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Paradox

a statement in someway that is self-contradictory; a statement that seems wrong when you first read it but in reality expresses some truth.

@dgrunwal.bsky.social

AI reduces computational scarcity while increasing interpretive scarcity.

My new Substack essay introduces the speed paradox and argues that nuclear policy must preserve time for meaningful human control.

dgrunwald.substack.com/p/the-speed-...

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Lucid

plain; obvious; evident; understandable; characterized by clarity of understanding; rational or sane; clear or transparent

Autovisie

@autovisie.nl

Lucid Gravity vs. Porsche Cayenne Coupé: ‘De Amerikaan biedt meer van alles’, maar is hij ook beter?

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Decorum

behavior in keeping with good taste; propriety; seemliness

James B. Jones

@jamesbjones.com

Look: yes, it is amusing in a schadenfreude sort of way that everybody is pointing and laughing at Trump’s third (fourth?) documented instance of shitting himself in public.

At the same time we should not have to watch the President of the United States shit himself even once.

I miss the decorum.

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Parley

a conference between opposing sides in a dispute

Jay 🏳️‍⚧️ ffxiv brained

@carnassialgang.bsky.social

North horn is more doable on my steamdeck at work than south horn, but some mechanics are still rough. Continuing my msq replay instead! Oh what i would give to see that parley for the first time again .. im almost to shadowbringers

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Sully

to dirty; to make impure; to soil; to stain

Laura76574

@laura76574.bsky.social

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...

Trump has sullied the whole process.

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Precursor

a thing or a person that comes before something of the same kind; a forerunner

Dining and Cooking

@diningandcooking.bsky.social

Was Florentine friars’ fatigue-fighting elixir a precursor to Coca-Cola? | Italy

https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750606/was-florentine-friars-fatigue-fighting-elixir-a-precursor-to-coca-cola-italy/

An Italian friar has unearthed a document from the pharmacy archives of an ancient convent in …

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Fitfully

not regularly or continuously; intermittently*

Fiona Apple Bot

@fionaapplebot.bsky.social

But there's solace a bit in submitting to the fitfully, cryptically true

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Anachronism

A thing belonging to a period other than that in which it exists (especially something that is conspicuously old-fashioned)

Final Girl

@electricspacegirl.bsky.social

Watching the season finale of the new #LittleHouseOnThePrairie and Nellie Oelson is going to be in the next season! This show is a bit anachronistic but it’s so comforting and nostalgic for me as a former reader of the books.

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