Anne Marie Rattray

@JeanYvesLEOPOLD Sumptuous. Voluptuous. Lyrical

Watching love, compassion and hope-

Wages don’t cause inflation, profiteering does. Your gas bill didn’t double this year because they paid gas workers double wages. Your gas bills doubled this year because gas corps pocketed double profits.

Facts I find annoying this morning: 1) exercise really does help 2) the minute you hit "publish" is when you spot the typos (and it occurs to you what you really wanted to say)

How the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from 1970s Chile, still shapes technology. nyer.cm/24ppz38

@mrianleslie So much food for thought it this interview. Thank you.

This week's Ruffian is about what it even means to claim that AI will be smarter than us. Fascinating interview with Professor David Krakauer, who studies "the evolution of stupidity and intelligence". (Much of it free to read). ianleslie.substack.com/p/flashpoints-…

Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP. I’m utterly shocked. I thought he quit ages ago. #GoodRiddance

Stinks. Rewards for political allies & cronies to a rogue PM who is himself still under police & parliamentary investigation over #Partygate. Sunak should’ve stopped it theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

When your "education" limits your imagination it's called indoctrination. Those who cannot think for themselves are truly lost. Education should be a rewarding experience which allows you to think, imagine, question, doubt and solve problems.

The police have arrested what appear to be peaceful republican protesters in Trafalgar Square. It’s in everybody’s interests, especially the Met’s, that they explain exactly why as soon as possible. No matter what you think about monarchy, this is a deeply disturbing moment.

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language

A must-see: Le #temps des #ouvriers: #documentary in 4 episodes produced by ⁦@ARTEfr⁩. A historical overview of the emergence & evolution of the workers movements in Europe, extremely well crafted, documented and illustrated. #rhythm #time arte.tv/fr/videos/0821…

Interesting and nuanced on wokeness. unherd.com/2023/03/lionel…

GPT-4 changed the world yesterday. It's only been out for a day, and incredible things are already being built. Here are the top 10:

@anniemurphypaul The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski

What's your favorite book about creativity? Building my library . . .

When a student who is interested in arts is forced to take science

For all those impressed with/concerned about ChatGPT, imagine if it suddenly became 500 times more powerful. Well, that’s just happened with the release of GPT-4 today.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general. - William James