Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.
~ Walter Kirn
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Daily Archives: February 4, 2024
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Neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
~ John Foster Dulles
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Facebook was launched
on this day in 2004
Facebook was launched on this day – February 4 – in 2004. During its first days of operation, Facebook was only available to Harvard students.
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It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via the University of Maine
The Generative AI Statement recently published by University of Maine can be found here:
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Dallas
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I don’t think we do a service to anyone to pretend that technology does not eliminate some jobs. Some jobs it just makes much better. But the arc of this has been that every technological revolution eliminates one class, one sets of jobs, and we find new ones on the other side that are hard to imagine from where we sit today.
~ Sam Altman
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