Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
There’s a line in the Oedipus Tyrannus which I translated, where Tiresias the prophet says “Damn, damn. How terrible it is to understand where understanding is useless.” Andrew: How terrible it is to have signal anxiety when the signal is useless?
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
As you use family trips and family dinner nights to facilitate your son discovering himself and his purpose, he will learn how to take what he learned under your care and adjust it to those stages of his life when he is under his own care. What will be common to each stage, though, is your gift of encouraging him to be a human being first, and
... See moreJohn Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
I accept the fact that I’m never going to understand why I fell for this awful concept. But, as with every failure along the way, I prefer to focus on something positive. Building a more authentic self online and offline is an example and the very Mastodon debate that prompted this post is proof that it works. Leaving the idea of a permanent fake... See more
De-brand
a deep dive into the color orange
The thing that A.I. can’t do, truly, is improvise. A.I. will never have subconsciousness, and in that way can’t be truly creative. Creativity ultimately springs from human drives, and that’ll be the last thing that differentiates us from machines.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
AI can’t do improv
In the fall of 2017, July started to feel a second novel coming on. This time, though, she wanted to do things differently, to embrace the mystery of not knowing—what the writer Grace Paley called “the open destiny of life”—for as long as she could. “I felt like there was a way in which one’s anxiety is very calmed by having a plot,” she told me... See more
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Alex's BAT is my secret escape into a world of absurd, yet genius comedy. It's like a brainy sitcom in written form, sparking in me more laughs and 'aha' moments than I'd care to admit :) 100% recommend
- Tom Orbach
- Tom Orbach