Happy New Year to everyone who promises to be a better person in 2026 but then realizes you don’t change a classic.

Seen on a bumper sticker, a prayer:

“Don’t make me an optimist, you’ll ruin my life.”

The most Silent Gen event: D-Day

The most Boomer event: Woodstock

The most Gen X event: Jan 6

The minds at the vanguard of the state of the art know that someone else will do this if they don't

substack I think tho

Ah found it, joined - I'll also be one of your yearly subscribers post-beta, so I can let you know if there are any issues there

Oh my goodness, hello John! What a treat to hear from you – and doubly so about this!

Are you running any sort of little community for the app like on discord or anywhere? (I am, for a game we all play - whenever you're ready to spread the word a little, I'll try to get you some more users 😄)

✌️🍺

"Rawlins asked him in his bad Spanish if there was a heaven for horses but he shook his head and said that a horse had no need of heaven."
(Cormac McCarthy, ATPH)

"Anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating."
- Edward Gorey

One of the better ones existentialcomics.com/comic/614

"We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

Good post, but also want to share the visual style of this blog

pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bit.html

"I have forced myself to contradict myself i order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
- Marcel Duchamp

“Language: a dialect with an army and navy”

> banging my head against a bug
> figure I'll ask AI...
> explain the bug to AI in great detail
> about to press enter...
> realize the answer to my own question
> *agi has been achieved internally*

utsavmamoria.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

"Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos."
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
- Thomas Mann

S: the unexamined life is not worth living P: But if I examine my life it will definitely be worth living, right? S: *stares* P: It'll be worth living, right?

ready for the Socrates/Padme crossover?

Quest is not for the young – it's for those who may be too comfy in their hobbit holes

Who are able to read the signs of the world

When you make AI talk, it's not AI talking, it's humans past www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/10/even...

A team of quantum physicists from the University of Toronto observed photons exiting a material before entering it

www.the-independent.com/tech/time-ne...

Might be the piece of the RTO era
www.gapingvoid.com/culture-is-p...