Category: Blog
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Sometimes, to make sense of absurd things, I like to imagine an alien visiting from another planet to view that thing and while I watch his reaction to it. For example: It’s sort of absurd, and video game-like, that you could be bitten by a particular kind of snake and just die — game over.…
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Mind capture
How do you know if your mind has been captured? I think a simple health check is to ask yourself: Who do I respect? When there are issues or questions you face, these people are a good measure against those issues or questions. What do they think? What would they say? I do not mean,…
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“If it can happen to them, it can happen to you”
“Let’s be clear: without due process rights, anybody — yes, that means you — could be swept up in a raid and dumped in some hellhole and then the government could say, “Well, too late.” Citizenship is no protection if there’s not even a process in place to determine one’s legal status. One need not have any sentimental feelings about…
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Thoughts from my run, #1
Some of my best thinking happens while listening to podcasts on my runs. It is hard to remember them specifically. Often, I remember just a sense of what their substance was. So, this type of post is, now, an attempt to remember some of the specifics. The podcast I was listening to on today’s run…
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Studio Ghlibi and Sadness
In the way it seems only Twitter can do, one person drove this week’s discourse. Open AI dropped a new release to GPT 4o and gave everyone a heads up that certain style replications are pretty cool. Studio Ghlibi was tried and it went off. Every image was in the style of Studio Ghlibi. This…
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Hello world!
Test poast. I’ll start by saving this link from Twitter this morning that took me back. It is useful in the way that good memes are: it compressed something about the way things used to be (childhood/earlier adult) with the way things are now (more complicated as an adult) and made me feel great.