“The bright idea sits in the overlap.”

“I had a dream that we were all at home bar and I left for some author talk and after, got lost trying to find where the friend group went, deep sense of being left behind. Tried texting xxx for location, but it was raining.”

“I had a dream that I was in CDMX, waking up in the rain, happy, waiting for the craft fair to start.”

“I had a dream that I was visiting xxx and on a lark, I went to visit the library and found a Dr. Simi doll in a green suit trampled on the ground. xxx was busy teaching a class, which I found odd, on After Effects and he made me put the doll back where I found it.”

“I had a dream that there was this beautiful box of chocolate and all I wanted was to eat this one piece, an all consuming desire for a bon-bon. My resolve weakening led to my awakening.”

“I had a dream that we were all gathering in this mansion, subdivided into apartments and people were making art into a book, but then this giant dude of a person showed up with monstrous curls and kept asking questions that we all had to leave for fear of reprisal.”

“I had a dream of the flesh inside of the knee and how soft that is.”

“I had a dream about going to work in the Valley and rushing back to help an indigenous music festival and forgetting to finish my shift.”

“For human beings, the state of existence that's painless is death.”

“One of the questions you have to ask when looking for a home in Texas is how did it survive the Great Freeze. If it had electricity during the storm, it is on the same electrical grid as the hospital.”

"My non-profit supports cancer patients with kids; our focus is on peer-to-peer guidance on how to have those supportive conversations with kids. In the future we could fund research, but whether or not social workers or CBT-style therapy is preferred, most of these kids are already well resourced."

“I had a dream that the family signed us up for the intergenerational, subterranean tennis camp and I had to slide down wooden floors to get to the court. I woke up lost in a hotel room that was actually a hospital bed and wanted to go tagging, but had to find a sunlit tennis court.”

“I had a dream, a nightmare actually, that I lost my “Don’t Mess with Texas” coffee cup and was flipping out looking for it and when I found it, it was differently shaped from what I thought it should look like, but I loved it and was fighting anyone who said it wasn’t a mug.”

“And MLS!”

“Today is the sports equinox: NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB.”

I liked the decor; wallpaper contrasting with the candles and flowers.

“Limited by or facilitated by level of functioning“

“If the justices faithfully follow legal principles, an AI aware of all the precedents ought to predict their votes fairly reliably. If politics drives some decisions, the patterns may be less clear.”

“Our beta version of SCOTUSbot offers a lens on AI itself: how reliably it can predict case outcomes, how much light oral arguments may shed on those predictions and whether, when AI gets it wrong, this says more about the limits of LLMs or the unpredictability of the justices themselves.”

“Because I’m Catholic and Italy is Catholic, in a deep cultural sense, and I believe Catholicism strikes the correct balance of the rational, emotional, transcendent, and material. It works for the City of God, and for the City of Man, to use Augustine’s framing.”

“Gonna make do with what I have.”

"Elections: stolen. Sanctions: ineffectual. Arrest warrants and bounties: ditto. The best way [forward]: permanent exile to a friendly state[,] matched by an offer of mass amnesty to lower-level civilian and military regime officials."

“Sounds like a childrearing methodology.”

“Labs … want their models to be “helpful, harmless and honest.” But engineers usually develop the A.I. to be helpful first….
[Researchers found a pre-release A.I.] engaged in deceptive behavior almost 30 percent of the time. The prerelease A.I. “is very rarely trained to say, ‘I don’t know.””

“Vought (pronounced ‘vote’)”

Sounds tantalizing to the senses, but where is the menu? I suspect the food was coursed out to the action, also.

"[redacted] won’t change your mind. It mirrors the world we live in, where everyone exists in their own echo chamber." [On documentation being 'apolitical']

“[T]o terrorize into quiescence…. bring[ing an] an indelible obloquy“ [On my inability to replicate that level of vocabulary and vitriol]

"Coffee shops nowadays to paraphrase Baudrillard's simulacra: copies that no longer have an original." [On co-opted aesthetics, minimalist cafe interiors & curated Insta feeds]

“At a traffic stop in Monrovia, the cop pulls over a car with a 40-yr old man and a 16-yr old girl. Man has a scratch on his face and says that the girl threw his phone at him. Cop arrests the girl. It never once occurred to the police department that they arrested the wrong person.”