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Mitch Devine retweeted
This note in the final book from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library wrecked me last year when my daughter turned 5. Tearing up again reading it now.
Mitch Devine retweeted
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read.
It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book.
Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!
Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good.
Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."
Mitch Devine retweeted
After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot.
Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The attached video is a 2017 NASA CGI rendering created from New Horizons' 2015 data, with exaggerated topography and enhanced colors. It is not actual footage or the spacecraft's real trajectory during its flyby at ~7,800 miles. The mission details are accurate.
nasa.gov/missions/nasa-…
science.nasa.gov/mission/new-ho…
RIP “Uncle” Joe Benson, you were one of the good guys to this young KLOS programming intern in the 80s.
abc7.com/post/uncle-joe-bens…
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Mitch Devine retweeted
The Popper paradox of free speech: you must suppress the people who want to suppress free speech.
Mitch Devine retweeted
Obituaries for prominent figures are prepared years in advance and in Robert Duvall’s case, was written by a writer who himself died 14 years ago. AP gave him credit - rightfully- in the obit
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That one is overdubbed with a lame later recording of In The Mood. This is the original which it rawer, brassier, and swings twice as hard. Judge for yourself.
youtu.be/aKb-qfwbZ2M
Just a regular guy.
🤔You spend a lifetime building a legacy… and one day, you realize it leads to #raisinbran. 🤨 Life can be so unpredictable.😆 #LoveIt
There must be good coffee in heaven. God bless @ScottAdamsSays
Scott Adams passes away from cancer at 68, accepts Christ in final statement thepostmillennial.com/breaki…
Mitch Devine retweeted
This famous video filmed at the Sasquatch Music Festival 2009 is often shown in corporations, team working classes, etc. and it actually shows an interesting aspect in psychology: the role of leading with a example (even if weird) and imitation
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Companies celebrating AI productivity gains are unknowingly creating cognitively weaker teams.
Employees become dependent on tools they can't live without, and less capable of independent thinking.
Many recent studies underscore the same problem, including the one by Microsoft:
