You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs.
They are the biggest babies on earth except for the people mad at Taylor Swift for being excited at a football game.
the word “amateur” comes from the Latin for “love” and I think that’s beautiful—studying and learning things not because it’s your job but for the pure joy of discovery. because you’re so enthralled by the world that you can’t help accumulating knowledge like lint.
I hope this weekend you can resist the terrible compulsion to be *productive.* I hope you find time to read and dance and create for their own sakes and not for any profit. I hope you have moments of being just overcome with joy by the weirdness and wonder of being.
Canada’s two largest metros, Toronto and Montreal, see six trains per day in each direction that take a little more than five hours. Madrid and Barcelona are the same distance and see 35 trains per day each way, taking as little as 2 hours and 30 minutes. Canada deserves better.