Michael Dettelbach

@erdumwandler

Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Possibly a panpsychist. Bene speramus! hominum enim vestigia video. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on

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Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· 3d

Mushrooms at the Copake farmers’ market last weekend.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· 3d

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· 9d

Found him! IYKYK.

Image of Josef von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk--a chess-playing robot, operated by a man hidden in the cabinet--from Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und dessen Nachbildung (Leipzig and Dresden: Breitkopf, 1789)

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· 13d

THAT is a painterly dog.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· 21d

I read this as "Running a Successful Medieval Giving Program," which tells you where my head is at.

Email advertisement from the Chronicle of Philanthropy for a fundraising training webinar on "Running a Successful Midlevel Giving Program"

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· 26d

A Berkeley’s polypore, about as wide across as my arm is long, elicited by recent rain.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 27

Wild newspaper story that Bertolt Brecht tipped into his journal, from New Year's Day 1948.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 23

And after…

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 23

Weird but probably tasty midsummer bloom of chicken-of-the-woods discovered this morning, will fry tonight.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 22

My Father’s Day gift, and now I am going around shouting with a thick German accent “I am Burgermaster Masterburger!” IYKYK.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 11

There is something uncomfortably, grossly inquisitorial and dogmatic about this. Confess!

Quotation of Paul Boghossian's response to a scholar who contends her work was misrepresented in the Vanderbilt report: “If we have misread you, namely, if you in fact reject the view that truth is perspectival and hold that there are objective truths, truths that do not depend on the perspective of the truth seeker, then I would welcome that clarification, and we would be glad to note it publicly and to adjust the discussion of your work accordingly,” Boghossian wrote. “Equally, if your position is that the perspectivalism in question is more qualified than the report’s phrase ‘a radical perspectivalism about truth’ suggests, I would genuinely like to understand the qualification, and we would consider amending the quotation to include more of the surrounding context if you thought that would help.”

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 4

Again, just OMG, brother from another mother.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· Jun 4

He chose happy. I guess I choose not to exercise today.

Beige dog lying on yoga mat incised with motto “Choose Happy”.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· May 29

First wool sower gall wasp of the year.

A Callirhytis seminator gall: woolly white puffball, about the size of a thumb, on the stem of a young white oak.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· May 25

A plethora of lady’s slippers on today’s walk.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· May 25

The real thoughts of mathematicians.

Michael Dettelbach@erdumwandler· May 21

Jacques Arago's preface, explaining (in the form of a dialogue with his bookseller) why he refuses to write a preface. From his narrative of Freycinet's second circumnavigation (1817-20), his "Promenade autour du monde." Brother of physicist François Arago, Jacques served as official artist.