Sisters
Valerie Palmer
2000
08.03.2026 11:30
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Sisters
Valerie Palmer
2000
The Night Watcher
Matthew Wong
2018
Quick question: what's wrong with the Heated Rivalry fandom?
I die a little when I see Gen Z looking to the early 2000s as a golden age. I also want to tell them they're getting to experience the worst parts of those years now only with more venal billionaires, smartphones, AI slop and a hollowed out news media.
I'd suspected as much. But with anything that varies between the two, it's always a bit of toss up whose lead we'll follow. Or if we'll do some weird third thing.
I think about this review a lot. Some art exists to make us think or stand in awe of it. But sometimes a piece of art exists simply to be a good time. And when it succeeds and you have a good time? Well done.
Bluesky needs some people at the top who enjoy the idea of social interaction and/or are interested in other human beings instead of people who only love systems and machines and protocols.
Now I'm wondering where Canada copyright law leans.
I like this analogy, and I'm going to try to figure out how to expand it to encompass the fact that at volumes greater than a sipβa novel, a movie, even a three-minute video clipβAI turns inevitably to bilgewater.
The only thing I don't "let" my cat do is poison herself by eating flowers.
She's the most stubborn animal alive and after a certain point I feel ridiculous arguing with a 7 lb animal.
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
Most people waste years doing exercise that construction equipment crushes in hours.
I've trained for 10 years. Half was cardio. Quarter was weightlifting. Quarter was cross training.
My new backhoe can do all of that work in hours.
The exercise game has changed forever.
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Helpful birds
--ciconiiformes.
I found this book in a 25 cent bin at a used bookstore when I was in my early 20s and while I don't do the daily writing Goldberg recommends, I did find her "just write it down in any old notebook" very freeing.
The chapters are short, as is the book, so it's very approachable.
Iβm hard pressed to think of a social issue considered as intractable as community violence that folks just sat down and figured out how to solve.
theconversation.com/how-denvers-...
It's the mental and imaginative equivalent of the decor/fashion trend of making everything shades of white and beige.
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
This is why AI "inspiration" - slop outputs fed into new chatbots - creates an near-immediate systemic collapse, and also why tech companies want to turn human creatives into little piggies that do nothing but feed the slop machine, because they *know* it's unique and valuable
And, obviously, someone's going to say "But human writers read and are inspired by other writers" - yes, of course they are, but that blends with human experiences, struggles, sensory inputs and emotions to create *novel* novels. This is where all those previous books came from!!!
This is really where shockingly uncritical tech advocates like Kevin Roose are being key-jangled by the tech companies.
You could do the same test for real vs fake rolexs on the general population, and similarly fail to acknowledge the power of the fake comes from copying the real
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
Clearly very inevitable π
Just because the people with a monetary interest in it say its inevitable doesn't make it so. Who are they to decide?
Why should anyone read or listen to something no one bothered to write?
'London' - Charles Pears (1932)
Go read Persepolis.
Or maybe watch the movie.
Two decades ago, Canada declined to go to war based on lies.
Today, Cabada wasn't even invited to the war β and yet, for some reason, we're participating in the fiction. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Rachel exposes dangerous, violent and unhinged people online so you and your family donβt have to deal with them in-person
Sheβs not just doing journalism, sheβs providing a valuable community service β you can support her work here:
www.patreon.com/cw/RachelGil...
This is the problem with podcasters and influencers, they don't follow the same standards as journalists
pro tip for AI enthusiasts who want people to stop being mean to them: maybe stop talking about how it's going to take everybody's jobs all the time
(and if you really do believe that, then 1. consider how that'll come off to the people whose jobs will be lost and 2. become a UBI stan)
We could have had a Hannibal even bitchier than the Brian Cox version?