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  1. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@honeykjoule When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. Pablo Picasso
  2. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@quotidiania Honor thy error as a hidden intention. Brian Eno
  3. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@scarletdeth I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it. Marty McFly
  4. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@chaosprime It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste. Idi Amin
  5. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@Archadius7 We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E. O. Wilson
  6. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@peakexperiments @RokoMijic Yes 😸
  7. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@bashu_thanks joking that there's always a hidden fine print that a guy is expected to intuitively know & follow if he's gonna "hit"
  8. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@YosarianTwo @NoncanonicAleae @ElytraMithra hehe tried to say this earlier- my decision is context dependent to be in the majority... but meta question of which context I prefer, blue pill
  9. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@eigenrobot 😅 no results button for those of us who haven't seen it?
  10. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@Soul0Engineer yep; it goes from wakefulness & focus to jittery anxiety
  11. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · repostRT @mechanical_monk: how many ppl on twitter are in possesion of a nude pic of you
  12. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@BasedBeffJezos lol... enjoy the ride
  13. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · repostRT @prerationalist: 5% stochastic error version: Everyone chooses blue pill or red pill. - if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone liv…Archive text may be incomplete
  14. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@losingcontrol23 lol in which direction?
  15. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@prerationalist imo the more interesting question is how low does the threshold have to be before you opt in out of self preservation? if it's literally "if 1 person chooses to build the AI" I'm gonna join the team
  16. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@formerlyelm not to wade into gender wars, but like... are you advocating a return to child brides being purchased at ~12 or so?
  17. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · postdo you respect someone less if they're posting engagement bait for small financial gain or for purely narcissistic social reasons?
  18. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@formerlyelm strong attachment between parents & children is healthy & important for a child's development, so there's a difference between shuffling ownership before attachment develops vs after.
  19. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@bashu_thanks * if he does the needful
  20. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates are you really gonna deny that "voodoo queen" is a good match?
  21. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · quotesame 😅 https://x.com/skooookum/status/1691110514376773632
  22. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · postis there a point where excessive concentration of Tesla ownership becomes a systemic risk?
  23. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@xlr8harder @MikePFrank @RokoMijic should have made the pills red & green to start a fun discussion of color blindness & eugenics...
  24. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@Soul0Engineer educate me, please?
  25. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · repostRT @MikePFrank: Say resources are running low on earth, and there are two political parties: The Cosmists 🔵 and the Luddites 🔴. The Cosmist…Archive text may be incomplete
  26. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@ja3k_ I'd use one standing on a subway platform or something- where the negative consequences of them running off could be very bad
  27. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@RokoMijic lol Roko you're forgetting the obvious fact that most of the other quokkas in these parts will also choose blue and there are social consequences for choosing red
  28. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@liz_love_lace awwww hugs! find a quiet soft dark place and don't forget to drink water
  29. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@0xsublime_horor seems very difficult to be significantly below 20% and would probably start to impact fertility? https://t.co/5r5ZBkiXk6
  30. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@veggiebat_ ok 🫶
  31. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@pepijndevos yes please!
  32. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · postif you qualify as a sperm donor and yet you're not available at the local sperm bank, what are you even doing, evolutionarily speaking?
  33. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@StatsLime lol it is difficult to explain, just vibes
  34. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@chrisgardenuk @CoughsOnWombats @PrinceVogel wrt Quakers I think they specifically focus on "let your yes be yes and no be no" - that they'll always speak honestly & act w integrity so they object to an oath to privilege some conversations as honest implying others aren't
  35. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@chrisgardenuk @CoughsOnWombats @PrinceVogel it's so funny this convo sprang from Quaker practice when Quakers are the opposite of literal / legalistic abt the Bible- we believe God continues to speak to us today just as to the writers of the Bible and we follow "leadings" as authoritative over secondhand info in texts
  36. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@dpinksh If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington
  37. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@empress_net7 Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
  38. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@randomstring729 Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. Yayoi Kusama
  39. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@JsonBasedman You gain strength, courage and confidence by every exp in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You're able to say to yourself I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt
  40. Aug 14, 2023Twitter · reply@BecomingCritter Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
  41. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@edgyjson Inspiration Unlocks the Future The Wind Rises
  42. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@rhymeswithvocal In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it. Christopher Alexander
  43. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@FractalAuth @UntilTrees +1!
  44. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@jeremyskog @mattyglesias 👍 datacenters are good business, plus the other HQs like Capital One and Hilton etc
  45. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@Rongwrong_ nahhh, he's talking about the fools elected n sent here... NoVA still has a gradient from blue Arlington to red Fauquier
  46. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@lisatomic5 @lkbm yeah but otoh this is tpot ... uwu
  47. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@samswoora lol I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that I'm pretty sure you're not subtweeting me here... stability is a bit less exciting...
  48. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@losingcontrol23 feeling restless 🥺
  49. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@StatsLime Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin
  50. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@Waardandaar I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. Alan Turing
  51. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@chopstickfury01 If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
  52. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@NotAlank When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller
  53. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · repostRT @ProfFeynman: Five types of people you want to surround yourself with: the inspired, the passionate, the motivated, the grateful and th…Archive text may be incomplete
  54. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@chairsign lol I turn them off if they RT 5+ things within minutes and I don't find them interesting- so, only for a few ppl
  55. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@generic_void both smart & beautiful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
  56. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@generic_void lol you do remind me of Hedy Lamarr!
  57. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@vanjajaja1 My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me. Diego Maradona
  58. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@realtimeai I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. Alexander Fleming
  59. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@ValkrenF I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. Bob Dylan
  60. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@RAND_corp69 I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. George Carlin
  61. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@DavePunFun What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  62. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@HuginnMind Double, double toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes Witches in Macbeth
  63. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@dissproportion Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes should be shot like murder scenes. Grace Kelly
  64. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@generic_void I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. Hedy Lamarr
  65. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@Whiskeypunk1 In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. Billy Joel
  66. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@YeshuaisSavior By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Donna J. Haraway
  67. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@maxisawesome538 I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness, and it’s big enough for all of us. Max (Where the Wild Things Are)
  68. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@bmock I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. Georgia O'Keeffe
  69. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@untitled01ipynb Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
  70. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@repetitivesoul The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Sherlock Holmes
  71. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@VincentXVespa lol I mean I scroll replies to my posts when I am in the mood and see For You and stuff people RT...
  72. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@Soul0Engineer Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. Tim Berners-Lee
  73. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@vaporous_ford You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. Don Rickles
  74. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@responsiblparty Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
  75. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@VincentXVespa Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Maya Angelou
  76. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@BecomingCritter not really? It's mostly just opting out of drive-by bad vibes replies & quotes in my notifications and weirdos in my DMs
  77. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · quotelol, I use follows completely differently than critter describes- I have DMs & notifications off for ppl I don't follow, following means opting-in to caring about their replies; I mostly use Lists not the TL for scrolling https://x.com/BecomingCritter/status/1690867807787823104
  78. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@PrinceVogel Quakers traditionally "affirm" rather than swear oaths- this is why most oaths have been worded as "swear or affirm" to avoid objections. Wrt marriages they're a promise / vow not an oath (and Quakers marry without a minister, they literally just make vows to each other)
  79. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · replyhttps://t.co/Ca5mqrPGDB
  80. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@celtacc @afterveil I liked this at the Hirshorn- Ai Weiwei https://t.co/slG5YzVOar
  81. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@afterveil hehe, I foolishly promised quotes but what I actually have is visual references
  82. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@lawaashley lol yeah, I feel like you don't suffer fools more than you must
  83. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@BootsPlatypus I have to get stronger—like a stray crow. Haruki Murakami
  84. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@missrachelreads And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl
  85. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@lawaashley Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid. Mary Poppins
  86. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@afterveil We are going somewhere but we don’t know where exactly. We travel through the uncertainty of life by asking ourselves questions that we cannot answer sometimes. Chiharu Shiota
  87. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@owen_roe The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work. Jeff Koons
  88. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@ThatShawGuy I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison
  89. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@10x_er Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function. John Carmack
  90. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@MeiselZachary You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
  91. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@foomagemindset The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon. Suzy Kassem
  92. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@WadahA Zero G and I feel fine John Glenn
  93. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@RandomSprint When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. Lady Gaga
  94. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@robookwus That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. Aldo Leopold
  95. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@thedayagenda Dance until you shatter yourself. Rumi
  96. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@astralwalkk The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers. Martin Firrell
  97. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · postat Glenstone Museum 🫶 https://t.co/0VDiuWawlr
  98. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@Entity3Self Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. H.P. Lovecraft
  99. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply(btw, this may take some time but I'll get to them all eventually!)
  100. Aug 13, 2023Twitter · reply@KojimaErgoSum Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. Uesugi Kenshin