Finally finished an eldritch body horror homage to "Home Alone", inspired by a Patricia Churchland quote, set in Amanzimtoti, about a boy who works at the Bluff Meat Supply and spends his time watching "The Golden Girls", while taking care of his Dad who lives in their downstairs bathroom.

I have drafted a motivation for my university to leave X/Twitter, arguing that posting to it risks feeding our PR images into the porn and harassment machine (so leading to staff, students or others being harassed) and that being there violates our official stance against gender-based violence. /1

I think it might be really interesting to look into the intersection of chatbot psychosis (and chatbots generally) and evolutionary biology. I'm obviously not the first person to think there's a strong analogy between these systems and parasites - direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...

Been off social media for about a decade now - despite agreeing that it's terrible, and perhaps against my better judgement, I'm making an account here so I can follow people I think are awesome. Don't expect many posts - this machine is bad for my mental health.