it's "if you want to cast a shadow, move a mountain."
Moorcock articulated the same idea here imo, in a much more citable way, it's just not as damn snappy and memorable.
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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
new stuff comes out every day and there's more good old stuff than you could read in a lifetime. you do not need to stan Adverbs Isekai, especially when the author is doing the March of Dimes for nazi shit
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards!
Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works!
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someone asked on insta what “be brave enough to be kind” means and why i say it on my podcast and at screenings
being kind is always a vulnerability - it exposes your belly. love puts us in harm’s way always. we gotta find the courage to risk being hurt. or else i don’t know what the point is.
Here's a simple happiness hack:
Do something for someone that is truly altruistic. Do it in secret if you can, and take no credit, if you can manage that in a world that sees everything.
Do this as often as your circumstances allow, which may be once a year or once a day.
Try it and see.
“Imagine if we truly understand complex whale communication & can extend our term ‘language’ to them. Such breakthroughs would not only rewrite biology textbooks but also fundamentally redefine what it means to be human & pave the way to instituting new protections for whales, the ocean & beyond”🧪
at my workspace the words "wins" and "learns" are used as nouns so much and it actively makes me want to eject my brain from my skull
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
Emotionally intelligent people are better to be around in real life, but if you write all the characters in your fiction as emotionally intelligent it's gonna be boring
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
hm, well i don't know who this person is or what she does but based on a screencap someone posted of something she wrote years ago ive decided that she has to be destroyed
I was so excited I completely lost track of my own sentence structure when I made this post.
Absolutely kickass story by C.Z. Tacks up in lightspeed today. a rad as hell cyberpunk story about sex work that is, in case I didn't make it clear enough, fucking rips. you want to read this story. you WILL read this story.
The raised by wolves theme song fundamentally altered my brain chemistry
Also anime gifs of the most milquetoast shit you've ever seen in your life where the description is something like "when flimflam unlocked his power scaling jutsu in the fight with dumber MMO sephiroth ... that was PEAK CINEMA"
If youre not on Twitter right now it's like 90% posts of movie clips where the description is just the first sentence uttered in the clip. Entire site full of "the real understand" energy
People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.
Feels like it's borderline unplayable without the feature in a lot of the remasters where you can run through combat at 4x speed. Really wanted to like XII, but I could never get into it
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Benny Safdie as Edward Teller
Until somebody throws a bigger sandwich
AI psychosis "the chatbot is my best friend" type stuff is so alien to me because the few times I've been forced to interact with one of those things I immediately start telling it to kill itself out of pure irresistible disgust
sometimes the heritage and history you inherit are way more fucked up and colonial than you thought! preening tech billionaires are ruining the planet! fuck the pentagon specifically! drop {spoiler} to his {spoiler} from a height! these are all great
I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant
The Iron Sheik o @the_ironsheik HULK HOGAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DUMB SON OF A BITCH IN THE RING BUT OUTSIDE THE RING HE WAS ALSO A DUMB SON OF A BITCH
