the_beka

the_beka

@thebeka17.bsky.social

musician | film | art | book | satire https://x.com/the_beka https://thebeka.bandcamp.com/ What you look at is me, What you see is you.

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In your exchanges with ChatGPT, you have likely read an amount of text equivalent to the length of many books. Your issue is not with reading itself, but with books.

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Pursue a master’s degree to become an academic expert in a field, and a PhD to realize that you don’t actually know a damn thing about it.

Pursue a master’s degree to become an academic expert in a field, and a PhD to realize that you don’t actually know a damn thing about it.

A friend of mine resigned from their job. I called, and we talked. They even said their bodily functions—like peeing—have returned to normal. Work-related stress is truly a terrible thing. Unemployment: Bad, bad, very bad.

Waiting is painful, and so is forgetting. But the worst thing of all is being unable to decide. Should you wait? Should you forget? Best to just say "fuck it" and let it go.

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Bad news is coming in from everywhere. Every now and then you see something good, but it turns out to be artificial intelligence.😒

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Human life—if one is fortunate—is spent coming to the realization that those one considered "one of us" are not truly of one's own kind, while simultaneously discovering just how many striking similarities one shares with those one once deemed enemies.

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“Write this down: Truth is an unpleasant standard that others try to impose upon us.” “Does it have a unit of measurement, Hakan Abi?” “The unit is the human being.”

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Yet, in the world we inhabit, we are losing—at an alarming rate—the contexts that give meaning to our existence. We possess answers, but lack any explanation as to why they are answers. A world without reasons is like a void in space, devoid of gravity.

Human life—if one is fortunate—is spent coming to the realization that those one considered "one of us" are not truly of one's own kind, while simultaneously discovering just how many striking similarities one shares with those one once deemed enemies.

Bad news is coming in from everywhere. Every now and then you see something good, but it turns out to be artificial intelligence.😒

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Sylvie's New Season arrives November 6th. The Los Angeles-based artist starts anew, leading a rotating cast of collaborators through golden-hued material that suits the season. The music evokes Laurel Canyon's spirit and Nashville's songwriting tradition. ghostly.lnk.to/sylvie-new-s...

“Write this down: Truth is an unpleasant standard that others try to impose upon us.” “Does it have a unit of measurement, Hakan Abi?” “The unit is the human being.”

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Life is what happens to you while you think you are on a journey from the person you believe someone to be, toward the person you imagine they could become.

Life is what happens to you while you think you are on a journey from the person you believe someone to be, toward the person you imagine they could become.

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In these modern times, when almost all good things have dwindled to next to nothing, please—a pinch of innocence: Mohsen Makhmalbaf / a moment of innocence