Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Context Matters

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     It was a long time ago that I first heard the following instructive exchange: P1: I saw something disturbing today. P2: What was th...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Egocentrism: A Few Kind Words

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     The title subject is much on my mind, for reasons partly derived from fiction. One of my fiction gurus, Robert A. Heinlein, early in hi...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

I Hadn’t Planned To Post Today

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     This tweet, the product of an AI, has impressed me more than anything else I’ve seen from such a source:      I asked Anthropic's...
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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Rather Than Repeat Myself

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     – which is what you expected from me on America’s 250th Independence Day, isn’t it? – allow me a few thoughts snatched out of the lumin...
Thursday, July 2, 2026

The Sport

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     [A short story. I wrote it some time ago, yet it retains a certain relevance, especially in light of the controversy over allowing tran...

The Greater Crime Part 3

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     The C.S.O. and I saw Citizen Vigilante yesterday evening. It’s a fairly crude movie in most ways. It attempts no character development...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

The Greater Crime Part 2

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     Welcome to July. It promises to be hot and humid throughout the First World, so take care. Drink lots of water. Minimize sun exposure. ...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The Greater Crime

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     While I lament the slow death of Blogdom, I must admit that intelligence and insight can be found elsewhere on the World Wide Web. X / ...
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