Beatrix on the bottom.
Beatrix on the wire.
Don’t know why I’m still having issues with things on my Micro.blog showing up in the timeline but I did ask a question here and would love if anyone has thoughts.
Ritual.
Freedom of choice is what you’ve got. Freedom from choice is what you want.
We probably can’t buy our way out of it | Seth’s Blog
We can’t buy out way out of the climate crisis, we’ll need to compromise, to invest and to rethink the systems that we depend on.
My dear wife drops the mic… Don’t Be a D*ck
I know people are down on social media, but I generally like it, except for the small point that it has a tendency to make us all didactic monsters. If you don’t agree with someone, it seems the accepted practice has become to call the individual out, rather than the point or policy you disagree with.
JUST STOP IT.
I generally don’t argue with people on the internet. In the future, when I feel the need arising, I’ll just point them to my wife’s post instead.
Today was the first rain this year that smells like spring.
Tonight’s entertainment…
Steve Jobs in 1983 Envisions Today
When I was going to school, I had a few great teachers and a lot of mediocre teachers. And the thing that probably kept me out of jail was the books. I could go and read what Aristotle or Plato wrote without an intermediary in the way. And a book was a phenomenal thing. It got right from the source to the destination without anything in the middle.
The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life–his or her whole life–and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing.
From a speech at the International Design Conference in Aspen. In hindsight, one can find not only what is now available in ChatGPT but also the iPhone in this vision.