Truly the worst of both worlds. How would one push any boundaries at all? AI is being fed copyrighted content and then new content is compared only to what already exists. It’s a death spiral.

I have mine but it’s not cold enough here yet!

And I had a roommate writing scripts for chatbots in 199? I think pre-web. A virtual bartender who responded to conversational prompts.

David Bowie looking _very_ fine here. 😉

And there are people with one big idea that are fine too they iterate it because it’s like the loaves and fishes you never run out there’s always more to share

I finally had to start taking pictures of them, like I was giving them up to certain adoption by someone else.

I love this lil guy

There was a supposedly automated voicemail-to-text transcription app circa 2007 that was actually just going to a room in India where humans were doing it. Can’t remember the name now.

That reminded me of one the all-time great two-page short stories:

The covers remind me of David Thorne’s prank with stock photos and Justin Bieber’s face:

He is like an albino alligator swimming near the Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He knows he is compelled, but he does not know why. Does he dream of cookies, or is he himself their muse, driving them to please him and be thus devoured, urged like lemmings off a cliff into his mouth’s existential darkness

I love Rylance in this. And in The Outfit. And, well, nearly everything.

They’re not board games, but we have laughed an awful lot playing the card games Business Walrus and Horrible Therapist. My daughter is so utterly convincing when playing Business Walrus that I am now convinced she easily will be able to support my comic-book habit in my dotage.