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Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality. —Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” sung to the tune of the Gilligan’s Island theme song, if you’d like
At least it’s not tea. God, I don’t know how people drink that shit, Benji. Angry leaf juice.”
Ed ran a number of companies and you never wanted your employees figuring out you were the one fucking them in the ass while you stuck a hand in their pocket. You gave them an enemy. Gave them a target. And you made them so willing to forgo their own rights because if they got something like healthcare or education, then so did Those People, and better to deny other people things instead of having to share it with Them. Get them fighting one another instead of you. Then you took what you want and walked away, whistling.
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. —Eliezer Yudkowsky
He watched Shana wave at the raccoon. The raccoon did not wave back.
At heart, what we give to the world is our service, and what we give to ourselves is our purpose.
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I hope she never dies. Though she damn sure deserves her saintly rest, I also fear she’s the final column holding up all of our reality. Bowie gone, Prince dead, we cannot lose Dolly.”
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WE CAN’T STOP HERE, THIS IS CAT COUNTRY
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The lighting here was emergency only—a skull-hurting jaundice hue. Like liver disease living inside a lightbulb.
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“My dear, nothing matters. Literally nothing. It’s all just salt and stardust. The meaning that life has is only the meaning we are fit to give it.”
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