Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
distance without divestmen
The joyfully displaced Midwesterner
for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
"I had an idea… I should look at everything backwards… I'll pretend I have already invented everything. What does this kind of machine have to look like, so someone could use it?”
Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp:
For Maisel, one of the fundamental reasons people in creative roles are more likely to be affected by anxiety is because they’re constantly being forced to make choices. “Choosing provokes anxiety,” he says. “Most professions don’t demand that you have to make one choice after another, which provokes anxiety. Going into the unknown—even if we’re... See more
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New World Same Humans
newworldsamehumans.com
“What makes them want to see it again? What would make them go home and talk about it? Even if it was just’ ‘I just saw the weirdest thing - a comedian who thinks he’s funny and…isn’t.’ I thought, ‘there’s something there.’ the