jeeyon shim 심지연
@jeeyon.bsky.social
Writer and game designer, former outdoor educator, multidisciplinary artist, mushroom forager in the wintertime. Winner of Diana Jones Emerging Designer Award and co-winner of Indiecade Best Live Game. Support my work: patreon.com/jeeyonshim/membership
I think my most recent relapse of cognitive symptoms is starting to get better, which means I can read direct from text (rather than relying on text to voice) a little bit again. I revisited a book on medieval market morality that I've been reading as research for HOTBLOOD and this passage stuck out
![AVARICE AND TRADE
The sins of the individual were therefore decried in estates theory as a cause of dissension in society, and traders and craftsmen came to be associated with particular vices.67 Traders were particularly apt figures to exemplify the deadly sin of avarice (or covetousness), which encouraged acquisitiveness and selfishness to the destruction of others. Covetousness was interpreted as an inordinate and selfish love of worldly goods, leading the avaricious man to use deceits, usury, theft, violence, false claims, sacrilege, simony, treachery, wicked crafts (such as prostitution or professional fighting) and gambling to gather riches. The avaricious did not think about God, their soul, the poor or the unfortunate in their pursuit of excessive gain. It was a vice that could never be satisfied and
knew no bounds: ‘þe see drinkiþ al þe watres of þe world; so þe couetous mannes wille swoleweþ [swallow] alle þe richessis of þe world, þerfore he is þus vnsaciable (þat is, vnable to be fulfilled)’.
Caveat that I'm not a translator, but I think the translation for the Middle English is roughly "the sea drinks all the waters of the world; so the covetous man will swallow all the richness of the world, therefore he is insatiable (that is, unable to be fulfilled)."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slaplclxyhhfeajd4oorkmn5/bafkreiayegino5gk6knij7d64jr2x62stlnkygnqeanm4srbwv5j2ofgte)
Among the litany of evil things AI has done, attempting to appropriate disability needs as a shield has to be quite up there. AI money could have made mass accessibility, could have covered everyone's healthcare, etc. The people who run AI love eugenics enough they can't stop talking about it.
Project T.B.O.N.E.@tbone.malware-virus.biz · 3h agoNow here's a post
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Someone is interpreting “post vet visit recovery” as “monopolizing personal space”
The sorrow of burning the cookies you baked to make up for an earlier batch of cookies you burned
WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo agoWTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
There Will Come Soft Rain is one of Bradbury’s best, I read it for the first time in 7th grade English and have thought about it at least once a month ever since. Highly recommend taking a few minutes to read it, treat yourself, and remember to stay out of the nursery
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 22h agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career
LOL LMAO. It's also... not a new idea to anyone who has been poor. You buy a beat up junker car, it will die sooner than the new car you cannot afford. In 20 years you've paid more for cars than a richer person has.
katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterdayokay now he's gone too far
...much of what I say reiterates points other writers have made about the scourge of LLMs & AI writing. but I don't think any of us (writers or general public) are prepared for how bad actors are about to wield false accusations against writers they dislike: juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes...
![screenshot from the linked-to essay that reads:
I admittedly cannot vouch for any of the aforementioned writers, as I’ve never heard of them before. But over the weekend as I was writing this, Kat Tenbarge — a writer I am familiar with and respect — released this video in response to her being falsely accused of using AI by [checks notes] Ozzy Osbourne’s son. Apparently, Osbourne thought an article Tenbarge wrote about the Tate brothers was written by AI because it included (in his words) “whatever they’re called, like the big hyphens” (aka, em-dashes). Tenbarge’s video includes proof (via Google Docs of drafts of her article saved along the way) that she wrote it organically. And she cites OpenAI itself who said, “AI writing detectors don’t work.”
So why does Jack “whatever they’re called, like the big hyphens” Osbourne care if some Rolling Stone article was written by or with AI? Well, I’d wager he doesn’t. Especially, since he doesn’t even know what em-dashes are! The most likely scenario is that he raised the issue because he is either 1) pro-Tate brothers and wanted to smear a journalist who wrote about the case against them, or 2) he knew a video smearing said journalist would be clickbait for the rabidly misogynistic Tate fanbase. (Notice how this is not a list of three, but two.)
In other words, we have entered the age where people who disagree with what authors have to say — the facts we raise and the arguments we make — will be inclined to simply claim that our articles and books were “written by AI,” regardless of whether they are or not.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jegl5qdhv2obobhr326womff/bafkreicpyufzo6smmvvvsd3fdzbwwclefjfmc4s57nb32mqth4oilk4ibu)
I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...
On em-dashes and “AI detectors”
and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs
juliaserano.medium.com
Happy anniversary to the day a friend asked me get our Tarot read, and how the reader gave her a typical love life reading but when she did my reading all she said was “you need to get with either an Italian or Irish man” and when I asked for clarification she just said “ideally not from Jersey”
Heads up to my fellow ttrpg designers, heretofore undiscovered picklist by Bram Stoker just dropped
Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d agoI am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
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you ever feel guilty reading a book when the characters have things really rough and you're in your comfy pajamas and slippers
AI Guys heard about the wire mother cloth mother experiment and immediately dreamed of a world where everything was wire mother
Kept me up all night with his Xanax mania but for some reason I forgive him
Woke up with a symptom flare, audibly and visibly clutching my abdomen, and what does my cat do? Do you know how tall those Billy bookshelves from IKEA are? Do you know what it’s like to have 16lbs of mass descend directly onto your stomach from the top of one? Why not just stab me next time lol jfc
Yeah it's so heavily edited out that if you don't already know it's supposed to happen you can completely miss what's going on. Name of the Rose is truly one of the best examples of "this sex scene is actually necessary to understand wtf is going on".
5.7 trad dad@tricam-tyrant.bsky.social · 5d agoWait a darn minute, I just watched this for the first time, streaming on Amazon, while it took 3-4 sessions (kids, exhaustion) I WAS paying attention, I got confused because it was heavily implied Adso did some fuckin but I couldn't figure out when, if I'd missed it. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON SCREEN?
Thank FUCK, and also thanks to 404 Media for breaking this story
404 Media@404media.co · 5d agoUPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Hey Portland! Call to action for Chocolate, red-tailed hawk who will be released after window strike *into the same situation* at Daniels High School. Please email as appropriate to push for bird-strike proof windows. A screech owl recently smashed into them as well, plus dozens of smaller birds 1/3
given the recent Fauci hubbub, re-upping this essay about the underlying reason why people find "lab leak" theories so compelling (hint: the answer is in the subtitle). no paywall! on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common
and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias
juliaserano.medium.com
Also, (1) When the receptionist was going over the itemized bill she pointed at one line and said "seems like he got a little anxious so he got some ketamine" and I was so loopy and out of it that I muttered "I've been there before"
jeeyon shim 심지연@jeeyon.bsky.social · 6d agoJust a quick update to thank everyone who chipped in, reposted, and helped me out during yesterday's stress. Onion's home and doing okay! We caught a urinary blockage, which is serious for boy cats but treatable. After some fluids and meds he recovered, going back for a follow up in a month or two 💛
Just a quick update to thank everyone who chipped in, reposted, and helped me out during yesterday's stress. Onion's home and doing okay! We caught a urinary blockage, which is serious for boy cats but treatable. After some fluids and meds he recovered, going back for a follow up in a month or two 💛
jeeyon shim 심지연@jeeyon.bsky.social · last wk.Had to take Onion to the emergency vet this morning. The docs say he's doing okay, fingers crossed it's nothing serious! I feel bad asking for help, but the vet bill is over $900. If you're able to help out at all I'd greatly appreciate it 🩷🧅 Paypal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com, Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim
Had to take Onion to the emergency vet this morning. The docs say he's doing okay, fingers crossed it's nothing serious! I feel bad asking for help, but the vet bill is over $900. If you're able to help out at all I'd greatly appreciate it 🩷🧅 Paypal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com, Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim
More than a dozen Bay Area airport detentions since June 27 are prompting immigrant-rights advocates to urge noncitizens to avoid air travel unless urgent.
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