Wednesday, May 10, 2023
WHY EVERYONE IN THE US ARE SNAPPING UP THIS CHICKEN YARD DECORATION?
— Advertisment on Breitbart.com
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Unfortunately we have completely run out of 70# uncoated text paper.
— Mixam
Monday, May 8, 2023
Now is the Past
— Title of book by Hai Hsin Huang via @metlibrary
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bill Hader Just Wants to Make Weird Things
— Interview title, The New Yorker
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Price's argument that distriution rather than production was the primary way works accrued meaning.
— Brad Troemel, "the post internet report"
Friday, May 5, 2023
He had fallen into “the habit of assessing briefings by weight," said Dick Lehman, a senior CIA analyst for three decades and latterly the man who prepared the president's daily briefing. “He would heft them and decide, without reading them, whether or not to accept them."
— Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Thursday, May 4, 2023
The landmark Memphis Pyramid touches tips with a Yield sign that is mounted on a slightly off-kilter vertical post. Along with the post’s shadow, the shadow of the photographer can be seen at the bottom right.
— Image caption, "Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander," The New York Times
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
John Trumbull
— Trivia answer I didn't know in "art and money" category, engraving of Trumbull's painting “Declaration of Independence” is on the back of the two dollar bill
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
On the present paradigm, what you can verify is what you get more of. If you can't verify, you can't ask the AI for it 'cause you can't train it to do things that you cannot verify. Now this is not an absolute law, but it's like the basic dilemma here.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368"
Monday, May 1, 2023
A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work. “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” Dr. Hinton said.
— Cade Metz, "‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead," The New York Times
Sunday, April 30, 2023
The portability of his work was perfect; he could carry a show, unframed, under his arm.
— Willy Eisenhart, The World of Donald Evans
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Once again he began to use his work as a kind of journal in which to record and celebrate his world, his friends and everything that interested him.
— Willy Eisenhart, The World of Donald Evans
Friday, April 28, 2023
I remember Chemical Bank... #JoeBrainard
— @touchtone7 caption to image of hand holding blank Joe Brainard check from Chemical Bank
Thursday, April 27, 2023
It was like that but in a book.
— Zach on The Magic School Bus episode where they go inside a person.*
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
How many rolls?
— Eva texting about more white duct tape*
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Fabric & Garden Staples
— Vigoro box at Home Depot
Monday, April 24, 2023
One of book artist @bdenzer ‘s definitions for a book is—this is not a direct quotation—“a gathering of things that are the same.”* And so today I present a book of lilacs.
— @brevigrapher
Sunday, April 23, 2023
He drew laughs with a story about a small railroad he had bought in Colorado. When he inspected it, he saw trains busily rolling in and out of the switchyard. He later learned the bustle was all for show. “I thought it was doing a big business,” he said. “Afterward, I learned they had kept the freight back a week to impress me."
— Greg Steinmetz, American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
Saturday, April 22, 2023
o wait it’s called roney island!!
— Lian on name of pizza from Pizza Marvin*
Friday, April 21, 2023
But it's a fact that many of the films you've seen tonight could never have been made otherise. Or if otherwise—well, they might have been better. But certainly, they wouldn't have been mine.
— Orson Welles via Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography