Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Quoting Matt Webb
Incidentally GTA6 is coming out in November and apparently it cost $1 billion to make. Gonna play the heck out of it not just for the music but because of its status as a cultural artefact: the final big game built before LLMs. No-one will ever invest that much in a game again, no software …
The Bard
Quoting Dorothea Lange
Quoting Brandon Sanderson
In the end of it all, you are the art. The most important change made by an artistic endeavor is the change it makes in you. – Brandon Sanderson, via Simon Willison
Quoting John Prine
When I think back, it’s no wonder I’d become a songwriter. I saw everything as being connected. Movies, dreams, imagination . . . It was all one thing. It was all one circus tent. It took me a long time to find out it wasn’t that way with other people. They went to the circus—once. …
The map and the territory
Quoting Huckleberry Finn
When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn’t really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and …
The Game’s Afoot
The driest year on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande since 1964
Total flow to date on the Rio Grande at Otowi is the lowest since 1964. Otowi is the place where the river leaves the upper valleys and enters the canyons that lie at the head of the valley of Albuquerque, what we in New Mexico call the “Middle Rio Grande.” The graph shows total …
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