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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 4h

The Head Gardener
might be employed at Wisley,
or be a barber. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #horticultural #tonsorial

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 5h

A further problem is that glasses, contact lenses, and lazik eye surgery don't work for myopia in the -12 diopter region.

Only total lens replacement works, but this is seldom, if ever, available to children, since it is usually treatment for cataracts.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 5h

Correlation isn't causation, but 48% of children on the AS have opthalmic problems, relative to 17.43% across all children ( pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... ).
This makes sense to me, as evidence backing the stereotypical 'nerd' or 'geek' being bespectacled. eyewiki.org/Autism_Spect...

Prevalence of Refractive Errors Among School-Going Children in Urban Versus Rural Areas

Background: The most common cause of visual impairment globally is refractive error. The prevalence of refractive error has been on the rise since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, pos...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Kevin E. Joyce🇺🇸🇺🇦 @5214rrc.bsky.social · 1d

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Two major #psychiatryassociations have called for #RFKJr to be replaced as #healthsecretary

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

www.npr.org

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 15h

The moral hazard is that moral absolutism lends itself to exceptionalism, xenophobia, racism and abhorrent postions like white supremacy.

Slavery, caste systems and Apartheid are defended by absolutist views that humans are intrinsically unequal.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 17h

It's no surprise about the LLMs, but the success of the graph ranking algorithm is interesting.

It gives quite s sharp insight into group minds.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 18h

One disadvantage of reading English texts, when English, is that it is less obvious when you mistranslate.

"Es gibt keine Tatsachen, sondern nur Interpretationen." - Nietzsche

[whatever that might mean, translated]

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 23h

I think from that, this is particularly interesting: "Alle möglichen Tatsachen is closer to “everything that can possibly happen” than to “all possible facts.”"

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 1d

I was struck by what a difference to understanding the Tractatus Alexander Booth's "The world is all that happens to be the case." makes.

Something that I'd imagine has always been obvious to Greman readers.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 1d

There's an interesting discussion of some pf the problems in translating German here:

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus - Words Without Borders

Damion Searls considers his new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and argues for a literary approach to translating rigorous philosophical texts.

wordswithoutborders.org

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 1d

Why, indeed, run away to The Smoke, when you could run away to Katmandu instead?

Besides: genius.com/Noel-coward-...

Noël Coward – Mrs Worthington

Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington / Don't put your daughter on the stage / The profession is overcrowded / And the struggle's pretty tough / And admitting the

genius.com

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 1d

Be grateful, though, to live in a time where a bottle of Laudanum for the weekend, can be obtained inexpensively from your local chemist. Legally.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 1d

It's odd how there's never any mention of the Ukranian refugees as a problem.

Well not really, they're seen as 'white', so no problem.

The whole hatred is really simple racism. Nothing to do with immigration.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

How light the traffic,
when you are in no hurry.
Early - earlier! #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #late #later

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 2d

Prefiguring silent disco.

#philosophy #dance #Nietsche #music #silence

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

Prefiguring silent raves.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

It's pretty grim that 44% want the massacres to continue.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

Poor John and Yoko, they were so sweetly disconnected that they'd no notion the maid might clash with their principled stand.

mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/1200/h...

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

We live on a hill,
I’m antidiluvian,
I’m against flooding. #haiku

[I always have, actually, lived on hills]

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #existential #dryness

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

How bizarre!

Why go through dangerous, irreversible surgery that can have very nasty side effects, including death, when a better result can be achieved by Tirzepatide?

#Ozempic #Zepbound #weightloss #Medsky #tirzepatide

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

What's wrong is that it works.

This annoys naturally skinny people who like to believe their skinniness is some sort of virtue.

They like to invest moral disapproval in people's natural state, so are annoyed that people can now actually lose weight.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

www.oed.com/dictionary/f...

Oxford English Dictionary

The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.

www.oed.com

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

'You don't exist because there is no self' misundersants 'exist' and 'self'.

We have an illusion of a unified self, that includes the illusion that it is continous over time.

These are excellent illusions, but, just as a rainbow is an illusion, but 'real', they don't deny the 'reality' of 'self'.

Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

'The Eliminations', or 'The Eliminators' might be too obviously lavatorial.

I suppose, for those in grip of tum problems, 'the frequentists' might be too close to the bottome as well.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 3d

The Tractatus ends where the Tao begins.

#Wittgenstein #Dao #Teo #ineffable #language #limits #Tractatus #Zen

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