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@seancomeau.bsky.social@seancomeau.bsky.social → @cumquatdreams.bsky.social@cumquatdreams.bsky.social → @kumquatdreams.bsky.socialWhy are we dragging alchemy into this? A lot of them were also basically right, in theory. If you want to do an exhibition about how Aristotle was wrong, I’m there—but this whole “everyone was a benighted rube until Galileo invented science” is 👎🏻
Show PostI actually know I should not criticize libraries in public. And I haven’t been there, I have just seen the ads. But FURREAL? Are we doing this in 2026? Btw Plato is still right, so I’m fine. This is an Aristotelian problem.
Show PostThe tagline is “what happens when everything you thought you knew becomes obsolete?” and this apparently involves reflections on “AI.”
Show PostDo I understand right that a major US library devoted to HistSTEM (from which all actual experts seem to have now fled) has opened an exhibition called “the alchemy of knowledge” which is somehow about Shakespeare (but not alchemy?) & recycles tired tropes about medieval science being bad?
Show PostNothing like the taste of your 88th birthday cake! Thank you, Bradder, for a wonderful celebration with friends and family today.
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