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This is useful with something like the Canterbury Tales where an average reader can puzzle out the proto-English, but with Ancient Greek it's pretty useless. I love Loebs but I think their translations are very dry and academic, sometimes to good purpose (I love their Hesiod) but not always.

Wasn't it the last thread on TK where people pointed out you don't need the moral conundrum of rooting for a murderer because he basically cribbed his big ideas from Jacques Ellul's 'The Technological Society'?

Perhaps it's more accurate to say that he took good ideas in a bad direction and we should always be wary of whether we are doing the same.

This is definitely cool but if you want a more comprehensive teardown of the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube controllers, this is the one:

https://www.fictiv.com/teardowns/nintendo-controller-teardow...

I just love how overbuilt the old controllers are. I still have my original SNES and controllers and as far as I can tell they work as well as the day they were made despite decades of abuse. One has bite marks... not sure if that was the dog or me playing The Lion King.

Interesting, thank you.

for those curious, making way is forward movement IIRC, and lee is opposite windward, e.g. if the wind is coming from the east and your ship is pointed north, the lee side is the west side, or something west of it is in its lee. I'm not actually sure where "leeway" would come to have its idiomatic meaning though, possibly that one has room for error in how carefully to direct the ship.

It's the details that are obscure - when or if Twitter ever paid rent directly or if (as some of the other pubs have suggested) it just established this bucket and said withdraw as needed. The setup predates Musk so it's possible there was some mix.

It's worth asking before anyone loses their mind about this, who made this change and why? Licensors like Criterion can't and don't "re-edit" (if you can call removing 4 seconds re-editing). Others can and do pretty frequently.

It's decisions about market fit by executives, not a moral crusade (as we have seen, Hollywood execs aren't really the type for that). Sometimes the whole film is affected, as in Blade Runner, Brazil, Once Upon a Time in America, or Kingdom of Heaven. Those movies were "butchered" (to use the language of the histrionic Forbes article). Yet in Leon (The Professional) the director supposedly intended the titular character to sleep with his underage protege. I'm glad someone overrode the sacred "artist's intent" there, and I wish someone had done the same for George Lucas's ill-advised Star Wars editions.

Here someone probably looks at a report and says, OK here are the movies in our pile with more than 20 slurs in them. Let's try to get that number below 10 so we don't have to add a "the language in this film represents the time in which it was made..." warning, that turns a lot of people off.

These decisions get made to maximize shareholder value, and the original film is not lost (except in the case of Star Wars), it's just one of a dozen variant cuts — you think they show the same exact movie everywhere in the world? Ever been to China? Believe it or not art is flexible and resilient. A film can survive a temporary blip while some VPs try to minimize complaints from sensitive viewers. If you disagree with those viewers that is another issue in my opinion.

Yes, Roald Dahl made that change, among others.

I think the context here suggests that the training is considered part of the overall task of "programming," though people in the industry use that term of art differently in the context of ML development. At any rate the creators of the model or tool were under no oath, nor is (or can be) the tool itself, and the results must be considered in the light of that fact.

>Gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss

girlboss...?

I listen to a fair amount too but someone's list from jazz or metal or some corner of classical would be totally unfamiliar to me too. Fortunately it's so easy to search for a name, click a track, and listen for 10 seconds that you can breeze through recommendations super fast.

Of course lazy commenters like me don't link to representative tracks... perhaps a task for AI. "Go to top YouTube video for selected text" would probably suffice.

Not to contradict the writer in any way, obviously in popular music this format has largely disappeared. But even so there are lots out there and a ton of diversity. Some from recent listening: James Blackshaw, Zoe Keating, Max Ananyev, Mary Lattimore, Anna von Hausswolf, Goldmund.

and of course Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebro, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Jack Rose, RIP.

Individual musical artists have so many more tools now that they can produce a whole song with multiple instruments plus vocals much more easily than 10 years ago, let alone 50. But the trend is still interesting to track.

Big productions might pay household-name writers at that level plus points, but most writers are nowhere near that level and are grinding away at various smaller jobs while pitching shows and treatments where pay is delayed, divided, and contingent. I thought this was an enlightening little thread:

https://twitter.com/coreydeshon/status/1655319912104218624

Vanishingly few writers have a steady salaried gig at a major broadcast network. I'm happy for this friend but they are an extreme outlier in the industry.

this is me - most shows I buy a shirt and/or a record. got the DL code... play it in winamp. I have had a turntable or two but not right now - but when I do, I'll have a great collection of records to listen to. Everybody wins!

The capability here is for 911 connectivity in areas where signal doesn't reach, and emergency notifications for things like extreme weather events or during power outages.

heh you kind of are treating kids and education like products and KPIs. what you suggest is essentially standardized testing, and the result was artificial curricula targeted at increasing scores on known metrics like the ITBS or whatever was currently being used to determine progress and budget.

Devising a good system for evaluating actual domain knowledge in a diverse and complex cohort like a million 3rd-graders is incredibly difficult! But the more thought put into it the better because it's really important.

Yes, I actually intend to read the book in question (with some salt on the side) but I'm waiting until I finish the Wolf Hall books because I don't want any Cromwell spoilers! An absurd situation but there it is.

It's a book review.

Douglass was such a mind. I need to actually read through his various memoirs and essays/correspondence.

The tagline "ending" wildfires is definitely misleading as of course they are a natural occurrence. But climate change has made them increasingly intense and frequent and although this may also be "natural" in a way it is also increasingly irreversibly destructive as the forests are not replacing themselves "naturally" but rather with invasive or otherwise undesirable species.

Xprize stuff is of course somewhat self-serving and this requires real investment to address (I am writing about one such effort in another tab) but better awareness and intelligence is not a bad thing. No one is talking about eliminating controlled burns or other measures, in fact as the environment macro factors shift we need more information to make informed decisions about when and how to do those.

It does serve the logging industry sure, but also major national forests and parks that serve many purposes. Fisheries and fishing companies benefit from watershed restoration and species-based protections but we don't think of it that way. Besides logging is not inherently evil, where do you think all those compostable paper products come from? A better timber industry is needed to support renewables and wildfire mitigation is a part of that evolution.

How's NY mag to work with editorially?

>3. Put a lot of people out of work without the required safety nets to give them time to find their way through the turmoil.

I agree with this, but I also think the risk is less that lots of people will be "successfully" replaced by AI systems, and more that management will force the adoption of models as cost cutting measures. I wrote at some point that people shouldn't be afraid that AI will do their job, but that managers will think that it can because they don't understand the exigencies of the job or the limitations of the model.

Heh, I started an article with the same metaphor was too busy to finish it. We'll see what the fossil record looks like in a few years though.

Anyone who wants a great single-volume reference for this kind of thing should check out The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins. Extraordinary collection.

You can browse a copy here: https://archive.org/details/the-encyclopedia-of-witchcraft-a...

Of course there certainly arguments in both directions but as I understand it this and some other passages are intended to subvert ideas of and normalize the same-sex relationships that developed in the then entirely male seafaring world.

It's like, when Ishmael bunks with Queequeg and they are spooning, well why shouldn't a couple guys cuddle, sure, that emphasizes platonic intimacy between men in a way you didn't often see in the literature of the time.

But then you have this passage. Like of all the things to discuss closeness with the other men, it's a bunch of sperm they're gently squeezing and caressing and becoming close with one another, breaking down boundaries between the globules and each other... "let us all squeeze ourselves into each other" - yes it could be referring to platonic affection but my feeling is Melville knew exactly what he was doing here and it's massively and happily gay. As far as who might be "canonically" gay in the book that's all down to interpretation but I think it's hard to argue against the erotic tone of the sperm squeeze.

Came here to post this. Such a fun and mischievous passage, and of course one with deliberate and heavy homoerotic overtones.

The way I see it as a worker you are making your abilities available and are entitled absolutely to the wages they give you. Kind of feels like robbing them sure, but they're robbing themselves. More of an indictment of capitalism and corporate structure than anything else. Pay it forward if you can and their loss is everyone else's gain.

And Butler himself:

https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/1066.html

An interesting read if you haven't already read Erewhon.

Thanks for this link, looks super interesting.