It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.
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okay well i asked the moon and she said you’re a fucking loser for that
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Go for long walks. Meditate. Journal your thoughts. Read new books. Spend time alone without devices. You would get to understand yourself a lot much better. Your brain gets the best ideas when it is left to wander.
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Your airport vignette stands out in a piece chock full of ideas. The passivity of constant screen time is corrosive on multiple levels. It encourages physical deformity in the postures people adapt to keep those thumbs rolling, and it leaves no time or space for contemplation. With constant, curated input, where will the new art, philosophy and inventions come from?
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"...it leaves no time or space for contemplation. With constant, curated input, where will the new art, philosophy and inventions come from?" 🎯
It's all remix and recycled, each time with less understanding and more political compliance.
The Advent of AI (term used very loosely for a neural network approach of pattern recognition) will generate more "art" than people will, going forward.
Look at the output of Dalle2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney all of which can imitate styles and reproduce them...
Like any tool, or resource, the information on the net can be used to catch food, or catch people, to do good or to do harm. The switch is intelligent discernment, and active participation, versus passive absorption. One clue to me has been the divide between those who read, as opposed to those who watch. As an avid people watcher, maybe we should relabel it people reading? A footnote to your opening, my network microsoft (msn dot com)(or as i refer to it the micro soft penis meshwork) has con…
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