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• Cleopatra's Electric Green Platform Shoe

  

  Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; for viles... Read more

  2 hours, 57 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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• The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours | The Ezra Klein Show

  

  From the accompanying opinion piece in the NYTimes: A few years back, the online right became enamored of a new epithet for liberals: “NPC,” short for “nonplaye... Read more

  3 hours, 9 minutes ago by   Bbenzon
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• Claude 3.5 Describes a Sophisticated New York City Apartment from a Bygone Era.

  

  What do you see? This appears to be a view of New York City, specifically looking at the Hudson River waterfront with a cruise ship terminal. The image shows... Read more

  The 15 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Artificial Therapy

  This new paper shows people could not tell the difference between the written responses of ChatGPT-4o expert therapists, and that they preferred ChatGPT's... Read more

  The 15 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• It's Looking More and More Like Trump's an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action...

  Michelle Goldberg, Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts, NYTimes, Feb. 14, 2025. I’ve written about Donald Trump’s plan to crush the... Read more

  The 14 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• AI and Intellectual Creativity

  Just around the corner Tyler Cowen has an interesting post, How to teach people how to work with AI, which he asserts “is also a proposal for how to reform... Read more

  The 14 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Friday Fotos: The Spirits of AI [from Madam Wayquay's Collection of Resonant...

  

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  The 14 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Jesus in the Valley

  I don't recall just when I first learned about Peter Thiel, or how. Perhaps it was over at Marginal Revolution, a blog that Tyler Cowen runs along with his... Read more

  The 13 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Distant Icons [urban Pastoral]

  

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  The 13 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Deep Seeking Xanadu: A Sonnet Cycle on East, West, and Kisangani

  I decided to have FTH (FredTheHeretic) write a cycle of three sonnets on the theme of East and West, you know, “East is East, and West is West, and never the... Read more

  The 13 february 2025 by   Bbenzon
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