Customers: We don't like A.I. Please stop making it.

Tech Companies: Check out our awesome, even more invasive A.I. Now with more A.I.

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

For me, it cemented my belief that human beings rise to the level of their training and of their actual practice. What we believe about ourselves doesn't matter when push comes to shove. It's what we DO regularly that really counts.

If our current moment has taught us anything, it is that all the money in the world can't fix bad taste.