David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
But there is one big reason why a lot of men don’t think they should create—they think their turn to be creative has passed. It was taken by their ancestors, and they misused the privilege. Now they must, in the names of their fathers, be silent.
Amie McNee • We Need Men's Art.
Oh, damn…I felt this one.
“The world of real things is very inefficient.” Harnessing the network effects of big data, he foresees a future where we can more efficiently do many things: “We will definitely see dynamically priced queues for confession-taking priests and therapists,” he said.
Christine Rosen • On The Death of Daydreaming
Something is deeply wrong when we sext the same way we order a sandwich.
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
humans talking like machines
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
With LLMs all but conversing with their userbase, the variations between human and “talking like machines” is thinner by the day. I think we also see this across movies and modern books and social media. Maybe it started with the listicle format of content being all the rage, or content experts saying there is a specific way to set up content on the page for maximum human engagement.
This phrase suggests a blurring of boundaries between human communication and machine-like processing, highlighting how AI influences us to adopt more mechanical, perhaps less spontaneous ways of thinking and talking.
Six of the ten subjects in the 200s are explicitly for Christianity-related subjects. Three of those remaining are either explicitly or implicitly Judeo-Christian. Finally, at the bottom of the heap, the 290s cover“other” religions. Islam, Baha’ai, and Babism all get to share 297. Germanic religions get 293. All “religions of Indic origin,” in... See more
Racism in the Dewey Decimal System
Memes aren’t an external influencing factor on culture – they’re endemic, a way for culture to express itself, like the technology of language or cave paintings.