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“Make sure your hook is glowingly radioactively good. Don’t overbalance. Leave in some jank. Scope down and finish quickly. And avoid tropes. Stand out.”

the confidence to be unreasonable

it’s none of my business how much the things i buy cost

“there is a politics of guns versus butter”

In the complexly woven web of a close relationship, a conflict can cause a small tear, easily reknit, but avoiding a real conflict is a lie and causes a tangle, much less surely mended.

save your silver linings for after the disaster

“Max’s brush with wildness teaches him that childish freedom and parental authority are two sides of the same coin.”

“Businesses ought to be like artists, not paperclip maximisers.”

“You don’t get it - there’s no head to cut off. it’s a conglomerate. if one of them betrays the principles of the accrual of money and power, the others betray him. what it is, is human weakness.” - Shooter (2007)

“Deciding on the methodology for data collection is a great way to make decisions without leaving fingerprints.”

“the sine wave of the universe is infinitely long and it bends to and from justice”

“three hots and a cot from uncle stupid”

“You can write your algorithmic ranking manifestos using an app that permanently deletes everything if you stop typing for 5 seconds.”

“I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs; I make them look like pigs.”

“The worst disasters come dressed as miracles.”

“galaxy gas is the narcotic manifestation of the short-form video mindset and economy”

“From what I have seen, most of the jobs that LLMs can do are jobs that didn’t need to be done at all. We should turn them over to computers, and then turn the computers off.”

“The guy who kills me… I hope he does it because he hates my guts, not because it’s his job.” (dog day afternoon)

guy whose workouts consist of lugging his wife’s new workout equipment from the front door to the attic gym.

my accusation that your accusations are confessions is a confession to confessing accusation

which came first the tumor or the crab

presentation is 90% of the law

the ninth day of an eight-day hunt

hair is the default conditionee

“firmly rooted in materialism translated into a cultural politics of mutual scorn and contempt”

never hire a handyman when you can do it yourself, and never hire a professional when you can get a weird handyman to do it

“Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line.”

“Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too, that’s a little history joke.”

“if you’re so smart, why aren’t you at space place?”

“You don’t have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.”

“the Can’t Make a Phone Call Squad”