"I love the idea! Totally unworkable, but I love it!" #overheard
First person: “Everyone body wants to rule the world, right?”
Second person: “F#ck no, do you know how much paperwork is involved with that?!”
#outofcontext #overheard
"My screen is so dirty all of the people look like Buffy-vampires"
#overheard
"They don't call me 'Frog Legs McGillicuddy' for nothing"
#overheard
#OVERHEARD
Anna Foa: “Pizzaballa? Jewish supremacists are now threatening everyone, not just the Palestinians.”
#OVERHEARD
Sir Henry Wotton famously stated that “an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country”, a quip that not only annoyed his royal master but also evoked the famed duplicity of the Venetians themselves."
"I asked ChatGPT to explain 'Memento', and I still don't get it"
#Overheard
#Overheard im Bus:
"Teile von mir sind jünger als meine Enkel und nicht meine Brüste"
🤭😅
#Overheard just now: “Brexit? Yeah, it’s shit.”
#OVERHEARD
"It is no coincidence that Thiel spent his childhood in South Africa & Namibia, the former German colony where apartheid was state law, where ethnic surveillance was daily practice, where racial hierarchy did not need to justify itself in front of any public discourse. Just like Musk."
#OVERHEARD
"Old allies will never again trust the US after its people elected not once but twice this most unfit, mindlessly dangerous man."
#OVERHEARD
"Putin has understood the power of these tools perfectly. By tools, they mean AI, but also who is behind them. In fact, a lot has been said in recent days about the business of Palantir and Peter Thiel, who recently came to Italy for a series of conferences."
#OVERHEARD
"I write climate fiction and non‑fiction books about sustainability, if AI is going to train a model on that and then distribute it, maybe that's a good thing?"
#Overheard
"It is easy to embroider explanations with the thread of self, but love in its essential form knows no such thing."
"we are redundant" #overheard backstage at TEDxAsheville #TEDxAVL
...btw this is a good thing for backstage to be...... redundant!
Today I was sitting in a café next to a group of older women who were discussing the Louis Theroux documentary.
'There's a name for it, you know', one of them announced gravely -
'It's male toxicology'.
#overheard
#Overheard
"If you are ever inclined to call someone toxic, maybe first take a look in the mirror..."
Me: "What if I am trapped in an abusive relationship."
Them: "I want to hear about what creates the trap..."
"If there isn't Rutabaga in a pasty I don't want anything to do with it." #overheard #dlh
#overheard #wariniran #blacksky 2 days later - I wasn't too early
#OVERHEARD
Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and parents, shooting all in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip.
One of the Israelis said “we killed dogs". The family had been in the nearby city of Nablus to buy clothes for the upcoming Eid. 😭