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"In my virtual lecture in Iran this morning, we ended up asking Chat GPT about five ways to make life more meaningful, then had a discussion about whether the answers were just clichés. Then someone imagined Slavoj Žižek asking Chat GPT 5 ways to make his life even more meaningless..."

parcelled out in spoons
Qurans to burn
my pith helmet self-crafted

shadows no cooler
the mercenary army leaderless

"The beautiful irony of this situation, of course, is that a generation of humanists trained on Foucault have now rallied around 'On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots' to oppose a theory of language that their own disciplines invented, just at the moment when computer scientists are reluctantly beginning to accept it."

“At one wailing time it will fall upon my body as a bloodletter. At another time it will fall upon the crown of my head, as a crown of thorns. Such is thy god: my head is many thrones, many gates, the truth I did not know.” –@gods_txt

Embroidery animation.