There has been a hairline crack in the facade of AI hucksters recently. WIll it last the weekend? I guess we'll see; fucking with ScarJo probably wasn't the strongest play.

She sued Disney and then won, you dumb fucker. In any real world, where cardinal directions hold and the atomic mass of hydrogen is secure, it sure seems to matter a lot when you and I do crimes. There's a lot of shows where people hunt, stalk, or track the paranormal, but if these mofos are trying to find spooks so bad they should hang around Big Tech. I detest conspiratorial thinking but the scale of the theft is so profound, and there is so little motion against it by The Apparatus, that one wonders if they simply don't want to scuff their property. I guess we don't need to devolve into such fireside tales. The truth is more boring, like it always is: the profiteers of these models, and those who should rightly police them, are all inhabitants of fair Elysium. Why would they care about laws? It is upon that immortal plane that laws are made.

Without fail, anytime this stuff comes up there's a barbershop choir of apologists for… well, they'll literally apologize for anything. They'll talk about the fact that since all data can be stored as vectors, it's simply inevitable that all the work of a human mind belongs to Silicon Valley by right. Like the tender native grasses of that region, the cream of human endeavor is simply a natural food source for this utterly unaccountable secular priesthood. A work of art or an effort to create beauty is always regarded by some people as a personal attack; there's real malice toward the soon-to-be-annihilated creator whose source is useless to speculate on. And I suspect that they hate about me what I hate about them: that smug certainty. Well, I'm not certain. I'm literally the opposite of certain - and I think it may be impossible to know the result of - the shit their ghastly pantheon is fucking around with. And they're lying if they say they do, because it's never happened before. But it don't look good! If somebody tried to terraform the Earth - a place whose form, it could be said, is already the canonical depiction of Terra - the people whose Terras are about to be formed should be consulted maybe. They should at least have to put up a sign, somewhere.

As for the Elysians, there's a really cool cross-media franchise where each nation is trying to summon, bind, and weaponize its own massive daemon - one chains can never truly hold. They're feeding citizens to it the way you would feed a baby milk; in a very real way, it is that nation's child. I would love to watch this show! But I don't want to live it.

(CW)TB out.