I had to go on LinkedIn for work a couple days ago and a post came across my feed from a professor complaining about student AI use. She tacked an AI image to the end of the post and argued for days in the comments about how that was different from cheating on a paper.

This haunts me.

My favourite part of this insane rant is how the author employs the expression “speaking truth to power,” which originated in Black Quaker circles.

Who does this dipshit think power is?

Sorry about your terrible date. Dark and Stormy was my drink of choice back when I used to drink. If a guy had used that line on me, my goth gay heart would no doubt have been all a-flutter. 🖤

Thanks for the fun prompt.

The feed showed me a white supremacist AI-generated video within minutes of downloading the app. Full on clash of civilizations BS. I noped out of there so fast.

I’m all for social media alternatives but there has to be some kind of moderation, otherwise what’s to stop the bastards?

“Penelopiad” is fairly experimental at times (there’s a chorus—they speak in verse) but it works.

Margaret Atwood has an entire book about this (“Penelopiad”) and it is, in my view, excellent. Penelope endured an awful lot. She didn’t really have much time to pine.

“Shake the memories off, hide the evidence under
Piss on the world below
Like a dog that knows its name” is such an apt characterization of prevailing trends in discourse I don’t think we need treatises. Just more tense poems.

My dog (a Springer Spaniel) really wants to eat the ones that hang out in our yard.

The other birds fly away when she runs or barks at them, but the chickadees hang out on low-lying branches just outside of range, cheeping what I imagine must be deprecating remarks on my dog’s parentage.

I like Gorons! Though I mainly played Hestu in Age of Calamity.

Bless. His métier is explosions and product placement and he will not let the soulless machines besmirch it. Respect.