Do Humans Dream of Mammalian Sheep?
“If AI can mimic our mind, the thing that sets humanity apart is the body. We must affirm the biological, the physical, the muddy and the messy.”
Eclectic dreams of anxious girls: the stories my brain writes without me
Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams. Except when they’re mine. Since starting Fluoxetine, my dreams have been crazy. Before I started medication, I asked everyone I knew who had taken SSRIs about their experiences with side-effects. Nobody mentioned dreams.
Things Big, Yellow, and Bench-like.
“I am not against big benches, per se. Rather, what I am against is The Big Yellow USU Bench. In truth, I abhor it with every fibre of my being. There is something wretchedly ironic about its existence, about its pathetic pleading.”
Canva Comrades
“This scepticism of charities is actually part of a broader trend of distrust in public institutions, be it NGOs, governments, news outlets, and pharmaceutical companies. It’s a lack of transparency that has allowed this distrust to fester.”
A modern day love language
“It’s a modern day love language… A series of seemingly unrelated things joined together by the fact that they are all literally us.”
Why you should visit little museums.
he big museum is not primarily educational, but rather a set of possessions shown off by the affluent. Entrance fares are simply upkeep of their capital. Is there a need for Roman marbles, Italian Renaissance paintings, Ancient Chinese pottery, Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist sculptures to be hoarded away in one grand palace-of-sorts presided over by Great Britannia?
Various Characters Review
Šime Knežević’s 2025 play Various Characters approaches with care and confusion the condition of Australian multiculturalism. A coming-of-age tale of multiple teenagers living in socially turbulent mid-2000s Sydney, the play never fully realises its focal point, nor answers the many questions it raises before the curtains close.
type.xlsx
“Cell widths shift and distort. The glyphs become increasingly abstract, teetering on the edge of recognition and chaos. This builds on the principle of CAPTCHA. While a bot struggles to decipher distorted letters, we — adept at interpreting characters across diverse fonts and handwriting styles — can navigate and decode them within irregular and unfamiliar contexts.”