Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
me myself and AI - the writing dilemma
THIS PART: I fear that nothing changes, that nothing is changed in such a making, least of all ourselves. But then, what does it mean to be unchanged, for your feet to pass so lightly over the ground they don’t so much as disturb the sand? Even the dead make change in the world, as their bodies decay and and are transformed into food for beasts and bugs and trees. But in eliminating the effort, in refusing the temporality of making, the outcome of an “AI”-driven creative process is a phantasm, an unsubstantiality, something that passes through the world without leaving any trace. A root that twists back upon itself and tries to suck the water from its own desiccated veins.
The free years are over.
Everything That Happened
“Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.”
―
Shunryu Suzuki
―
Shunryu Suzuki
A quote by Shunryu Suzuki
sums up why i hate podcasts w successful ppl telling us about how they got successful
I begin the week with the bright intention not to be devoured by the administrative deluge which defines business in the modern age. I sip my coffee and pretend that I am waiting for Sartre or Camus to join me at the Café de Flor. I resist the temptation to turn on my computer so I can keep the grim spectacle at bay for at least another twenty... See more
Jonathan Simons, Analog Sea Review
I wish I could search entire Sublime ecosystem by type of card (was wanting images)
The sex appeal of the Knowledge Graph derives from the fantasy of not having to decide what’s most important.