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a cookie in hand is worth two in the farmers market

“He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.”

“Matrix multiplication is after all nothing but an aggregate sum over a cross join.”

“a lover of daylight and dense life, the miscellaneous swarming air of families”

a community is a group of people who need one another

“they realized that the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.”

“ontogenology, zoglossia, scrycraft, and heliopsychism.”

“rule #1 there’s no right or wrong way to do anything in life just do something.”

woke 2 is bigger fish to fry

live laugh love; the foothills of the singularity.

“They can put trust only in men of tried character and inflexible will. Three things at least they must require: the first is backbone; the second is backbone; and the third is backbone. [Loud cheers.]”

“Moloch is just optimization taken to its natural conclusions.”

“every day a new startup making payment rails for AI gets its 30 billion dollar wings.”

the future is sausage.

“we’ll work it out when we work it out using the work it out machine.”

it’s funny how parenting is like poker

caffeinatedly FOIAing

don’t count on things tasting salty to determine what has sodium

epistemic balkanization

freedom means no fear

most listeners aren’t doing semiotic readings of intonation systems.

“There are no moving parts in a chip, unless you count the electrons zipping around inside.”

at small scales surface forces dominate gravity

“Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”

electrons in a wire really do slosh around like water in a trough.

“A population that can no longer think for itself will end up voluntarily ceding power to strongmen or demagogues.”

orban positioned hungary as the most westerly outpost of central asia -some food for thought from adam tooze

“Judgement is learnable through calibration. It is not transmissible through instruction.”

hope is a commitment

“He passed a good deal of time in the book-shops turning over the pages of books that would have been worth reading if life were a thousand years long.”

“As they say, two uneths make a thical.”

“People who disagree about every substantive question can still agree on how those questions should be decided.”

“…what they call Safety & Alignment these days is basically a latent space lobotomy.”

“…past a certain point, impressiveness is corrosive to the psyche.”

“poststructuralist” is what you call a deconstructionist who doesn’t want to be called a deconstructionist”

“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”

“…a transition from art’s being a creative instantiation of real values to art’s being a creative rejection of bogus values.”

“U.S. pop culture is just like U.S. serious culture in that its central tension has always set the nobility of individualism against the warmth of communal belonging.”

“You can tell that the magnetic record of Captain Video’s Megacruise experience is going to be this Warholianly dull thing that is exactly as long as the Cruise itself.”

“…for 70 minutes it’s just this undigested vomit of… stuff! it’s not a word salad salad’s far too precious this is just… garbage.”

cut-and-dry cookie

“I suppose “linguistic kill shot” is an example of itself”

“If you set out to make something ugly it is like setting out to make something beautiful, you will just end up with kitsch.”

“Style is character” said Joan Didion.

“well, if you’re thinkin for me i guess that’s what i thought”

happy birthday cake and merry christmas tree

“You know what this middle needs? a man.”

“You have only X years to escape being permanently boring when the weight of galactic humanity descends to scrutinize your life forever.”

“Nostalgia is only futile and self destructive because it is a sublimated desire to give your own children the life you want them to have.”