Júlíus Á. Kaaber

The AI-response "Everything can be faked" discourse interests me partly by how much it leaves out of "everything."

AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.

Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Gleðilegt bókaafmæli! 🎉💙

More Murderbot! Yay!!!

That sounds so lovely. What's the video/alternatives?

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

Same here. There are R-sounds that we don't have in Icelandic and by the same token the accented Á in my name along with a harder sounding R (and trilling) in Árnason makes it hard for people who don't speak Icelandic to pronounce my last name.

They even talk about a pollen podcast created by AI. Listen, a pollen podcast written and produced by a human who cares about pollen sounds great! But that's the point, the passion that people bring to their work.

"The content team [...] gives each podcast a title, creates an outline of the podcast, with the content filled out by AI, and assigns it one of the personalities as a host."
So absolutely soulless and no reason to listen.

That cover is so frickin' cool!

Absolutely. I even have trouble DNF a book I'm not enjoying because my undergrad drilled into me that I had to read for nuance and academic understanding rather than enjoyment and if I DNF a book I'm not going to get the nuance. Absolutely wild.

Good job Elsie! But reading this gave me palpitations. Ooof, must've been stressful for you and Rob.

Father Nathan Monk posted on Facebook a message. This is a screenshot of the message, which says, "You are about to watch the whole world respect a chosen name. It's that easy."

It really is this simple.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

This feels like cursed knowledge.

I'm partial to Todd Lockwood, but maybe that's just teenage D&D nostalgia playing with me. His dragon art for the 3.5 D&D Monster Manual was so cool!

People are always looking for the Yellow Brick Road to writing success.

The secret remains intentional reading and intentional writing.

The configuration of those two depends on individual factors.

There is no formula.

Super interesting race. Though I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Netflix had a great documentary on it a few years back "The Race that Eats its Young"

Oh shit, the FLYING SCALZI!!!!

Le guin quote: no darkness last forever. And even there, there are stars

All right. I'm off to the word mines. Keep looking up, fam.

I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art.

'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it.

No, what needs democratisation is basic income.

Seems to be going splendidly... you mean petting the cat right?

I was two but still counts.

Well I mean.... that as well, and it's only a little.

Having experienced turning right at a red light last summer in the US I cannot fathom why more countries don't do it. It is so friggin nice!

I'm Icelandic and it took me YEARS to realize that Cool American was just rebranding of ranch for Iceland.

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Love that movie! An absolute blast of (maybe turns out to be real) not science.

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

What an absolutely fantastic opening line: "A ship glides through the night, behemoth mother, swollen with ten thousand human lives."!