# dewey (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dewey. Page: Feed: --- ## [Dale Dorsey (1976-2026)](https://thehangedman.com/personal/dale-dorsey-1976-2026/) _2026-04-20 · Matthew J. Brown · The Hanged Man_ A week ago, on April 13th, my friend Dale Dorsey died, suddenly and unexpectedly, in his office at the University of Oxford. Continue reading → ## [Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now](https://thehangedman.com/philosophy/paul-churchland-ai/) _2026-02-27 · Matthew J. Brown · The Hanged Man_ The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discussion of the large body of relevant work by Paul Churchland. Continue reading → ## [Local Live Captioning with Whisper.cpp and FFmpeg](https://brady.fyi/post/local-live-captioning-with-whisper.cpp-and-ffmpeg/) _2025-08-21 · Brady Hurlburt_ Summary This is a fun little set of commands to run live-captioning on my Macbook ! Nothing serious. I saw a post on HN that introduced me to Whisper.cpp. I’ve been excited to see so many AI tools start to support my M3 Macbook/Metal/whatever so I can put my 96GB of RAM to use! This was my first time trying out gpt-oss-20b locally, and it did pretty well helping me… ## [The Loss of Hope](https://thehangedman.com/politics/the-loss-of-hope/) _2025-08-12 · Matthew J. Brown · The Hanged Man_ It feels like in the last 10 years all the hope and most of the progress of the prior century have evaporated. Continue reading → ## [Fighting Brandolini's Law with Sampling](https://brady.fyi/fact-checking/) _2025-07-08 · Brady Hurlburt_ Brady Hurlburt - July 8, 2025 “But Don’t All Politicians Lie?” In 2015, Angi Drobnic Holan published a wonderful article titled “All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others.” In it, she makes the case that while all politicians lie, there are meaningful differences in how often and how severely they do so. Here is the graphic from her piece:… ## [About me](https://brady.fyi/about/) _2024-11-20 · Brady Hurlburt_ Hi, I’m Brady Hurlburt. 👋 I live in Chicago with my wife and kiddos. I’m interested in philosophies of learning 📚 and in playing and teaching music 🎹. I work as a software engineer. Self Portrait 2024 I’d love to chat 💬. Feel free to email me . More About Me Schooling I like school 🎓.… ## [Internet History, Media Archaeology](https://thehangedman.com/philosophy/internet-history-media-archaeology/) _2024-09-28 · Matthew J. Brown · The Hanged Man_ I like these little glimpses into Internet Past... one of the things I like is how these kinds of discussions help us think about not only how we got where we are, but the contingency of the current way of things, which also entails the possibility of a different future than the trajectory we seem to find ourselves on. Continue reading →