People say genius can't be rushed but I think what isn't pointed out nearly enough is that non-genius also shouldn't be rushed. Non-geniuses are no less entitled to a personal quota of idle wandering, breaks to consume cake, staring blankly out a window and taking 11 days to reply to a text message.
Itβs the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.
Writing is basically the wrong word for writing (e.g. books) :)
Always has been wrong, and incomplete.
Using genAI for "research, brainstorming, or outlining" means your so-called work is not just human work. You may think you can still call it "human-authored work" but it doesn't meet my criteria for "human-authored work."
Authors don't just type words. They think. They read. They choose.
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A wind waker mod where Link is replaced with Kiryu from Yakuza
found the perfect mod
My photo of a tree in the woods - the sun shining at a fork in some branches.
On my morning walk in the woods, a tree captures the sun in its wooden heart.
The point of writing a summary is to read actively, process and internalise what you read, and select information according to your purpose. It's not just to have a shorter thing
how often would you like to get updates about beef stroganoff?
βοΈ daily
βοΈ weekly
βοΈ once a month
βοΈ if something big happens
When you almost have a thought
Memes for language lovers
Memes for language lovers
Itβs a me-at, Mario!
striking photo of a black and white tuxedo cat. The entire photo is almost entirely a velvety black except a curving line of white fur and the cat's gold eye which are illuminated by a sliver of sunbeam.
Stunning portrait of The Morsel by my boyfriend.
A photo of a toad I met while gardening a few summers ago. Look at his beautiful coppery eyes!
Bow down before your local toad today and respect his supreme leathery authority. There is no time to waste.
beep beep
#BlueMonday at Rome Ciampino
Counterpoint:
music the great communicator use two sticks to make it in the nature
Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that βitβs called Broad daylight because women light up the worldβ
international womenβs day
Illustration of a skull-faced dog wandering the streets. #kimgakaku
Stray Dog K9-1-4-22
[commissioning a resident evil mansion]
me: so I think what is needed here is a series of well-labelled keys
Umbrella architect: what about a series of bizarrely-shaped cranks
me: well,
Umbrella architect: I SAID CRANKS
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tenchi masaki from tenchi muyo dressed in a grey schoolgirl uniform walks through a scifi scanner thingie
a computer screen showing his skeleton and a DNA strand, captioned dialog reads "everything looks okay"
the space cop or whatever says "but did you know your frame is very masculine?"
tenchi says "uh, i... have a father who's a man"
it's a pleasant surprise if you find a crossdressing character in a 90s anime and the joke being told is funny
A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, PerΓΊ. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.
Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.
#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus
Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:
usborne.com/us/books/com...
Literally the best investment I've ever made
a screenshot from 2013 of a virtual pet game called 'kawaii pet megu'. the user's virtual pet, a frowning blue blob with a bulb tail, stands in an illustrated backyard with a dilapidated pet house, looking sad. above its head is the message 'everything is alright'. below it, its status window includes bleak updates like 'health: super fine' 'reliability: you are made irrelevant' 'hobby: tweeting' and 'stress: being bone lazy'. the overall onscreen status message reads screenshot feels particularly relevant to OP today
you are made irrelevant
A pen and colour pencil sketch of Gromit confronting the villain Feathers McGraw with a rolling pin.
Go on, make my day! Post card I had on the end of my bookcase at work. Sketched over a coffee break. I still have the card somewhere at home...
#WallaceAndGromit #Gromit #FeathersMcGraw #drawing
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
an image promoting a substack article titled β25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right nowβ
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
