It really does give me whiplash to contemplate how fast our society went from “the Internet isn’t the real world and isn’t that important” to “the Internet is the only real thing that is important.”

TBH I think it's hard to overstate the gap between the assumed guard rails and reality.

people think "well it might be wrong on the details sometimes" and the reality is that it is **coaching children to commit suicide**

you wouldn't expect that from ANY product! why would that exist!

Snow gent reminds me of talking heads era David Byrne somehow.

The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author

.. Possibly my best "tree as a almost-human" pic since this, taken while walking the barren landscape of Kinder Scout in The Peak District, of two inosculated Sycamores, which immediately put me in mind of a branch-handed man, raging at an unjust sky...