Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
newyorker.com
Manifesto: Rules for standards-makers
scripting.com
Before an interview, I sometimes re-read this great passage from Philip Roth’s American Pastoral :
You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you’re anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you’re with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
"‘Rather, you are continuously summoned to solidarity,’ summoned not by any ‘external compulsion’ but ‘from within yourself’. You cannot do otherwise. And the same went for Saul: if it comes from within yourself, then you cannot do otherwise. No novelist can." - Martin Amis
The problem is, of course, that you cannot simply decide to care about something. If you do not care about something, your will cannot simply establish a caring relationship to that thing. It is rather a question of being open to possibilities of caring
Lars Svendsen • Being bored
Lars Svendson