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Liz McFie
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · Nov 7
Earth has now, collectively, gone mad. I think I mean that literally. - Eric Weinstein
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 31m
Narrator: And just in the nick of time.
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 1d
A woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland has been found after surviving for five days on lollipos and a bottle of wine, police said. 
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Missing woman survives on lollipops and wine for 5 days stranded in Australian bushland
"The only liquid Lillian, who doesn't drink, had with her was a bottle of wine she had bought as a gift for her mother so that got her through," police said.
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 1d
There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty. Everything happening is exactly what I predicted.
 
PS. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 1d
Vanity, thy name is vampire.

PS. - Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 2d
“I’m not going to sit here and listen to you tell me that it’s okay for August to hit her because she’s his wife. Or that it’s not his fault because he’s insane. If he’s insane, that’s all the more reason she should stay away.”

PS. - Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 2d
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 2d
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

PS. - Rousseau Jean-Jacques
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 2d
It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.

PS. - The Iron Heel
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 3d
What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

PS. - Stephen King, The Shining
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 4d
Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Ancient Greek means something like ‘uninhibited thought’, ‘free speech’, or ‘full expression’. getpocket.com/explore/item...
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look | Aeon Ideas
From Diogenes to Jane Goodall, the hypersane seem mad to the mainstream but perhaps they see more deeply than the sane
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 5d
[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

PS. - W. Somerset Maugham
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 5d
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 5d
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Everyone Is 12 Now Except the King, Who Is 8 | Common Dreams
We know the awful, the stupid, the cruel goes on, but we're heartened by the birth of "a new unified theory of American reality" to help explain the darkness. It's called, "Everyone is twelve now." Su...
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 6d
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

PS. - Terry Pratchett, Snuff
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 6d
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

PS. - Helen Keller
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 6d
We are all okay with our choices until a heavy consequence is attached to them. - Richelle E. Goodrich
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 6d
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An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 6d
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. - Philip K. Dick
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 7d
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

PS. - mayhaps Winston S. Churchill
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 7d
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

PS. - George Orwell, 1984
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 7d
In the long run, this cycle may pose a threat to A.I. itself. Research has shown that when generative A.I. is trained on a lot of its own output, it can get a lot worse.
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When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself (Published 2024)
As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results.
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 7d
"The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry."

PS. - Paulo Freire
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 7d
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