Brave Little Hitachi Wand

I was randomly up at 4, shouldn’t have been on my phone at all. Word salad.

Oh shit. Free demo too. I’ll see if it has the same magic for my kid that it did for me

Where’s safe?

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.

Actual wizard memes, meanwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXvzYOHTGW4

The left Democrats and the right.

I thought I might be playing it loose applying it to the case of private equity in the creative arts, but it feels right

Bad money chases out good, they say.

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.