AI is dead consciousness which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking human creativity, and lives the more the more it sucks. Commodification of creativity. Alienation from one’s own ideas. THIS is the Information Age.
it’s cool how we made so many TV shows and movies about the government spying on everyone and there being a secret evil cabal acting with impunity—wouldn’t that be crazy?—and it turned out to basically be true. and there’s been no big reflection on this! it should be era-defining
I ordered Walmart and the delivery person accidentally left somebody else’s groceries in addition to mine. I called right away but they said to keep it. A real life Community Chest card
Elon Musk was not able to steal your money even indirectly when he had a government mandate to do whatever he wanted extrajudicially, but he’s going to now and he only needs to convince privately-owned firms to do so. It is an example of who really wields power under capitalism.
what we need is a grimdark biopic about late era Elvis. Just a fat piece of shit inexorably destroying himself physically, emotionally, and spiritually destroying himself until there’s nothing left. palme d’Or bait
After 40 years on this Earth, I still feel as though I only get occasional glimpses into the depth of beauty that can be conveyed through literature. It makes me weep to think of everything I’ve missed up until now, and weep again to think about everything I have yet to witness.
finally paying super close attention to the lyrics of Vehicle by Ides of March and . . . it’s not about a pedophile? he just sounds really fuckin creepy? honestly I think that’s worse
RE: the powerscaling debate: from the perspective of a powerscaler, do you consider the USA or Iran more powerful? Does the narrative of what’s happening fit? Are you mad at God for being a bad writer who fails to take powerscaling into account when He writes reality?