after the storm a weasel

Some of mine fished, breaks up the monotony a bit

I try not to think about the overlap too much.

physically and digitally our world has become kippilized, people are champing at the bit to create ghoulish shadows of (non)dead people so that you can avoid ever accepting your loved one is gone, parasocial relationships with, and vicarious living through, faddish media/online figures

On the other hand, Philip K Dick’s novels (not any of the film adaptations) absolutely nailed the aesthetic and vibe of the present, which is decidedly not cool unlike what is presented in most cybernetic fiction.

I already spent too much time fighting with software doing invisible, undocumented things in the background (apparently my library's discovery layer truncates searches at commas, who knew!), but even that way too low bar isn't met by the products I've seen.

Vendors and devs aren't interested in communicating what of this exists. I asked the Elsevier "product owner" of a new AI for how they evaluated the quality of article summaries and I couldn't even get a vague list of criteria, let alone a meaningful metric.

This is where I hit a wall when actually trying these systems as they're being sold by vendors or used by patrons. The evaluation criteria, methods, error rates, all the information necessary to meaningfully evaluate or use a tool intentionally are not available.

As usual we can blame the Brits, blocking Qajar Persia from reasserting control of Herat and eastern Khorasan to protect colonial India. Didn't want another Nadr Shah situation. The Great Game at it again.

Best to confuse everyone and put it in cis-Oxania

I only half remember what mine was about, but pretty sure it was mostly about how video games made me a strategic thinker. Got me into a upper-middling polytech and a couple obscure liberal arts colleges, so I guess it worked out

Now the AI are stealing the jobs from the Ruler's Scheming Advisor

clear before/after

Read Theory

AT&T Room 641a didn't just appear with no governmental intervention.

Always has, the US just used to be quieter about it.

Google ngrams certainly aren't definitive, but there's a few interesting bumps before the takeoff in the 80s/90s. Google books search has some false positives, but lots of examples to look at before the 90s

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

www.google.com/search?q=%22...

The OED has its first example from 1871:

1871 Blood-moons, and such a wealth of stars in the heavens, and such feather-fringed azure clouds as made the heart beat to think of them.
B. L. Farjeon, Joshua Marvel vol. I. v. 92

I for one refuse to make tea with water cooler than 120C, microwave required.

Legends say all the little embroidery scissors—shaped like storks, guarded like gold—are just copies of her originals

or a Mrs Robinson situation

Screengrab from Twin Peaks of Agent Cooper driving his car while speaking into a tape recorder. Caption reads Diane, 11:54 am, February 24th I’m entering the town of Twin Peaks I’m running late.

Retvrn

gold-plated

it varies but there are definitely some party/dinner invites where I know if I show up on time it'll just be me and the hosts for 15 min and most will be 15-30 min late. Was even more common when I was younger, everyone trying to time it to be "fashionably late"

Searching for a party with common sense opinions on how many types of space marines we need (3)

He's certainly not the only one, but Alan Watts has a ton to answer for.

Hawk?

Mulder would fail the test and disappear while Scully passed. Then he'd reappear the same day Scully found out she had cancer and/or was mysteriously pregnant. The tumor/baby is Laura Palmer's killer.