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Too right.

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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What actual .... I'm not sure there is a word for what this actually is, but it's THAT, and ACTUAL THAT too!

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Nice!

I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

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... where "the next iteration" is not just the "something significantly dumber" that we built, but also the public discourse.

Otoh, long before AI, there was this idea to build something out of written works and human institutions which was more than a little smarter than one human, which I would argue got bigger and smarter collectively over the centuries.

How it started: if we can build something slightly smarter than a human, it will build something even smarter, which will build something smarter, and then...!

How it's going: if we can build something significantly dumber than a human, but good enough to fake it sometimes, by training it on the entirety of public discourse, we can flood all available public discourse with its output, so the next iteration is slightly dumber, and then....!

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'As Alkhonon tells Tzirel in The Ghost and the Golem, “Everything too sad to joke about, is also too sad not to joke about, if we are to survive in this broken world.”'

So... have I mentioned I'm about to release a 450,000-word Jewish historical fantasy interactive fiction game? Here's an interview I did with my publisher, Choice of Games, about it.

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It seems the hallway they run into leads back around to the outside again, and they are doomed to forget each time. Dark!

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good news for trans women: kamala harris is not, in fact, a vicious transmisogynist. the actions of her office and of the california department of corrections were wrongly attributed to her and her alone by people who wanted someone else to win, and when harris did become involved in the cases, she rewrote the entire policy for dealing with trans inmates so that they would get the care they need.

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Things We're Never Gonna Not:

Ooh. This is SO GEN X.... hopefully some of you younger ones will get it too.

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#Terry Pratchet was wise

"Voting doesnt work because not enough people in my country will vote for MY version of communism. We need a violent overthrow of the government to MAKE this happen"

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Good message, albeit in some ways an imperfect analogy...

[image desc: Sauron from LOTR in front of his army. Text: Imagine if Frodo was all “Sauron’s bad, but Gandalf’s done some morally gray stuff, too, so I’ll stay home.” Don’t get eaten by orcs, Vote.]

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10 posts!

Hmm. So, this is good?

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BBC homepage has a top news story on this, featured in what would be the "above the fold" position if it were a newspaper. I learned the US President has now praised Elmo, as indeed the US President should.

#Elmo #BBC #world on fire angst

twitter users en masse trauma dumped on elmo to the point where sesame street had to put out a mental health psa

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

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Good morning Tumblr neighbors! There is a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay at the Japan Times about the history of the Ainu. The essay includes some history and historical figures I hadn't heard of before. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/21/japan/history/yukie-chiri-ainu-japanese-history/

Just wanted to share.

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Thank you for writing this!

The other day I was saying to myself "nobody would believe the intensity of the reality-distorting moral panic around trans people if you put it in a story." Then I was like, "someone should write that as an opinion piece. And then I realised... I already did??"