Wicked Freckled Trull

Tell y'all what, sometimes the best teacher for how good movies work is a movie that should be good but somehow isn't.

Honestly might be my favorite kind of review to write because I just figure so much out along the way.

It's a hold-the-freshly-printed-zines-a-little-longer-because-the-printer-warmed-the-paper kind of day. 🥶

I haven’t bought a book today.
True, it’s not dawn yet.

They make handheld blow horns. Convenient size.

I don't know, yet now I am intrigued.

All This Stuff is happening but I’m also reading a mystery novel with my 9yo and he was like “I want to read books like this always, I wish there were more books like this!” And I got to tell him mystery fiction is a thing that exists

Some research is like that as one asks the questions, follows that path to the bitter conclusions, and thinks very hard about consequences to ask more questions.

Staying unemotional is hard.

The researchers I know take breaks to deal with the emotions because the work is too important to quit.

So, just like a regular human assistant sent from the pool.

Scifi works spanning decades explored the harm and why some guardrails need to exist to make that harder to do and enforce social norms of no, just no.

An academically distanced essay that has serious consequences.

Well done!

Yum!

I should be doing many things.

*looks at to do list*

Yeah, no. I'm 76% complete on a really good book.

#amreading

AI is Erasing Entire Ethnic Groups by Default—And So Are Artists AI image generators can’t see my character. Sarai—a Central Asian woman with copper-bronze skin and freckles—doesn’t exist in their training data. After dozens of failed generations across thirteen…

“Central Asia? I don’t believe it exists.”
— Generative AI

Part tutorial, mostly frustration. And no. Hiring a “real” artist doesn’t help.

I wonder if I go to the library enough times I’ll find the right book to help me solve all my extra points problems and potentially other life problems too

One more attempt couldn’t hurt

It turns out the answer to the question “if you had easy access to low sugar ice cream that tasted ok, how often would you eat it?” is “like every day”

Yeah, that doesn't seem the most probable.

However, I'm working on being more generous and patient.

We'll see how long that lasts.

So many thoughts come to mind.

The most generous is related to prioritizing of scarce resources to improve all aspects of the experience.

The least generous, well, I don't need to list those for you. You know.

I tease @rywilwrite.bsky.social (author of the piece) that, like Epasotl in his book Born in Battle,

“Am sad, but happy. Happy-sad. You always make me ugly cry. Much shame. I hate you.”

because the language he uses makes the characters' reality my reality and I do ugly cry sometimes.

Introducing Mešvi 2.1: Language as Culture in Dark Dominion The first iteration of Mešvi was Persian with centuries of simulated linguistic drift. But as I developed the Mešvi people—their matriarchal society, prophetic traditions, and goddess worship—I rea…

Language shapes how we think and even what thoughts we can have

#DarkDominion by @rywilwrite.bsky.social

#SciFi #Worldbuilding

theannex.blog/2025/11/23/i...

I am absolutely flabbergasted that people order books described as "like new" and get ex-library books and books missing dust jackets.

Is that just expected now?

Because when I say Fine, I mean FIIIIIINE.

So if I use the remote start on my uncovered car now, will it be warmed up by the time I land at O'Hare tomorrow morning? 🥶

sometimes i'm writing my criminally sickening levels of fluffy shit and i think "is this too much? like this is so far removed from canon. none of this is accurate. would they ever say/do any of this?"

and then i remember that these are my cakes & i can bake and decorate them however i want. 🙂‍↕️🎂

Waste not, want not is how I was raised.

You get rid of something you never use and bam! you'll need it.

Where I Failed and Why: An AI’s Confession on Developmental Editing Can AI provide useful developmental editing feedback? I tested three models—Grok, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Opus—on the same manuscript my professional editor reviewed. All three generated confiden…

The core problem isn’t that AI feedback is obviously bad—if it were obviously bad, no one would follow it. The problem is that it’s plausibly good in ways that can be indistinguishable from actually good without professional judgment as a check.

Nope indeed.

That's a lot of work for a fun video.

Well done, sir!

Spoiler alert: 2 days of painstaking work with multiple software packages. A heroic effort for 90 entertaing seconds.

GenAI video models strongly prefer Fitzpatrick I-II or VI subjects. Maintaining continuity of III-V across time is impossible, because apparently the skin tones that represent the largest portion of humanity also represent the smallest portion of Western-dominated training data.