Part of why I'm baffled and outraged by #AI is because I'm a traditional storyteller. The stories I tell are fascinating to me because they have been told by countless generations. Shaped by every single person who passed them on. In spoken word, person to person, retelling them in the moment with deep attention to their audience's moods and needs. The stories kept changing but they changed through human connection.
Stories are not "content" or "text". They are connection.
Vibe coded python pandas pipelines have allowed us to escape a total proprietary data hellscape. But it isn't the liberation from corporate overlords we'd hoped for.
So, May 4th. I misunderstood the occasion, I admit it.
In my defence it was a very easy typo to make, and I still think a party to which everyone came dressed as a different False Dmitri would have been fun.
Marx theorises about materiality with a philosophical grandeur that would make Feuerbach blush. With almost applaudible confidence, he offers something loftier than a converted 19th-century cotton warehouse in Manchester.
From the manuscript margin at the library of history books
I've concealed a comment to the reviewer about the manuscript in its conclusion. I trust they will be delighted with a point of departure for their feedback.
"But if we were REALLY into giving an IP to a kettle, we could always get a ZigBee receiver, an Arduino board, a heater circuit and a battery. It would boil far worse than just leaving the darnged kettle on the oven top, but hey, we could turn it on wirelessly by logging into Home Assistant..."
"And the firmware?"
"Ah yes, WE would have to write it ourselves and push it via USB cable. But how often would you need to upgrade that?"
Stumbled into this establishment, An obstacle course of phone-mounted tripods. Squeezed by an army of beauty vloggers, Casually reading plain text on declarative markup. Just fitting in nicely.
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
I've been asked where next week's gathering will be. I don't know. Maybe we sit on the floor reckoning with what we've done to each other and this earth. Hopefully we'll get a chance to talk about the new markup language. That would be a simple step.
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in reply to Mike Sheward • • •And you made it at home?!
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Carlos Solís
in reply to Mike Sheward • • •"But if we were REALLY into giving an IP to a kettle, we could always get a ZigBee receiver, an Arduino board, a heater circuit and a battery. It would boil far worse than just leaving the darnged kettle on the oven top, but hey, we could turn it on wirelessly by logging into Home Assistant..."
"And the firmware?"
"Ah yes, WE would have to write it ourselves and push it via USB cable. But how often would you need to upgrade that?"