- I look like an escaped lobotomy patient right now.
- Mwhahahahaha
- Sup.
- I’m sitting here on the couch listening to “Planet Caravan” by Black Sabbath.
- The original, not that Pantera cover.
- Not that the cover is bad, but …
- I’m touchy, philosophically, about using things created by other people attached to whatever it is I’m doing.
- Like the Oatmeal comic, or that cross-stitched thing.
- I’ll attach that stuff because I love it, and I want other people to see it and follow whoever created it.
- Here’s where I’d go on another AI rant.
- I don’t want shit created by AI.
- I don’t want AI writing or art or music.
- If you’re a creative who uses it as a tool to help you with your end product, fine.
- If you’re using it to think for you, you’re hastening the downfall of humanity, and making some rich tech fuck richer.
- I’m sure you can use it to create dumb shit like bad action flicks and soap operas.
- I’m sure they will.
- But you get what you … pay for?
- This is where I’d get into my movie critic argument.
- The one where I say “just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s good.”
- I have a lot of guilty pleasures, too.
- I just know they suck.
- And Knowing Is Half the Battle.
- I guess the end game I’m struggling with.
- If they have AI takeover creative endeavors, humanity will flounder.
- We’re not meant to produce things for consumption other than food.
- Not meant to spend our lives on assembly lines or in factories.
- We’re meant to think and create.
- Creativity is where our species advances.
- You don’t solve problems without creativity.
- Asking AI to do it for you makes you reliant on it for your thinking.
- At some point, you’ll ask shittier questions.
- And get shittier results.
- Doesn’t anyone think about this?
- Then again, I’m fed up with humanity’s continued inability to come up with a system to benefit everyone.
- We don’t need to have poverty.
- Or hunger.
- Or homelessness.
- They fling the word socialism at anything that can benefit the many these days.
- And people believe it.
- It’s bullshit.
- It’s protecting the rich and greedy.
- Hard to get away from it when they’re throwing “productivity” hacks at you every day.
- This one’s a rant.
- I guess.
- I just work here, man.
- We finished White Lotus season three yesterday.
- Good stuff.
- By far the prettiest show I have ever watched.
- Started Andor season two.
- Excellent.
- I should’ve watched the finale of season one first, but I remembered as we tripped along.
- For those of you new to the List, Mondays often end up as weekend recaps.
- I started this one yesterday, so part of it isn’t.
- I have been waking up at 4ish and unable to go back to sleep because the brain is flipping to ON mode.
- I can brain.
- Last night, I lay there doing FMLA math on how long I had to make progress on my book, among other things.
- Kinda.
- Brains update:
- My left temple has been swollen and numb since the surgery.
- I’d been wondering exactly where they’d opened the skull.
- Figured that out Saturday trying to unload the dryer.
- That repeated bending over stuff …
- Oh, hey, there’s the crack.
- Lol.
- Still.
- Not bad.
- Still taking nothing for pain.
- And I looked up without double vision for the first time since April 2022.
- I never thought that would happen again.
- It was in and out, but it happened.
- The miracles of modern medicine.
- Wish everyone had access to them.
- And with that, I’m going to go take my IV meds and go for a walk.
- You have the Monday you deserve.
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