Friday, March 26, 2021
His sons were actually the masters of Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, etc
And they actually took the trouble of invading the British isles
Just to get back at him
You can’t do that these days
If somebody threw your or my father in a snake pit we wouldn’t be able to get more than 4 people in a boat
If that many
— Danny
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Human goals.
— Alvaro
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
I quit clubhouse with a cause: it proves pure democracy is a fallacy
— @kennyschachter
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
And Schiller would answer that at this point in the realm of the United States, Gary Gilmore was making history. Fair or not, Benny Bushnell and his death never would.
— Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
Monday, March 22, 2021
They don't wrap fish in our work.
— Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Sunday, March 21, 2021
I really do have the best ice cream flavor ideas. They're not at the top of my head but I know they're there.
— Lily
Saturday, March 20, 2021
It's not just knowing what to tap, it's having the touch. And I don't have the touch.
— Sid (over Zoom) on touch screens
Friday, March 19, 2021
The same spirit that leads us to equally obsess over the family photographs of Orson Welles on vacation in the Alps and the most recent edition of a math textbook makes us ill-equipped for success in contemporary life.
— Jamie Vander Broek, "A Library Is For You," Radical Humility
Thursday, March 18, 2021
This very much does not read as something that was meant to be put in a museum and last forever.
— Ben Davis, "I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple’s $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn’t So Pretty," Artnet
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
All matter is decaying and prone to deteriorating, but I think that's what's so fascinating about the cheese book, is that it underscores that and makes the problem much more immediate.
— Julie, "Opening the Interactive Book," NYU*
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Dennis had had this concept for years that the media was restless and didn't really want to be surfeited with handouts and crap. One honest man with no impediment between his impulses and his tounge could turn the world around.
— Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
Monday, March 15, 2021
The donor of this work does not allow photography
— Lily in a text as I was photographing her text
Sunday, March 14, 2021
It’s funny to me that the Detroit Institute of Arts — one of our country’s premier art museums — thanked me for my visit by emailing me a coupon good for $4 off a Buddy’s Pizza
— @mcmubria
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Gilmore had a quality Gibbs could recognize. He accommodated. Gibbs believed he, himself, could always get near somebody—just use the side that was like them. Gilmore did the same.
— Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
Friday, March 12, 2021
Pete didn't remember all the things he said in the prayer, or even if he held her hand while he prayed. One was not supposed to remember what was said in prayers. It was sacred at the moment, and not really to be repeated.
— Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Didn't want to make an enemy of him for too little.
— Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
No doubt these trees would make good lumber after passing through a sawmill, as George Washington after passing throuh the hands of a French cook would have made good food.
— John Muir via Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
But even cleverest AI can be fooled with the simplest of hacks. If you write out the word “iPod” on a sticky label and paste it over the apple, Clip does something odd: it decides, with near certainty, that it is looking at a mid-00s piece of consumer electronics. In another test, pasting dollar signs over a picture of a dog caused it to be recognised as a piggy bank. OpenAI, the machine learning research organisation that created Clip, calls this weakness a “typographic attack”. “We believe attacks such as those described above are far from simply an academic concern.”
— Alex Hern, "'Typographic attack': pen and paper fool AI into thinking apple is an iPod," The Guardian via @tau_au
Monday, March 8, 2021
You like the whoopie pies.
— Clover employee
Sunday, March 7, 2021
First impressions, he [Darwin] noted in one of his very last entries, were often shaped by preconceived ideas. "All mine were taken from the vivid descriptions in the Personal Narrative."
— Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
