Given the current nostalgia for shared reality we shouldn’t forget that peak shared reality was mutually assured destruction
They put a circle at dead ends so you can either live there or turn back but we just keep
If you travel through time it’s always the best of times and the worst of times; it’s just the ratio
We’ve gone from treating people as a means to an end to using them as props for pretend
It’s not how well you prompt AI it’s how promptly you do so because he who laughs first will have the last laugh
People want to get rich because they think money will make them happy People want to stay rich because they know that money
We don’t have to take care of our… But we have no choice God doesn’t have to be with us But He always is– The choice is ours
Physicists insist that time can flow both forward and backward So, I always insist on sitting in the backward facing seats of th… because I need to be able to see
In five big boardrooms on Earth There soon came to be a great mirt… At the growth in net worth That fed on a dearth In all of the people’s self-worth
It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious
People are like whales who have gotten sick of plankton
Known knowns: Who I think you think I am Known unknowns: Who you think I am Unknown unknowns:
The culture war is a total war burning down everything from sea to shining sea
I’m getting much better at recognizing my wife’s subtle hi… like when she recently put mosquit… over her side of the bed
In the 2020 reboot Bugs Bunny’s persona has shifted from invulnerable trickster to pseudo-empathic scold