Mothra, just actual Mothra

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36 Seattle Thriving “You cannot kill me in a way that matters”—a mushroom

"the FAA rolled out an ai air traffic tool, less than a day later the entire nation grounded all air traffic, this was seemingly first reported by grammy nominated music artist Flava Flav on bluesky" was such a compact sensory overload of modern dystopia that I immediately had to call my mom

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To this I'll add: How much suffering do people who choose to use commercial genAI, or who demand that their employees use it/add it to their products in cases where it's UNNECESSARY AND HARMFUL, have to notice before they stop lining pockets of billionaire loser-sociopaths like Huang? My thoughts:

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

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Another addition to Ebenezer is Mr. Fezziwig now gets stabbed to death in the street, and is now a victim of his own generosity. What I'm getting from these reviews is that this is a super faithful adaptation, until they specifically stop to add awful, story-undermining subtext.

Hot take: So like, the major love triangle in Inuyasha isn’t a love triangle at all. We know that Kagome is from the future, and that she’s the future reincarnation of Kikyo. Kikyo, we know is undead. At the time Kagome went back to Kikyo has been dead 50 years and is putting off moving on.

Likewise: if someone has gone through trauma, fuzzy recollection and inconsistent details are INCREDIBLY consistent with trauma. This is a thing I wish our immigration courts would learn (they don't want to) when evaluating asylum claims.

If there is one thing I want people to internalize, it is this: Circumstantial evidence gets a bum rap, but circumstantial evidence is more reliable than eyewitness testimony about the identity of strangers.