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This has long been a key incident in Gall family lore: Mom (in kitchen): Nicky, Can you see if there's any milk in the garage refrigerator? (Nicky, ~12yo, walks out to refrigerator, opens it, looks inside, closes it, returns to kitchen.) Nicky: Yes, there's a couple of bottles.

Great backstory! HBO calls “out of the blue” and asks, “We don't have any programming, is there anything you can do in a COVID bubble [&] can do quickly, cheaply, that can be on the air in 2021?” White goes, “Yeah, I got it.” And HBO instantly replies, “Great, it's greenlit.”

'Zhuangzi as Philosopher' by Brook Ziporyn (Online supplement to his 'Zhuangzi: Essential Writings, With Selections from Traditional Commentaries')

My most unique gameplay by far... NYT Connections

TracingWoodgrains "He offered them a more interesting world." Resonates with: "It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true; the importance of truth is that it adds to interest." "Interestingness is an ultimate value, co-ordinate with beauty, and independent of it."

Rorty would have been appalled to see what GOP mockery of universities (c1997) metastasized into. 'the current conservative attempt to discredit the universities-which...is part of a larger attempt to dis­credit all critics of the cynical oligarchy that has bought up the [GOP].

According to Tiantai, everyone is a bodhisattva no matter how they feel or what they're doing. Everything you do is an upaya. This makes no sense. It is beyond the mind to grasp. Best of all, it doesn't take anything; it is as effortless or strenuous as one makes it.

'Introducing the New Concept of Inspirativity: Reassessing the Concept of Inspiration from the Perspective of Rhetorical Theory' by Giedre Brazdauskaite 'the..ancient school..of rhetorical theory was partially based on the concept of inspiration in the form of exalted persuasion'

David Chapman As a Pragmatist, I think the essence of formalism is that you can be wrong about the world. The essence of rationality is that you can cope with the world, you can make things that work, even if they are (formally) wrong. Rationalism becomes less fruitful when we insist on

Paul Graham Luzius Meisser So by market price, do you actually mean (perfectly) competitive market price? If so, then doesn't government have a role in addressing the distortions of non-competitive markets, eg cartels.

Talked to a clinical psych over the weekend who said "metaphysics should be a controlled substance" - he works intake, says the psychotic breaks he talks with are fueled by speculative thinking. Ingesting hours of metanarratives every day has consequences not everyone can bear.

(Belatedly) I'm reading about Machloket l’shem shemayim (argument for the sake of heaven). 'The Art of Constructive Arguing: Lessons from the Talmud' by Hershey H. Friedman, Ph.D. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.…

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) Banger: "It is to make certain that the young recognize whose arguments are to be taken seriously and whose disdained, when and about what to make jokes, and at whom and with whom it is permissible to sneer or condescend." dailynous.com/2025/05/22/ala…

A key role of the University is to inspire a lifelong aspiration to keep learning and to encourage learning.

Nietzsche: The musical! Seeking cast members. This may be up your musical alley essentialsalts? video.playbill.com/job/nietzsche-…