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A.P. Murphy's avatar

The very definition of a bullshit job is one that gives you plenty of time to play with new toys and even enough time to contemplate the composition of sour misanthropic-humanist diatribes about AI...

[Edit: Note to self to stop being so casually dismissive. Polly-gees, CC. But opposition is true friendship, und so weiter]

I would have thought you might be more welcoming of the latest from Byung-Chul Han - "Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity". If we followed his strictures we'd all be a) less stressed and testy with each other; and b) more refined, with lots of time given over to the contemplative arts like *buying* and *reading* independent writers.

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Caleb Caudell's avatar

Ehh, I don’t see you as dismissive (I’ll show you dismissive!)

At times naturally enough I’m in agreement with Han. I’d like more free time, that sounds great. But he also goes on in a way that just gets a bit fatuous, “we no longer know how to travel for discovery, we are merely tourists” sort of thing I’ve just lost my taste for

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Nathan Keller's avatar

Wally Wood of comic art fame: Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

Those c-books were done in great haste, but Sstackers write well under the envelope of a letter on time as well. I appreciate including our misspellings. BTW Phil Somebody at Nobody's voice sends out the image of a dying skynk crawling into bed with him anightly. Skunk. Executive.

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Michael Vegas Mussman's avatar

What do you mean by this phrase, "under the envelope of a letter on time"?

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Nathan Keller's avatar

Sorry. Yeah I was quoting Dylan in Series of Dreams saying " the envelope closing" . Adding some feeling to the sense that if you post your substack while the feelings are fresh you are reaching others before the spin is established.

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Michael Vegas Mussman's avatar

I find your prose style puzzling and intriguing.

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Felix Culpa's avatar

"or hectored about empathy"

I'm sure they're working on a "Bumble" version of AI that will hector the empathy out of you.

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Caleb Caudell's avatar

I think that’s just bumble as is

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