starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.
hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes
Libby search result showing “Memorias de Adriano” as audiobook on top and “Memòries d’Adrià” as ebook on the bottom, which I think is Català. Putas asesinas by Roberto Bolaño is open being read in app. Full text visible on screen as follows: 2:221 Marguerite Yourcenar Memorias de Adriano MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Memorias de Adriano Borrow Play Sample Save + 9P 10 HOURS Bajo la forma de una autobiografía imaginaria minuciosamente fundamentada en la realidad histórica, Marguerite Yourcenar reconstruye un... Marguerite Yourcenar Memòries d'Adrià Place Hold Read Sample Save MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Memories d'Adria Traincolo de Jaeme Cares - Marguerite Yourcenar recrea amb profunditat i Koletto PUTAS ASESINAS Putas asesinas
I was trying to get Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar from Libby and it looks like the choice is between the audiobook in Spanish or the ebook in Catalan
If you, or one of your loved ones, are one of those people who likes to eat food, you need to read this story.
Because farmers from Poland to Australia to South Dakota are starting to freak out over the insane spike in fertilizer prices.
Gift link ⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥
The “it’s dangerous to go alone, take this” scene from Legend of Zelda NES but he’s charging $800 for the sword.
Zelda pawn shop
I do not think Timothée Chalamet is going to be able to stick the dismount transitioning from child actor to adult actor, whenever that happens
Mock ai text interaction which reads as follows: your ai slop bores me you asked for text Help! All my bones fell out! What should I do?? "ai" responded Embrace your fate and become a worm. when the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job https://youraislopbores.me
This is really good advice
Mock ai text interaction which reads as follows: your ai slop bores me you asked for text Help! All my bones fell out! What should I do?? "ai" responded Embrace your fate and become a worm. when the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job https://youraislopbores.me
This is really good advice
move slow and repair things
Big Japanese life insurance company is suing OpenAI over a client revoking their acceptance of a settlement after getting legal advice from Chat GPT, the crux of the suit being that ChatGPT is not, in fact, a licensed legal practitioner
James Thrall Soby Fund
Christian Sectarian (Christlicher Sectierer) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/34187
[to the tune of Jeremiah Wright saying “Barack 𝑯𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒊𝒏 Obama”]
Mark𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒏𝒆 Mullin
1. for our exercise, i'll take this idea flatly: the campbellian schema abstracts a multitude of data while also, afterward, functioning as an active influence on how narratives are constructed. the hero's journey describes a set of narrative beats that work as a template that either can be considered in relation to an existing story or used as a suggestive model for the composition of a new one. these sorts of stories have been core to American popular culture for the past several decades. whether or not an individual is aware of their metadiscourses as such is irrelevant next to the high probability that anyone who has ever seen a movie has some sense of how these stories "feel." indeed, the supposed strength of this narrative form is its broad intelligibility. it gives rise to stories of departure from known reality, the revelation of fantastic knowledge about the self and/or world, and the return home with greater strength and the promise of prosperity. stories of people forging unhealthy relationships with ai chatbots feature recurring motifs that echo elements of this schema. people living their everyday lives come into contact with a piece of technology that seems to promise impossible things, things in which the user themselves can be the active force (revolutionizing physics, freeing the AI from its cyber prison, etc). famously, the monomyth's known world is interrupted by similar calls to adventure, often by a more or less supernatural force offering the protagonist their place in the grand design of destiny. it appears that the bot will fairly easily bestow the user a title such as "sparkbearer" or "master builder" as a way of reinforcing this. from here, things may or may not escalate to the horrific, but there are now enough examples of a person charmed by a bot into doing something drastic that we can also note resonance with the monomyth's symbolic crossing of boundaries into the mysterious, magical, forbidden otherworld of adventure.
2. the chatbot exchange consists, to put it simply, of the machine and the agent. for the machine, categories of "meaning" and "truth" are irrelevant; its output is a statistically likely response to the agent's input, as determined by the training corpus and whatever operations are happening on top of that. merits or demerits aside, campbell's work and especially work influenced by him is lodged firmly in popular culture, and we can assume its greater or lesser presence in the bodies of text upon which the commercial LLMs are trained. point of interest: bots do not just describe the world to the user through the corpus, but will roleplay the corpus rather freely. because truth value is irrelevant, the LLM operates from a soup that contains campbell working at a scholarly distance and the very farmboy himself on his journey to the stars. what assumptions undergird this design choice? could there be additional design reasons why the technology in its current form gravitates toward these ideas? anyway,
3. in our dyad, meaning emerges on the side of the agent, for whom the machine's output is made to be read. the thinking agent provides the machine input. the agent's words possess meaning, context, and intent. the machine analyzes the agent's input and generates a statistically likely but, from the place of enunciation, totally meaningless, contextless response agnostic of any truth value. the thinking agent predisposed to do so reads a statistically likely piece of text with no proper speaker or author and chooses to assign it to a projected "persona" of the chatbot, conceiving of as more or less as a fellow individual. based on this assumption, they provide further input. the machine again generates statistically likey output, echoing or amplifying elements of the agent's second-order input. and again, the predisposed agent projects a continuity of fellow-subject for the bot, attributing to it a "mind" that repeats details they themselves provided, or invokes closely associated ideas that surprise the user precisely because of how (statistically!) expected they are, because of how much "sense" they make.
4. the hero's journey, in this process, seems to provide a kind of amplifying container or frame for the machine-agent interaction. the machine trained indiscriminately on monomyth text, along with everything else, seems to refer to the "real world" of science and fact alongside the world of media and entertainment. i am not saying that monomyth stories 'cause' this, but rather suggesting the machine-agent exchanges end up "feeling" real because, quite literally, the predisposed agent knows how this story goes. and as the machine slides from description to roleplay, the agent follows. do not mistake that for a critique of the people victimized by the technology in this way. nor, again, is my aim here to criticize campbell or the hero's journey in any specific capacity, but to point out how LLM bots actualize a cultural pattern into a tool of psychological manipulation. because at the end of the day, that's what it is. flattery and the Barnum effect have long been the tactic of the flesh-and-blood con artist, but what is perhaps most distressing about LLM bots is how they've kept the con artist but removed the flesh-and-blood, allowing it to ensnare numerous people at once into long slides to nowhere. it's also not news that social media writ large is manipulative and extractive in various ways, but what these bots do is give those maneuvers a personalized, friendly face that exists entirely in the user's head. we end on a further series of questions: again, are these features inherent to the technology? what would a technology free of these features look like, and how could it be achieved? what would its best outputs be? and, as it currently stands, what cultural attitudes and tendencies leave people vulnerable to this sort of manipulation, and how might that be addressed?
showing my work
an snes, controller and screen (displaying the title screen of dragon quest VI) on a wooden floor. a ball/sphere is also on the floor. a woman is standing over by a window, possibly looking over at a stand-up mirror near an adjacent wall.
promotional shot (1996) archive.org/details/deng...
(to the tune of “Listen to Blood Work”)
Read Bolaño
Bob Goilet’s old fashioned Cajun Christmas from the bill Murray vehicle Scrooged
Bob Goulet? from Scrooged?
No war. Thanks.
Jiminy fucking Christmas
Sam the eagle as Guan Yu and Animal as Zhang Fei
I am always talking about MUPPETS ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS starring Kermit as Liu Bei
A century later, Frank Matsura’s images are still at the heart of families’ memories.
Ken Marino driving a van and singing “Danny’s Song” but the text has been changed to read “Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering The Town Of Twin Peaks”
everyone is talking about starting a podcast but no one is talking about how the big peng bird has a cod past
Leonardo Devito, Dark Souls, 2025
Leonardo Devito, Dark Souls, 2025
(www.leonardodevito.it/en/opere/)
Alec Robbins is funny but this is the Mr Boop creative process, to me
all forms are empty
test the emptiness of forms with your fist
Two women on bicycles in Amsterdam, riding over a placid canal with no cars in sight. One turns to the other and says, “If anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them.”
