Baby, did you ever wonder / wonder whatever became of me? // I’m living on the air in Cincinnati / Cincinnati, WKRP.

I literally just used “palimpsest” yesterday. And I felt so conflicted even in the moment as it was coming out of my mouth. But I still did it anyway.

I am sorry for the all caps, but: I CAN’T BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD PUBLICLY ADMIT TO ALL OF THIS. For real. People are so much worse than I think they are. Like, how is he not mortified by his own self? This is the best argument I can think of for religion: at least maybe shame would keep this at bay.

International HE students are the single largest export industry in the state of Victoria, and one of the largest overall in Australia. There is also strong political pressure there to decrease that. It’s not like the US, but it isn’t totally rational.

This is better than tubes and dump trucks. It’s better than covfefe. It has everything. Haha, the end is truly nigh.

To be fair, none of us are going to survive climate change, so at some point in the next 50-100 years we will have gen omega, and they will actually have the worst time to be born.

A crash is good business if you are holding a bunch of capital—say, in crypto. The wealthiest are going to make a killing off of this. At everyone else’s expense, of course. If you want a glimpse of the alternate universe, check out Fox News. No mention of stock market in any headline.

This is the kind of garbage you get from not building a meaningful knowledge base and relying on hyped tech to do your real work for you. It’s not that generative AI can’t be a useful tool. It’s just that it is absolutely not a replacement for human intelligence.

The tools AI provide on their own are like the milk in the wire mother. Good luck to children raised to get education and arts experiences from that. Good luck to us as a species if we don’t recognize this.

Sure is good for making Studio Ghibli-looking images of ICE violence, tho.

Yeah, it’s funny to me that any Jews at all are taken in by these rabidly anti-Semitic supporters of Israel. They only want to bring the rapture and will be delighted to see Jews suffer. They just need to fulfill prophecy. Which is BATSHIT crazy in 2025. And also our national foreign policy.

And it sucks worse that they now make a ton of AI junk music by mining copyrighted libraries and promote it over music they would sort of be expected to pay for. And it sucks that lots of people don’t notice. Lots of bad to go around there.

I hear that and appreciate the point. I also remain stuck with the important differences between big corporate tech and you. Not in a systematic way, I guess, but also in a way that seems important. It deeply sucks that Spotify already doesn’t pay 99% of artists anything like what they should.

Yeah, no, I also don’t. I think maybe it does operate differently, but I’m not certain of that. I can say that I enjoy more iterations of very similar art than iterations of very similar scholarship. But not in a categorical way. My guess is if there is a difference it is of degree, not kind.

People would have, in large numbers, have been delighted to get a check. Done and done. Problem avoided. It’s garbage to argue they shouldn’t have. Like, buy the book. That’s what people do. Why not? Consider it an investment.

Ok, also, on a separate line of thinking: there’s a really lot of money in tech, and yet the big innovations have all led to artists being paid less. Streaming music is the clearest example, but not the only one. Why, actually, couldn’t Meta have paid people for their writing to train the LLM?