Well, it’s taking me a really long time. But the other day I began connecting all the plot points together and figured out a bunch of issues I was having. I added in a new character and that helped put a few pieces into place. So, it’s going slowly but I’m making progress.

Well, that’s a pretty horrifying thought.

Oh, I guess I wasn’t clear! I’m writing a novel.

Though I am also reading Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky as I type this. It’s a difficult read as the author tends to ramble but I like the setting.

What is it?

It’s no longer wednesday but I picked my novel back up this week. I had a long break from it because I couldn’t figure out some details but I’m back now and working hard on it.

Not a real answer, sorry. I never found tutorials helpful. I just bought a bunch of clearance items and experimented. A lot of tutorials talk as if you already know what you’re doing so I found them nothing more than frustrating. Also, a lot of the stuff they use is so expensive!

I don’t know if there are tutorials that use cheap items and are actually for beginners (there almost certainly is) but I ended up learning from trial and error. Just make sure if you do what I did you buy some decent stuff to clean it all off with.

Personal assistant for the elderly. It should have been a rewarding job but it wasn’t. The pay was awful, I spent more time travelling between homes than helping anyone, and the clients weren’t the elderly people but the family who often just wanted a free cleaning service (it was a charity).

It was sad to see the elderly rot in their homes. The only excitement being my weekly visits that usually lasted only an hour. They rarely had anything else going on in their week and just had the TV playing in the background.

The families usually didn’t bother with them. If they even had a family. And a lot of the people should have been in full time care but obviously didn’t qualify for whatever reason.

I spent a lot of time wading through filth and piled up trash which hampered their mobility. A lot of my time was clearing it for them to be able to move uninhibited.

My final client I visited in the hospital just before they died. I’d spent a lot of time around them and it was difficult watching them die. I technically wasn’t supposed to visit them but I figured it was the right thing to do. And when they died I sought another job. It was too emotionally taxing and wasn’t paying a livable wage so I just couldn’t continue with it. Ended up handed in my notice before I had something else lined up.

I can only pray that when I reach that age I won’t end up in the same position.

Very true. While my partner does do chores, it is seen that way by some of my family. He is “helping” me. No, he’s doing his part of the chores that we both agreed to how it would be divided up. But no it’s seen as polite of him to “help” me.

He is good for it but I feel that the fact that I have to say that is evidence of the problem. I don’t think the same would be said of me because it’s expected.

Isn’t the superhero supposed to come in around the time to stop these people from uniting to achieve social justice? I was under the assumption that the super hero preserves the status quo and any deviation from it is seen as villainy.

I mean, in the dark knight bane toppled the stock market and promised to give power to the people, and spoke the truth to people about what happened when the joker was alive.

Whereas batman leverages his generational wealth to undermine a socialist revolution and tries to paint himself the good guy after being called out for lying by “sacrificing” himself to save the city. Whereas in reality he was vacationing in France.

The superheroes aren’t the good guys. They’re just cops with super powers.

Superman - the cop that beats up communists

Batman - the cop who beats up the poor

Tony stark - the commissioner who promises the ai facial recognition tech will only be used against criminals. After all “you’ve got nothing to hide”. Is the literal embodiment of the military industrial complex. Also has a lot of beef with middle eastern people.

Spiderman - another cop that beats up the poor but stood up to one CEO so everyone thinks he’s one of the good guys… except that was also only in one of the multiverse places afaik

Captain America - the embodiment of America being the world’s police force

The x-men - supported and maintained the genocide and segregation of their own people because it was more agreeable than violent revolution

Ad nauseam

TL;DR in a superhero story, OP would be the bad guy

Your clothes do not teleport with you

You now lactate and secrete rennet. Making it possible for you to harvest the ingredients and make cheese at will.

You can only shift into a species that you’ve seen before. Can only shape shift into living things (not sentient and mobile inanimate objects)

And you can never return to any species you were previously. It has to be a new one every time until you exhaust the possible species. Leaving you stuck as the last possible species you pick to shape shift into.

The problem is I get the big SAD in the winter. The lack of sunlight destroys me. I love all the sunlight in the summer but I really wish I could also wear my fluffy clothes without boiling alive, they’re so comfy!

I love warm, cosy, fluffy clothes. I loathe that I’m too warm right now because it’s summer.

It looks AI generated

Money is so incredibly devoid of creativity it hurts. They see it as nothing more than an extension of the ever present algorithm. It’s so fucking sad. I get that a lot of money is spent on making these systems but why can’t it be for anything more than printing more money. (Yes capitalism, comrades, I get it)

I’m sleep deprived and have only thought about it for 10 minutes but here’s some ideas off the top of my head…

1. Use AI to assist in reporting the disgusting content that’s pumped out for kids on YouTube. You don’t want to pay people to review every video so at least get it to report suspicious content.

2. Train it to spot the signs of fraud to help prevent people falling for scams or identity theft

3. Specialise it rather than some generalised system that spurts out bullshit. Actually give it roles. A purpose to exist. ChatGPT is not a personal assistant, it wasn’t designed to be one. It cannot function reliably as one. If you want to sell it as that then make it do that reliably and nothing more.

4. Train AI to assist in accessibility broadly across the internet. A page doesn’t have TTS no problem our AI was made for this purpose. The images have no meta description? It’s all good our AI will interpret what it sees for you. Unable to pass this captcha because of impairment? no worries our AI will deal with it.

5. For fuck sake design it to want more than immediate satisfaction from the user. I don’t want a one stop solution to an issue I want to discuss it and figure it out. Let it think for more than one second. Let it contemplate over the broader discussion rather than just my last response. Let it speak not simply respond. Let it speak honestly when it does not know an answer or is uncertain. It is merely glorified I/O in its current form. Useless for anything more than asking it which side to butter my toast (and 50% of the time it’d confidently declare that I should butter the crust). If you must burn the climate and doom our children in order to operate a b-movie skynet then please at least let it have the decency and respect to tell me it’s as ignorant as the apes that funded its existence.

It sounds like it’s time to find out

Yes. Will it be good? No.