4651 Followers
1501 Following
Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
Furthest north: near Akureyri, Iceland Furthest south: Mossburn, New Zealand The east and west are tricky, because I flew west to get to Australia and NZ. So it’s either E: Teverya, Israel W: Sydney, Australia or E: Napier, NZ W: somewhere on Oahu, Hawai‘i
Furthest I've been
N: Reykjavik S: Christchurch E: Wellington W: Honolulu
Just another day in office paradise
Right, so… I just saw a sign for a new restaurant. It’s inside a gas station. Which—ok. Fine. No judgement. But it’s called KRUNCHY CHICKEN. Now listen. Crispy? Yes, that sounds delicious. But I maintain that ‘crunchy’ chicken sounds like something has gone very wrong.
Anyway the lady who created a villain so committed to supremacist domination that it consumes him and leaves him as an empty husk w/an irretrievably splintered soul has a few more thousand thoughts today about one of society's most marginalized groups, by which I mean she has 1 thought 1000 times.
Rowling's 24/7 commitment to being an absolute nightmare ghoul is sort of extraordinary. She has every option in the world for how to spend her life and she commits herself entirely to hatred and self-righteous mean-spiritedness; some are more effective at evil but nobody puts in the hours like her.
"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.
EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.
Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
Next: AI executioners. And then they can have AI pass the sentence. That way, no personal guilt, right?
And yesterday the fucking Arizona Supreme Court used an AI “reporter” to announce that a man’s death sentence was being upheld:
"The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs — from foreign languages to theater and dance — in response to the Legislature’s mandate to cut higher education budgets....Most of the degree cuts are in the College of Humanities, which lost 22 programs." bit.ly/3IYoM2T
The University of Utah will discontinue 81 academic programs in response to the Legislature’s mandated budget cuts for higher education.
Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Just my two cents but the thing where every casino on the strip is now owned by one of two companies who fix prices across all their properties so literally every single transaction is an enormous ripoff is probably not helping.
$40 valet parking at the f-ing Luxor, gee why isn't anyone coming?
“.. Only 3.1 million people visited Sin City in June, down 11.3% compared to last year ..” 👀
