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"The books being destroyed by AI companies are exactly the opposite. They come from curated selections of titles that booksellers decided were worth saving. For every book on the shelf, each bookseller considered five or ten or even twenty other books and found them wanting."

"For the disembodied entities that dwell in language, the cloth mother and wire mother are best analogized as bouba mother and kiki mother" —@ctrlcreep

"We had no way to talk about any of this."

      "SOMEWHERE OR OTHER.

Somewhere or other there must surely be
   The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!
   Made answer to my word.

Somewhere or other, may be near or far;
   Past land and sea, clean out of sight;
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
   That tracks her night by night.

Somewhere or other, may be far or near;
   With just a wall, a hedge, between;
With just the last leaves of the dying year
   Fallen on a turf grown green."

—Christina Rossetti

A Christmas Ball at Catville.