When this sites shuts down, we have a building and you can just come visit us in person and hang out and read books.

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Academics & professionals, in my experience, undervalue my and other formerly incarcerated ppl's perspective, talent, expertise, ability to strategize & resilience in favor of their own paper credentials. It's frustrating & disheartening. 3/

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚘𝚗 🌞 I'm one of those formerly incarcerated people and I wholeheartedly second this. Academia cannot replicate what we experience inside. We understand the subject at a different level, one that research and study can never replicate. But most of all, we're not idiots.

How do you turn off the notification that constantly asks whether you want to turn on notifications?

The most tragic tyranny is not strong over weak, nor rich over poor, nor living over those not alive, but of those with no imagination over those with one

What if I were to tell you that I do not believe in your faults nearly as much as you seem to, and that some are even charming quirks and affectations by which you would be noticeably diminished if they did not exist?

The apple doesn't always falleth near the apple tree. Sometimes it falleth very far away from it.

Leaving Twitter comes to almost a tacit admission that the frequent strips of time spent on the platform were mainly a waste, what, in other words, we might call the "sunk cost fallacy".

I wonder what happens when AI starts to generate AI content that is derived from AI content.

Imagine seeing the word "soft" and the word "hard next to each other, 10 times, but each time in a separate language foreign to you. Are your odds at guessing which is which better than random chance? What about a word pairs like love/hate, etc..

Somewhere out there is a happy person with twice your problems, and a miserable one with only half of them.

It is impossible to commit a crime for any reason that isn't cliché.

There is nothing social about social media, not that it isn't a good idea.

It started off as the information age then that yielded pretty quickly to the disinformation age even if it was never called by that moniker.

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No. I think the best argument against moral equivalency is that denying that one culture is better than another entails denying that the future state of one's own culture can be better than the present. It denies the possibility of progress, is hostile to it, and sides with evil.

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