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The Chicken Orb gives chickens the freedom to forage outside of the chickenyard and in the garden without fear of getting eaten. You pop a chicken in the Orb, secure the orb gate, escort the chicken to a suitable foraging area, and away they go. The chicken moves the orb in its
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@inkxel This reminds me of my 1st day at the UN—man in office next to mine was pacing around livid. I asked him what was wrong & he told me he was tasked months ago to write a speech for his boss’ boss’ boss, and today he got tasked w writing a thank you note to the speech writer
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Complete laissez-faire capitalism wont give us free enterprise any more than anarchy would give us political freedom…a penetrating question to be asked about a man is whether he regards freedom as primarily a throwing off or a taking on of the chicken orb
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Thinking ab how the city of SF made me pay over $1500 in permits and to have a fire inspector person to oversee a holiday party the Austrian Foreign Ministry wanted to host at my 2810 sq/ft non-profit museum (bc the party had ab 60 people and we’re in a temporarily donated space
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OH in SF: “The far right is Christianity stripped of ideals; the far left is ideals stripped of Christianity”
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Truly we are living in the age of chicken innovation:
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5 years
Vietnamese dominance of the today $8billion manicure industry can be traced back to actress Tippi Hedren who in 1975 got her manicurist to teach 20 Vietnamese refugee women how to do nails bc she wanted to help them develop a skill so they could support themselves in resettlement
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Women in the Bay Area seem to hijack their biological instinct to nurture children by getting little dogs; and the men here seem to hijack their biological instinct to provide as a head of a household by getting 3-5 person poly relationships
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4 years
Owning property is like having equity in a city
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I would absolutely have considered moving to downtown sf if I wasn’t terrified for my safety every time I am there. I think if the city sorted out the safety and cleanliness issue, businesses would pay to be there…I don’t think not having art spaces there is the problem lol
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4 years
Magritte mask!
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1 year
On a girl’s dating profile: “Looking to help a nice guy finish first but in return I want to bully you”
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3 years
There’s a practice of hiding some of your dog’s toys and rotating them so the dog stays interested in them and you don’t end up having to buy new toys all the time, and it made me think that’s sort of what humans do with holidays and pumpkin spiced lattes
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Also I feel like the city does what I sometimes do when I have a big deadline for some project and instead of working on the important thing I’m like “I really need to reorganize my nail polish and toothpaste drawer”
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2 years
National Geographic Photographer
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Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert threw a party where guests wore shoe-extenders to make them all the same height of 6.5feet
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This guy took his friends to a forest cabin for his bachelor party. They found a stray dog w 7 puppies there and ended up using their beer fund to buy puppy food & take care of the pups. All the groomsmen adopted a puppy, and the groom’s parents adopted the mama dog 🥺❤️blessed
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The Black Diamond Apple is a rare breed cultivated in the mountains of Tibet. The color is due to the region's high altitude—the apples get lots sun and ultraviolet light, and temperature fluctuates drastically. These trees take ~8 years to produce (most breeds of apples 2-5 yrs)
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Typing “u” instead of “you” in text is the informal “you” (eg “du” in German or “tu” in French, as opposed to the formal “Sie” and “Vous”)
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@growing_daniel I have a hypothesis that women innately have types of men that they are attracted to and they subconsciously know which women have similar types and which theyre not in competition with bc every girl posse I know or have, somehow every girl finds different men attractive. Like,
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I think ab this Vonnegut quote a lot when I see people lobotomized by therapy, and also the wives of a certain type of powerful men: “I was not proud, for I had calmed a deep woman by making her shallow. I had blocked the underground rivers that connected her to the Atlantic,
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@brianluidog I asked before and it’s because there are people who carry the checked in luggage on and off planes and they don’t want to injure them
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I can’t get over how charming and authentically quirky (like zero self conscious irony) Baltimore is. This old couple just look so cool — he walked her to the passenger side and helped her in before going to the drivers side. They caught my eye walking across the cobblestone
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My car got stolen in broad daylight right in front of open restaurants while I was having dinner. I had a witness (who pulled into the parking spot as the thieves drove away), and offered to get security footage, but the SFPD told me not to bother bc *it happens so often they
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San Francisco is such a joke. Gone for 45 minutes. Nothing in the car. Come back to glass all over my kid’s car seat. To file a police report (for the stats, since crime isn’t actually down): call the police, don’t pick up, call again…
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5 years
Nature returns to Venice lagoon
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I got a ticket for holding my phone while driving—I almost gave the policeman my wrong registration paper bc I had to replace license plate registration after my car got stolen. There was a man doing drug outside where I got pulled over. The policeman told me they are told not to
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My car got stolen in broad daylight right in front of open restaurants while I was having dinner. I had a witness (who pulled into the parking spot as the thieves drove away), and offered to get security footage, but the SFPD told me not to bother bc *it happens so often they
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Another thought—businesses & art spaces like mine would be more likely to grow into financial sustainability/be able to afford to expand & fill downtown spaces if our efforts to fundraise/generate revenue wasn’t throttled by fees and requirements we can’t afford at this stage
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3 years
Sign at a Ramen shop in Vienna
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This artist is filled in the power line grid with photos of the sky at different times of the day
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Cheese is a loaf of milk
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People of the future are probably going to cancel all of us for having eaten animals, and used animals or products made from them
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Japanese word "Arigata-meiwaku" describes situation in which someone does something for u that u didn’t want & u tried to avoid, yet person did it, determined to help/show support, & despite trouble/irritation it caused, u are expected to express gratitude bc of social convention
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Anyone connected to Mexican government people? We want buy Baja California to make it a new tech hub country to escape crazy California policies, keep the nice weather & water, also take those displaced from Hong Kong...we will call it Baja Kang (sort of joking but also seirous)
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@webdevMason @AlanMCole 😆 important to have this framed on bedside
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4 years
‘During the echidna mating season males will line up, snout-to-rump, behind a single female & follow her around in a line for days or even weeks. These trains have been observed to have as many as ten males waddling behind a female. It’s not entirely clear why these trains form.’
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4 years
If you’re smart enough to get yourself into an existential crisis, you’re smart enough to get yourself out.
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These Picasso sketches remind me of the German language in that you have to know where you'll end before you start a sentence
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Also, while I was setting up Misalignment Museum, I called 911 when this crazy man was trying to break in. The 911 dispatcher was really annoyed and asked me if I locked the doors—I said yes and she said wouldn’t send anyone bc he wasn’t inside. Then he got a weapon and started
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Painting road lines in the rain! The flame sweeper people are warming up the cement to dry it so the painter people can paint over it (I asked them what they were doing and also asked if it was fun bc it looks so fun — they said yes, and asked me to text them this video I took😆)
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@ramencult Reminded me of David Sedaris “Holidays on Ice”
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@DreamsOfControl The policeman who gave me the ticket for holding my phone told me SF wasn’t his normal place but that he was brought in specifically to ticket things like that, and that they aren’t allowed to enforce a lot of the things related to crime
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3 years
What is the difference between “manipulative” and “persuasive”?
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“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does
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4 years
Sometimes reality is better than what’s projected on social media. Wouldn’t it be so nice to have two hot dogs right now? I think so...
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Since lots of tech people who can work remote are talking ab leaving the Bay Area, I propose we all coordinate to move to the town of Asperg, Germany to make it the new Startup hub! A citizen of Asperg is called in German an “Asperger”
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What would be the most inappropriate place to wear this dress ?
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Tiananmen Square protests, 31 years ago -- a few days before their own government sent in tanks and soldiers and killed tens of thousands of protesters.
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Me when I realized my parents were once children too who developed modes of operating and framing under world structures different from the ones I was inculcated in
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My project in partnership w/ @philipglass & @OpenAI in which we trained a neural net on Glass’ work. On this call, Philip Glass offers commentary on the music created by “his AI,” insights on composition & creating art, if/how AI can find things meaningful
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I noticed among class of people who have used psychedelics heavily (specifically LSD, Psilocybin, Peyote, DMT, Ayahuasca) there is a recognizable linguistic style in which they begin to posts/communicate. Friend trained GPT-2 on content we put in this category, it produced these:
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I can’t help but question the reliability of this narrator
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Soft Power
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Omg you guys...you can work from public libraries like coworker spaces and it’s free
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@visakanv This is my favorite pigeon (he lives in Vienna) also I like that you crouched down and recorded that pigeon for 20+ seconds with all the commuters bustling around
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Instead of pressuring a child to continue eating after they’re already satiated by saying something like “there are children starving in the world” let’s explain to them The Law of Diminishing Utility
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Could someone tell me where this house is? I want to live in a Miro painting
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You know how I’ve been training Murphy to hunt for truffles? We were walking around Pikes Place (Murphy’s first time in Seattle) and of all the shops he directed me/tried to enter the one selling truffles. When I wouldn’t let him in he laid down and anchored himself—I think he’s
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry
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Walking around my living room w Murphy in my robe pocket
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So you think you can tell Heaven from Hell
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Japanese word “Arigata-meiwaku" describes when someone does smthing that u didn’t want them to do & u tried to avoid it, yet the person determined to help u did it, & despite the trouble or irritation it caused, u are expected to express gratitude as a result of social convention
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On dating app this dude answered if he could have super power it’d be to predict the future but only for things he can change. And in my head I’m like, that’s the power of Reason..so for ur super power u basically don’t want to be an idiot? Is this why I’m gong to die a spinster?
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Vaccine check out lady: do you have any affiliation w Stanford? Me: umm...I applied like 5 times but you guys keep rejecting me...also I used to sneak into your ballroom dancing classes
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@bryancsk I heard from the inside that in Nov/Dec the permit folks were told the city was broke and they needed to work towards generating more revenue
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I talked w a 13 year old today who said Instagram is lame, Snapchat is lame, TikTok is lame, FB is lame, described boring people as “w the personality of a warm juice box” AMA
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“What do u want to do now that you’re fully vaccinated?” Me:
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When I enrolled Murphy in truffle hunting class what I had in mind was that he’d find and dig out truffles in the forest, not drag me to a delicatessen that sells truffles
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@TheAnnaGat Girls gets knocked unconscious, has a dream, then wakes up from dream.
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@eriktorenberg keynes contradiction 😆 not hypocrisy — they may have evaluated that the *outcome* of these means arent wanted (anymore) for child or self, or not appropriate for nuances of the child’s situation, not that the means are ineffective (or unsuitable for all)
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Penguins from the Kansas City Zoo visit to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "They reacted very much like our visitors, who wander around the rooms & look a little here & a little there...average attention span of humans is eight to 10 seconds...the penguins were in that average.”
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Patterns formed by vibrating salt at different frequencies
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“Occasionally an octopus takes a dislike to a particular person. At the Seattle Aquarium, when one biologist would check on a normally friendly octopus, she would be greeted by a blast of painfully cold salt water shot from the funnel. The octopus hosed her and only her.”
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The handshake may have originated to signal peace—extending empty right hands shows not holding sword. Since handshakes make us vulnerable to viruses, why don’t we all start carrying swords so ppl won’t be socially offended...like “I’d love to shake ur hand but can’t bc of sword”
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@ElSancho014 @moose_ali @inkxel I’m pretty sure he quit after that bc I don’t have more memories of seeing him again
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"To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.
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Today took ducks on a socially distanced walk (my only regret is not having an orange mask to look like a duck bill). Also I saw two potatoes on a bench
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I follow this Twitter account titled “Why You Should Have A Seal” and every post feels like I’m being mocked by a spiteful Greek god bc YES I have accepted the premise and avidly desire having a seal, however I do not know how to acquire or maintain one without going to jail
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@webdevMason this reminds me of a time i asked my fish monger if the oysters were fresh and he said, “Fresh means they’re dead. These are alive.”
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@waitbutwhy Same energy
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I think Murphy solved AI Safety
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In 2017, while getting over a breakup, I’d get drunk and buy ethereum
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The Blue Java Banana, native to Southeast Asia, are silvery blue when unripe, then turn pale yellow when ripe. Wind & cold-tolerant w ice cream-like consistency & vanilla flavor (this+ black apples makes me think Asia is like those video game characters w same core but diff skins
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The Black Diamond Apple is a rare breed cultivated in the mountains of Tibet. The color is due to the region's high altitude—the apples get lots sun and ultraviolet light, and temperature fluctuates drastically. These trees take ~8 years to produce (most breeds of apples 2-5 yrs)
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Texting dudes, “you up?” at 1am bc I need tech support for this AI program I’m trying to run
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