Claire Miró

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Take a second look. Breathe. It only takes a moment to see a little deeper.

A passage from the book The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, where the perverse incentives undermine civil society, justice, and civil rights.
Brittlebush also called brittlebrush with delicate yellow flowers, seen in Anza Borrego desert park near scorpionweed with blue blossoms
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Advertisement for X-Ray Spex showing a salivating lecherous man viewing a woman’s torso
Book by Bessent predicting the DOW will reach 36,000.
Per Wikipedia: Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market is a book published in September 1999 by conservative syndicated columnist James K. Glassman and conservative economist Kevin Hassett, in which they argued that stocks in 1999 were significantly undervalued and concluded that there would be a fourfold market increase with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) to 36,000 by 2002 or 2004. The book was described as the "most spectacularly wrong investing book ever". Five years after the book was published, it was ridiculed and traded for pennies on Amazon.com. In November 2021, the DJIA finally did reach 36,000, 22 years after the book was published, after years of declines due to the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the September 11 attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020 stock market crash. At that time, Glassman hedged his original prediction saying, "The title was easy to caricature" and "Never associate a date with a number".
Solutions to problems are easy to find. The problem’s a great contribution. What’s truly an art is to wring from your mind a problem to fit a solution. A poem by Piet Hein. It reminds us why we’re being buried in AI slop.
The front of a Waffle House, probably in Florida.
A sign saying “Think for yourself”, a circle with the letters “AI” crossed out with a bar, and text saying “Generative AI is theft. It is killing and exploiting children. It makes you dumber and boring. Friends don’t let friends use AI.”
Fluffy cat in a window summoning inner strength to express themselves fully just as they are. The cat is white and wearing a multi-colored rainbow cape.
A poem by the philosopher and poet from Denmark Piet Hein: I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without withing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best.
Grayshift a word in the dictionary of obscure sorrows. Noun. The tendency for future goals and Benchmarks to feel huge when viewed in advance, only to fade in banality as soon as you’ve achieved them-finally reaching the top of the ladder, only to notice it circling back around like a hamster wheel.
Glittering gold “peace awards” that upon closer inspection are air fresheners. These are stacked up in a store display bin at CVS. Some of the lettering is in Arabic which might cause unwarranted concern among certain “peace prize” recipients.
Solutions to problems are easy to find: the problem’s a great contribution. What’s truly an art is to wring from your mind a problem to fit a solution.
A poem by Danish philosopher Piet Hein pointing out the backwards absurdity of making something then searching for ways to use it
A plaque showing a kinglike rider atop a horse with Norwegian words
Chart showing VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) so far this year
A Sesame Street character is trying to teach children about wealth inequality through song, in this case by starting with the letter K
From a book written long ago called Don Quixote, oddly predicting the current situation, and this image shows the madman Don on his horse riding on a mission to attack his rivals, who other people see are windmills
A grook by Peit Hein, late of Denmark, on what might be considered a paradox: democracy and civic involvement grow stronger and healthier in the face of being threatened.
Norwegian words below a man in a uniform riding a horse. In English it says “If the horse knew its power, it would let nobody ride.” In Norwegian: “Visste hesten si makt så lèt han ingen rida seg”