"[...]the whispering descent of corporate Web crawlers itching to index and corrupt another patch of sanctuary for their own ends.
Then it’ll be just like up there in the shallows. Link by link, they’ll bring it all under control, safe and respectable."
—Thomas Pynchon
CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CAPTCNHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Compliant from Noncompliant Humans Apart
"We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees," —W.B. Yeats
How is it that when sg good happens, it's seen as random luck, but when sg negative occurs, it's as if it was a reminder, a proof of who we are?
We seem so geared to seeking release form the pressure and pain of being that we inevitably anchor our identity in what we're avoiding.
@jeffreytucker We could see it as a catalyst too, leading to a sort of collective herxheimer reaction and a renewed appetite for more grounded, organic content.
This baby is already with us, in our toolbox, to throw it out with the bathwater might not be too prudent and judicious of a response.
“War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men’s brains instead of their bowels.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Vince Vaughn talking about pulling a skunk (or BADASS tactics tackling social spastics) in a conversation with @TheoVon
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