Thursday, December 12, 2024
if i'm ever terminal or anything please bring me to pet animals
giraffes bunnies
giraffes bunnies
— Lily in a text
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Thus, Reagan would grow up to be a model American, freed of the burden of the past and ready to make a fresh start. In other countries, the historian Bernard Lewis observed, events that had happened a thousand years ago were still sparking conflict. In the land of opportunity, by contrast, the phrase "that's history" was used to dismiss something as having "no relevance to present events, concerns or purposes."
— Max Boot, Reagan: His Life and Legend
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Yesterday, Google announced Willow, a new generation of quantum computer chips capable of performing a task in 5 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete. This marks a significant leap from 2019, when Google revealed its quantum processor could solve a mathematical equation in three minutes compared to 10,000 years on a supercomputer.
— @starworldlab
Monday, December 9, 2024
And one of the biggest mistakes that Americans make is that we study periods where greatness happened, but we don’t often study periods where nothing happened or where really bad shit happened. We don’t spend nearly enough.
— Saagar Enjeti, "Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #454"
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Mr. Zittrain has lectured on the “right to be forgotten” in tech and digital spaces — a legal standard that forces search engines to delete links to sites that include information considered inaccurate or irrelevant. But he said in a post on X that he had not asked to be excluded from OpenAI’s algorithms. In an interview, he said he had noticed the chatbot quirk a while ago and didn’t know why it happened.
— Ali Watkins, "Why Wouldn’t ChatGPT Say This Dead Professor’s Name?," The New York Times
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Gotaku is a traditional Japanese art form that involves making prints from real fish. Originally developed in the mid-19th century as a way for fishermen to record their catches, it has evolved into a celebrated artistic practice.
— @streetartglobe
Friday, December 6, 2024
Here's a mind-boggling fact: Stegosaurus lived so long ago that it went extinct 80 million years before T. rex ever roamed the Earth. To put that into perspective, there's only 70 million years separating us from T. rex—meaning humans are closer in time to T. rex than T. rex was to Stegosaurus!
— @amnh
Thursday, December 5, 2024
He noted that he believes the meaning of the work is not completely up to him and he supports users interacting with it as they choose. However, he stated that work’s obsolescence, resulting from deterioration, was not something he intended or desired.
— Jessica Pace, Lou Di Gennaro, Josephine Jenks, Catherine E. Stephens, "Artist Interviews as a Tool in the Preservation of Artists’ Books," RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Your top song was Mystery Train by Elvis Presley.
You were in the top 0.001% of listeners globally.
You were in the top 0.001% of listeners globally.
— Spotify Wrapped
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
History for us is just like stuff that happened in the past that doesn't matter anymore. But a lot of other people around the world experience history as something that really still matters. Like, really matters to their lives today. They just. They live in history more than we live. A deeper understanding of kind of how they got to where they were and the things that happened to their parents and grandparents and ancestors. And so there's just. It's just, you know, I don't know if it's, you know, better or worse. It's just a different way of experiencing reality.
— Marc Andreessen, "#2234 - Marc Andreessen, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Monday, December 2, 2024
Service temporarily suspended between Philadelphia and New York
— Amtrak App
Sunday, December 1, 2024
To be recognised and accepted by a peregrine you must wear the same clothes, travel by the same way, perform actions in the same order. Like all birds, it fears the unpredictable. Enter and leave the same fields at the same time each day, soothe the hawk from its wildness by a ritual of behaviour as invariable as its own.
— J. A. Baker, The Peregrine
Saturday, November 30, 2024
When the veil of secrecy was finally lifted at the premiere, I muttered something about the mechanical Baby Yoda, and within an hour, there were ten million comments about it on the internet. The downside of one's participation in these things is that it draws attention away from my real work, my own books and films.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Friday, November 29, 2024
I must engage in the biomechanical extraction of mammalian lactation fluid to sustain the nutritional requirements of my progeny.
— ChatGPT reply to "whats the most complicated way to say i have to go pump breast milk"
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Does he have any hobbies?
— Henry on Wally
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Nowhere in that history is Mr. Alam. (Karina Sokolovsky, a spokeswoman for Sotheby’s, confirmed that the banana was purchased from the cart where Mr. Alam works the day of the sale. The vendor himself has no specific recollection of selling an extra-special fruit.)
— Sarah Maslin Nir, "The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents," The New York Times
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
I said to myself, "Catering is very ephemeral." You work so hard, you get a beautiful celebration, and then it's gone. But if you write a book that's well-liked, that is forever.
— Martha Stewart, Martha
Monday, November 25, 2024
On walking: again and again (and again), the significance of the world is derived from tiny details never otherwise noted; this is the stuff from which the world may replenish itself. At the end of a day of walking, the wealth of a single day is past counting.
— Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Sunday, November 24, 2024
iPhone Tombstone in Ufa, Russia (2018)
— @welcome.jpeg
Saturday, November 23, 2024
The ballots do not carry identifying information, but some voters this year — Mr. Tripple included — doodled or otherwise marked their ballots so they could later find them when published. One person reported writing in the serial number of a $2 bill.
— Mike Baker, "An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone’s Ballots to Combat Mistrust," The New York Times