“The highest form of human intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating.” …. Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Zuckerberg is the new Groucho Marx.
Today’s mood music: The Trashmen Surfin’ bird
Today’s mood music: Faithless - Insomnia (Later with Jools Holland - 1997)
Today’s mood music: Once in a Lifetime (Live) | David Byrne’s American Utopia
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” ….. M.K. Gandhi. #quote
Today’s mood music: Laurie Anderson’s ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’
Today’s mood music: Chas & Dave - Ain’t no pleasing you.
Nymphaeaceae, water lily.
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behaviour. [Complicated] rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behaviour." ….. Dee Hock
Todays mood music: Fools Gold, Stone Roses
Lone gun man in New York City, exploding scooter in Moscow, Jim Bell will be rising from his grave.
Today’s mood music: Sleaford Mods - TCR
Gnarly.
Back to the Happy Place.
“the joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it. When you go out for a walk it isn’t just (or even primarily) for the pleasure of reaching a destination, but for the process of doing the walking.”
“In an era when “cultivated” people purport to care so much about the origins of the stuff they put into their mouths, will they be as cautious with the stuff they put into their minds? Will they be able to resist the information sausage meat that AI is about to serve them?”
A cybernetic feedback mechanism IRL.
One anti-feature I love about Micro.blog is that there’s no ‘like’ button. To me this feels like a good design choice.
Dahlia.
