We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
“In his quest, he had lost sight of the fundamental nature of information—the essence of knowledge itself. It was not about dominating or manipulating, but about empowering and illuminating.”
Ben Lerner
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the most disturbing trend is the amount of people treating life like an index fund.
never take big risks, never build a family, build a holding company other people run, don't make decisions, don't work hard on one thing, preserve optionality, never live just hedge until you die
@RichardMCNgo Dickens’s David Copperfield might not fit this hero’s journey map; it’s one of the few books where the author and narrator are both aware that the protagonist may or may not be a hero and he may or may not have followed the monomyth even if he completes a series of trials.
@DrNickA His book list is consistent and his choices are a logical progression; somewhere is an intro level literature course called “The (n)ature of Human and State” with his exact list
@0xSpuddy Does it have stripes in person? It looks like it has yellow on its pronotum just behind the head which is a characteristic of American cockroach. But if it has other stripes (like brown stripes or maroon stripes on the abdomen) then it’ll be some other type of roach
https://t.co/xpcvzCmtMd Hi everyone, this is Fran Finney, wife of Hal Finney, an early pioneer of Bitcoin. I want to let you know about a special event I'm organizing in honor of my husband. Thank you for all your interest in Hal and your support... he would love it! 1/5
@CozomoMedici Why is NFT art contextualized as fundamentally different than digital art predecessors? It’s been almost 60 years since digital/graphic arts entered museums, but why are museums and NFTs treated like a fundamental rewriting of artistic objects?
Not liberals, but "liberals."
It bothers me how power struggles within the blue-red corporate uniparty transform complex philosophies into meaningless epithets.
If you argue "censorship is good, actually," you are not a liberal. If you cheer for the FBI, you are not a liberal.
@tszzl Solaris
Roadside Picnic
I Burn Paris
Classics, but not super long and will keep you up at night thinking about them long after you’ve put them town
@davidtsong Really cool results. Curious how high you can get it’s reading score in particular—from messing around with different literary prompts with ChatGPT, it’s predictive text is often factually wrong and struggles to even relay literary texts at times.