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In the age of automation and artificial intelligences, I suspect people would rather change 1 & 2 to a universal basic income and a 20 hour work week, but it certainly is a start.

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the next time someone asks what this country is like i’ll just send them this

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i do think we have to stop calling it the civil war and bring back calling it the slaveholders’ rebellion. that rebrand was perhaps the most culturally consequential of a foolhardy attempt to reach across the aisle

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dash is dead im teleporting to the past

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752

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Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?

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People only like the idea of trickster spirits. "Oh, I could deal with them, easy." But once they meet one in person it's suddenly "wow, this guy sure is annoying."

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The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous startups in Silicon Valley, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five startups?” // “If I find forty-five there,” God said, “I will not destroy it.”

… The two venture capitalists arrived at Palo Alto in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. … They did go with him and entered his $0.9m one-bedroom home. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without gluten, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of Silicon Valley—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can pitch our startups to them.”

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There are instances where CGI ages gracefully, and I think the best examples are stylized 2D animation from the 2000’s or so.

Go rewatch Invader Zim. The show still looks shockingly good for being 20 years old, and none of the CGI looks dated, because it’s stylized to fit the look of the show.

Disney’s Atlantis

Lilo & Stitch

The Iron Giant

This is less a defense of CGI and more a defense of bringing back computer-assisted 2D animation.

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Tolkien is 1000% done.

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My T-shirt with the entire text of Borges' theoretical Library of Babel is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt, somewhere.

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🌕💙⚜️💙Stars and the Moon💙⚜️💙🌕

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evil wizard voice: i too have a "doom scroll"

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There's a dream or fantasy I have, which will likely stay a fantasy because I can't imagine anyone would let me do this.

I want to go into a total stranger's house or apartment -- I don't even want to know who's letting me in -- and I want to snoop around the place. I want to see and hear and smell that unfamiliar dwelling, note out what's obvious, what's behind closed doors, and what's hidden. I want to form an impression of who lives there and what they're like, from what their place is like; I want to write it down, I want them to read it, and I want them to write something back about which parts of it were correct and which parts were wrong, and what it actually is. And I want them to never know who I am, and I never want to know who they are aside from what I gathered and what they corrected.

I suppose it's technically possible for this to happen. I'm sure there's people out there who'd be curious to hear what conclusions someone else would draw from what all is in their house. However, "wanting to have zero contact with them, before during or after" makes it a bit more difficult to arrange. And "looking at pictures of someone's rooms" wouldn't properly do it, I'd need to be fully situated in the space, able to look at what wasn't in frame. Honestly "people wouldn't necessarily trust me to not steal or break anything" would be the easiest aspect to deal with, I'd accept being "chaperoned" or watched by someone throughout the whole thing, so long as they don't live there and they don't talk to me.

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actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used