New Orts #71
May 25 MMXXV
The CEO of OpenAI [Sam Altman] says that users writing “please” and “thank you” to chatbots costs the company “tens of millions” of dollars in electricity costs for computer processing.
AI - Accuracy Intermittent
— anon., on the Web
Hawaiian “bone collector” caterpillar: A new species of carnivorous caterpillar … hides from its natural predator [the spider whose web it inhabits] by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other insects.
— Frances Vinall, in the Washington Post, April 24, 2025
Tripping over Joy
What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a saint?
The saint knows
That the spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God
And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move
That the saint is continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, “I Surrender!”
Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
You have a thousand serious moves.
— Daniel Ladinsky, inspired by (or translated from) Hafez, (1325–1390)