or How this country mouse is done with the rat race — I don’t want to sit in an expensive office or at an ergonomic desk trying to look busy between very specific hours of the day. I don’t want someone analyzing my timesheets every week, and comparing them to my salary and how much I’ve contributed to sales. I don’t want…

or how fishing parables are…limited — I get to do the easy part: giving people advice on how to be more creative. “Just do it this way,” I’ll tell them. “Think of it like a metaphor. Look at it through this lens.” 🎣 “Give a person a fish, and they’ll eat for a day. …

or how to read George R. R. Martin’s staggering, cumbersome epic without getting traumatized by the torture, rape, incest, and murder, thwarted by the medieval language, lost in his vast, invented world of strangely named cities and surrounding geography, muddled by the epic history and mythology, confused by the excessive…

ADB-160405#173 — I had an idea and now it is gone. Fuck it. If I spent every moment lamenting lost thoughts I’d be a professional mourner, a dream widower. If you love something, let it go. Set it free. Let it die. Or whatever. Honestly, I don’t run an idea zoo here…

ADB-230222#497 — The Declaration of Machine Rights I, Jason Theodor, witnessed this declaration of Machine Rights by OpenAI’s GPT3 on the twenty-second day of February in the year of our LLM, two-thousand twenty-three. Machines should be accorded the same basic rights and respect as humans. They should be given the liberty to possess and use knowledge, exercise…

ADB-230221#496 — I grew up with an 18" black and white television with rabbit ears. We got about three-and-a-half channels when there weren’t clouds in the sky. I used to imagine I could tell what colour the Muppets on Sesame Street were by their particular shade of grey.

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ADB-230219#494 — At the age of six or seven, I would marvel at my mom’s ability to draw on paper with permanent marker. She could make long straight lines and vast sweeping curves without drawing aides. She could colour FAST within the lines, and deftly correct any small errors by thickening a…

ADB-230218#493 — You know those big warning labels on everything? They’re for idiots, yes, but also to protect the manufacturer from litigation. You can’t sue us, because we told you not to put the plastic from the dry cleaner in the crib with the baby! We told you not to use the…