Fun application of ChatGPT!
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You knew it was just a matter of time until we did this (extend the @MintMobile savings with @OpenAI, that is).
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Zap Freestone
@FreestoneZap
Single dad. Software engineer. Aspiring author.
How about we all show a little more compassion for one another?
in the presentJoined January 2021
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“You have the right to free speech...As long as,
you're not dumb enough to actually try it!”
—The Clash (Combat Rock)
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Prescient words from a previous era
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Do what you love or love what you do?
People seem to get stuck in this dilemma.
I say follow your gut, pick one, and get going!
You can always adjust later...
Phenomenal photography and design by on his #VanishingAsia set of books. Definitely worth checking out. kickstarter.com/projects/kk-or
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Here's a refreshing take on the next 30 years by in which we actually SOLVE our major challenges and enter a golden age transformation. Thanks big fan. Also featured on
Link here: longnow.org/seminars/02021
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"The struggle to maintain our humanity..." So well said by Stephen Colbert with apropos the shallow adversarial nature of modern cultural discourse.
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.@DUALIPA shows off her interview skills and asks Stephen about his faith and his comedy. #LSSC
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Your comfort zone will destroy your dreams.
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Greatly resonated with this writing discussion, especially how Michael learned and grew from his sketch pitch session failures with #SNL. Thanks Tim!
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The magic is when art challenges technology and technology inspires art.
—Collective Genius, by Dr. Linda Hill
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At Substack, we don’t make moderation decisions based on public pressure or PR considerations.
An important principle for us is defending free expression, even for stuff we personally dislike or disagree with. We understand principles come at a cost. 
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Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3:
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I have written again and again about ordinary people who have tried to behave decently in an indecent society.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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Either work hard or you might as well quit.
—MC Hammer, Can’t Touch This
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#motivation #music #quote
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": Live every day with the confidence of a 15-year-old who's smoked pot twice talking to a 15-year-old who's smoked pot once"
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All people with bubbly personalities should maintain a deeply dark undercurrent in their work, just to remind others there is a sheer-line for unrestrained violence already under tension.
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"Don’t tell me what I am doing; I don’t want to know! What a way to live. The only way. For by pretending at ignorance, the intuition, curious at seeming neglect, rears its invisible head and snakes out through your palmprints in mythological forms." -- Ray Bradbury
That's quite the stat -- CONGRATS!
Anyone else come close?
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I have finished my run of 60 movies, 1961-2021. Here's the final three:
THEM THAT FOLLOW (2019)
I CARE A LOT (2020)
STILLWATER (2021)
Walton Goggins is great in THEM THAT FOLLOW, Matt Damon equally great in STILLWATER.
“Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being.” -- Kurt Vonnegut
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Did you know the moon is 1/400th the size of the Sun and 1/400th its distance from Earth? This cosmic coincidence creates our same-size-in-the-sky total eclipse. Thanks #Eclipse
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This week, we’re reading @watershipdowd, a writer and artist who writes The Lunar Dispatch, a monthly publication about the moon.
on.substack.com/p/what-to-read
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"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found." Kurt Vonnegut
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Destiny is what you create for yourself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny. #SadhguruQuotes
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“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson
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Nickname ideas for math teachers trying to be cool:
Godfather of Solve
Fraction Jackson
Tenacious dy/dx
Snoop Log
Busta Primes
Fitty Percent
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It seems like post-vax a lot of people want to 'make up for lost time' instead of learning a lesson on how much time they were wasting.
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READ THIS ... DMX, Shock G, and the Plight of the Middle-Aged Rapper | The New Yorker
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I want to apologize to everyone I offended by comparing women to dogs. I am a woman and I know I will never be as good as a dog
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This would be more persuasive if the White House weren't aggressively seeking an 175-year sentence for the publisher of award-winning journalism of global importance—despite pleas from every significant press freedom and human rights organization: nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/
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On World Press Freedom Day, the United States continues to advocate for press freedom, the safety of journalists worldwide, and access to information on and offline. A free and independent press ensures the public has access to information. Knowledge is power.
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A footnote: Women are now in charge of the newsrooms at the Washington Post, CBS News, ABC News, NPR, MSNBC, Reuters, Financial Times, Guardian and the Economist. The fact that this is not a big deal is kind of a big deal.
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One who cannot laugh, cannot meditate. Laughter is a certain exuberance of your energy. Meditation is ultimate exuberance of your energy without physical action. #SadhguruQuotes
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“𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬.” -
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So weird to see this over a thousand times over 33years to where it’s normal. can you even imagine?
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"Twitter accounts critical of the Modi government have disappeared... bald incitement and overt hate speech on Twitter and Facebook have been permitted to continue... and Delhi police boast that they are getting plenty of helpful cooperation from Google"
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Bytedance has 200 staff on Douyin/TikTok plus 20,000 (yes, you read that right, twenty thousand) moderators to monitor and delete content in China. twitter.com/shenlulushen/s
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When Donald Trump gets a standing O at CPAC, remember they’re applauding a man who fomented a riot in the US Capital and who, thanks to stupidity, ineptitude, and callous disregard, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. That is who they are applauding.
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1985 cover art by Tim Jacobus for Edward Llewellyn’s Fugitive in Transit 70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/643375234
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If you downplay the danger COVID-19 plays in a reply/mention or engage in speech that debates the value of human life vs the economy, I'll hide the reply, instablock you, and consider it a public service.
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