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@philipbrewer Thanks! Though different, there are parallels between Shu Ha Ri and the European tradition of apprenticeship. I’m intrigued by how the print revolution impacted HEMA teaching in the Renaissance - an explosion of Fechtbücher and other manuals. Did this obscure the key role of teaching?
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@lmika “AI is so productive it’s practically drinking the coffee for me - the subscription is pure savings!”
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@patrickrhone I keep hoping to find I own a small European country that way, you just never know
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@jkratz yeah, let’s not hold our breath. But it’s a little encouraging that MM is actually talking about it
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@Miraz thanks for this clarification. I’d always wondered!
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@_Jordan come the revolution, every meal will be brunch. Or is that just me?
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@writingslowly but judging by Matt’s talk, they have a lot of integration/updating work to do. Tumblr upgrade must be massive
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@jkratz the lack of basic integration of Automattic tools is a huge missed opportunity. I keep asking them about it and get crickets.
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@manton the argument seems to be that a certain kind of person uses 37 Signals products. Well, OK. As one of ‘the last loonies on tech’s woke island’ I’m not a citizen of the boy racer’s fantasy white people paradise. Cancelled my brief Hey subscription a while back. No doubt he’d be delighted
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@iChris visiting friends we heard an explosion in the kitchen. Lentil soup on every surface. The metal safety plug was missing. They found it a week later. It had shot through the ceiling to the upstairs bedroom, where their toddler was sleeping peacefully. The moral? Live dangerously!
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@SimonPeng you’re welcome. Many reasons to engage with formal education:
- that’s what you do at that age,
- to get the grade for the next thing,
- some don’t know why they’re there,
- to learn things, even.
It’s frustrating to see systems that exploit these aspirations. Worse than AI are student loans.
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@marick you’re very welcome
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@chadkoh this looks like a great event!
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@birming I like the idea of aJekyll blog and a Hyde blog! Which is which? I guess readers can decide for themselves
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Maybe not the opposite but surely something different. Influenced by mathematician George Spencer-Brown, Luhmann saw making a distinction as a key to understanding social systems. This is not in the same line of discussion as Derrida’s emphasis on ‘diffèrence’, and I don’t think there’s much direct connection with Wittgenstein’s thought (see Christis 2002), but there are some similarities. As for Wittgenstein, that’s an intriguing question. “Don’t ask for the meaning, ask for the tags.”
Christis, J. (2002). Luhmann’s theory of knowledge: Beyond realism and constructivism? Soziale Systeme, 7(2), 328–349. doi.org/10.1515/s…
Skoblik, K. (2024). The question of category: A reconceptualization through Luhmann’s systems theory. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 41(3), 428–438. doi.org/10.1002/s…
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@peterw who could have imagined that?
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@peterw they’re tough in Melbourne. 11°? Balmy
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@writingslowly.bsky.social I’m reliably informed it’s a noisy miner, not a mynah. Always forgetting that
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@chrisaldrich this is an inspiration!
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@Miraz “Do we actually know what we’re doing?” - said no entitled group of men ever.
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@lmika no way. I’m taking massive risks recklessly.
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@Miraz I think the magpies are introduced ‘pests’ in NZ aren’t they?
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@antonzuiker That’s great - I look forward to reading it.
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@ozeng 🎶 “You say miner and I say mynah”. Thanks!
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@writingslowly Michael Taylor on the antifascist I was raised to be.