Best Damn Writer
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Read 13 hours ago and current, but nothing has been published for 14 months.
Every religion, ideology, political party, every sexuality, gender, and identity, every philosophy and creed, downplay and minimize the foundation of civilization: children. They’re where the bullshit ends. They’re where the rubber hits the road. We all say we know this but we all fucking lie, but the obviousness of it is right in front of … Continue reading Story IX: Not Suffering Children → The…
In brief: the No Kings protests are meaningless political theater. Protests alone do nothing. They must signify more substantial action before anyone in power cares about them, and there have been no serious organizational efforts to expand the protests into coordinated action. One of the greatest protests in US history was the Montgomery bus boycott. … Continue reading No Kings: Let’s start a…
Less heavy but not unheavy, I’ve been trying to think of words to frame some of the issues caused by our collective obsession with social media and its consequences. (1) The first relevant term I learned, personally, was “future shock.” Roughly, it’s the state where people suffer emotional distress because everything is changing so fast! … Continue reading The Lexicon of Terms to Discuss Online…
I’m trying to figure out what I can do – concretely do – to help the world. While it comes down to “keep on writing,” I think a bit more is needed. I think that we need to talk about the problem leftists have with art and messaging. Short form: leftist and liberal political institutions … Continue reading A Way Forward: the Significance of Authorial Intent in the 21st Century → The post A Way…
What is happening in Los Angeles is what it looks like when the fascists are winning. This needs to be said, and everyone needs to hear it. During Trump’s 2024 election campaign, he said that he would use the National Guard to enforce his immigration decrees. And here he is, doing exactly that. The protests … Continue reading America, Los Angeles is what it looks like when the fascists are winning…
I had been thinking of writing a post about how it seems obvious that many of the posts that people make about AI errors are deceptive if not outright lies. Screenshots are easily fabricated! And I am unable to recreate any of the errors, even when I know the exact prompts and chatbots – even … Continue reading Humans and Social Media Are the Problem with Spreading Misinformation, not AI → The…
Lately, I’ve been really disappointed in 404 Media. This article by Emanuel Maiberg, “Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions” is just… bad. The upshot is that a group of AI accelerationists have a Reddit forum, and a mod said that they had to ban up to 100 people because they … Continue reading Is 404 Media a serious organization? Discussion on what’s wrong with…
I took a pause from the If God Does Not Exist stories because I realized that the early stories needed revision. The speed of progress for AI is so fast that even things written a year or two ago now look retro! I have a footnote (1) about the literary problems I was kicking around, … Continue reading Transitioning Away from Capitalist AIs and If God Did Not Exist → The post Transitioning Away…
First, they came for the opium dealers, the first war on drugs, And we pretended it wasn’t because they were Chinese. Then, they came for the pot dealers, reefer madness, And we pretended it wasn’t because they were Mexicans. They ignored the cocaine dealers in the US. It was okay to go after Colombians but … Continue reading They have Come Again and Again → The post They have Come Again and Again…
Tulsi Gabbard fired about a hundred spies because they used a secure NSA service to make explicit, sexytimes comments to each other. She offered up the predictable reasons: they weren’t professional, it’s a danger to security, unsurprising stuff. In particular, though, the chatrooms were queer-friendly and it can be contextualized as an anti-DEI move. Those … Continue reading Tulsi Gabbard fires…
