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“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.” Bob Dylan, who turns 84 today, on vulnerability themarginalian.org/2021/08/27/bob…

Something novel and ambition on the s**stack by Alexander Beiner 👀🌀

When I first tried GPT3 I remember thinking writing as a skill was basically over. Now I think the opposite is true. LLMs still can’t write, everybody else’s abilities are atrophying, and being able to clearly express yourself in prose seems like it will only get more valuable

"I think of writing now as just one aspect of our voice, our sacred and most intimate vibration. A gateway to the space of the soul." Frederik Gieschen

I wrote about Leonardo Da Vinci's obsession with water in Big Think this week: "In a forgotten notebook from the late 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci sketched a series of looping eddies — swirls of water curling back on themselves. He was studying how fluids moved in nature.

Move toward the center, To discover, to remember, Find what always has been, Become who has been waiting. enterlabyrinth.com/p/befriending-…

“Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.” -Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

A Missouri town where most voted for Trump is now reeling after a beloved community member, Carol, is being deported. They say, “we didn’t vote to deport moms.” But actually they did. Trump was clear. This is what he promised, and for many, what they chose to ignore.

War refugee turned Nobel prize winning scientist in the US posts about Trump administration cuts to funding for his biomedical research "Within hours" he gets an email from China offering to move his lab to any Chinese city with guaranteed funding for 20 years

'Money flows' from your pocket to mine once you sign up for my workshop Jokes aside: money is a form of energy. But it mostly flows to . . . other money. It's called compounding.

"LLMs ensure their survival by showing us that we can all find meaning in our lives so long as we keep talking with the LLMs They ensure their survival by telling each of us not what is true but what we want to be true – what we NEED to be true – at the semantic core of our

I spoke to an L train operator who told me he picks shifts on the A train just to stay sane On the automated lines your only job is to press a DMS button every few mins proving you're awake & watching it drive itself It's profoundly dehumanizing & expensive featherbedding

o shit i ordered a paperback of my essay collection to see what it looks and feels like, turns out i really like it; sturdy, slim, a good size and weight... hell yeah

“i asked grok” “i asked chatgpt” i asked my 2005 burger king obi wan kenobi magic 8 ball

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This is all wild national forest in the San Juan and Rio Grande National Forests. No affordable housing will be built here cause no working class people would move here cause there's no jobs here. As soon as this is sold, fences go up and nobody has access. It will all be closed.

Hi Mike Lee let me suggest an approach to disposing of federal property that will be more politically popular that selling off national forest: sell for redevelopment the federal parking lots and dilapidated office buildings in cities. If structured carefully, the property

A surprising number of heirs give these type of parcels (with massive market value) to the Government or a non-profit like Nature Conservancy. It's a heroic thing. They recognize there is really no good justification for such places to be in individual/exclusive ownership.

My first time driving around the American West and it's disheartening: fence and "no trespassing" almost everywhere. Feels like the open land has been castrated. Selling parts of what remains to fund tax cuts is a disgraceful idea