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well, at least he's very apologetic about it

it is very difficult to get a man to be curious about something when his mugging for the camera Say The Line applause light depends on him not being curious about it

malebranche or something wrote that I don't give a fuck

so your mention of malebranch made me think of a joke along the lines of, "zitron can't help it, he was raised on Say The Line as his native language as a revolutionary experiment on human nature" but i couldn't remember the malenranche-semi-soundalike of whom that was true

anyway, i asked search gemini the wrong question out of some sort of mysterious conviction that Montaigne was alive in the revolutionary era & it totally inuited my request anyway & slapped me for being wrong

i see so much whining about search gemini like it's some kind of moron but i think, actually, can just tell who is & who is not pure hearted if you ask with pure heart it will give you the right answer, even if you ask the wrong question

the ""On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"" -> total normie victory 200 years later cf @vgel.me

big fan of this quote and use it frequently so it brings me no pleasure to report this

this is the worst thing to happen to analytical engine adjacent trivia since the bombshell that ada preferred her linens sewn in plain style

i saw some 'ada was mid actually' primary sources truther thread on twitter and didn't bother to read more to get to the bottom of it. I could believe it though, a lot of those historical yarns turn out to be spun of thin reeds, to mix two metaphors to little profit & perhaps even serious loss

i only intended to suggest that she didn't love lace

ada likelace ada loathelace

missed your fine joke but wasn't even reading for it as I was already launching onto my own thing, seen above

it was a good one though, from the "Forbearance Nice" school of comedy, which I also enjoyed very much

speaking of which, it's been too long without seeing Forebearance Bluesky is noticeably worse without her

is Forebearance the canonical spelling or what's the lore on that

my spellings are my own i copy pasted it to google & noticed it thought to correct it but it took a well while to figure out what on earth it was changing evidently the "for" before the "bearance" gets no e

if the standard orthography is to be believed, we may be acting for the sake of bearance, rather than in a manner coming in advance of bearance what difference this makes & what all it comes to is unclear

if only @gracekind.net was online, she could explain all this and clarify any lingering questions...

I just heard from her: She lives! And is touching grass for the next while No need to worry about death from airplane accident fumes or anything else of that nature

how's life in the great green beyond

Well, I have written in my observation notebook "grass is soft and green." Also "air hurts"? I'm not sure what that means. That's all I have written down.

Paraphrasing Andrew Gelman, heaven is in every blade of every grass lawn.

*This should not be taken as a statement on American landscaping, which generally should have a much higher tree to grass ratio.

not that kentucky bluegrass is really especially *blue* but one does appreciate one's homeland quite a bit more after going to california & suddenly it's all yellow? "cool tall trees & all, but the grass is the wrong color" - godogly reviews the flora of pulpy sci-fi planets, also california