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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

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Narrator: And just in the nick of time.

04.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Missing woman survives on lollipops and wine for 5 days stranded in Australian bushland "The only liquid Lillian, who doesn't drink, had with her was a bottle of wine she had bought as a gift for her mother so that got her through," police said.

A woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland has been found after surviving for five days on lollipos and a bottle of wine, police said. 
www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-s...

03.11.2025 01:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty. Everything happening is exactly what I predicted.
 
PS. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

03.11.2025 01:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

PS. - Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

03.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“I’m not going to sit here and listen to you tell me that it’s okay for August to hit her because she’s his wife. Or that it’s not his fault because he’s insane. If he’s insane, that’s all the more reason she should stay away.”

PS. - Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

PS. - Rousseau Jean-Jacques

01.11.2025 23:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.

PS. - The Iron Heel

01.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

PS. - Stephen King, The Shining

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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look | Aeon Ideas From Diogenes to Jane Goodall, the hypersane seem mad to the mainstream but perhaps they see more deeply than the sane

Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Ancient Greek means something like ‘uninhibited thought’, ‘free speech’, or ‘full expression’. getpocket.com/explore/item...

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[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

PS. - W. Somerset Maugham

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Everyone Is 12 Now Except the King, Who Is 8 | Common Dreams We know the awful, the stupid, the cruel goes on, but we're heartened by the birth of "a new unified theory of American reality" to help explain the darkness. It's called, "Everyone is twelve now." Su...

www.commondreams.org/further/ever...

29.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

PS. - Terry Pratchett, Snuff

29.10.2025 01:38 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

PS. - Helen Keller

29.10.2025 01:14 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We are all okay with our choices until a heavy consequence is attached to them. - Richelle E. Goodrich

29.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

28.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. - Philip K. Dick

28.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

PS. - mayhaps Winston S. Churchill

28.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

PS. - George Orwell, 1984

28.10.2025 00:29 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself (Published 2024) As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results.

In the long run, this cycle may pose a threat to A.I. itself. Research has shown that when generative A.I. is trained on a lot of its own output, it can get a lot worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

27.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry."

PS. - Paulo Freire

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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

PS. - André Malraux

27.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children, and blood for men."

PS. - A Canticle for Leibowitz

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