It's a sad piece of circular reasoning, repetition and a weird insistance that saying "ethical" enough will somehow cause that adjective to cling to a technology whose very nature is unethical. You'll "favor" systems that find a balance between its benefits and how it destroys the environment? Sure.

This is going to be a lot of fun and the weekend will be a celebration of amazing artwork and artists.

Putting their mouths where the money is.

That Clark quotation reflects what technocrats believe - that they are actually artists, and that their mechanical discoveries are just as good as nature's mysteries. (Also, apologies for making this about me, but the passage you quoted from River of Shadows really influenced my first novel.)

As she so often does, Solnit finds all the connections and tells a brutally accurate story about sexual assault, New York politics and, by extension, everything else.

I’m delighted to learn this.

I can't make it to NYC so I bought the catalogue. Also, I had Roz Chast draw me a tarot card.

That’s unusual. Most squirrels are for Nithya.

Just reiterating the UTI suggestion. My wife's cat turned out to have crystals (not the new age, healing kind) and peeing was his way of explaining that to us. Good luck getting it sorted.

AI. Blocked.

Captures the spirit of "Whoever holds this mic, be he worthy!"

One thing not being learned, apparently, is critical thinking. Let Jensen Huang demonstrate:

Cool! I highly recommend writing a novel, especially now. It's the opposite of fleeting attention.

I am so excited for the moment when you realize you're not going to be the Democratic nominee for president.

Wow, wonder how he managed to consolidate so much power and wonder further if there are any ways to stop such things in the near fut - oh, wait.

Thanks for alerting me. I love his work. There's something to be said about a guy who kept adding new characters who were all pretty much just himself.

Screaming Goblin, qu'est-ce que c'est?

Here's one of the only photos of both of them.

Rinty had a sister named Nannette, whom Duncan thought was smarter and more trainable than her brother, but she died when she was still a puppy.