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galtenberg.bsky.social
@galtenberg.bsky.social
post-TFT, paleo www, notebooking writing, new numinism – north of 48°
Seen on a bumper sticker, a prayer:

“Don’t make me an optimist, you’ll ruin my life.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The most Silent Gen event: D-Day

The most Boomer event: Woodstock

The most Gen X event: Jan 6
October 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The minds at the vanguard of the state of the art know that someone else will do this if they don't
October 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"Rawlins asked him in his bad Spanish if there was a heaven for horses but he shook his head and said that a horse had no need of heaven."
(Cormac McCarthy, ATPH)
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"Anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating."
- Edward Gorey
August 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One of the better ones existentialcomics.com/comic/614
August 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

Good post, but also want to share the visual style of this blog

pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html
We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes
pavpanchekha.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"I have forced myself to contradict myself i order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
- Marcel Duchamp
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“Language: a dialect with an army and navy”
May 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Reposted
> banging my head against a bug
> figure I'll ask AI...
> explain the bug to AI in great detail
> about to press enter...
> realize the answer to my own question
> *agi has been achieved internally*
April 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos."
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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December 2, 2024 at 2:06 AM
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
- Thomas Mann
November 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Reposted
ready for the Socrates/Padme crossover?
April 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Quest is not for the young – it's for those who may be too comfy in their hobbit holes

Who are able to read the signs of the world
November 6, 2024 at 3:14 PM
When you make AI talk, it's not AI talking, it's humans past www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...
www.reddit.com
October 17, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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October 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
A team of quantum physicists from the University of Toronto observed photons exiting a material before entering it

www.the-independent.com/tech/time-ne...
October 2, 2024 at 1:44 PM