Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy
head of vibes at Sublime
botharetrue.substack.comAlex Dobrenko
- This is different from generative AI, though, which uses massive training models to infer what it should spit out. Eno is crafted through 30 hours of interviews and 500 hours of film — a curated and ethically sourced data set — with certain pieces weighted to be more likely to appear. Basically, it follows a set of rules and logic written by Hustwi... See more
from The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
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Paid subscribers will receive:- my more vulnerable and intimate content. the poems that are still blushing. 3am musings typed with my thumbs. stories I'd be more inclined to reveal in a game of Truth or Dare
from About - Things That Don't Suck by Andrea Gibson
Often, in our doubt that we have a real story to tell, we hold something back, fearing that we don’t have anything else. And this can be a form of trickery. Surrendering that thing is a leap of faith that forces the story to attention, saying to it, in effect, “You have to do better than that, and now that I’ve denied you your trick, your first-ord
... See morefrom A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
- - "Our algorithmic self may or may not be faithful to how we see ourselves, but it has just as many dimensions and secrets."
from Who Can It Be Now — Real Life by Emma Stamm
cool to think about the online world as a version of us all putting plasticine substances on our faces???
- 3. Start or end every day with writing about your life. There’s always something buried underneath the to do list in your head, something you didn’t realise you felt, that when written down, will make everything clearer.
from Life Lessons From a 44 Year Old.
- Exhaustion is a status symbol because we desperately want to be seen, we desperately want to belong. We want to believe we’re lovable. In the absence of connection, there is always suffering, so we want to feel connected.
from Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work by Maria Popova
It is a question of when—not if—large and growing areas of countries become uninhabitable owing to prolonged freshwater shortages, extreme heat, widespread flooding, and frequent, costly storms. Bangladesh may well be the first country with a substantial population to face this problem on a large scale. The amount of land able to support human exis
... See morefrom The World by Richard Haass
Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.
from Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott
- why it's hard to make friends as an adult:
where there's shared context (seeing the same people over many months daily i.e. workplaces) there's a lack of shared interests
where there's shared interest (hobby groups, bookclubs, etc) there's a lack of shared contextfrom Tweet by Patricia Mou