"O, let America be America again - / The land that never has been yet - / And yet must be - the land where every man is free." — Langston Hughes

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🤔 Looks like Fred Astaire was the first person saved into IMDb.

The 70s were the last purely human decade—no mainstream computing, no internet, just craft. Now we're unconsciously reaching back. Medieval synths, serif fonts, earth tones. Is AI accidentally leading the rebirth of 'folk'?

AI Isn't Technology. It's a Garden. AI doesn’t behave like any other thing I’ve thought of as “technology” before. It behaves like something alive.

If you expect predictable results, you'll be disappointed. (”Of course we expect predictable results!” scream enterprise IT departments.)

"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind." — Seneca

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"If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken." — Carl Sagan

"There is a cult of ignorance in the USA, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." —Asimov

"Earth laughs in flowers."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

🤯 My new favorite o1 prompt for #ChatGPT: Explain [TOPIC] to me from first principles. Imagine I am a space alien who is as intelligent as a high school student and has a clear understanding of science and economics; but knows little about humans besides that they are intelligent, social primates.

"You owe it to all of us to get on with what you’re good at."

— W.H. Auden

"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."

— Brian Reed

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

— Henry Ford

"They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this is a good argument against atheism. I think it's a better argument against foxholes."

— Kurt Vonnegut