It is quite easy to ask a great question. To give a great answer — really tricky, mostly extremely hard, often impossible.
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Architects who design and propose glass buildings may have increased carbon emissions for decades
Hot take: developing an open source For You algorithm for mastodon that shows you posts based on your likes inbetween every other chronological post would be great
If we had an open source algorithm for Mastodon/Pixelfed that learned based on the words in the post and image/video we could have a Following + For You feed that showed you all the posts from people you follow and you could choose to see, say, 1 recommended For You post after every 3 posts from your Following feed. With the...
Delicate Balance
A person that lives without any rules like an animal, a person that stictly follws rules without exceptions is like a machine. Neither is desirable. Wisdom is having the experience and judgement to know when to do which.
After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/
I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
The opposite of "Ladies and Gentlemen" would be "Whores and Scoundrels".
Which sounds rad as fuck. Like how you’d open a speech for the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
All episodes of The Twilight Zone boil down to "man wouldn't that be fucked up"
A drunk person wandering outside will always find their way back but a drunk bird probably won't.
Explanation: Random walk in 2D has a unity probability of making it back to the starting point as the number of steps approach infinity but random walk in 3D only has ~0.34.
Swimming...
…is just flying in the water.
The youngest picture of you is actually your oldest picture.
There have probably been fortune cookies opened that had that day's winning lottery numbers
Starting any sentence with 'how come' makes you sound like a tattle tale.
Public Libraries were the original Freemium model.
Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card....
I know where outer space is, but where is inner space?
I know I’m not the first one to wonder, but really…
The birthday that separates having spent more time in this century than the last should be adressed specifically
When I was a kid I identified old TV shows because they were black and white...
These days, kids identify them by the aspect ratio.
Every culture has a future as history.
Sunscreen is an add-on to go outside.
Brain bubble from my friend.
The Joker's super power is his mental illness
Today could be one of those boring ol' happy days I might one day randomly reminisce about in the future.
Sometimes my brain hits me with the most mundane memories, and even those bring comfort & nostalgia at times. Trying to appreciate all the little things and enjoy the moment.
Now that AI generated text is mostly indistinguishable from human text, AI may start influencing the evolution of our language.
Given that language is an important lens through which we see the world, AI could subtly alter our perceptions and beliefs over the coming years, decades, and centuries.
With the advances of medicine in the coming millennium casual conversations might be like "I'm 245", "Oh, I'm 332", "Damn, I'm just 119"
Getting lost in thought is kinda like wearing headphones without headphones
The world fades into the background as your thoughts envelope you, and if you’re a musician imagining your music, maybe it’s closer to that than I’d have thought. =O