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  1. Sep 2023
    1. My name is OzymandiasOzymandias Pharaoh Rameses II (reigned 1279-1213 BCE). According to the OED, the statue was once 57 feet tall., King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

      he looks down on others and sees himself higher than everyone else

  2. Aug 2023
    1. there is no tellin’ my mama to be “quiet,” my mama don’t know “quiet”

      she understands that she is always the one in charge and can use her voice to show this

    1. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

      Everyone has been chained down and we can hear their struggles to free themselves

    1. there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it is sent away.

      even if a son/daughter is refusing the care of their parents the parent(s) won't stop trying to care for them

    1. The thing was, her little AI was getting kind of interesting. It had started writing its own code about the time she'd gotten it keyed to Kermit properly, which was one of the project requirements, but Anji hadn't expected much more than a few badly parsed lines.

      It's pretty scary because AI has gone so far, that it know has the ability to do even more than even what its creator can do. And no one had expected it would be able to go this far this quickly

    1. Only the water rising above us, reteaching us wealth and remembering its name.

      What we have forgotten can be retaught as long as someone remembers and starts to spread the information again

    1. (The answer to his question is this: If he hands the oar to his passenger, he will be free to leave the boat.

      The ferry-man will take you to where you need to go, but when you are ready to hold the oar his job will be done. And you'll be able to choose where you want to go from here on out.