As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

Steve Hofstetter just posted about fear vs anxiety, where fear is living in the woods with bears and being scared of bears. Made me think about masking.
It’s not anxiety or paranoia to mask in public when you have long covid or MECFS or other health issues.

Don’t even get me started on the “other countries can’t regulate tech despite the social harms their products cause because the US has an extreme framing of free speech compared to other Western countries.”

The US can let tech products tear their society apart. That doesn’t mean others have to too.

this helped me when I finally told a family member (who married into an American Republican family, before MAGA existed) not to contact me anymore, until they renounce their support for the American MAGA fascists.

Yes, the only problem is now ruzzia will send their drones against ships exporting Ukrainian grain. At least I understood that there was a tacit understanding that each side was avoiding each other's non-military ships in the Black Sea.

I’m also really enjoying how quiet it is here, even downtown, compared to Jakarta!

6. Random thoughts during a shot always mess it up.
7. Playing well requires you to be fully aware of what your body is doing.
8. We have a terrible time sticking to structure.

5. It trains our ability to relax mentally.
6. It trains our ability to emotionally regulate
7. There is a clearly visible goal on every hole: It’s all now, there’s no “not now”.
8. It has structure, which we desperately need