Again and again Bachmann shows how “the flawed language that has been passed onto us” can lead us to question what we know to be real, our own suffering selves included, and she asks what it means to grapple with these antinomies of world and word as public and political matters, not just private ones—indeed what it means to be a writer at all. “If we had the word, if we had language, we would not need weapons,” she said in a 1959 lecture....

USA Last night two old men debated to show their incompetence. Too old and too bad. Today, “The Supreme Court on Friday reduced the authority of executive agencies, sweeping aside a longstanding legal precedent that required courts to defer to the expertise of federal administrators in carrying out laws passed by Congress.” And, “Conservatives have now completed their generational goals of overturning Abortion, Affirmative Action, and Chevron. If y’all don’t think Obergefell and gay marriage is next on the chopping block, you must read …”...

not reading The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short....

The empty brain, Aeon Robert Epstein Senses, reflexes and learning mechanisms – this is what we start with, and it is quite a lot, when you think about it. If we lacked any of these capabilities at birth, we would probably have trouble surviving. computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world. They really store and retrieve. They really process. They really have physical memories. They really are guided in everything they do, without exception, by algorithms....

Come across a blog on how to use OCR on a mac. The steps are as follows. open the shortcuts app in the Applications folder click + button to create a new shortcut in the right sidebar, search for “extract text” drag “Extract Text from Image” in the list of possible actions from the right side bar into the main area on the left in the “Extract Text from Image” action, click on the pale “Image” and pick “Shortcut Input”, there is a “Receive Any Input from Nowhere” action appearing above the “Extract text from Image” back to the right sidebar, search for “copy” and drag “Copy to Clipboard” action right below the “Extract Text from Image”....