I have seen great minds of my acquaintance eaten by “the blockchain,” IoT, NFTs and now AI across the last fifteen years. I used to think of them as distanced, but now I think of them as gone. It seems like, when your brain gets wormed by one of these things, there’s not a path back. Reminds me a little of when people got what I always thought of as “Twitter psychosis” – typing their every waking thought into the machine, and other people ceasing to exist for them unless they were on Twitter too. I guess people do that with ChatGPT now.
I finally spent money on a proper steel watering can. I have bluebells and apple blossom, and the first hints of cherry blossom.
- Sunn O))) on hiking
- small advances in animal translation
- oxygen made from moon dust
Arrived (while I was typing this!): AURORAE, Laura Cannell:
OPERATIONS: yesterday was mostly eaten by life admin, but I did get 400 words of material down and some thinking done. Just not enough. But there’s only so much you can do when a cat goes to sleep on either side of you.
STATUS:
READING: HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY, Molly Crabapple (UK) (US+), THE VISIONARIES, Wolfram Eilenberger (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: SUNN O))), Sunn O)))
LAST WATCHED: Watched all five seasons of PERSON OF INTEREST, because I never did finish that show. Rewatched THE IDES OF MARCH, rewatched episodes of the unjustly cancelled FRANKIE BOYLE’S NEW WORLD ORDER: Frankie’s monologues were some of the best writing on TV at the time.
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