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Like many a wife I boosted the husband up to Godhood and held him there.

What is strength?

--Anne Carson, V. Here Is My Propaganda One One One One Oneing On Your Forehead Like Droplets of Luminous Sin

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Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

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I only felt that some one else understood what I understood, and had written it out very clearly.

Ezra Pound on Kandinsky, Vorticism

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military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps

enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it

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Notes app, my beloved

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Art

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Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind

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I loved when AI art could never be anything but AI art. the dreams of a computer. now it's all boobs and photorealistic women doing bad kink. but I remember you. I miss you. I love you, Secret Horses.

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Naomi Shihab Nye, “Sifter.” A Maze Me: Poems for Girls

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You said, This thing we call life mustn’t ever become something endured

Greek Lessons, Han Kang

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Finally came up with something to ask you:

What is your opinion on Lovecraft? Not him as a person, but his stories and themes. I.E. have you read and do you enjoy Lovecraft's works?

I have absolutely read HP Lovecraft, and even wrote an introduction to a volume of his stories (it's collected in The View from The Cheap Seats). There's also a documentary about Lovecraft in which you can find people like me and Guillermo Del Toro talking about who Lovecraft was and what racism, antisemitism and misogyny have to do with it.

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Lisa Taylor

Asking Eyes

Oil on Canvas

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