I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.

Killer sound, fam… wow, back from the days when USENET ruled the Net… Is this where you got your name from?!?

“discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)

• symbolic AI
• traditional AI
• GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI

Kinda sounds like you’re talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I’m pretty sure they’re all having funding problems too.

Good find, looks like it works in the US as well.

When I was a kid I checked out a book from the library called “101 Cult Films” or something like that. It was an overview of a bunch of movies, and I specifically remember that this film was listed in there with a brief description. And now, at last, many years later, my dream of watching this film will finally come true!!!

I frequently wish that the movie Apocalypto had inspired a whole genre of movies. Kind of like Westerns, but taking place in pre-Columbian times. That’s the sort of thing that creates new history nerds in a genre. Do you happen to know if Mexico has produced many/any good movies that take place in pre-Columbian times?

Best tune on the album is Sleep, imho.

This person Aztecs!

But wat if you’re indoors and have limited room for maneuver?

Don’t forget all those “networking” trips out of town.

if you’re clairvoyant, casinos offer a better return on investment.

I dunno… suddenly demonstrating clairvoyance in a casino sounds like a great way to experience cheater’s justice…

Interesting article. I wonder if just deleting this was the right move tho. Maybe they could have stored it away somewhere and ignored it indefinitely.

PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt. A quote would spark an insight, I’d clip it, tag it, link it - and move on. But the insight was never lived. It was stored. Like food vacuum-sealed and never eaten, while any nutritional value slips away.

I’m not really familiar with these tools, but it seems like they’re not being used as the type of constraint that enables exploration and creative expression. Dunno if that’s a fundamental characteristic of the tool.

In trying to remember everything, I outsourced the act of reflection. I didn’t revisit ideas. I didn’t interrogate them

One of the most useful insights I came across in the digital humanities was that meaningful language use was performative, as well as subjective and situated.

The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold.

Reminds me a bit of Casaubon in Middlemarch.

Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.

There’s this approach to creativity where you force yourself to do a first draft (even if it sucks), to make sure your brain knows what you want it to produce. Then you get rid of the first draft, take a little bit of time off so your brain can work on the problem “in the background”, and then start working on the real draft.

great (and brief) article.

there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”

lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.

Manga counts? my cousin’s kid digs camping, so I gottem a book of Laid-Back Camp.

This time god is drowning us letting us drown ourselves in trash.

A mode where it turns into the night sky as seen around the world.

Fam, you got a million-dolla idea.

Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they’re only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.

That flowerpot, on the stand like that? Jon’s the one to blame.

they’re on mad tour too

• 02 Aug Heidelberg Metropolink Festival
• Sep 11 Sputnikhalle Münster, Germany
• Sep 13 Zuiderpark Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Sep 19 IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş Istanbul, Turkey
• Oct 2 Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX
• Oct 20 Le Poisson Rouge New York (NYC), NY
• Oct 21 Le Poisson Rouge New York (NYC), NY
• Oct 22 Black Cat Washington, DC
• Oct 23 The Pour House Music Hall & Record Shop Raleigh, NC
• Oct 24 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
• Oct 25 The Orpheum - Old Location Tampa, FL
• Oct 26 White Oak Music Hall - Downstairs Houston, TX
• Oct 28 Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX
• Nov 3 Small’s Hamtramck, MI
• Nov 4 Opera House Toronto, ON
• Nov 5 Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) Montreal, QC
• Nov 22 ASTRA Kulturhaus Berlin, Germany
• Nov 29 Event Center Bochum Bochum, Germany
• Mar 4 Academy 2 Manchester, UK
• Mar 5 Electric Brixton Brixton, UK
• Mar 7 Elysee Montmartre Paris, France
• Mar 27 Markthalle Hamburg, Germany
• Mar 28 Felsenkeller Leipzig, Germany
• Apr 16 The Vermont Hollywood Los Angeles (LA), CA
• Apr 17 The Vermont Hollywood Los Angeles (LA), CA
• Apr 18 Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA
• Apr 21 The Crocodile - Old Location Seattle, WA
• Apr 30 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
• May 1 Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
• May 2 Riverside Municipal Auditorium Riverside, CA

check here for a couple more dates: https://www.lebanonhanover.com/tour-dates/next-live-shows/index.html