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“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian

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cats in sheet music

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One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from "Gertrudes Asks for Advice" in The Complete Stories

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teapot books

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Small House

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/4142-small-house

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‘Love is an organic thing. It rots and softens.’

Words by Clementine Von Radics

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red train

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so it’s a wednesday night in july and you’re at home and you’ve showered and you’ve masturbated and you’ve gnawed at the inside of your mouth and you’ve eaten and washed the dishes and fixed a corner of the fitted sheet on your bed and texted your grandmother and thought positive thoughts and still the feeling comes. what then

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The Lovers

Kaja Horvat, 2024

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You are as far from me as memory

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SH-06A NERV by Sharp - Limited Edition

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J. Frederick Smith - Photographing Sensuality (1975)

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help amany’s family escape gaza’s hardships — hi all, amany is the dear friend of one of my friends. they have been trying to organize her escape with her family for over a year now but it is so difficult and so expensive. amany, her husband, and their two children have been displaced several times now. her daughter has a severe case of hepatitis and no access to medical treatment. they have lost their home and have narrowly escaped being killed by israeli airstrikes. they are still only at $13,809/45,000 and even the smallest donations help them get a little closer to safety. here is a youtube video that amany made about a year ago and there is more information about her family in the gofundme link. please donate and share <3

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take yourself on an adventure

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Sketches by Gustav Gaudernack, 1910

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Theodor Kittelsen - "The key as a White Horse" (1907)