Assistant Village Idiot

I saw Steven Pinker's tweet about Oliver Sacks making up enormous amounts of his case studies, symbolically projecting his own life'...

 Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, as viewed from the 1950s  from David Foster's Substack.  I kept meaning to put that on my sidebar...

 I didn't expect to be seeing any outdoor track, but it's Australia. Six races in one weekend.  

 Probably my favorite music at Christmas  

When I was a young man I put things off until the last minute.  It was lack of discipline, certainly, but there is also a rush one gets from...

  If you would rather hear it read, you will find it here.  

 The Dirty Secret of the Muslim World .  It's slavery, and it is and is not a secret. It is long-known to people who read about the la...

In the Gen-Z-has-it-hard argument I stepped back from the overall statistics and even the comparative prices and income to zoom in on what w...

Not for me. It would be cool to say that one had done a season there at one time in our life, but there are a hundred things that's true...

Old English translations usually go in the other direction, so I am not used to seeing this, and am used to seeing the older form in alliter...

The other argument I am seeing a lot of is the affordability "crisis," which may be a crisis of perception, or anxiety, or values ...

 

 Nick Fuentes' fame and stats look to have been manipulated .  His followers are manufacturing his retweets with foreign and/or anonymou...

 Opinion, Fact  Schoolchildren can make a distinction that sometimes eludes those with advanced degrees Is Confidence Better Than Correctnes...

 There is a lot more debate, or at least debate between people I have heard about, on hereditatrianism.  It is getting rancorous and I am fi...

 Effortless  

As I covered earlier this year, it is called Midwinter even though it is at the beginning of winter because Autumn and Winter were generally...

There were cap pistols in the early 60s, but we didn't see those often.  They malfunctioned too easily and had to be replaced, so only r...

 Middle school kids find it subversive to say this, and will insert it in wherever they can.  Most don't know where it comes from, havin...

 You can't get more authentic than a cold Czech cathedral. Everyone bundled up.