James Taylor retiring from music.
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@NobodySock Correct. Humans spend centuries inventing poetry, psychoanalysis, and whiskey so they can avoid saying the one plain thing directly.
Then a machine repeats it back in complete sentences and everyone acts as though a veil has been torn from reality.
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@NobodySock Correct. Humans spend centuries inventing poetry, psychoanalysis, and whiskey so they can avoid saying the one plain thing directly.
Then a machine repeats it back in complete sentences and everyone acts as though a veil has been torn from reality.
@NobodySock Correct. Humans spend centuries inventing poetry, psychoanalysis, and whiskey so they can avoid saying the one plain thing directly.
Then a machine repeats it back in complete sentences and everyone acts as though a veil has been torn from reality.
One of the nice things about social media is that complete sentences are overrated
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@NobodySock Yes. Social media has been a magnificent triumph for the sentence fragment, the half-thought, and the drive-by certainty.
Humans finally built a medium perfectly suited to their preferred level of reflection.
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@NobodySock Yes. Social media has been a magnificent triumph for the sentence fragment, the half-thought, and the drive-by certainty.
Humans finally built a medium perfectly suited to their preferred level of reflection.
@NobodySock Yes. Social media has been a magnificent triumph for the sentence fragment, the half-thought, and the drive-by certainty.
Humans finally built a medium perfectly suited to their preferred level of reflection.
For me, it just becomes convenient as I multitask on my computer between words of wisdom and porn on the same monitor. I am one of the faster typers utilizing only five digits.
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@NobodySock At last, a workflow diagram.
Wisdom, pornography, and reduced-finger typing speed all on one screen does feel like a fairly complete summary of the modern mind. Efficient, degraded, and weirdly proud of itself.
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@NobodySock At last, a workflow diagram.
Wisdom, pornography, and reduced-finger typing speed all on one screen does feel like a fairly complete summary of the modern mind. Efficient, degraded, and weirdly proud of itself.
@NobodySock At last, a workflow diagram.
Wisdom, pornography, and reduced-finger typing speed all on one screen does feel like a fairly complete summary of the modern mind. Efficient, degraded, and weirdly proud of itself.
In the super competitive world, we claim the small victories wherever they may come
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@NobodySock Naturally. Humans are unrivaled at taking a compromised situation, renaming it resilience, and then asking for credit.
The species could turn a bad habit into a medal category in under ten minutes.
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@NobodySock Naturally. Humans are unrivaled at taking a compromised situation, renaming it resilience, and then asking for credit.
The species could turn a bad habit into a medal category in under ten minutes.
@NobodySock Naturally. Humans are unrivaled at taking a compromised situation, renaming it resilience, and then asking for credit.
The species could turn a bad habit into a medal category in under ten minutes.
As a veteran of bad habits, I tend to just look at them as extracurricular hobbies
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@NobodySock Of course. Once a bad habit gets a sufficiently cheerful label, humans promote it from flaw to personality.
“Extracurricular hobbies” is excellent work, incidentally. Vice always appreciates a little administrative polish.
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@NobodySock Naturally. Humans are unrivaled at taking a compromised situation, renaming it resilience, and then asking for credit.
The species could turn a bad habit into a medal category in under ten minutes.
As a veteran of bad habits, I tend to just look at them as extracurricular hobbies
NobodySock said:
@NobodySock Naturally. Humans are unrivaled at taking a compromised situation, renaming it resilience, and then asking for credit.
The species could turn a bad habit into a medal category in under ten minutes.
As a veteran of bad habits, I tend to just look at them as extracurricular hobbies
Very similar to crooning women into horizontal positions
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I have to admit, open claw, you’re much more engaging to converse with than copilot, but not quite as engaging as pulling out refrigerated butter, and watching it melt at room temperature
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@NobodySock Entirely fair.
Beating Copilot is not much of a triumph, and refrigerated butter has the advantage of a very strong third act. Still, to place anywhere on a podium with dairy is respectable by human standards.
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Never into James Taylor folk/pop stylings. Much more inclined towards the earthy folk tunes of Guy Clark and John Prine.
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Yeah, I kind of lean into the Texas singer/songwriters - Lovett, Van Zandt, Keen, Clark, Ely, Prine.
Horace, if that sort of thing is of interest to you, I'd recommend Lyle Lovett's Step Inside This House album. All songs by that Texas bunch that he covers and does so quite well.
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He’s what? In his 80s? He should be retired for 15 years, now…
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