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Just Another Apocryphal Mess
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a series of Mastodon posts by @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social, in response to a screenshot of the infamous "you can read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you" tweet: Pretty sure all these #AI guys have utterly misconstrued what art is. They think it's just information/data, but it's not: it's a process; it's a manifestation of interwoven conscious & unconscious thoughts that have ripened in a human mind, sometimes for decades. And the result is an interaction with another human mind, a dialogue. 1/3 These AI guys have mistaken a photo of a meal in a restaurant menu for the meal itself. They tell themselves it looks just like the real thing, so it must be the real thing, but in the end they'll starve to death. No protein, no carbs, no vitamins, no nutrients, nothing. 2/3 Imagine there's a once-in-a-lifetime walk that takes you through the greatest, most dramatic scenery in the world. You leave from Point A and walk your way back around to Point A. The ChatGPT guy above might as well say: "Pro tip: You can go on that great walk by never leaving Point A" 3/3
July 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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the final paragraphs of _Invisible Cities_, Italo Calvino, 1972

all that gets me through the day sometimes, is the understanding that I am making someone else endure, giving them space, and that they maybe feel the same way about me
A photo of a page from Italo Calvino's novel "Invisible Cities", which reads: He said: "It is all useless, if the last landing place can only be the infernal city, and it is there that, in ever-narrowing circles, the current is drawing us." And Polo said: "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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back to job hunting

I hope that this company appreciates my bravery and willingness to make salary demands
a screenshot from a LinkedIn job application, where the question "What are your salary expectations?" has been configured as a Yes/No question, currently answered "Yes"
June 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM