Don't write to impress. Write to communicate. If you communicate well enough, you'll impress. 😉💡

"At the Mosque" by Ludwig Deutsch, 1895.

Back in 2023, I had purposed to maximize value and squeeze the gold out of every opportunity I say yes to. 😇 As a woman the best way to go through life is by letting your intuition and discernment from the holy spirit guide you. So many opportunities come knocking on our doors,

Scientism is a disease of authority. It's a PERVERSION of science. The worst = feels like science. But while science seeks to falsify, correct errors, theorize+criticize so knowledge grows... Scientism seeks authority + certainty. Smothers knowledge in its infancy like a Herod

"why are you ghibli?"

Jingna Zhang Tools that would allow a USER to take your work and modify it this way, given enough time and skill, have existed for a while. Pencils, pens, paper, camera, paints, Photoshop. The difference, it seems, is the time and skill requirements have changed massively.

Jingna Zhang I do think, however, artists like you will win in the long run. Your art IS better than the slop it produced. And the more slop becomes commodified, there's a world where more people know + value this. (Human-made art). Like what happened to painting:→:mass scale photography.

Jingna Zhang In a line: tools that increase the set of transformations we can make increase our wealth. And commodification/reducing the costs of execution may shine a light on what has always mattered most: Our imagination. Our cultivated taste. Our subjectivity × experiences. Our stories.

IQ is to intelligence as a ruler is to a symphony.

Enjoyed Aidan's Aidan Eyakuze farewell gathering for its blend of reflection, 𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂 × fun Justice Rutenge called for civil soc to reimagine its "watchdog" role. Got me thinking: how might we retain error-correction as a mechanism, if not adversarially? Rough notes, to dev ↓

Rain. African mountain air. Black felt, black horses. Bushbuck darting across the farm, fleeing some predator we can't see, while the herons and farm animals chase towards it in its wake. An afternoon with my cheeky babe.

Sam Altman was paying Kenyans $2-$5 per hour to train the initial ChatGPT. The unintended consequence was initial AI models learning to write like Kenyans. Now, AI-content detectors can't differentiate between a work done by a Kenyan and that of an AI model.

“Information consumes attention. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” - Herbert A. Simon, 1971 Prescient.

Goleman on cognitive control: "One definition of maturity is lengthening the gap between impulse and action."

An English translation of a Swahili classic out today: Kezilahabi's ROSA MISTIKA Delight. Pride. A compulsion to share this news with everyone today!

Ida Hadjivayanis Esther Karin Mngodo Samwel Ndandala Ben Owden Prudence Zoe Glorious PZG PR Ona Kesho Yale University Press SOAS Development Studies Huge congrats to Jay Boss Rubin (who's no longer on Twitter) for his work translating this! You can order the book here, via Yale University Press: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…

princely hope-glorious 🇹🇿 Ida Hadjivayanis Esther Karin Mngodo Samwel Ndandala Ben Owden Prudence Zoe Glorious PZG PR Ona Kesho Yale University Press SOAS Development Studies I've been looking for this book for quite some time. There's a worn out one in swahili i read missing pages and within those few pages I've always yearned to find it.