political irrealist, illogical positivist, censer of phosphorus, calyx of hesperus, one chanting star among the millions perfect

axilla of the total sphere
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if you can call from memory an excerpt of that great bard Shakespeare’s incredibly far-reaching corpus that contemplates your very situation, it is considerable consolation what’er betide you. Thinking about his meditation on having to shit during a shower helped me today
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Yeah bro Nabokov doesn’t have a style lol
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Can you explain what you mean when you say “onomatopoeically” at least? You think there’s a greenness sound out in the natural world that’s invoked by the utterance of that word? Also please stop with onomatopoeic like some kinda savage and say onomatopoetic like a man of letters
I can’t really explain this, but onomatopoeically vermillion should be a shade of green
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*evoked rather than invoked, obviously. I need to stop typing while I drive but it’s the only time I’m on this website anymore
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Underenjoyed Stevensian excerpt here at end of which dr = soft g which collages with the the umlauty u (that comes between q and i still in modern English) to form a sort of sonic matrix indexing languid luxury (a wisdom hailing from 9th century Anglo Saxon verse) is preserved
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The trouble for all technique (AI only one of many cases) is the trouble of the affirmative, the chosen error, the mistake that makes the keystone. A stumbling block for machine thought which cannot independently open this only womb of art
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Gotta pay me to click this link homie. Like what the fuck world are you living in
Halfway through the film, Elizabeth Holmes said six magical words that a lot of people missed. With these six words, she unintentionally revealed something stunning about how her mind works: robkhenderson.com/p/a-guilty…
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It is fully articulated actually
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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You thought we are all induced to have them on us 24/7 to record police abuse of power?
The CIA can access your phone and laptop microphones and cameras, per former CIA officer John Kiriakou.
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The real problem is a reader successfully metonymically reducing a work to a fungible instance of its genre eliminates any purpose for it beyond unwitting pastiche, an earnest presentation of those peccadillos conspicuous among middling peers but forgotten in transcendent works
I agree. The real problem with contemporary "auto-fiction" is that people try to write about themselves without writing about anyone else. But we can only get at the self through its awareness of other people and of the world.
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free resonator in which to assess errors (or Lucretian swerves say) for unexpected savor (except when human artists lend their negative capability to its production)
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The trouble for all technique (AI only one of many cases) is the trouble of the affirmative, the chosen error, the mistake that makes the keystone. A stumbling block for machine thought which cannot independently open this only womb of art
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He really was a middle school English teacher at heart and I see how the could really depress somebody with an intellect demanding more from himself
David Foster Wallace discusses Pretentious Language
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all these people are so fucking stupid dude it’s just all so terribly dull and that’s ultimate shame of it
Everyone w a 3-digit IQ will get it in 3-5 yrs and it won't be pretty
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this is the thesis scrivened in delight, the reverberating psalm, the right chorale
tell me you’ve never engaged The Poets of the Sublime from Sappho & Archilochus down thru Wordsworth & Keats, Dickinson & Whitman, Eliot & Stevens w/o telling me. this has been answered for millennia. Anything a computer can take from you you never had at all
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tell me you’ve never engaged The Poets of the Sublime from Sappho & Archilochus down thru Wordsworth & Keats, Dickinson & Whitman, Eliot & Stevens w/o telling me. this has been answered for millennia. Anything a computer can take from you you never had at all
What do humans have left? Think of the smartest, most driven, accomplished, well-rounded, badass person you know (could be famous or a friend) What cognitive faculties do they still have that AIs don't (or won't within a decade)? Is it just agency/wanting things at all?
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Uh oh I’m having an emotion I find disagreeable I’d better distract myself from the metastatic soul cancer it’s alerting me to by engineering a gew-gaw for people who jog to distract themselves from same or whatever
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this is the thesis scrivened in delight, the reverberating psalm, the right chorale
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Internecine podcaster disputes are a hilarious idea but not as funny as the idea information flows have been “democratized” & Joe Rogan’s podcast is number one despite this lol. “no barriers to entry left” hahaha. Grow up dude. Libertarians and their ideal gas law ass world views
I too find it crazy when people who are supposedly anti-war care more about throwing around I-toldja-so's than being happy about people with major platforms opposing war. @ComicDaveSmith @KyleKulinski @mehdirhasan @MarkRuffalo @joerogan
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Great bit here MJ
Am I alone in finding Abbott and Costello staggeringly unfunny, and this possiby their least funny routine of all? There are numerous genuinely funny riffs on this (Animaniacs etc) but the original was based on the idea that a baseball player might be called 'I Don't Know'.
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