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Making It So: A Memoir

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The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender

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Artificial intelligence, if we’re being frank, is a con: a bill of goods you are being sold to line someone’s pockets. A few major well-placed players are poised to accumulate significant wealth by extracting value from other people’s ...more

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“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

tags: family-relationships, love

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“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we’d received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

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“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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