Still doubting.

"Consciousness and sentience, as I understand them, are subjective experience. A being is conscious or sentient if it has subjective experience, like the experience of seeing, of feeling, or of thinking." ---- David Chalmers: Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?

Look, writing (especially creative writing) isn't an engineering puzzle; outside of basic grammar, there's very little "if/then" about it. Everything's guidelines rather than rules. The idea you'll just down a checklist of things to do and then the writing will "work" is usually reductive and false.

And listening some chansons of Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg...

Re-reading Milan Kundera ...
It seems I understood very little the first time I was reading his books years ago.

So many matches to watch tonight.

"'Oh you fucked up your career' but they're talking about the career they had in mind for me. I fucked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I fucked up *their* career, not mine"

Oppenheimer
The Ghost Writer
Radio Active
HIJACK

best graph i've ever seen https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html

In Phoenix, it was 97F at 4 in the morning

Hot and doomed?

Can I log in simultaneously on my phone and my computer???

Greenland is still having a helluva 2023 melt summer, with melt extent at or beyond the 90th daily percentile range for several weeks straight. ❄️💦🧪

With 24 hr Arctic summer days, “one hot-assed day” can last for weeks. And it is.

Melt from passive microwave 🛰️ measurements. Images from NSIDC.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1500 #hieronymusbosch #northernrenaissance

The Bus, 1929 #fridakahlo #kahlo

We’re in a post printing press, post telephone world.

But we’re in the messy middle of figuring out the Internet.

My very first one.
Sky is so very blue.