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I Gave a Thousand Typewriters to a Thousand Monkeys, but Instead of Hamlet, They Just Keep Writing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

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I Gave a Thousand Typewriters to a Thousand Monkeys, but Instead of Hamlet, They Just Keep Writing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Any scientist worth their salt eventually becomes accustomed to unpredictability. The unfortunate reality is that the majority of experiments fail—lab rats explode, bacteria escape the petri dish, etc. Still, I never anticipated that things could ever go this awry. For the past decade, I have been conducting a highly expensive and groundbreaking…

McSweenys 832 2025-02-20

Worth a Thousand Lies ↦

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Worth a Thousand Lies ↦ I really enjoyed this post by Nick Heer about the complex topic of whether photographs represent reality or not, whether Google is pushing things further than it should, or if this is all just the latest chapter in a story that started long before Photoshop: The criticisms I have been seeing about the features of the Pixel 8… feel like we are…

Six Colors 855 2023-12-10

20 thousand to spend

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20 thousand to spend Hello, I’m 19 and currently go to community college which I have completely paid off so far. I had just shy of 20,000 in my savings, but I feel like I should do something smarter with it rather than just hold it. I work and make about 1-2k a month and can support my needs, how should I invest/allocate my savings to prepare myself for the future?…

Reddit Personal Finance 178 2023-09-14