A big divide in attitudes towards AI, I think, is in whether you can easily write better than it and it all reads like stilted, inauthentic kitsch; or whether you’re amazed by it because it makes you seem more articulate than you’ve ever sounded in your life
Mr. Bezos, when I think about “free markets and personal liberties” I don’t think about the Post editorial page. I think about this vending machine in an Amazon Fulfillment Center, which is stocked not with chips but with painkillers.
When I was 12 or so I thought I had a clever idea and told my dad that I would always root for the team that represented the city with the largest population to maximize happiness and he looked at me with undisguised disgust and said "you would say something like that" lmao
Right so, “resist” means *don’t* follow fascist orders.
Don’t take the art off the walls.
Don’t delete the website.
Don’t open the dams.
Play dumb. Ask for clarity, repeatedly. Lose the email. Misplace the keys. Stall. Ignore. Forget. Crawl.
You are the line, you hold it.
What sets Ireland apart from every other country in Europe is the fact that the act of getting the calipers out to measure the native cranium can here be an innocent bit of fun and the source of much levity.
i love the "never kill yourself" genre bc it captures the slippery truth that the distance between a life worth living and wanting to die really is, like, one minor amusement a day
that's why it's imperative to go outside and look at things and try to like them
@BucketofSnails honestly those kind of people usually expect others to interrupt them and talk about themselves with something related so they can interrupt them with something related and get interrupted again so on
its just a different approach to conversation
@extradeadjcb Some Med peoples really enjoy a sort of verbal sparring. Jews, Italians, Levantine Arabs. A spot of light ridicule, some feigned dramatics, and you are in their good graces for the night.
Some find it fun, others find it annoying or absurd.