On fly fishing: If a mountain creek is heavily regulated during some time of the year, you should probably obey those regulations year-round. There's no reason for you to eat a rare trout, and that one fish that will get away because your hook is barbless will come back to thank you later.

On menswear: How one dresses has no correlation with their values or inner qualities. Some people that agree with that statement will dress shoddily on purpose to signal belonging to a certain class that can afford to do so. That's also dumb.

On the inverse, claiming something is a remix of something because that thing is cool and being associated with it elevates your creation by proximity is also dishonest. Claiming your typeface is inspired by Granjon or Griffo while it’s just a generic Garamond or Aldine is a no-no.

Something I don’t see discussed often (and it’s not discussed here) is that the Morton study uses FFM, which is 1) hard to calculate for most people, 2) lower than “your weight” by definition.

My kind is to blame. This is what happens when you delegate prettiness to a specific discipline… never ask a barber if you need a haircut

Thank you Lumpy for saving my life! You definitely deserve a treat.

I would die for this cat

Hey Marta, any chance this was recorded?

Back in 2020 I took a Stanford continuing education class on the philosophy of AI and this was the main point we explored.

Some tech folks were pissed at the professor, but it’s pretty hard to argue against embodiment as a requirement for consciousness.

Really, I hope so

Man, I'd love if you did an hour-long overview of your tech stack and your settings, kind of like the packing streams you used to do, but for your computer and devices