AI: Artificial Ingredients
AI: Artificial Ingredients
git log -G "alfa" -p bravo/
Let's talk about Trump and the GOP’s red scare rhetoric failing on the youth....
[The right-wing managed to mainstream socialism, which socialists were never able to do, simply by using it as a "derogatory" label for every means of government assistance that helped people most in need.]
[Young people without Cold War experience of socialism embrace the political ideology without associating it with the Soviets.]
[Jargon is an indicator of high-resolution conversation between those inside domain. It may exclude people outside, but that doesn't it should be avoided inside. Help newcomers quickly get up to speed and they'll be happy to join in.]
[The experiment suggests that participants chose cake afterwards not only because their challenging cognitive task required more calories, but also because the same process drained their willpower to resist. There's only one pool for both.]
Every moment spent struggling with a confusing UI, frustrating customer service, poor documentation, or anything requiring patience, self-control, or intense concentration on the tool could be stealing resources from learning, practice, and becoming badass at the thing they really care about: the context.
The Zeigarnik Effect means cognitive resources are being consumed in the background while you’re doing other things. The more open/unfinished tasks that are running in the background, the less resources are available for focusing, practicing, and learning.
[Marketing materials focus on the compelling context, while remaining easy to understand. Learning content focuses on the tool, and the dry or hard to read material gets interpreted by the brain as spam.]
[Asking "Why?", "So what?, and "Who cares?" can help reframe unfocused material so that the brain says "worthy".]
[Easier for their brain is good, but less is better: is that element truly necessary?]
[Reading a physical book gives me a choice to turn the page, look away, put it down, and trust that it will be as I left it when coming back.]
He changed the job description of what a comedian could be.
[Selling to a satisfied person is hard.]
[Curiosity is an antidote to the fatigue and paralysis caused by information overload.]
[Listen to the ones who want you to think, not the ones selling you a team to join.]
[Listen to those who don't need anything from you.]
Another nice thing about being a regular at a place that values regulars is that you meet the other regulars. This summer I was often left to my own devices for dinner and a couple times a week, I ended up at my local. And almost without exception, I ended up having dinner with someone I’d previously met at the bar. Routinely turning a solo dining experience into dinner with a friend is an amazing accomplishment for a restaurant.
be sure to use AI when your next child
gets married, so that you can write them
the perfect toast or poem or speech or song
because no one wants to hear your
words, the actual poorly written words
of a parent (you) who changed
hundreds of diapers for said child or fed
them in the middle of the
night from your actual body. Or cried
when they were late home because
you were positive they were dead. We don't
want those words—we’d prefer the sterile
words of a machine that never lived, never
had an original thought, never felt
the pain of miscarriage or broken
relationships or the joy of a friendship restored
I’ll be over here in my 50th
year, my youngest daughter asleep on my chest,
my arm falling asleep because I dare not move
lest I scare away this moment,
lying here melancholy about my older
children moving out and my middle
children no longer needing me, at least
not like they used to, weary about this body
that fails me now in ever increasing ways
that will never be restored. Sighing
over stories I tried to write but never hit
the page the way they felt in my mind.
X: Claude Fable 5 will be available globally tomorrow!
X: But what about safety?
Me: First you must decide who you are focused on protecting? Users, citizens or existing power structures and specifically, which ones? The paths are not the same. Market benefit rarely coincides with social benefit.
In an ideal world: I write for you, you pay me, I write some more. No middlemen.
[Surprising someone changes their world.]
Carney's financialization brought us Trump's fascism
[Carney represents and helped manifest the rules-based order that he admits was a lie (it never applied equally) and that he now mourns.]
[When we have been morphed by financialization into players within a cruel game of artificial scarcity, the feeling of being cheated out of the world we deserve becomes fuel for fascists to exploit in order to take control.]
[Capitalism produced (among others) a crisis of social reproduction that prevents a large portion of population from having enough material stability to start families. Fascists reframe this decline in population growth as caused by LGBTQ people attacking traditional family values.]
[Fascism today breaks with the anti-capitalism of Hitler and Mussolini to use markets as the arena to demonstrate strength and capacity to rule. Cronyism and bribes are common because they signal acceptance by the market.]
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Reaching out to my younger self to say "it happened".
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Practicing Mozart for a thousand hours means something different than whistling a tune.
[Webcams flatten people and their interactions.]
[Wise guests can turn dumb questions into insightful and informative answers.]
[Not showing their feet in the shot focuses on their face, hands, and fashion, and speaking as Greek busts.]
Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour: The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan (2018)
[This Sudanese pioneer is known for having electrified the tambur (lyre), creating a hypnotic, trance-like sound in the ’70s and ’80s. Notice the call-and-response pattern in the chorus.]
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We used to compose in solitude, without industry or recordings.
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Hard to understand past experiences when you're constantly subjected to new things.
pseudo social media feed that algorithmically shows you content from Simple Wikipedia.
available fully offline, and you can even install it as an app by clicking the install button.
[When you move somewhere on your own, you might wonder if you'll ever "fit in" or feel at home. As long as you look honestly at yourself and your needs, be your truest form and give it generously to others, you'll find where you belong.]