Ex-Nike designer builds a boot that could prevent 80,000 amputations a year f-st.co/KNv60sI

Robert Bly:

Lewis Carroll:

“Perhaps to love is to learn to walk through this world.” —Octavio Paz (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

Answered Prayers, Magic the Gathering #digitalpainting

"The truth is this: / my love for you is the only empire / I will ever build." Still not over these lines from Mindy Nettifee's "This is the Nonsense of Love":

This poem is just so, so good:

Andrea Cohen:

This is Maverick. He just spotted an intruder. Not sure how to proceed. 13/10

Nikki, German Shepherd (13 y/o), Washington Square Park, New York, NY • “I’ve had her for 11 years and she’s come to work with me every single day – all of my lectures and board meetings. She’s had cancer twice – she now has osteosarcoma on her face.”

“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.” — Oscar Wilde

Still. W.S. Merwin:

Best thing I’ve read on GPT-4’s capabilities. You should read it. Impressive qualitative jump over ChatGPT. It’s definitely not just memorizing, it’s learning to think and reason. Probably the most important thing happening in the world right now. Thread with some highlights:

Wow! I am incredibly proud to announce that we’ve secured our first customer: Microsoft!

Amazing

Includes cyberpunk neck-jacking.

The most common French name for a bookworm is rat de bibliothèque, or “library rat”. However, my gran, who grew up in Ardes, would often refer to an avid reader as a buveur d’encre. It means “ink drinker” * read on for more names for bookworms from around the world (a thread)...

we are so back

When computers hit the mass market in the 1970s, people felt threatened. There were fears about privacy invasion, the erosion of human-to-human interaction, and the loss of jobs. To soothe concerns & spur the proliferation of computers, Steve Jobs repeatedly used this analogy: