Caveat: Poem #2991 “Submission”

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The wind whipped rain, and caused a feeling:
 a vague, pathetic fallacy
took hold of me, and left me reeling.

The storm pushed rain, and gave a feeling:
 nostalgia gripped, my soul was dealing,
bowed down to nature's papacy.

The storm pushed rain, and gave a feeling:
 a vague, pathetic fallacy.

– a triolet.


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Caveat: Links #84

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale” – Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)


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Caveat: Links #83

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“Immigrants are just the kids on the lawn – the old man wants the damn kids to get off his lawn. The old man is a jerk.”


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Caveat: Links #82

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn


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Caveat: Links #81

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“Speaking as someone who hates AI, you are more than welcome to train your AI on my writing. Because I would love to see your AI fail, and there is nothing the market wants less than my writing” – Jason Lefkowitz


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Caveat: Links #80

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase ‘As Canadian as ____’ (cf. ‘As American as apple pie’). / The winner was: ‘As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances.'” – the internet


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Caveat: Poem #2985 “Antumnos”

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The otherworld unleashed its dogs;
 they chased us through the timeless trees.
We fled and jumped those ancient logs.

The otherworld unleashed its dogs.
 We fell and tasted moss and bogs.
The murky water grasped our knees.
 
The otherworld unleashed its dogs;
 they chased us through the timeless trees.

– a triolet.


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Caveat: Links #75

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“Here is one trick to see the future. From the standpoint of the domestic American economy, the difference between outsourcing to robots and outsourcing to China is negligible. China’s impact is a preview of AI’s impact.” – Curtis Yarvin (grains of salt, and all that: Yarvin is an extremely weird neo-reactionary monarchist, but I think he’s not wrong on this point)


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Caveat: Links #72

Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“There will be chronic food shortages and gas shortages and people will live in hovels. Paradoxically, they’ll be surrounded by computers the size of wrist watches. Calculators will be cheap. It’ll be as easy to hook up your computer with a central television bank as it is to get the week’s groceries. I think we’ll be cushioned by amazing technological development and sitting on Salvation Army furniture. Everything else will be crumbling. Government surveillance becomes inevitable because there’s this dilemma when you have an increase in information storage. A lot of it is for your convenience – but as more information gets on file it’s bound to be misused.” – David Byrne (NME, 1979) [Note that date! – not all correct, but interesting how much he DOES get right]


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