Yeah? Cool.

I don’t think that’s true. There’s a great video here that highlights the fact that even a lot of modern slang is far older than you think.

https://youtu.be/BFgg-Gy0E2g?si=4qXv92KZaMN0odKO

Mate, the thing about gen x is that they dont care. This is boomer energy being projected.

Which is cool, I guess, whatever.

Thank you.

You missed the meeting huh?

We all agreed that one doesn’t exist. For reasons.

What were we talking about, I forget?

You’ve managed to get the affinity stuff working under wine? I can’t get publisher to work correctly. I just wish they would make a native version. I’m happy to give them money for it even.

It’s hard to make money from Adobe when they charge you £66 a month.

It was also a work of fiction.

Or propaganda.

A lot of 80s/90s TV was selling a lie because it was primarily written by the upper middle classes portraying the lives of the working class.

They had little idea how things actually worked.

Cranberries evolved so they wouldn’t be eaten.

Most fruits want to be eaten so that birds disperse the seeds.

Their preferred method of dispersal was dropping into flowing water, so that they could find somewhere nice to grow near water.

The astringent taste was to stop birds eating them. They became buoyant in water to help them float down stream.

Humans appeared and loved that dry flavour.

Became one of the most eaten fruits on the planet.

Humans even harvest them by flooding and using their own buoyancy against them.

They will get their revenge.

This is the internet. It’s OK to swear here.

Exquisite.

Also the first twin stick arcade game I played.

So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?

Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.

Absolutely agree. Or at least, if he wants to call himself that he can’t be upset if people disagree.

There’s an interesting thing there about the legitimacy of the artist.

Most artists and creative I know are rather comfortable with people disagreeing with them and the value of what they make because they understand the value of it to themselves.

I’m an artist and that happens because I make art, not because someone bestows the title on me.

I think the AI crowd is touchy because they dont get that. What joy is there when it is made for you? A prompt is not craft.

I think the main condition here is that he wants to be seen as a writer when he doesn’t write. He could legitimately call himself a storyteller, or someone who crafts narratives, but that isn’t legitimate for him. Instead he needs the validation of a title he doesn’t deserve.

I also wonder how he deals with criticism of the product. If someone reviewing his books calls the language clumsy, does he see that as his failure as a writer or the failure of the AI. The fact he will have to confront that is fascinating.

It isn’t my painting that sucks, it is the image I copied it from.

In all fairness, commenting here is like reciting the specific summons to raise Contrary Mary.

/s

Not viruses as such, at least according to the inventor of the term, rather they are already part of our inheritable structure, our DNA (so to speak) seeking new ways to be inherited.

We are our memes.

I use both, but honestly, some mastodon users can’t help but be outright patronising and hostile to newcomers.

The whole “we don’t do that here” vibe clearly puts folk off. Weirdly, it isn’t the long term users that do that, bug more recent converts.

Why do you think that is?

He’s been arrested, not sentenced. That’s the innocent until proven guilty bit.

Not sure where you are from, but I suspect not the UK.

Dan Simmons, Hyperion… Or Carrion Comfort.

I’d love to see some modern tries at Dashiel Hammet’s work too.

Seconded.