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Or being assigned the highest reading level book groups, and basically left to run them yourself. It me!

YouTube video by luiysia Jesus Christ Surferstar (2003) - JCS Surf Rock Covers

@hinaypod.bsky.social For Motzie:
youtu.be/9KaQ3vD3nds?...

And how many of those people will also need therapy because they have stumbled into actual csam in those files and now have secondary trauma....

If you also like video games, go listen to Baba Yetu, which was the title screen music for Civ IV. Same composer, lovely feels.

I'm rooting Yuma Kagiyama, because of Christopher Tin. I love his Calling All Dawns song cycle, and this Turandot finale he re-composed for Yuma is amazing.

Also "once AI develops a proper imagination" - that is not a given, not even a slim likelihood. It's a sentiment the people pouring billions of dollars into these companies and products need you to believe and parrot so that they can keep doing that. You're doing their marketing.

AI as it stands now is *incapable* of developing a proper imagination. It can only regurgitate and recombine the things it has been fed. It cannot generate anything novel, just rearrange pixels in an approximation of the (stolen) source materials.
Humans are and will always be better at this.

Just spotted this gem from @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Alex Ramon. Magician, former Zingmaster of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, and has fooled Penn and Teller. Also just a stellar dude, used to perform for free at our local library and tell kids about how reading books helped him learn magic.

I would propose a subcategory, "Kid Dudes Also Suck". And the first entry is The Sandlot.

"Illegals" is dehumanizing language. Kindly don't.

Honestly, that whole album is great. I picked the cd up at a thrift store for 99c, and still have it 20+ years later.

Wait thats an adhd thing?!?!??! That..... makes some things make sense.
At this point I'm just admitting and accepting the self diagnosis.

It's a whole thread now x.x Clearly my mind has been busy on my commute!

5 - Would there be some kind of formal / in-universe method of inducting a new apprentice so they formally join? What would that look like? Or would the Benefactor even allow it?

4 - I assume thats why you get elders trying to generate new sources of magic. CB with his books, Vanessa's unstable portal, Thompson's hell basement. Will we hear about any more of those attempts, if other apprentices enter the picture?

3 - Which creates a puzzle - Why would elders in general take on apprentices, if it means even more magic users feeding off that conduit, especially knowing the supply is dwindling as the scooby gang destroys or deactivates foci?

2- I thought the elders became elders at the point of Sarvard's initial experiment creating the foci (hence why young Will and Jack Robin are not elders). If that's true, then there's generally a single constrained conduit of magic, right?

@hinaypod.bsky.social Q's for a b-sides, with apologies if these are addressed in the latest 7 or so episodes, I'm almost caught up!
1- Salai is an elder apprentice, but have we/will we meet any other apprentices?

So there's something to blame it on.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Oral Interpretation of Literature
2. Blood: Science, Art, and Folklore
3. Popular Fiction
4. Psychology of Crime
5. International Politics

#1 = "how to read aloud with panache," and still makes me want to be a voice actor

For you:
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Hey baby, what's your sign?

Might I recommend Thank Goodness You're Here. It's an excellent short romp that had me laughing out loud throughout.

two men are standing next to each other in a dark room . one of the men is wearing a hat and a leather jacket . Alt: Dave Lister and Arnold Rimmer, from the show Red Dwarf. Lister looks characteristically confused, while Rimmer gives a smug smirk and quirked eyebrow.

And Kryten. And the Cat.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, by The Flaming Lips.

I have a mug covered with them. A few faves:
"Bolting-hutch of beastliness"
"Not so much brain as ear wax"
"The soul of this man is his clothes"

I went to the Asian grocery to get mooncakes during the mid autumn festival. Got one traditional box, saw they had some Thai ones so, sure, why not? They were durian flavored. Had a kick getting everyone at a family dinner to try a bit, it tasted different to each of us. Very onion/garlic for me.

Post an emergency cat pic! I call this stray at work Casper.