Category: Blog

Oh my goodness, Genie (2023) is such a gift!!!

Starring Melissa McCarthy + written by Richard Curtis = guaranteed excellence.

It’s kinda frustrating that the way AI-extremism has fractured communities means I’m now more likely to hang out with people who share my philosophy about what tools are okay than my aesthetic about what art to make with those tools.

Still I’m so very grateful for those people.

I’ve long held that Yoda is actually a frog/fennec fox hybrid. So this is basically his origin story.

Continue reading “Frog Mage vs. Fennec Mage”

Number of episodes for each successive Doctor to win me over after Eccleston…‬

‪Tennant: 1‬
‪Smith: 4‬
‪Capaldi: 30‬
Whittaker: <1
Gatwa: <1 Continue reading “The Doctors Who”

I see I’ve lost one more human connection I enjoyed due to the fact that I won’t be quiet about my beliefs about AI being a positive thing.

I love what’s happening with AI this year. But it has been painful seeing how fast people will throw me away over their hate for it. Continue reading “Loss and Gain”

I’m selling books at the Authors & Artists Fair today! If you’re in Eugene, drop by to say “hi” and check out all the new books I have this year!

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I am having so many lovely AI-positive conversations with people at the Authors & Artists Fair today! People IRL are so much more reasonable about AI than so much of what I see online. Mostly they seem to range from curious to enthusiastic, and it’s just so nice. Continue reading “Authors & Artists Fair 2023”

I’m rewatching the original Quantum Leap with my ten-year-old, and we’re up to the episode where a town tries to outlaw rock’n’roll…

And it just has me thinking about what a weird trip it’s been this last year discovering how many people would still ban rock if it were new. Continue reading “Banning Rock’n’Roll”

It’s bad Christmas movie season!

We’re starting this year off with Mystic Christmas, because there’s a sea lion in the picture for it.

Will there actually be a sea lion in the movie??? Hard to say! Fingers crossed. Continue reading “Mystic Christmas & Never Been Chris’d”

In some ways, I think I Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward shaped my beliefs even more than Star Trek, which is impressive as Star Trek is basically my heart and soul.

But Looking Backward paints a picture of a similar utopia while actually making sense and being thought through. Continue reading “Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy”

It would just be so incredibly cool if when people don’t understand a topic or really know anything about it, they would start by seeking out information with kindness and politeness instead of with cruelty, foisting assumptions at people, and general name calling.

Discussing the effects of AI was so much more fun before most of my little societies turned it into a purity issue where if you don’t express the Right and Correct beliefs you’re fair game for cruelty and name calling. Continue reading “Engaging in the Name of Outreach (Or Not)”