Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy:

Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam

Aniara

Kudos to your truly unpopular opinion. I disagree but wouldn’t fight you on it. But what are your thoughts on nuts and caramel? That’s a hill I would die on.

Maybe it was mostly the eggs. More than one person that lived to be the oldest shared that they ate eggs regularly: Emma Morano, Violet Brown, and Susannah Mushatt Jones. Emma Morano said she ate three eggs every day. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/the-worlds-oldest-woman-reveals-the-food-she-swears-by/elxvgsctf

This is so freaking cute that I had to zoom in and then I saw the little feetsies sticking out!

Thanks for making me smile

It’s this for sure, but it’s also that they want you to come out with them, so they’re waiting for you to go first.

That’s why, when they do go out and you shut the door, they immediately want to come back in cause they just want to be with you.

Doesn’t this situation call for companies that could decide to block AI and double down on the human workforce? And those companies who do would be rewarded by all of us who hate AI and they would succeed by the supposed rules of the free market. Why isn’t any company stepping up to compete against AI run companies? Wouldn’t it be an amazing opening to compete and win?

Also, it wasn’t talked about in the article, but one of the big arguments for why this AI thing has to be so inevitable is that we have to compete with China. They think we have to start this race with China, to try to win AI.

First of all, I think we might have already lost the race. Second of all, even if you don’t agree that we’ve already lost. What if by embracing AI, China and all the other countries are destroyed by it? What if it just makes so many mistakes and errors that it just destroys their economy and destroys their country?And then the countries who were cautious about AI would be fine.We’d be the winners, not having succumbed to this ridiculous urge to use everything AI.

People always forget that anything and everything hooked up to a network is hackable. I’ll say it again. Everything hooked up to a network is hackable.Including this shitty AI stuff. If we put everything into AI, even if we win, another country could just hack us. And screw everything up. The bottom line is.There is a space to say no to AI and succeed.

I know I’m not that super articulate about this, but I would love to see somebody else write about these ideas with more finesse than I have, so that we could all start talking about this more and stop letting this inevitable push to AI just keep going without pushing back.

It’s so cute. It’s like an amalgam of all the rodents: mouse, rat, guinea pig, hamster, marmot, tribble.

I’m just here wondering why she has extra fingers.

I thought this was a company that went out of business years ago, because people were seeing so many movies it caused them to lose too much money.

My translator is saying Flaftenvaften is a Danish term meaning, “the evening of the fluttering” lol

Furzspaziergang? der Furzgang?

What would the Fae say? And which Fae would be the most likely to appear in a fairy circle or say something in a fairy circle?

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Besides, standing in the middle of it, what are the recipe instructions for summoning a fairy or transporting yourself to the fairy world? Asking for a friend.

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But not as much as cheese!

Did I miss the feats of strength?

Absolutely true.

It gets even more disturbing, though, when you realize how far $5000 would get you in 1946 and how little it gets you now.

Context: when my dad was a teenager, he bought a brand new car for well below $1000. And my grandparents’ first suburban house cost about $7000, and that was in New York, near the city.

What would $5000 get you today?

A junker used car OR two months rent.

Thanks!

This is exactly what I was looking for when I learned about google trends. But when I went to google trends, it was all sports with no way to filter out sports, so this is perfect.This is exactly perfect.