The first orders came down around the end of summer last year. Here are the AI tools, here are how to install them, here are some classes on how to use them. We were encouraged to play and tinker. A teammate showed us how he’d taught the chatbot how
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already. –Robert Anton Wilson
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. –William James
I’m apparently writing. I ate some food late, and while I was cooking, I was pacing. I was thinking, I was writing. I seem to burning a little brightly right now; that may explain the frustration. I guess. I’m not sure about that, but maybe the burning somehow
It was a long bad day. I was going to write today. It had such promise at the start. Ideas were just bubbling through, and for some reason the wind has shifted. I write all the time, but it’s for me, for my journal. I have to fight to
I’ve been playing this game for the past couple of days. It doesn’t look like I’m going to be playing it today. I might have drunk my fill. It did engage the monotropic attention tunnel for me, and what’s interesting is how little game it took
You feel like talkin’ to someone/who knows the difference between right and wrong
I saw the younger version of you shopping in her pajamas at the grocery store today
There was a moment there, while I was cooking, a moment where grief crept up on me. I wasn’t expecting it. It was suddenly very unfair. I had done all of this work, I had endured all of this pain, I had corrected myself, but I still lost it,
Once you label a people “illegal”, that is exactly what the Nazis did to Jews. You do not label a people “illegal.” They have committed an illegal act. They are immigrants who crossed illegally. They are immigrants who crossed without papers. They are immigrants who crossed without permission. They are
I went looking for a word to name the Donna Haraways of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a word inclusive of cyberfeminists and transhumanists, a word that captures the theft of cyborg identity, and mocks the thieves a bit. I call them tryborgs. They have tried to be