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Kay Ryan

Possibly the funniest thing ever printed in the Washington Post.

Mambo no. 5 but it’s in a minor key and I’m naming women who didn’t text me back

Ezra Pound said "Music rots when it gets too far from the dance, poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music." Embodying this ethos will be the only way for human artists to remain viable in the world of AI-generated content.

Alice Notley

Ezra Klein: Writers who outsource their research to AI operate on a flawed model of how the mind works.

ai could never recreate this

Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost

At no point in human history have we been subjected to so much life advice from complete strangers, be very careful about whose words you take to heart, they're selling their path and know nothing of yours

it honestly really needs to lmao

Michael B. Jordan says Denzel Washington told him to stay offline to avoid overexposing himself to audiences: “Why would they pay to see you on a weekend if they see you all week for free?” (Source: vulture.com/article/michae…)

i am so stoned that i just thought about david guetta and quickly looked over my shoulder to make sure he wasn't behind me

Have gotten comments from gen z questioning the point of the American greeting ritual. I used to feel the same way in my first service jobs. I thought it was "fake," performative, extractive, "emotional labor" (though we didn't have that phrase). Here's how I changed my mind

I found a lot of human behavior incomprehensible until I thoroughly internalized one principle: People will believe whatever allows them to be the hero of their own story. (more below)

All of us are selective sinners. We choose the sins we are comfortable with, and judge others that commit the ones we’re not comfortable with.

Every Tesco has that one employee standing outside like this.

Our lives are limited to an unbelievable degree by our unwillingness to be temporarily low in social status. Embarrassment has been the cost of acquiring every valuable skill I have. If you design your life not to feel it, you're selling yourself short. (More below.)