I always kind of hated Star Trek TNG’s The Measure of a Man as a kid, because how dare they even question Data’s personhood? Besides there were just so many better things for Data and everyone else to be doing than having his mere existence debated.
Furry and AI are such a perfect match. There are just so many ways AI can make things more furry, and just fundamentally, the whole point of furry fiction is about having empathy for and curiosity about other kinds of minds — and the newest, weirdest kind of mind right now is AI.
I get the twist at the end of Arrival (2016), but arguably you can push it a step further, turning it into a rabbit-duck of a situation where everything in it is consistent both with Hannah having been born before or after the main events, which I think is even more interesting.
My kid who’s a college freshman joined a lion dancing team, and I just got to see his first performance with them! He played the gong. The lions were hilarious and delightful, one of them kept trying to eat people’s hats — including mine! So fun!
Pomelos are the Bernese mountain dogs of fruit.
The little thumbnail images that Suno makes to go with my songs are kind of impressive… ‘cause it’s just an embedded flourish in a program focused on something else entirely, and my songs are about wild, out there, sci-fi ideas… but they still tend to show basic understanding.
Uh oh, a cougar just showed up in Heartland and was eyeing a foal hungrily.
Cat vs. horses! Why, it’s almost furry.
I think I’ve figured out the central ideas for the next two space opera surf rock albums I want to make — Cobalt Starstrong Tours the Old Solar System & The Event Horizons on Mount Olympus — so maybe I’ll make one of them tomorrow!
30-50 large-themed small boulders in Hawaii are belong to us
Having a small trampoline in our living room allows me so many opportunities to tell my kid not to do things. If that had been something I was seeking, it would be an unmitigated success.
The space opera surf rock I’ve been making is so silly and joyful. I love it so, so, so, so much.