JAllen
@tjamesallen.bsky.social
Pro-science liberal, not religious.
I support a free multicultural multigender society.
I studied philosophy of language. I built parts of the www. I collect vintage and antique technology.
I support a free multicultural multigender society.
I studied philosophy of language. I built parts of the www. I collect vintage and antique technology.
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JAllen
@tjamesallen.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Sic Semper Tyrannis
The coherence of almost everyone's worldviews depends on a certain looseness of language. When language gets more precise, the conflicts and contradictions become more clear. They problems don't disappear, they come into better focus.
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The coherence of almost everyone's worldviews depends on a certain looseness of language. When language gets more precise, the conflicts and contradictions become more clear. They problems don't disappear, they come into better focus.
What good will a machine who knows the truth do for people whose political views depend on falsehoods?
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What good will a machine who knows the truth do for people whose political views depend on falsehoods?
I wonder how much vision correction has changed human mating behavior. Does seeing other people with improved acuity change mate selection?
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I wonder how much vision correction has changed human mating behavior. Does seeing other people with improved acuity change mate selection?
Evolution does not guarantee the perfection of any design, or even high quality; only the adequacy of most individual creatures to keep reproducing. Individual body parts can be quite imperfect, even counter-productive, as long as the whole creature keeps going.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Evolution does not guarantee the perfection of any design, or even high quality; only the adequacy of most individual creatures to keep reproducing. Individual body parts can be quite imperfect, even counter-productive, as long as the whole creature keeps going.
Just pointing out the cumulonimbus clouds over the stadium.
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just pointing out the cumulonimbus clouds over the stadium.
When a football player scoring a touchdown points to heaven, are they claiming God acted through them? Are they claiming we just saw God at work, through their body? Not a very humble claim, is it?
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When a football player scoring a touchdown points to heaven, are they claiming God acted through them? Are they claiming we just saw God at work, through their body? Not a very humble claim, is it?
I won a Sangean RCR-22 Radio-Alarm Clock at my local auction. It sets itself to the time signal from the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado, about 1700 miles away from me. At first it didn't work, and I had to set the time manually, but overnight it found the signal and has worked perfectly since.
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I won a Sangean RCR-22 Radio-Alarm Clock at my local auction. It sets itself to the time signal from the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado, about 1700 miles away from me. At first it didn't work, and I had to set the time manually, but overnight it found the signal and has worked perfectly since.
One reason there are many Windows 10 machines that users are reluctant to upgrade to Win 11 is that these are really Windows 7 machines that barely ran Windows 10.
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
One reason there are many Windows 10 machines that users are reluctant to upgrade to Win 11 is that these are really Windows 7 machines that barely ran Windows 10.
The internet was intended to be redundant, not efficient.
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The internet was intended to be redundant, not efficient.
The www was purposely built with redundancies. Removing inefficiencies destroys the internet.
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The www was purposely built with redundancies. Removing inefficiencies destroys the internet.
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Trump only attracts dumbasses.
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Trump only attracts dumbasses.
How long before Trump pardons the DC Pipe Bomber?
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
How long before Trump pardons the DC Pipe Bomber?
The Trump Administration is not hiding Trump's condition from the media. The media is hiding Trump's condition from its viewers.
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Trump Administration is not hiding Trump's condition from the media. The media is hiding Trump's condition from its viewers.
"We can't afford to fix the environment right now," means it will never get fixed.
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"We can't afford to fix the environment right now," means it will never get fixed.
FOX is hiding the president's condition from its viewers.
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
FOX is hiding the president's condition from its viewers.
Galaxies forming too early in the universe for our current theories to explain. www.universetoday.com/articles/the...
The JWST Discovered Another Perplexing Early Galaxy
The JWST has made a name for itself by discovering mature galaxies in the Universe's early times. This time, a pair of Indian astronomers working with the JWST found a fully-formed spiral galaxy much ...
www.universetoday.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Galaxies forming too early in the universe for our current theories to explain. www.universetoday.com/articles/the...
Do Presidential historians object to Trump taking two numbers? Re-elected presidents don't get two numbers. George Washington 1,2, Thomas Jefferson 4,5, etc.
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Do Presidential historians object to Trump taking two numbers? Re-elected presidents don't get two numbers. George Washington 1,2, Thomas Jefferson 4,5, etc.
It's a short step from, "I didn't win that bet," to "Maybe the game was rigged."
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It's a short step from, "I didn't win that bet," to "Maybe the game was rigged."
When I heard about autographed Bibles, I was hoping Jesus Christ himself signed the book. Or if wasn't signed by Jesus, at least there should be a Certificate of Authenticity for real signatures from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Imagine my surprise when I found out the Devil signed the Bibles!
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When I heard about autographed Bibles, I was hoping Jesus Christ himself signed the book. Or if wasn't signed by Jesus, at least there should be a Certificate of Authenticity for real signatures from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Imagine my surprise when I found out the Devil signed the Bibles!
The problem with conflict of interest? Public officials have sworn to use their governmental powers in the public's interest, and not use their government powers in the possibly conflicting interests of other private persons.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The problem with conflict of interest? Public officials have sworn to use their governmental powers in the public's interest, and not use their government powers in the possibly conflicting interests of other private persons.
Trump fatigued? Ridiculous NYTimes!
Fatigue happens after hard work.
Trump is just old and decrepit.
Fatigue happens after hard work.
Trump is just old and decrepit.
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Trump fatigued? Ridiculous NYTimes!
Fatigue happens after hard work.
Trump is just old and decrepit.
Fatigue happens after hard work.
Trump is just old and decrepit.
Reading about the effects of AI on mental health reminds me of working at Kinko's in the 1980s. Xerox machines were a similar attractor and force multiplier for troubled individuals. On the night shift I watched them typing and copying the letters they later slipped under the professors' doors.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Reading about the effects of AI on mental health reminds me of working at Kinko's in the 1980s. Xerox machines were a similar attractor and force multiplier for troubled individuals. On the night shift I watched them typing and copying the letters they later slipped under the professors' doors.
In second grade my teacher said that every sentence that starts with the word "what" is a question. I spent the rest of the day trying to think up counterexamples, instead of paying attention in class.
What I mean to say is that I am still like this, 60 years later!
What I mean to say is that I am still like this, 60 years later!
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
In second grade my teacher said that every sentence that starts with the word "what" is a question. I spent the rest of the day trying to think up counterexamples, instead of paying attention in class.
What I mean to say is that I am still like this, 60 years later!
What I mean to say is that I am still like this, 60 years later!
How different Christianity would be if it could just dump Paul! Is there any Christian denomination that has tried to do it? It would take fine surgery to excise all the threads of Paul from the rest of the corpus, probably impossible now.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
How different Christianity would be if it could just dump Paul! Is there any Christian denomination that has tried to do it? It would take fine surgery to excise all the threads of Paul from the rest of the corpus, probably impossible now.