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  • My favorite part of Moby Dick is the chapter titled The Prairie.

    In it, Melville basically attributes the size/wrinkles in a forehead to the wisdom/greatness of that being. He goes on to describe the foreheads of various lesser species, and then lists influential men with big, wrinkled foreheads (Shakespeare, as an example), comparing the undulations in these splendid wise men’s foreheads to the undulations of a prairie and their splendor. Then, he asks the reader to consider the gravitas of a Sperm Whale’s forehead.

    It’s literally the best fucking thing I’ve ever read and it’s crazy that nobody else lauds this passage as I do.





  • Sure!

    I can’t speak for the original commenter, but many here on Lemmy will type in unconventional ways so that if the instance gets scooped up by bots and used to train AI the data is harmful instead of beneficial.

    I don’t know if it actually has an impact, but it can be fun to participate in data poisoning as an act of subtle resistance.

    I believe the OC might have typed sez not because he is a bot, but rather to sabotage bots down the line. Maybe he just did it to save a letter.