Today marks a full year since I first started #TheArtistsWay and got into the habit of writing #morningpages — three pages of longhand, every single morning.
I wrote a bit about how it's changed me, both as a writer and as a person...
I once had to sleep in a bathtub to avoid the wrath of an angry cat.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Honestly, this news is enough to make me consider downloading Unity again. I still think it's the high point of the series as a whole.
I like Wayne, but his Fountains suck.
I've been asked to spend my morning at work looking through a spreadsheet that someone got Gemini to shit out and make sure it actually gave the correct information. It's supposed to be a copy/paste job and it keeps including random sentences it just made up.
#FuckGenAI #StopTheSlop
Ha! Maybe I could write my own "AI-generated summary" of the meeting full of hallucinations and misinformation...
I've been invited to a work meeting next week about using GenAI at work. Trying to decide whether to just not show up out of protest, or attend and spend the whole time making retching noises whenever someone uses the phrase "AI".
I really need a new video game to get my teeth into. I've tried a few things recently — Pathologic 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Neva — and bounced right off them. Anybody got a recommendation for PS5? Otherwise I'll just play The Last of Us Part II for the tenth time...
Not sure it's a great sign that my main recurring thought while watching #WutheringHeights was "Boy, Poor Things was a good movie, I should watch that again soon!"
Nice to see Pokémon asking the important questions like "What if a bird was perfectly spherical?" and "What if the bird hated everything with the burning heat of a thousand suns?"
It's fascinating seeing people trying to move away from having everything on a smartphone and, in many cases, WILDLY overcompensating by throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I want to get off Spotify but I'll do that by getting a DAP, not lugging cassettes and CDs everywhere with me!
When my wife was pregnant with our daughter we were considering calling her Lyra, but I persuaded her against it when the TV adaptation of 'His Dark Materials' started to air. Sure enough, a few years later I've met a dozen Lyras and have yet to meet a single other Mara.
OK, I'm not sure I know what *any* of these are... the first one might be Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and the last one sounds sorta SimCity-ish, but otherwise I'm drawing a total blank.
It's almost sweet the way Kemi thinks she's a real politician instead of just a repulsive little troll presiding over the shuffling corpse of a party that hasn't realised it's dead yet.
The only people who regularly call me 'Philip' are my mother and my grandmother. It'd sound weird coming from anyone else, but it would somehow be weirder if the name on my birth certificate was 'Phil.'
Don't sell yourself short; "half-tucked destroyer of history" made me laugh out loud!
Favourite games poorly explained:
A Dog Takes Up Painting.
Emo Twink Jesus Gave Me Superpowers!
The Hangover: The Game
Men Will Run Around Playing Pirates Instead Of Going To Couples' Therapy
This Eldritch Horror Could Have Been An Email.
God, these people are so deeply pathetic. Absolute losers, to a one.
one thing I love to do is to type and type and type and think oh woah, I must have nearly written a whole article here, I've typed up so many things, and then look at the wordcount and stare at "283" for a while
Never fails to blow my mind that a woman who changed her name to Lionel, because she wanted a more masculine name than the one she was born with, turned out to be a massive raging transphobe.
We need to normalise mercilessly bullying people who use this stupid GenAI shit. Point and laugh, call them names. It's the only way they'll learn.
I wonder if Mr and Mrs Altman ever regret the two decades they wasted bringing up this dingus.
Some thoughts on my recent forays into the world of #digitalminimalism...
My history teacher showed us all six episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth as part of our lessons on the First World War. I still remember the classroom going dead silent at the final scene when everyone goes over the top...
Depending on the teacher or the subject, it was either Remember the Titans or James Gunn's live-action Scooby-Doo.
When I was 16 we once convinced our maths teacher to let us watch the South Park movie. I think he laughed more at it than we did.
Now I need to know what movies people were shown in school on movie days or when the teacher didn't feel like it.
• The Ten Commandments (many times)
• Ben-Hur (at least twice)
• The Breakfast Club (my high school loved this one)
• Remember the Titans
• Monty Python & The Holy Grail (idk, man)
That's exactly the kind of thing I mean, but the one I remember was two photos — one of all that stuff on a wooden table, and the other with just a phone. Honestly, I'm not even sure that it was an advert now that I think about it... it may just have been a really ubiquitous image.
Does anyone remember a print ad for a smartphone — I think one of the early iPhones, but can't be sure — that showed a phone on a desk next to a photo of all the things it replaced (like a camera, an alarm clock, a notebook, a wallet, a flashlight, and so on)? Trying to find the original version...
Going after the rich isn't just morally right, it's also a matter of public health. Choosing to hoard such obscene amounts of money is a mental illness that makes people do horrific things to both themselves and the wider community.
