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This is beautiful:

  The deeper the hustle the deeper the pain
  I wish I could play the Violin
  The thought of you is driving me insane

Go to http://villanellebot.tumblr.com/post/148629267135/so-many-th... for the entire poem, and https://avoision.com/2015/08/26/villanelle-bot-poems-in-the-... to learn how it was done.

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That actually is incredibly beautiful. It's crazy to think that the machine that generated it was devoid of the emotions behind this assembly of words.

Well is it? At some point, either we become like machines, or the machines become like us. There is a limit to how many times we can redraw the lines.

The common distinction between machine and life seems arbitrary. Suppose for instance you had essentially infinite resources to design a machine that self-replicates by stealing blood from mammals, etc etc. You would end up with something very much like the mosquito. Why is it a machine only when man designs it?

This is perhaps more apparent with viruses. They aren't living per se, but are halfway there. The assertion that the virus is not a machine seems to be a difference without a distinction.

The expression is "a distinction without a difference"

Oh yes! Thanks.

Generating in the loosest sense.

Code up the format of a villanelle and find Twitter posts to fit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle

> VillanelleBot, created by Felix Jung, is a bot that composes villanelles using random posts from Twitter. Each line corresponds to a full post on Twitter

If you click on the line it goes through to the tweet e.g.

> i ate curly fries and shaker fries

https://twitter.com/ahtaebvh/status/757935083135258626

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