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musings

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

1 dose of reading the Palantir manifesto before bed.

[e ❦ @whimpermanence]

my spirit animal is a cockroach

[henry @arithmoquine]

sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from biology

[waiting @_primamateria]

“…no one knows where we are going, the end has been left behind. Humanity has set out at tremendous speed—to go nowhere....Everything that "succeeds," everything that is effective, everything in itself "efficient," is justified.” -Jacques Ellul

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

waves at you

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“Sometimes I have the feeling that nothing that happens happens, that everything happened and at the same time didn’t, because nothing happens without interruption…”

— Javier Marías, A Heart So White

one of those passages you quietly carry around in your head for years 🤍

[nature @Nature]

A newly released AI tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures and billions more protein sequences.

https://t.co/nThx75YHL2

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“My standpoint is armed neutrality.”

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

There is this strange idea that “techno-optimism” means “liking the maximum amount of all technology all the time,” as though being a “fan of music” meant “preferring all music genres played at maximum volume all the time.” Love of a thing means more discerning taste, not less.

[rav @rv_ntg]

intelligence as a utility has to be one of the most interesting thoughts to have crossed my stratosphere

[みっちっぷ @mi_cchip2525]

寝ても寝ても眠。。。
#鳥羽水族館 #ラッコ #メイ

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

“The Aurai” by Mark Molchan

[Salvador Dalí @artist_dali]

Port of Cadaques (Night), 1918 #artbots #dali

[Fatih Kıral @fatih_kiral]

“Spring in Gościeradz” (1933) by Leon Wyczółkowski

[癒しのお届け便 📦【動物】 @Bakutan_bot1]

わ→わ←わ→

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

"Dancing!" mural by artist Pasha Cas. Temirtau, Kazakhstan, 2010s | Olya Koto

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“One misunderstanding casts us into the world of misunderstanding, which we must put up with as a world composed solely of misunderstandings and which we depart from with a single great misunderstanding, for death is the greatest misunderstanding of all…”

(Bernhard, The Loser)