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Michael Dettelbach

@erdumwandler.bsky.social

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Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Possibly a panpsychist. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on https://dettelblog.wordpress.com/.

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 9h

OK, which Victorianist is going to win this one? www.bonhams.com/auction/3093...

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on, @govpritzker.illinois.gov. What say you, @massgovernor.bsky.social? Time to voice principled opposition to this misuse of federal power and solidarity with its victims? Start a movement, form a compact?

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 3d

Come on, early modernists and imperial historians, this is pretty good. Did no one else (thank you, my one like) get it? Drake is said to have been SINGEING the king’s beard, not SINGING into it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singein...

Singeing the King of Spain's Beard - Wikipedia

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6d

Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us.

Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 6d

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - The Child Catcher Scene (8/12) | Movieclips

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 11d

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid: youtu.be/aYUEOSbh4IE?... RIP

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) - Official Trailer

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 11d

Ruin a band with law:

Crosby Stills Nash and Young LLP

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 13d

So good. So…perspicacious. Would love to see responses of Klein and others who see speech and reason as things that take place in some abstract realm outside of communication (or see communication as mere data transfer) www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 15d

So, is this a needle-pulling thread?

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 16d

Computing Crows

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 16d

Whenever I make coffee in the morning, I make sure the grounds are shaped in the filter like an inverted cone, with an indent in the middle, and think of Baader’s theory of shaped explosive charges. www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb1070...

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb10704955?page=351

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" class="text-xl antialiased"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>'bergmännisches...

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 17d

The more asters we have, the further we are from dis-aster.

A spray of flax-leaved asters in the field today.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21d

This is a remarkable declaration and challenge to Congress: "We call on you to pass nothing less than a fighting CR: a funding bill that not only keeps the lights on, but that also includes statutory protections to rein in executive lawlessness." Spread the word.

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 21d

Today a coalition of federal workers has released the Civil Servants’ Declaration.

We have frequently asked questions here.

“Why this letter? Because the Trump administration is engaged in an assault on the Constitution…” Please read!

Frequently Asked Questions: Civil Servants’ Declaration

Demanding an End to Executive Overreach

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 21d

Well done.

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 25d

Love the alliteration. That makes sense: “unnatural” = monstrous, exaggerated, caricatured, distorted, taken to (unhealthy) extremes.

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 25d

“…Germany, that native country of everything non-natural.” Artificial? Unnatural? Supernatural? What do we think this means?

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · 25d

Definite movie script. Sequel to Sound of Music: Maria Returns.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Aug 9

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

www.france24.com

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · Aug 9

Panpsychism all the way.

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · Jul 31

Listened to #274 of @empirepoduk.bsky.social yesterday, and was reminded of this gem of misprision, from a litany of Drake's barbarities in F. X. von Zach's Correspondance astronomique (1823). To do something "au nez et à la barbe" of someone is to do it boldly, right under their nose.

Passage from von Zach's note to Felipe Bauza's 10 April 1823 letter to him, which Zach published in his Correspondance astronomique, geographique, hydrographique et statistique, 8 (1823): 572:

Revenu de cette belle expédition, Drake brûla pour dix-mille tonnes des vaisseaux espagnols dans la baie de Cadix, il appelait cela: Singing the King of Spain's beard: Chanter à la barbe du roi d’Espagne.

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · Jul 27

Green frog from today’s walk.

Northern green frog Lithobates clamitans on a river bank.

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dragging it over a gravestone…just perfect.

Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · Jul 20

And the aphorism he published two days previously in Dec 1810, seeking human beings capable of speaking at once mechanically and spiritually, is still pertinent: www.kleist-digital.de/berliner-abe...

kleist-digital : Berliner Abendblätter. 61tes Blatt. Den 10ten Dezember 1810.

www.kleist-digital.de

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 19

Brazilian president to the American people,

"If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil"

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Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social · Jul 19

Me and my book project

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