I wrote a story for fiction month called OpenAIDs. I only wrote it because I was procrastinating.

I want to share it now but I'm going to be uncharacteristically patient.

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TIL about the London to Calcutta bus route that ran from 1957 to 1976.

why are there so many posts about AI here? I figured there would be a lot about bitcoin, not that I'm totally interested. Have I entered at a bad time?

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i've always found the nonsense kind of modern art distasteful, but I think it has utility as context, as contrast, as a background. if you expose an audience to abundant nonsense, they will be more likely to accept other novelties. like, if you have a restaurant with robotic staff, decorating it with duct-taped bananas and cowboys riding crocodiles would make the robots easier to accept.

something I said recently that I was impressed by the obviousness of: if the thing you want to do is hard, you can't approach it like it's easy, like it's a hobby

context was talking to a founder about non-technical aspects of their business

"Had Trump been president in 20th century, he might’ve stopped both world wars, the Cold War, and the nuclear arms race"

"After all, his surname is Ceasefire. Thanks to his talks with God, the sun rises daily… and gravity exists"

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Next time I get a haircut I got a plan to onboard my barber

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In Singapore, primary schools do well to impart the finer points of fiction writing. Particularly, they collate lists of “Show Not Tell” phrases for their students and integrate them into weekly spelling drills, hoping that the latter would be able to execute something beyond the run-of-the-mill writing that despairs many a language teacher.

But here’s the thing: when kids regurgitate phrases like “grinned like a Cheshire cat”, we don’t exactly award them the top band marks, dismissing them as cliches. Then, why do we adults invest so much energy into ensuring that our young ingest these perfunctory phrases?

Can I create time and space in my lessons to allow students to think of their own original phrases, never mind that such incubation of heartfelt sentiments will be more tedious than using the phrases from their spelling list? Do I have the headspace to take a step from my hectic life and think of the phrases that truly reflect my quirks and idiosyncrasies; showcase where I’ve been and where I want to go; and put a smile on the examiner’s face, exhausted from reading tons of scripts?

I am not sure either, but this is my attempt today: His smile radiated warmth, like sunflowers leaning toward the sun.

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