DonkeyKhan
@donkeykhan.bsky.social
Desperately trying to be, while becoming. Compiling words that give me pause.
"AGI will be more akin to a new species than a tool." - Owain Evans, AI Alignment Researcher @ the Hinton Lectures 2025
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"AGI will be more akin to a new species than a tool." - Owain Evans, AI Alignment Researcher @ the Hinton Lectures 2025
“Power concedes nothing without demand.” - Frederick Douglas
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“Power concedes nothing without demand.” - Frederick Douglas
“The instilling of fear is often viewed as an offering of love.” - Will Smith
October 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The instilling of fear is often viewed as an offering of love.” - Will Smith
“Nobody has a right of self defense against this country, even if it intervenes across the ocean to impose by force, a government that the people of that country reject.” - Noam Chomsky, “Manufacturing Consent”
September 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Nobody has a right of self defense against this country, even if it intervenes across the ocean to impose by force, a government that the people of that country reject.” - Noam Chomsky, “Manufacturing Consent”
“You and I should live, as if you and i have never heard, of a you and an I.” - Rumi
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“You and I should live, as if you and i have never heard, of a you and an I.” - Rumi
“One of the few remaining things available and accessible to most people, to experience something that somebody made for you from start to finish, is to go to a restaurant and eat something — even if it’s a $2 taco from a taco truck.” - Samin Nosrat
September 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“One of the few remaining things available and accessible to most people, to experience something that somebody made for you from start to finish, is to go to a restaurant and eat something — even if it’s a $2 taco from a taco truck.” - Samin Nosrat
“Better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some.” - Margaret Atwood
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some.” - Margaret Atwood
“Silence is pain that writing relieves.” - Richard Rhodes
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Silence is pain that writing relieves.” - Richard Rhodes
“The most radical thing to do in a community like mine is to maintain your hope and maintain your softness.” - Mustafa the Poet
September 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“The most radical thing to do in a community like mine is to maintain your hope and maintain your softness.” - Mustafa the Poet
“What is the statute of limitations on resentment, on rage, on revenge?” - Omar El Akkad
September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“What is the statute of limitations on resentment, on rage, on revenge?” - Omar El Akkad
“Some people are afforded precision in death, but not these. There is no accurate count of the murdered; there may never be.” - Omar El Akkad
September 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Some people are afforded precision in death, but not these. There is no accurate count of the murdered; there may never be.” - Omar El Akkad
“In the age of big data, many of us continue to be monitored and measured, but without the audible rumble of helicopters to which we can point. This doesn’t mean we no longer feel what it’s like to be a problem.” - @ruha9.bsky.social, Race After Technology 2019
August 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“In the age of big data, many of us continue to be monitored and measured, but without the audible rumble of helicopters to which we can point. This doesn’t mean we no longer feel what it’s like to be a problem.” - @ruha9.bsky.social, Race After Technology 2019
"Chatbots don't make sense, they make words. Artificial Intelligence creates words devoid of thought, dead things to which we attribute meaning." - Leon Furze
August 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Chatbots don't make sense, they make words. Artificial Intelligence creates words devoid of thought, dead things to which we attribute meaning." - Leon Furze
“The diagnosis is terminal for all of us.” - Ryan Holiday
August 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“The diagnosis is terminal for all of us.” - Ryan Holiday
“The body is the purest, most primal tool for communicating. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a civilized adult. The body is our mother tongue, our mediator with the world long before we speak our first words.” - Esther Perel
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“The body is the purest, most primal tool for communicating. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a civilized adult. The body is our mother tongue, our mediator with the world long before we speak our first words.” - Esther Perel
“Look inwards as much as you look outwards. The truth will always be inside you, if you have the means of finding it. There’s a lot of truth that you carry, let it unfold because it takes attention.” - Dr. Gabor Mate
August 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Look inwards as much as you look outwards. The truth will always be inside you, if you have the means of finding it. There’s a lot of truth that you carry, let it unfold because it takes attention.” - Dr. Gabor Mate
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - Cicero
August 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need" - Cicero
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Dr. Cornel West
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Dr. Cornel West
“It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence.” - Martin Heidegger
July 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence.” - Martin Heidegger
“You are clutching with both hands to this myth of you and I. Our whole brokenness is because of this.” - Rumi, translated by Omid Safi
July 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“You are clutching with both hands to this myth of you and I. Our whole brokenness is because of this.” - Rumi, translated by Omid Safi
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - MLK Jr.
July 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - MLK Jr.
“We have a basic human desire to belong, and our competitive, commercial, individualistic society does not foster it. The disconnection of modern society has left many people hurting in ways they cannot make sense of, with injuries that cannot heal in isolation.” - Mariame Kaba
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“We have a basic human desire to belong, and our competitive, commercial, individualistic society does not foster it. The disconnection of modern society has left many people hurting in ways they cannot make sense of, with injuries that cannot heal in isolation.” - Mariame Kaba
“The war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumned in it. The ultimate famine is the starvation of the imagination.” - Diane di Prima
July 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“The war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumned in it. The ultimate famine is the starvation of the imagination.” - Diane di Prima
“Do you love people more than you hate the system?” - Conscious Lee
July 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Do you love people more than you hate the system?” - Conscious Lee
“Nature isn’t part of our economic system. Economics is built on human productivity and innovation. This system says that Amazon is valued at tens of billions of dollars, while the Amazon rainforest, the greatest terrestrial ecosystem on the planet has no value until it is logged.” - David Suzuki
July 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“Nature isn’t part of our economic system. Economics is built on human productivity and innovation. This system says that Amazon is valued at tens of billions of dollars, while the Amazon rainforest, the greatest terrestrial ecosystem on the planet has no value until it is logged.” - David Suzuki