Bluesky is the perfect place for me to post without getting attached to validation. There is none. I love it.

People be calling themselves people pleasers only to say the meanest shit the first chance they get

Do you think generative AI is a leveling force between underpaid artists and overpaid software programmers, now that it has made both their jobs similarly precarious?

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
- M.K. Gandhi

Looking closer at life is dangerously stupid. When you go closer, things stop existing. Meaning, love, friendships, everything starts disintegrating. Even time breaks down if you go close enough. What will you choose to be then?
Somewhat ignorant and happy or foolishly curious and dead?

One simple trick to help your depressed friends is to genuinely ask them for help with something that would be possible for them to do. A sense of purpose, even for a fleeting moment, can offer them a little relief.

#MentalHealth

Stupidity is a disease. If you are an usual amount of stupid, others will know and they will take care of you. But if you're stupid in a way no can tell, you'll pass off as smart and one day you will do something so stupid it'll cost you your life.

Are AI bots luckier than humans in the sense that they are created with a purpose?

Jerry Seinfeld on AI:
"We're smart enough to invent AI, dumb enough to need it and so stupid we can't figure out if we did the right thing."

If an individual human being is helpless in being subjected to culture, who shapes culture? If one individual cannot shape culture alone and if almost all their choices are coming from culture, does that mean culture exists in opposition to free will?

Loved Harari's latest book.
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"History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change."
- Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Maybe it's not about happy ending. Maybe it's about the story."

-Albert Camus

"The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
- Hegel

The darkness of True Detective is a treat to the soul.

Let's be real: most Indian families aren't democratic. Without democratizing these basic units, expecting democracy to thrive elsewhere is naive and hypocritical.