"This must be Thursday," said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

“𝚆𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.”

― 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘭

A quotation (not) from Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977) American comedian [b. Julius Henry Marx]
(Misattributed)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/marx-groucho/6810/

“𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎.”

― 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘦𝘳

the price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side

- - James Baldwin

#Quotes

as massas são capazes de um número infinito de coisas estúpidas

Hayao Miyazaki

‘Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?’
‘Yes,’ said the wizard bitterly, ‘us’.
(The Light Fantastic)

“I really just can’t in good faith recommend chronically high levels of anxiety. I recommend almost everything I live with. Art. Telling stories in your head to entertain yourself. Parenting. Having a little speaker in your kitchen that plays Taylor Swift whenever you want. I heartily recommend all these things. But I just can’t get behind anxiety disorders.”
— John Green

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."

<<La primera medida de todo poder autoritario es hacerle la vida imposible a los porqués.>>

Manuel Rivas.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Graham Greene

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." Antonio Gramsci #quote #quotes

With the most recent online trend of having AI generated images sort of resembling the art style of Studio Ghibli, nothing sums things up more than this quote by Hayao Miyazaki on similar technology from several years ago:

"I can't watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all."

Which also brings to mind this quote by Guillermo del Toro, said during a conversation with the British Film Institute, where he also, interestingly enough, references Miyazaki and his work later on:

“I saw a demo of AI and I thought oh that's what people think animation is, giving prompts and the computer does it. You know, but AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That's essentially that. The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence. How much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they going to make them cry because they lost a son? A mother? Because they misspent their youth? Fuck no!”

More personal rambling on why only human art is art here:
https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/03/artificially-generated-colourful-empty.html

Full Guillermo del Toro video here: https://youtu.be/TlC9sxUu2l0?si=a2LTgwngUfSn1vvR&t=1606

“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
(Snuff)

Seen in Toronto.

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*"If you chase two rabbits!*you catch none!"

~ Confucius

*"If you chase two rabbits!*you catch none!"

~ Confucius