Sean Weeks

This was a terrible time to rechristen my birth certificate!

So hurtful to me on my first day as Mr. Fargo, kim.

Exactly.

I refuse to normalize Reagan.

When do we get You (Pl.)? Will it be called Y'all? Youse?

Pronouns are great. Pronouns: The Series is dumb, dumb, dumb.

Exactly.

Convenience is actually an inconvenience if you weigh success by character rather than time.

Some things are not worth doing, and the choice to pay costs to complete an idea makes sure that the idea's worth completion.

Rights were established because there was enormous advantages inherent in breaking them at the cost of happiness and peace.

They aren't arbitrary lines. They're drawn at points that tyrants found very, very useful to exploit.

This is an abyss with no bottom, and I truly hope that the people enabling this understand that greed is gorging itself on their civil liberties.

You might feel comfortable with giving away your face and your privacy, but then there is absolutely no reason why expediency shouldn't devour the rest.

People have been saying, "Well, the law is glacial, new tech is moving fast" or whatever, but this is not the case here. Robin Williams used existing laws to combat *this tech specifically,* and yet he's still powerless.

The law is absent. The law stepped away. Brute economics won over rights.

Here's the thing.

Robin Williams said in his contracts that *he did not consent to any digital likenesses or simulacrums of any part of him.* He 100% anticipated this technology and lawyered up.

This is breaking the law in a clear, actionable way.

But the law won't act. It's complicit. #AI

It's a product that no one is willing to pay for, that is desperately searching for a problem to solve.

Very rapey stuff.

I think the people who didn't give a shit probably gave so little of a shit that they didn't put forth the effort to troll others.

Convenience has suddenly made every terrible impulse affordable.

Especially upsetting given that Robin Williams both anticipated this and explicitly said he didn't want his likeness replicated.

I don't see anything from that day beyond the basic collections and so forth.

Did I miss it? Did they clean house? Sorry to bother you, but I like to keep tabs on these things so I can discourage its spread over the course of my everyday.

Again, sorry to bother you. Genuinely inquiring.

Hang in there, struggling artists

America ends at their tribe. It was never the coherence of the country as a whole. It was their neighborhood and a white picket fence.

She's the definition of a useless centrist motormouth.

Oh, and of a white woman who spends more time verbally abusing PoC and trans people than showing any sympathy—a real Fuck You, Got Mine wanker.

Yeah. She's a real specimen.

Today's game dev mantra.

To the very end, America is obsessed with success and titles as a metric of whether or not anyone should give a damn.

God, I feel ancient and over the hill.

The orange skin and hair begin to look like calculated efforts to dominate a room.

Probably not calculated and more instinctual.

Systems with central figures are decisive, but the quality of decisions tends to spiral. The sycophancy that made helpers politically useful makes them bad agents for executing anything, and the bottleneck's real (e.g. Kristi Noem and FEMA papers).

Diversity's both efficient and strong.

I tend to agree until I look at the damage someone like Zuckerberg has done.

Resolved that issue by considering people who condemn entire generations to death to be predatory viz. children.*

*Can't find something more concise than child predators, but that sounds like the child is a predator.

After the third time I encounter a recurring issue in a draft, I tend to make a global statement and move on. 32 variations of the same note can feel repetitive can feel repetitive can feel repetitive.

The proscriptions were done twice during the Republic, once by Augustus and once by Sulla.

It cut down on the number of enemies, sure, but its chief goal was the seizure and liquidation of private citizens' wealth—the belongings of state enemies would be declared intestate.

Have you ever heard of the Roman proscriptions? Lists of state enemies were posted on the walls of the Forum and all were pledged to do them harm if able.

People saw it as an opportunity to off their neighbor legally ("I thought it was him!") and often collected the bounty for the head, too.

Haha! If I blocked and reported people based on such things, I'd be quite lonely.

Naw. We need all the tools we can get in prose.

Amen.

Yep. I'm very upset with people who conveniently mock and deride others and then silently switch over. They owe apologies and they're generally untrustworthy.

Reality TV shows ignored a lot of obvious problems when they thought they could make some cash.