I am a queer lawyer here to tell you that keeping people in constant pain and high vigilance is not good activism actually and to block this person immediately

I get it! I laughed!

thank you Una, that means a lot coming from you

speaking of winter:

www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

But that one gets its own day in the sun, as we know.

a lot of my work is this - bright-lit things among the great winters of the world - so they do both come to mind just now. here they are:

www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

I love winter in London. I do, but it has that dark melancholy, you know it, that makes great griefs unbearable & lesser ones a bitch: which is why both these books are about London in winter, when they're actually about politic, red wine, glitter, roller skates, love.

I worked there for a year and a half, and I still didn't figure it out! Came back for a visit after a month and got just as lost as ever.

…now this is a problem I am not likely to have, but somehow I don’t think it’s anything about my clothes or jewellery or demeanour that you might easily emulate

I dated this girl for a while who told me she was applying for jobs with chatGPT & I was like... ok. I hardly know her I'm sure it's fine. I should've cut her off then! at that clear red flag! rather than spending another eight months putting up with her everything.

I content myself with the fact Project Generative AI Does Our Jobs In Particular is for sure bound to fail, tho next time I see you let me tell you who I upset about it.

/sigh. I even managed to alienate someone on the first day of a new job by saying yeah your stupid AI project will never work and you're stupid to try, oh, btw, I worked on AI professionally for two years!! which is true. & here we are.

also don't date girls who love LLMs. ask me how I know.

it's stupid. it's cringe. it's outright dangerous. it lets shitty little tumblrinas say oh but it's ABLEIST TO MAKE ME WRITE MY OWN FANFICTION. it kills the planet!! so they're spending enough money to advertise during actual TASKMASTER (how much money??) to make people like me use it.

did you not know that one of my favourite things in the entire world is a terrifying black-and-white BBC SF horror serial from 1958? well.

saaaame

yes.

I know, my friend, I know.