Quote of the Day
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t. – Mark Twain
Quote of the Day
I am now officially nostalgic not for some fabled era of good government — which probably never existed — but for an era when I didn’t have to think about government much at all. Sober people with solid haircuts and slightly above room-temperature IQs just sort of governed and shut up about it. – Matt Labash
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If you can make someone laugh who’s dead set against you, that’s the first step to winning them over to your side. – John Waters
The Proud and Forgotten
For all the talk about how AI may take our jobs in the not too distant future, there’s one group of people who are being affected severely now. What of the folks who pose for stock photography? So many of the pictures you see on the internet even now are generated by AI. What of the beautiful people who pose for pictures eating sandwiches or having a meeting? Their future looks bleak.
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…all the existential hyperbole, across the political spectrum, on virtually every issue. You don’t have to participate in any of it. – Kmele Foster
They’re Probably Out to Get Me
I just tested and installed our new wifi-enabled, talking smoke / carbon monoxide detector. As with many things, I think I prefer the older version that was neither wifi-enabled nor capable of talking. I’m pretty sure the smoke detector and the coffee pot will now be conspiring against me behind my back.
What If There’s Nothing Left?
I recently committed to leave every social network that consisted mainly of people being mean to each other. And now all I have left is this place. I have no thoughts worth sharing on whether there was ever a benign intent behind social media, but in the words of Cal Newport, these platforms tell you that “all of your frantic tapping and swiping makes you a key part of a political revolution, or a fearless investigator, or a righteous protestor – that when you’re online, you’re someone important, doing important things during an important time.” But in reality “you’re toiling anonymously in an attention factory.” And for free no less.
Quote of the Day
Sarcasm doesn’t really convince people.
– Richard Thaler
You’d think advice from a Nobel Prize winner would be good enough for me. Still working on this one.
