#randommusing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #randommusing, aggregated by home.social.
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I keep thinking about Clarke’s quote that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,’ and wonder… then perhaps any sufficiently advanced vocabulary is now indistinguishable from Gen-AI — at least to those who don’t read or write. #RandomMusing
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I keep thinking about Clarke’s quote that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,’ and wonder… then perhaps any sufficiently advanced vocabulary is now indistinguishable from Gen-AI — at least to those who don’t read or write. #RandomMusing
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A personal reflection on leadership shaped by principles, not playbooks. From shielding teams to stepping back during celebrations, these quiet lessons explore what it means to lead without chasing the spotlight.
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A personal reflection on leadership shaped by principles, not playbooks. From shielding teams to stepping back during celebrations, these quiet lessons explore what it means to lead without chasing the spotlight.
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My key takeaway from the past weeks of political and economic madness originating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. is to remind myself not to think of the future as a linear extrapolation of how we got to where we are today. It's challenging but very liberating and empowering at the same time. (And yes, in hindsight the beginning of the global Covid pandemic in 2020 was a similar tipping point.) #tarrifs #COVID19 #randommusing
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My key takeaway from the past weeks of political and economic madness originating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. is to remind myself not to think of the future as a linear extrapolation of how we got to where we are today. It's challenging but very liberating and empowering at the same time. (And yes, in hindsight the beginning of the global Covid pandemic in 2020 was a similar tipping point.) #tarrifs #COVID19 #randommusing
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What exactly is He-Man's armor meant to protect? It doesn't really cover anything at all. He might as well just be topless. Or was it meant only as a place to locate his white supremacist adjacent emblem? 🤔
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What exactly is He-Man's armor meant to protect? It doesn't really cover anything at all. He might as well just be topless. Or was it meant only as a place to locate his white supremacist adjacent emblem? 🤔
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Is the voice of reason soprano, alto, baritone, or bass? 🤔
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Is the voice of reason soprano, alto, baritone, or bass? 🤔
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I had a thought this morning.
People say they're not interested in philosophy because it's kinda pointless, and is just a bunch of people arguing about questions with no answers.
I posit that a large number of people actually dislike philosophy because it is the one thing that reveals how pointless their arguments are. -
Quantum mechanics, general relativity etc are (very) useful and (very) successful models of reality, but they are still models. We use them because they are useful, not because they are "true". And the day they stop being useful we will stop using them, like we did with all other modelsmof reality that came before them.
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Quantum mechanics, general relativity etc are (very) useful and (very) successful models of reality, but they are still models. We use them because they are useful, not because they are "true". And the day they stop being useful we will stop using them, like we did with all other modelsmof reality that came before them.
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Some people have this idea of replacing RSS with ActivityPub...
Remember about a decade ago when people suggested Twitter should replace feed syndication?
I think after all these years the core problem remains much the same: There are so many people, and everybody have things to say, and so many things to say, so many important and/or interesting things.... How to have everyone receive a fair hearing? And do we even really want or need to hear everything?
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#RandomMusing Are all mega rich people terrible human beings? Does something happen to you when you have unlimited funds that robs you of any humanity you may have had? It sure seems that way to me. Should I somehow find myself someday with a lot of money, I'd like to think I wouldn't lose my humanity. As long as I have enough coming in to put food on the table and a roof over my head, plus some left over for fun, there really isn't anything more I need.
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#RandomMusing Are all mega rich people terrible human beings? Does something happen to you when you have unlimited funds that robs you of any humanity you may have had? It sure seems that way to me. Should I somehow find myself someday with a lot of money, I'd like to think I wouldn't lose my humanity. As long as I have enough coming in to put food on the table and a roof over my head, plus some left over for fun, there really isn't anything more I need.
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Today I'm thinking of the importance of not only being a good host but also being a good guest. #randommusing