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“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian

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Rihanna getting traditional Polynesian tattoo, 2013

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Francis Featherstone, Secret Whispers (left) & The Talking Cloth (right). Oil on canvas

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some highlights from hugh grant answering the proust questionnaire in vanity fair.

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I will NEVER let ppl forget that Brad Pitt terrorised and beat Angelina Jolie and their kids so bad on a plane ride that a report was filed by the FBI with multiple witnesses. And I will never forget that Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from him almost immediately after that incident in 2016 and it wasn't until THIS YEAR that Pitt agreed to it after ALMOST A DECADE of dragging her and their kids through bullshit defamation court proceedings. But you'd never know because that fucker is everywhere with his fake racecar movie and shitty cheek fillers and everyone just eats it up. So many people warned that the Depp v Heard case would light the way for famous abusers to be rehabilitated in the public eye and it did. It proved to abusers that they don't even need to be sorry or acknowledge what they did they can just keep showing up, smear their victims behind the scenes with astro turfing and let the fans and industry do the rest. brad pitt, Kevin Spacey, James Franco, Ezra Miller, Johnny Depp etc. all of them are thriving in the spotlight rn and being invited to major industry events and even winning awards despite documented incidents of abuse. It's so fucking depressing.

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cackling at work

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Everything is fine.

SUCCESSION 4x09 "Church and State"

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Neuroscience tells us that reality is a construct built by our brains from only those aspects of the outside world that we have needed to perceive in order to survive and reproduce. We live in a model of the world, a story of sorts. The intense feeling of plot and narrative in our dreams, although it may well be meaningless, suggests that making sense of the world by telling stories is a critical part of being human. Fairy stories are about what doesn't really happen, which is why typically they end: and they all lived happily ever after.

Henry Marsh, And Finally

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Jurnee Smollett in Smoke 1x01 “Pilot”, dir. Kari Skogland

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JURNEE SMOLLETT 📹 Instagram

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The Hour is Devoted to Revenge (1999)

© Louise Bourgeois

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Don’t date someone you wouldn’t own a dog with