Thursday, January 26, 2023
Hard to stop seeing these.
— Stephanie on accidental vanity plates
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
"It is such a real pleasure to be able to relax and not have to guard every word, and to know one is with real, understanding friends." Hoover wrote to Nixon's wife Pat after an especially meaningful gathering.
— Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
A banker by day and a pterodactyl at night.
— ChatGPT, line from poem titled "Isaac's Pterodactyl Dreams"
Monday, January 23, 2023
Mr. Jingles... ha ha ha... He's just sittin' there... he's saying "I aint goin' over there to test them"... look at 'im... oh dear me... Mr. Jingles what are you doin'?
— @martincritchlow
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Rockfish offer a unique opportunity to study longevity because they include more than 100 species that have evolved to exhibit a vast range of life spans, from 11 years to more than 200 years. The analysis revealed a set of genes associated with changes in their life spans. While some of those genes were already known to regulate longevity in humans and many other species, others were a surprise.
— @harvardmed
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Allen's calling.
— Max's friends doing bit with Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy
Friday, January 20, 2023
Carin Goldberg was not a networker.
— First sentance of @mbierut's remembrance for Carin Goldberg
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Today, I see design moving more towards liberal arts.
— H*
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Horse.
— Correct answer at trivia for land mammal with largest eyes
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
So these need to be as close to perfect as humanly possible. And we do think they are among the most perfect items that we have on Earth
— Michael Stadermann via @60minutes post with caption "The target shells used to create nuclear fusion reactions with the world’s largest laser are so tiny that scientists apply glue to them using a cat whisker."
Monday, January 16, 2023
If I knew I was gonna die of cancer or something, and I had like three months to live, I would vlog every day. I'd film so many videos, and then I would just schedule upload a video a week for the next five years, so it's like I'm still alive, and I would completely act like I'm still alive and everything, and I think something like that would be cool. I don't know why but I've fantasized... Not fantasized, but I've dreamt about that a lot. Like, I don't know, if I only had 30 days to live, what would I do? And for me, I would try to make a decade's worth of content and schedule upload it so they automatically go public in the future, and so it's just like I never died, I'm just there.
— MrBeast, "MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #351"
Sunday, January 15, 2023
The oven timer dings with glee,
The cookies are ready, come and see.
Golden brown and oh so crisp,
Lily's cookies are a true bliss.
The cookies are ready, come and see.
Golden brown and oh so crisp,
Lily's cookies are a true bliss.
— ChatGPT
Saturday, January 14, 2023
But there are existential worries, too. One high school teacher told me that he used ChatGPT to evaluate a few of his students’ papers, and that the app had provided more detailed and useful feedback on them than he would have, in a tiny fraction of the time.
— Kevin Roose, "Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.," The New York Times
Friday, January 13, 2023
Whatever he might have had in his mind’s eye was not what he was going to get. He needed to state his prompt cleanly and clearly. But the creativity bubbled out of the machine.
— Frank Pavich, "This Film Does Not Exist," The New York Times
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Sometimes, putting a number on how much of something you have takes years of effort.
— @broadinstitute
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Currency and coin counter
— Listed under "Skills" on George A. Devolder Santos' resume
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
He devised a new filing system for investigative reports, in which any information that might "cause embarrassment to the Bureau" would be written on separate "administrative pages," easily detached from the main files in case of coutroom discovery.
— Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Monday, January 9, 2023
And also, we're no smarter them, we just have more crude knowledge in part 'cause of them. But like, you know, they were just as clever as us, you know?
— Bhaskar Sunkara on people from ancient history, "Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349"
Sunday, January 8, 2023
How ur Kaws collection is gonna look to ur grandkids someday
— @artreviewpower100 via @sebastianstudio
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Artists are capitalists masquerading as visionaries.
— @jerrygogosian