"I think that’s one reason AI gives me a headache. It claims to help people “write” better, but its design undermines the difficult, inefficient, repetitive, time-consuming habits that produce the best writing." From an article by Ian Brown I just read - Human beings are mortal. AI isn’t. That matters
“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"I'm not offended by jokes about stupid blondes because I know I'm not stupid... and I'm not really blonde either." Dolly Parton
How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools. Anon. from Slashdot.
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” ― Elizabeth Taylor
"All I've ever wanted was to feel alive. That is the thesis of my entire existence"-- Erika Sanchez ...i think about this a lot
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden in away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business it conducts is the direct result of thinking that has occurred in other minds. We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion. This is, when you think about it, really amazing. The whole dear notion of one's own Self -- marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self -- is a myth. Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell (Bantam 1974) at 166-67.
A cloud-enabled camera is a corporate spying device that's controlled by someone else, that can be disabled and stop working at someone else's whim, that will be bricked when the maker tanks, that you kindly install on behalf of the company and even pay them for the privilege of being their bitch like a dumbass. - Rosco P. Coltrane on Slashdot
Big red flag—anyone who says "I never apologize" (or who just doesn't apologize). Or who always seems to find a way to play the victim. Victimhood mentality is incredibly destructive to the psyche, and is used as a secretive way of getting power. It's the ultimate passive aggression.
