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I am but an electron in a series of complex signals which ultimately determines how a single pixel is displayed on the background wallpaper of a desktop with an ever-increasing resolution, bit-depth, brightness, and refresh-rate.

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I am but an electron in a series of complex signals which ultimately determines how a single pixel is displayed on the background wallpaper of a desktop with an ever-increasing resolution, bit-depth, brightness, and refresh-rate.

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An excellent read and I agree completely!

These days, most of my communication is written. And, I'm helplessly verbose. Part of that is my ADHD: it's hard for me organize my thoughts, then write them down, then prune them. For better or worse, the other part is my info-dumping to provide context: both for the reader and for my future self.

The number of long emails I've written which, nearing their end, caused an epiphany and resulted in a different, shorter email!
https://mastodon.social/@rands/1151411 72913019841

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An excellent read and I agree completely!

These days, most of my communication is written. And, I'm helplessly verbose. Part of that is my ADHD: it's hard for me organize my thoughts, then write them down, then prune them. For better or worse, the other part is my info-dumping to provide context: both for the reader and for my future self.

The number of long emails I've written which, nearing their end, caused an epiphany and resulted in a different, shorter email!
https://mastodon.social/@rands/1151411 72913019841

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Today is — to our relief — an appropriately gray, rainy day for the first anniversary of our friend's murder.

Drew, the hole in our lives is acutely painful and the world is a far worse place without you in it. Your family and loved ones are somehow managing to continue on without you, but it is largely in part to the stregth and kindness you always imbued.

We felt everyone would be better off if your uncle was no longer in this world, but we couldn't imagine he could wrench that from us too.

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Today is — to our relief — an appropriately gray, rainy day for the first anniversary of our friend's murder.

Drew, the hole in our lives is acutely painful and the world is a far worse place without you in it. Your family and loved ones are somehow managing to continue on without you, but it is largely in part to the stregth and kindness you always imbued.

We felt everyone would be better off if your uncle was no longer in this world, but we couldn't imagine he could wrench that from us too.

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#SteveJobs said computers are "bicycles for the mind." Bicycles use geometry & physics to help one go further under the same amount of effort they themselves put in.

I feel #GenerativeAI are "escalators for the mind". Escalators are expensive, complex, inefficient machines that churn constantly whether used or not. A convenience. They _are_ a helpful assistive device for those that need it — and many do! — and you _can_ to go further, faster, if putting in effort, but _most_ use for laziness.

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#SteveJobs said computers are "bicycles for the mind." Bicycles use geometry & physics to help one go further under the same amount of effort they themselves put in.

I feel #GenerativeAI are "escalators for the mind". Escalators are expensive, complex, inefficient machines that churn constantly whether used or not. A convenience. They _are_ a helpful assistive device for those that need it — and many do! — and you _can_ to go further, faster, if putting in effort, but _most_ use for laziness.

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Let’s face it, #InformationSuperhighway turned out to be an apt term: we spend our time racing between personal/work/commercial centers in expensive machines with features we don’t need/use (or limping along in old ones we’re hoping won’t leave us stranded), zipping past the beautiful scenery (and the ugly we want to ignore), with ads everywhere trying to grab our attention/money, and rubbernecking when we see attractive people doing enviable things or horrific disasters we can’t unsee.

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Let’s face it, #InformationSuperhighway turned out to be an apt term: we spend our time racing between personal/work/commercial centers in expensive machines with features we don’t need/use (or limping along in old ones we’re hoping won’t leave us stranded), zipping past the beautiful scenery (and the ugly we want to ignore), with ads everywhere trying to grab our attention/money, and rubbernecking when we see attractive people doing enviable things or horrific disasters we can’t unsee.