Jerry
@geraldlombardi.bsky.social
Mostly-retired private sector anthropologist, "overeducated" (Penn, NYU, Chicago), spent years in Brazil and Japan. Once voted for a Communist and a Republican on the same day. I like taking pictures of abandoned road signs.
I think people used to call that "the old college try".
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I think people used to call that "the old college try".
I have fair confidence in this forward-looking statement: "AI *could* turn seemingly intelligent men into raving, opportunistic, self-serving assholes when they perceive it as a profit opportunity".
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I have fair confidence in this forward-looking statement: "AI *could* turn seemingly intelligent men into raving, opportunistic, self-serving assholes when they perceive it as a profit opportunity".
As do cakes! Italian pizza chiena, or pizza rustica, looks cakey by any imaginable criterion, and a typical recipe calls for a pound of salami and a pound of savory cheese plus some hard-boiled eggs. NB: If that's too much matter out place, it may not qualify for platonic status.
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
As do cakes! Italian pizza chiena, or pizza rustica, looks cakey by any imaginable criterion, and a typical recipe calls for a pound of salami and a pound of savory cheese plus some hard-boiled eggs. NB: If that's too much matter out place, it may not qualify for platonic status.
It's definitely going into the rotation.
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
It's definitely going into the rotation.
I'd hate to be the person who has to scrub the inside of his shirt collars.
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'd hate to be the person who has to scrub the inside of his shirt collars.
He could start with V.A.C. Gatrell's "The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868", for historical perspective on the inverse correlation between public execution and public order. But why expect a fatuous boor to care about the past?
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
He could start with V.A.C. Gatrell's "The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868", for historical perspective on the inverse correlation between public execution and public order. But why expect a fatuous boor to care about the past?
The definition of chickenhawk.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The definition of chickenhawk.
I think Glenn Gould would've approved. And, unironically, Michael Snow too.
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I think Glenn Gould would've approved. And, unironically, Michael Snow too.
"Until the End of the World" www.imdb.com/title/tt0101...
Until the End of the World (1991) ⭐ 6.8 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
4h 47m | R
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December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"Until the End of the World" www.imdb.com/title/tt0101...
Oh really? You had their names? What were their names?
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Oh really? You had their names? What were their names?
ok now amplify that by two orders of magnitude and you will actually have an effect on housing costs. Until then, it's PR fluff, which you, Gov. Newsom, are too good at.
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
ok now amplify that by two orders of magnitude and you will actually have an effect on housing costs. Until then, it's PR fluff, which you, Gov. Newsom, are too good at.
The American oligarchs would quickly shrink and then disappear if we stopped giving them our money and our data.
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The American oligarchs would quickly shrink and then disappear if we stopped giving them our money and our data.
If know-it-all Lonsdale bothers to read anything of substance, he should look at V.A.C. Gatrell's "The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868" where he'll learn that public executions are *counterproductive* to public order.
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If know-it-all Lonsdale bothers to read anything of substance, he should look at V.A.C. Gatrell's "The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868" where he'll learn that public executions are *counterproductive* to public order.
Whatever else is driving him on this "peace" obsession, I think one element is his fear of impending death. He's trying to make a deal with God to get into heaven and hopes the peacemaker BS will fool the almighty just enough.
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Whatever else is driving him on this "peace" obsession, I think one element is his fear of impending death. He's trying to make a deal with God to get into heaven and hopes the peacemaker BS will fool the almighty just enough.
I didn't realize a bag of cocaine could be used as a flotation device.
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I didn't realize a bag of cocaine could be used as a flotation device.
Ah! another opportunity to bring out this anonymous classic from Slashdot in 2003:
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ah! another opportunity to bring out this anonymous classic from Slashdot in 2003:
Partial backstory: camera hidden in eyeglasses was used by market researchers 15 or more years ago to do bogus ethnographic research, and the technology was quickly adopted by even less scrupulous men to record POV porn.
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Partial backstory: camera hidden in eyeglasses was used by market researchers 15 or more years ago to do bogus ethnographic research, and the technology was quickly adopted by even less scrupulous men to record POV porn.
Perhaps true, but in the case of a trivial image like this I spurn its kitsch intent, setting, hyper-idealized characters and everything it may stand for in people's imaginations, regardless of who or what made it. To reject shit as shit a priori can make the anxious guessing game less relevant.
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Perhaps true, but in the case of a trivial image like this I spurn its kitsch intent, setting, hyper-idealized characters and everything it may stand for in people's imaginations, regardless of who or what made it. To reject shit as shit a priori can make the anxious guessing game less relevant.
Well, he can put that trophy right in between his fake Time Magazine Man of the Year plaque and his collection of Trump-as-superhero NFT trading cards.
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Well, he can put that trophy right in between his fake Time Magazine Man of the Year plaque and his collection of Trump-as-superhero NFT trading cards.
You mean Official Butt-Licker to His Majesty?
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You mean Official Butt-Licker to His Majesty?