A Well Turned Phrase
A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.
—Pythagoras
Saints always have a past and sinners always have a future.
— Oscar Wilde
Folk and blues musician Anthony Moser skips the careful case against AI and opts for a plain human response: being a hater. "Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total
... See moreAlthough he remained clean-shaven, Mommsen’s hair was always shoulder-length and untidy, turning grey and finally white, resembling a witch or a wizard, as his critics observed. Possibly through the fame of Mommsen, wild hair in old age became a recognizable badge of an eccentric professor or genius, cultivated later by Einstein and generations of
... See morethe very quality that Baldassare Castiglione named sprezzatura , the aesthetic power of a gentleman, of an artist, in this case an artist in colorful and technically daring profanity.
A Shit Ton of Infixing and Interposing Lands on Slough House, Everyone Survives
On AI
How does some plagiarism machine, with no innate understanding of what it sees, make choices and offer anything useful.
— Jonathon Green
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
—Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges out of fifty years of discount furniture commercials,
— Matthew Rankin
Apology
Before I do that, I apologize to my readers lest by syllable or even letter I offend against grammatical usage, a matter in which I am far from being expert.
— Gregory of Tours