The Elephant in the Room is Not a Bear.

There is nothing wrong with men. Men are lovable people with the same capacity for empathy, agency, and growth as any other human on the gender spectrum. But when men are socialized to identify their humanness as masculinity and to associate masculinity with power, we get some real problems. These are the problems of patriarchy.

bikepacking.com / Laura Killingbeck: A Woman Who Left Society to Live With Bears Weighs in on “Man or Bear”

Lives lived plain and epic.

We are because of a million loves
We´re the perfume of the timeless

Nightwish: Perfume Of The Timeless

I went to hell and back to find myself on track.

Somewhere between the 0s and 1s
That's where I found my kingdom come

Nemo: The Code

Stroke of luck.

It's an unbelievable stroke of luck, and a privilege, that we are actually alive. So you might as well enjoy it.

Tuomas Holopainen interviewed on kerrang.com

CapitaLLisM.

Here we find an important truth about LAION-5B: It contains less about how humans see the world than it does about how search engines see the world. It is a dataset that is powerfully shaped by commercial logics.

knowingmachines.org: Models All The Way Down