Journeying the slopes of a peak I'll never reach.
ʜᴜᴄ ᴇᴛ ɪʟʟᴜᴄ ⎄
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The wealth of recorded knowledge is too important to diminish a resource like the @internetarchive. What a sad, myopic act by the publishers, removing 500,000 books that library visitors could only ever borrow for an anodyne hour at a time (fantastic for references/citations).
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“Men must surely have some lurking suspicion of this great truth, seeing they never govern their conduct by reason. It is instinct and sentiment lead them. They obey their passions,—love, hate, and above all wholesome fear.”
—From p.1 of Anatole France's essay, “Card Houses”
Text from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” (Ch. 9).
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AI is typing in a room different from the one you are in now. It is typing the words summated from its model, and AI will be trained on it again and again, until the resonant distributions of its probabilities reinforce themselves, so that any semblance of coherence is destroyed.
I was going to make a “hey look it's the first Sherwin Williams logo haha” joke, until I saw that the first “Cover the Earth” design (1893) actually precedes this image (1900) by about seven years.
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“We had best forgive pain, and frankly admit it is impossible to imagine a happiness greater than what we enjoy in this human life of ours, so sweet and so bitter.…Yes, that is our garden-plot, which we must dig zealously.” —Anatole France
“Understand also that within you are the birds of the sky. Marvel not that we say these are within you. Understand that you are another world in miniature and that there is within you the sun, the moon, and the stars.”
—Origen, “In Leviticum Homiliae” V, 2
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Also pictured is Jung's “Systema Munditotius” mandala, first published [anonymously] in 1955.
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An extract from Part V of T.S. Eliot's “East Coker” (1940), the second of his “Four Quartets”
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A real noodle-baker is when we can easily rattle off 10–20 people on the horseshoe ends that behave this way AND are ALSO ideologically opposed to us, but we oft have greater trouble finding the analogous rabble rousers w/in our own ingroup w/o enacting more-charitable apologia.
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Students from the elite school Tsinghua University protested with Friedmann equation. I have no idea what this equation means, but it does not matter.
It's the pronunciation: it's similar to "free的man" (free man)—a spectacular and creative way to express, with intelligence.
We're living at a moment when merits of liberty & free speech are being hashed out & relearned in real time on an SMS-ish microblogging website ffs—not fought w/ arms btw armies, but [partially] w/ capital btw corporations; not in law, but in civil decorum.
Unironically, wattba.
Wave your hand through the fog and see it. Through tribal hooliganism. Through petty games of ingroup/outgroup signaling. It's right there. You can see it, but only for a moment. The honorable. The ideal. Just out of reach, but so worthy of the reaching. Wave again and see it.