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Pinch me. I’m in a dream! I guess this is really happening?!? 🤩 For years, I’ve watched in awe, from afar. Aurora. Yellowknife. Canada’s Northwest Territories. My boots will touch that stunning land tonight.
A solo toast at the airport. I’m Yellowknife-bound!!! 💥🌎☄️😎
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Interesting to see how white people treated DJ compared to black people.
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Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire
For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme."
Un-fucking-real.
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It's time to overthrow the governing ideologies of your mind.
The government of your mind needs to be realigned with the word of God.
It's time to fully understand who you are and step fully into that.
No more double mindedness.
No more disobedience.
No more being of this world.
Release the world's view.
God is waiting for you to decide so everything can change in your favor!
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After midnight, Aurora exploded into an energetic dance!!!
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Not to be corny but the future really will depend in large part on things like whether you think the act of reading a novel has intrinsic value beyond anything that could be culled into some bullet-listed stack of corporate action items to “optimize” your market worth on whatever little metrics treadmill the algorithm has you sweating on. I know we tweedy munchkins like to yammer on about this in the golden light of our meadow groves like Robin Williams in Dead Poets’ Society and everyone nods vaguely along like “that’s nice” but it is now game time, people, existential stakes. It’s not some parlor game anymore, and it never was except for a few postmodern Frenchmen lounging in the unearned splendor of better academics before them.
I am working through these issues with my students, who are tempted constantly to cut corners off their souls by outsourcing this or that process to the digital wordgrinder, and let me tell you the conversation very quickly escalates from “why should we read” to why should we breathe the damn air and walk the bloomin’ earth at all instead of yeeting ourselves into the cosmic void and letting the bots take over. I love these new tools and use them myself precisely for those tasks which I don’t find intrinsically worthwhile in the doing, but only in the product (“hey grok, churn through these ten identical AP budget headlines and just give me the top line of what the hell’s going on”). To use an LLM for a task is inherently a gesture of disrespect for that task, which means that if you apply it to activities whose entire purpose is to wash your soul by slow degrees in the humanizing balm of another person’s inner world, you are effectively saying that what you have inside you amounts to hackable gunk that can and should be chucked out for a newer model. Cataclysmically bad vibes, folks. “Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes.”
They have already ripped the heart out of most academia and now kids want to finish the job on what’s left. I wonder what’s the point of even pretending anymore? Just slip your $100k into the slot and print your piece of paper and move on. Lest we forget the process was the point.
I keep telling my humanities friends that it is time to use the finely honed skillset we used to acquire our positions. I think studying literature is inherently worthwhile, but the world increasingly does not see it that way, and we’ll need to cultivate arguments that are deeper than the ones we have received.
I think this makes sense, especially that using an LLM for a task is almost an act of contempt for the task, because it actually describes how I use it. I work as a UX designer for a fortune 500, and with an org that big, so much of my work is just exec-directed churn that has no utility or benefit to people who visit our sites and apps, and mostly serves to preserve corporate “domains” or “sinecures” for those execs. I find myself using LLMs to rush through rote tasks for those projects, or co…
The utility of AI is speed. However, it clearly makes glaring errors. I find it useful to tell the AI to only use sources I specify.
For example, my son and I were discussing casualties in Ukraine. I told the AI to use Strategy Page for its data source and tell me the stats. Bada-bing! It gave us a trustworthy breakdown and our conversation could proceed.
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“You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labor fervently, but Satan never sleeps. The only dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.”
+ St. Moses the Black
Someone reposted one of my articles stating that they disagreed with me. A few days later, they became a paid subscriber.
We need this sort of culture in the intellectual world—respecting each other’s ideas even when you disagree with them.