My Internet Identity

Idk, guys, I guess it's a choice between ChatGPT and the sun now. It's a close one.

I feel like this is like, "Hey, we already ruined kids' imaginations by giving them an infinite scroll of vapid videos on demand, I bet the solution is to give them MORE TECHNOLOGY." I feel like such an old person but I suspect that is not the solution to this problem. At all.

Just, here's an imagine for you: Imagine your kid learns how to use their imagination without having a constant technological crutch nearby. Imagine your kid thinks they need to have an AI give them prompts in order to use their imagination, and they never try any other way.

One of my podcasts has an ad for an AI friend for your kid. To "jump-start their imagination." Okay, no human imagination needs AI but you know who especially doesn't need it? KIDS. KIDS' WHOLE THING IS THEIR IMAGINATIONS. LEAVE THEM ALONE! LET THEM DO THEIR OWN IMAGINING!

EXACTLY

My sister just said that she thinks her dog needs a dog beg (he has never had one before) and she asked me where I got my dogs bed and I said "Christmas tree shoppe" and honestly the loss of that store is still fresh

Screenshot of the headline "$1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand"

This headline makes me think of that Seinfeld episode where Kramer pretends to be the Moviefone computer

screenshot that reads, "A major immigration sweep occurred in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the weekend. Border Patrol agents arrested more than 130 people through yesterday, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The operation, dubbed "Charlotte's Web," continued today, and officials have not confirmed how long Border Patrol agents will be in the area."

Ah, yes, "Charlotte's Web," the book where the spider writes "Take this pig away" in her web, right? Am I getting that right?

did we????? omg I don't remember now I fail

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

When my nieces sleep over I spend the whole night walking up every couple of hours to make sure they're still breathing

Sometimes I think I only read books so that I can enjoy the one-star reviews about them on Goodreads.

This T driver is making some kind of really long announcement but it's all static so none of us can understand him so...I guess we just all assume it's not very important lol

If you ever question if your fanfic is too self indulgent please remember that’s actually the point of fanfiction

Oh annually lol

I'm so sorry

My sister has started watching Hallmark Christmas movies, so I guess it's time for me to let them inspire a Christmas fic

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

Junior's Famous Cheesecake Recipe - Food.com When I orignally posted this back in Jan 2002, I said I had not tried this recipe because it looked like a lot of work. Flash forward to Easter 2007.

They made cheesecake on Bale Off a few weeks ago and I've been craving cheesecake ever since so it's time to make my Junior's cheesecake copycat: www.food.com/recipe/junio...

(This is the only cheesecake I really like, it has spoiled me for all other cheesecakes)

I am taking this back because the other worst thing is the stinger right before he starts the clock on the first competition.

I swear, I cry at the end of every season of #gbbo

The worst part about writing high fantasy for me is that I can never remember what I've called anything and i spend so much time searching through the document to find things. (Should I just write stuff for reference at the end of the document? YES. But I fail and never do lol)

That stinger Bobby flay delivers at the end of beat Bobby flay is the worst, I cringe in embarrassment every single time

I've been thinking about this and I also think part of it is the fracturing of entertainment. Everything being on demand now means very little happens "live" anymore. This kind of social media is fun when something is happening all at once, and fun stuff seldom happens that way anymore.

THIS

I watch this Mysteries of the Abandoned show because sometimes I just want something on in the background while I respond to comments and I feel like this show is mostly "humans build lots of things for war and then pretend it never happened"

This is basically the first time Bluesky has been fun.

Absolutely beyond me that every kid in my life has been taught by their teachers that Wikipedia is garbage while they take everything AI tells them as gospel because that's all their teachers use

It turns out, from other episodes, I have learned that the agents all spy on each other, so the boss lets them do the spying for him.

My least favorite part about writing is the EDITING. Which I say out loud because it's why I don't get the point of ChatGPT et al. The only thing worse than editing to me is editing something that came from something that's not my own brain.