writing is so funny it’s like “this is my favorite thing to do in the world and my dream” “okay then do it right now” “no thanks I would rather do literally anything else”

this is the first image of a tardigrade, from 1773

Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

as bad as Google is for trying to learn anything about anything, you know what remains good? books. shoutout to books for having information, clearly stated, organized in a sensible fashion, in-depth, by a person who knows of what they speak