Our newsletter title is a bit of collectivist goodness.
Pitch in! Help out! We’re all in this together:
Non Nobis Solum
The motto is derived from a sentence in Cicero’s most influential philosophical
I’m so much of a damned snob, I buy what I want and no longer do RSD.
Andy Warhol said our newsletter title this week. There’s no line if you know how to expertly cross it.
Here’s some cows jumping off a boat into a large body of water.
Without further adieu, my top 10 horror films of all time, up to 2024:
10. Ex Machina, Alex Garland
9. Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg
8. The Fly, David Cronenberg
7. Jacob’s Ladder, Adrian Lyne
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I talk about the title below, in the social / culture / people section. It’s about being able to sit with sadness or a complex emotion and learning and growing from it. I used to be SUPER reactive and
Let’s start with some Pete Holmes philosophy. Technology helps, but it destroyed us and our humanity. You know it, but this is fantastic:
@peteholmes I very much dislike waze. @adamcarollashow #peteholmes
Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, “Billionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldn’t have them?” & how do we prevent
The line is from John Dryden and his poem “Absalom and Achitophel”, written in heroic couplets in 1681. I’ll put the entire poem at the bottom. It’s a GREAT read. Also, a similar quote:
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin,
Before polygamy was made a sin;
When man, on many, multipli’d his kind,
Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d:
When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d
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