After some drastic changes in my life I was slowly piecing together on who I see myself as, starting with my childhood which was... difficult. To say a certain quote in Oathbringer hit me like a brick is an understatement.

the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree

we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases

and hans reiser in the worst

we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober

Sure. Is there something I could read maybe?

Not a troll answer, I am really curious because I treasure your insights: I thought Zootopia was excellent tool to help discussing stereotypes and racism with younger students and what little scholarly research I read at the time seemed to agree. Where did this go astray?

There's one thing which is incorrect here: you can't possibly have too many books. That's not a thing.

(Attached illustration is one of Elisabeth Wheatley's Book Goblin stickers.)

I was good at math so my parents sent me to a summer daycamp to play video games and learn BASIC, they thought I might like that. They were right: forty years later I still like playing video games and software development both, the latter makes money, too.

*and pics*

Fake. It makes no sense for Google to do this and they are not. www.theverge.com/news/826902/...

Working hard to turn CBS News into a televised Substack.