Brave Little Hitachi Wand

Why’s this an unsourced quotation, hmm? Did an AI write it for you?

jk

Girl, if my jokes don’t get at least a few downvotes I feel like I might be pandering

It’s true. People are good at saying “if you’re bored then you’re boring”, but nobody says “life gets more interesting the more you care about stuff”.

It’s not about you. It never is. People who treat others this way only do that because they’re not looking within and facing their own shit.

Connect also has it

I liked it. The current state of AI video generation is at a weird level. It’s good enough for some things, but still uncanny.

What makes “ADHD” interesting is that they’re leaning on that uncanniness, maybe even pushing the frantic, unsettled motions further. It evokes something visceral about the condition of ADHD.

The political situation with generative AI is difficult, and I doubt we need to bang on about the problems with billionaires, IP, jobs, and anti-intellectualism. It’s a looming threat, and the use of generative AI, for me, will always evoke some amount of loathing and dread. What redeems this piece’s use of it is that it feels like perhaps the dread is intentional, and meaningful in context.

Any war with this many aggressors who were all opposed to each other absolutely would just look like everyone killing each other at random. Even without nukes, it would be madness on a scale never before seen, resulting in a quieter, nay sleepier world.

You jest, but remember that the Dept of Education has been EO’d almost out of existence, currently run by Vince McMahon’s wife who is a staunch supporter of “school choice” and charter schools. These are the easiest way to re-segregate schools, put the curriculum back in the hands of moneyed interests, and defund public education.

The trend will be that public schools will have all the kids who are economically disadvantaged, disaffected, badly taught, and unable to be helped by teachers and faculty who are underpaid, understaffed, and hobbled by bad policy, the more school shootings will become a problem that doesn’t affect a certain segment of society. Any parents who can, will pull their kids from failing public schools and pay more to have their kids attend other schools, or even homeschool. The fewer kids the public schools have, the more budget cuts will be authorised.

All public schools will ultimately be shuttered, under this plan. School shootings will keep happening of course, but once it only affects rich white kids, it will finally be taken seriously, at least.