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I get off early, so I'm going to buy a fresh pack of cigarettes and fraternize with the politicians while I wait to see exactly how the world will end.

The restaurant I work for is hosting the mayor and a city counselor to watch the elections live with another 100 guests, so I'll be watching from the kitchen...

Full. Full resolution. That's the only option. And for fuck's sake, let's get apple on board with images and video, too.

The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like fount of creativity; we are always to some degree recyclers and samplers and, at our best, participants in something larger than ourselves.

But this should not be taken to show that we become what we are (painters, musicians, speakers) by doing what, for example, LLMs do – ie, merely by getting trained up on large data sets. Humans aren’t trained up. We have experience. We learn.

This is what happens when people try to apply philosophy to science. They get romantic and egotistical. "Oh, humanity, will your wondrous powers of learning ever be duplicated? Not by brutish machines, I daresay. They only do what they are told and learn what is given to them."

The revolution will not be televised, but the brainrot will be retweeted, liked, and followed.

Tattoo of the Sun - Third Eye Blind

And a modern calculator has more computer power than the Apollo program... This is how tech works.

That kid is back on the escalator, again!

What are you doing, step-city?

Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

-Wayne Gretzky

There has to be a way to watch it now, right? Goddamn that's some nostalgia.

Edit: Sweet Lord... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8vAvnjHeJNtA1zwSGVzv13XxBrdfefBL&si=VUFgCXX3Wp1WkArq

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The Tomorrow People

Family Ties

Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.