One of the things that bothers me about "AI bad" posts/stories are how its 'going to take jobs'
Maybe the problem is that we have to work to even survive in the 1st place? Maybe our basic needs should be provided (healthcare, UBI)?
Theatre movies in particular are accompanied by ads for other movies which makes you aware of those other movies and more likely to go see them. This is how they get you. (Probably movie ads show up on Youtube and TV and stuff too but I don't watch much TV and block Youtube ads so....)
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Great news from the wonderful Pat Cadigan:
“In case you couldn’t hear me partying here in London, I beat terminal cancer. I kicked its ass down the stairs, took its lunch money, and threw rocks at it as it ran away crying. I don’t have cancer any more.”
My problem is that I loved "Wishing Well" and "Sign Your Name" but _hated_ "If You Let Me Stay" so could never get the album. I have the second album and quite like "This Side of Love", but it's true it was never as big a hit.
Janet Kagan was a wonderful person who as far as I know only had three books out--the excellent Star Trek novel Uhura's Song, Hellspark, and the fixup novel Mirabile. (And a novella called "The Nutcracker Coup", I think.) I was part of a NaNoWriMo group with her years ago, before she passed away.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
Janet Kagan: Hellspark
Tanith Lee: The Blood of Roses
Matt Ruff: Sewer, Gas & Electric
Jim Munroe: Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gas Mask
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, the effects of SARS-CoV-2 are commonly body-destroying in ways we’re barely beginning to understand, and the best way to keep yourself and others safe is to WEAR A MASK.
Here's my breaking up with Harry Potter essay comic- if you need some fuel to convince relatives or friends not to watch the new show, maybe this will help: redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...
That sentence kind of garden-pathed me a bit. "This new AI-generated book is marketing scam email?"
Canada is not a Christian nation. It is a nation where you are free to be a Christian — or any other faith, or no faith at all.
I did another blog post, about the books I read in February. www.tumblr.com/alfvaen/8099...
Veronica Mars has the best theme song ever.
Our 8th grade English teacher showed us "Fame". Presumably thinking it would be as clean as the then-current TV series. We also got to see "Norma Rae" in Social Studies when we were covering unions. And "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" in Grade 10 English. None of these were G-rated...
Yeah, I watch Claude lobotomize itself multiple times per day.
Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
10/10 ICE protest sign
I've been doing monthly book roundups on tumblr for a while (www.tumblr.com/alfvaen/tagg...) and now I've done a post about my 2025 reading (www.tumblr.com/alfvaen/8054...). (Why tumblr? I often ask myself the same thing.)
Yeah, I find that interesting compared to a puzzle game like, e.g. Sherlock, where if you guess correctly it'll just accept it. Here, you can't reason in advance of your evidence. Even with tagging, sometimes I need an extra sheet of paper for reasoning like "A or not A -> B".
Is it wrong that I am now wondering if this could be automated and randomized? Make up a bunch of lists and auto-generate the page based on random selections from them? Because if there's one thing I love, it is making lists.
I got to a point of having to guess "is this person a poet, a vice president, or a comedian?" "Is this a fallacy or a legal term?" Not to mention that I apparently knew less than half of the cheeses. Apart from that my problems were mostly logistical because the whole puzzle didn't fit on the screen
A dear friend has made the most delightfully deranged puzzle I've done in some time:
"2025 = 45 * 45, so I made you a 45 by 45 connections puzzle to enjoy.... doing it over several days with help from others is encouraged.)"
thomaswc.com/2025.html
Our final issue is now available. Twice as many stories as most of our issues!
"Sex ages"? I'm Al
Okay, I'm not sure if I've slept on one either.
But my brother had one. So I've helped him move it. Draining it. And refilling it. I don't know if that carpet ever got dry again. He sure never got his damage deposit back. Anyway, I think it counts.
Sorry, can't relate. Over 5000 songs into my "songs that wander into my head" playlist.
I can relate on the furnace filters. Killed one furnace fan in this house already because in the last house we hardly ever needed to change filters so I didn't do it for...a few years.
Also looking forward to the podcast! And hope you have a great holiday season...
Nineteen. I never had AOL.
It's always heartening to find an example of actual Canadian culture that we don't realize.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
U2 (with Derryl's tickets)
Prince
Barenaked Ladies
They Might Be Giants
Sarah McLachlan