Something we have to reckon with is the possibility fascism isn’t some aberrant and exceptional political movement, but is instead inherent to a facet of the human condition and that requires nonstop vigilance to ensure that it doesn’t flare out of control whenever enough haters agglomerate together

Much like how WATCHMEN posited a world where comic books weren't overrun with superheroes, I'd like an alt-history of TV that wasn't overrun with cops.

It doesn’t even learn, so it’s neither “AI” nor “machine learning”. LLMs are frozen-in-time statistical models of a text corpus. 1. It doesn’t think. 2. It doesn’t create. 3. It doesn’t learn. But sure if we make the calculator just a bit faster it will suddenly start doing it! (It won’t.)

You look gorgeous! It really fits you. Sleep well.

Moo Deng inspires me to remember that I can always be wetter, greasier, more slippery in general. Love you MD. ❤️