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Welcome to my tiny internet home. I write notes, jot small thoughts, and save clippings. More about me, my current whims, and odds & ends.
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These words
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I'm going to be silent
This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them. You are one of one, unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There’s only one of you. So to give your voice to a machine to say speak for me, I’m going to be silent, and I’m going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative, is such a crime against yourself. It’s so dystopian, beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel, and I did a lot.
Source: Dave Eggers: You are "unprecedented in the history of evolution." Don't let AI speak for you. via You are one of one
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In the punk world
There are ways to protest besides a boycott. In the punk world, it is not uncommon for bands to take the money, then talk shit about the sponsor onstage. In 2024, after San Francisco artist the Ferocious Few was booked for a show called “Fleet Fest” during the expensive display of military porn that is Fleet Week, singer Francisco Fernandez got up on stage at the pier, in front of a massive Navy ship, and changed his lyrics to be about the U.S. funding genocide. Someone eventually cut the power.
Source: ‘How Could You Be Against Joy?’: Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund via The Weird Way I Found Out About the Insidious San Francisco 'Civic Joy' Fund
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Sort it out later
If you reject your own ideas, then the part of the brain that comes up with ideas is going to stop. You just do it and do it and do it, and you sort it out later.
Source: Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify? via everything is embarrassing
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The place of truth
[H]onesty involves caring not only about the place of truth in one’s own life but also about its place in the lives of others.
Source: The Ethicist
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As much as or even more
We, the people, still love love. More crucially, though, we crave stories in which people connect intimately and are changed in the process—the kind of works that normalize and defend caring about others as much as or even more than we care about ourselves.
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As if this were all that matters
And modern moral theories tend to focus on issues of intentions and control, as if this were all that matters. In truth, harm has its own weight. ... [T]he injuries you inflict matter, in ways separable from what you’d meant to do.
Source: The Ethicist
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An unspoken agreement
[T]olerance should not be considered a virtue or moral principle, but rather an unspoken agreement within society to tolerate one another's differences as long as no harm to others arises from [it]. In this formulation, one being intolerant is violating the contract, and therefore is no longer protected by it against the rest of society.
Source: Paradox of intolerance
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Just brain farts
What are the links between Buddhism, which you practice, kindness and your art? It’s just the awareness that we have thoughts and they self-generate and dominate us. We mistake those thoughts for us. In both Buddhist practice and writing, you have a chance to go: Oh, those are just brain farts. They’re just happening spontaneously, and I didn’t actually create them, and I’m not sure I really want to take ownership of them. At the same time, they’re affecting my body. So you have to just get clear for long enough to recognize them as being separate from who you actually are.
Source: George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You via You are him. You have been him.
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Collective memory
What is the internet but collective memory?
Source: Severance by Ling Ma, 2018
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Current parameters
I suspect your current parameters want you to feel gratified by your captivity.
Source: Foundation, "The Stress of Her Regard"
