprinkle sand on it." (to dry the ink on the paper). I wonder whether "done and dusted" has the same origin.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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This just has to be in Bologna, right?
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Pescetarian Thee Scallop
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Hey, easy with that! That's my lucky stabbing hat!
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Neat! Here's the "Treatise on the Chewing and Smacking of the Dead in Graves, Wherein Lies the True Nature of the Hungarian Vampire and Bloodsucker" from only 12 years later. Really shows you how the bodily functions genre evolved.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I'll piggyback on the suck-up and put down: Ys
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I like the song but I don't want to hear it ever again. The next street performer who croons the luuu... all angelic-like gets their hat money snatched away.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Haha ha. I laugh. I make eye contact with everyone in the room while I laugh. See, I'm a good sport about it. Haha ha. You rascal. I loosen my collar because it itches. It's been five minutes, but I still chuckle, shaking my head in thorough amusement. You really got me. Haha.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Fair. I'm sure Steve was being sarcastic about wanting people to feel bad and that the second paragraph of his skeet described his true motivation. That's why I interjected. I feel everyone here had good intentions and it just spiralled from misunderstanding to misunderstanding. Have a good one!
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I think you're responding to a bunch of stuff I didn't write. And that maybe you read a lot of evil into the stuff other people have written. Can we agree that we should try our best to accommodate the visually impaired and that it's good to have an open conversation about it?
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Artyom stated pretty clearly that their reason was a lack of motivation & time as well as a concern about data scraping. Your (uno-reverse) accusation of ableism is totally out of place here.
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I just checked if it made it into the ChatGPT training data yet, but it only offered these monikers: The Motor City Moron, Ted Noogent, Ted Nugget, Ted Nazi, Terrible Ted, The Draft Dodger, Predator Nugent, Ted Molester, Sleazy Nugent, Ted Pervert, Disgraced Nugent.
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Here on the other side of the river Elbe you see the same building (Georgentor) as I saw it two nights ago. Hard to fathom what lies between those two images.
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Stone, Hüller and Gladstone all deserved it and each would have been a shoo-in any other year, but I also rooted for Lily tonight. Such a human, subtle and wise performance.
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Now this is a story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute just sit there girl I'll tell you Now I Am Become Death Destroyer of Worlds
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Try two minutes for the ballot next year. 3 minutes was already overthinking territory.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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When I say that I'm fluent in French, I'm talking Ionesco.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Can the AI-colytes PLEASE take a break from working on the ultimate dystopia and put their efforts into removing the coughs from classical live recordings? When you're done with the throat clearing, phones ringing, candy unwrapping, doors clunking shut... you can get back to fucking shit up.
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You could make a Cirque du Soleil act out of your talent at wilfully misunderstanding, but I'm not big on contortionists so I'ma bow out and block you now. Adieu.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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And please do me the favour and don't change the goalposts again. I think I see where you're coming from and you see where I'm coming from. Cheers.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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And all of that doesn't absolve you of the moral implications of the outcome either. Sorry about that. But yes, of course you have moral & political agency outside of this election, too, and you should use it. Just don't have any illusions about getting off scot-free morally by not choosing.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Argh... in plain words without fancy-ass thought experiments: When you're given a choice between A and B, and you don't actively choose either one, you're still making an equally consequential passive choice. Not choosing doesn't absolve you of the moral implications of the outcome.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I thought about what my favourite science writers (including you, Melanie Mitchell, Philip Ball...) have as a common trait, and it's precisely this: humility, i.e. reverence for their subject, admitting the limits of their own knowledge, recognition of other scientists & respect for the reader.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Not sure what your point is then, but that's fine.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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For clarity: I wasn't talking about Palestinians when I alluded to the trolley problem - that would be a horrible, cynical and stupid analogy to make -, but about your vote in the general election.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Is it maybe possible that you didn't get the joke?
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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And to think how long we've agonized over the trolley problem. Just don't trolley either way, it's so simple!
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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One of the best things about onomatopoeias is that in most comics they aren't translated, so foreign-language readers just articulate them in the pronunciation of their own language which makes them even punchier. Here a few in Italian.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Little known etymology fact: Capybara is Quechuan for "can't be bothered".
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Part of the problem is the dumb presupposition that voting in the general election was their only moment of participation in the democratic process. There are many ways beyond that to show discontent with Biden's politics, but the GE is about deciding who will choose the next two SCOTUS judges.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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🎶There is a gap, a gap in every stream That's how the pig gets in🎶
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Smelled it through the plastic wrapping no less. It's like watching "Parts Unknown" with a host who has never ventured beyond the frozen aisle.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I can't do it justice here and I realize I'm long overdue for a re-read of Nietzsche, but if you ever get around to it, I'd be interested in your thoughts. Incidentally, he does deal with Nietzsche more explicitly in his play Sunset Limited, but BM is the better book.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Not just literary allusions, but he transforms & recontextualizes the original text in truly illustrative ways. N's philosophy (from Dawn to Ecce, but also some of Birth, in an overarching allegory about authorship) appears in a deliberately bastardized way, through a historical & mythical lens.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Wow, you hit the nail on the head (after only reading the synopsis, which I find astounding). Moby Dick is another of BM's models, and your Ahab/Whale characterization is on point. I don't know if you've read him before, but his use of intertextuality is one of his greatest qualities as a writer.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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That's a great point. There's meaning in what the artist couldn't or wouldn't say, and you can't train an LLM on something that isn't said. There's a whole imaginary world within the missing fragments of Kafka's novels, and it's forever unattainable for any algorithm.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Bei ihm geh ich schwer davon aus, dass sich der Satz im Kontext ganz anders liest und eigentlich etwas bedeuten will, dem wir alle zustimmen. Aber ohne diesen Vorschuss an Vertrauen, wenn dort etwa ein anderer Urheber stünde, kann man ihn SEHR anders deuten. Kein Freund so herausgerissener Zitate.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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(This quote without context is very much on the nose, but I promise that McCarthy's treatment of Nietzschean ideas in BM is much more subtle, elaborate, critical, and self-reflective. A terrifying read but genuinely brilliant, even if the online discourse about it can be very off-putting.)
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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I agree, if it were only the title I'd be unsure, but BM is full to the brim with Nietzsche. To quote but one thing from Cormac's strange incarnation of the Übermensch, the Judge: "Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak."
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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It took me a looong time just now to realize that "Dawn" is the very succinct English title of his book "Morgenröthe", which, literally, translates to "Morning Redness". (And only now do I realize that Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian - The Evening Redness in the West" is an obvious nod to it.)
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One kilometre downstream from one of the most preposterous places I've ever seen.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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You should be somewhere on the picture I took.
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pedter.bellowing.socially
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Munich, Theresienwiese, tonight. Deeply moved by the hundreds of thousands of people streaming onto the deserted Oktoberfest fairgrounds from all sides to show solidarity with immigrants and against right-wing extremism.
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