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What the hell was that? Last two picks I was just entering random letters!

Need to create a Facebook/Instagram account for business purposes. But it literally won’t let me. I get automatically denied and my automatic appeal is automatically and permanently denied. Time was they were scraping everyone’s address book and dragging people on to it…

Mark Apr 7

I was wondering when a nuke would go on the table. He can’t hammer Iran enough to make them want to stop hurting the US with oil prices and tempting them into what would be a deeply unpopular ground war. They won’t say or do anything that allows Trump to leave and save face. And so he must eventually threaten everything. But they will not let him go. Not yet. But in the final analysis he might do anything to avoid looking weak.
#trump #iran

Mark Apr 7

Not trying to have a go at the poster, but I feel this is the kind of joyless virtue mincing that drives people away from mastodon.

Mark Apr 6

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Good start to the day!
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Mark Apr 6

Being opposed morally to AI is all too often conjoined with the position that AI is snake oil and does not work. People want to cloth a moral statement like “AI is awful for humanity” in a scientific statement like “AI just produces slop code that must be reworked (and therefore reduces productivity)”. Then there are these disparaging middle statements like “AI is not intelligent/does not code it just copies and plagiarises” which is a moral statement intended to have scientific heft.
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Mark Apr 6

I understand the antipathy towards AI, and even the “Luddites were right”, but there are large numbers of people on here that deny AI code assistants/agents provide any value at all. I attest from experience that they can comfortably speed up work by a factor of 4 when used properly. I get “there is literally no evidence” and a block.

A weaver can see clearly that the weaving machine is quicker even if they have to redo some work. Have a stance but don’t deny reality. #ai 1/2

Mark Apr 3

“The Vinteuil sonata could tell Swann of the charm of certain nights in the Bois de Boulogne, about which it would have been pointless to ask Odette, although she had been no less with him on those nights than the little phrase. But she had only been sitting beside him (whereas the theme by Vinteuil was inside him); and even if she had been gifted with vastly greater understanding, she would have been unable to see what cannot be externalized for anyone”
#proust

Took me years to realise this.

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Mark Apr 3

I feel like in achieving a dream, we almost consume the wonder of it in so doing, so that in the end it seems we have acquired only something ordinary, or nothing. I often wonder if there is ever enjoyment in achieving or acquiring anything, unless it happens suddenly and unexpectedly.

There are images that emerge in the layers of In Search of Lost Time that really blow me away.
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Mark Apr 3

“When reality coincides at last with something we have longed for, fitting perfectly with our dreams, it can cover them up entirely and become indistinguishable from them, as two symmetrical figures placed against one another seem to become one; whereas, so as to give our joy its full intensity of meaning, we would actually prefer every detail of our desires […] to retain the prestige of still being immaterial, so as to be more certain that this really is what we desired.”
#proust

Yes!
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