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Source: https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2022/12/02/just-agree-its-probably-fine/

Creator's Mastodon post: https://retro.pizza/@ToyBoxComix/114422490811288742

By Nigel Auchterlounie. source link

Me to a bookstore clerk: There's this book I'm looking for about "Star Trek: Enterprise."

Clerk: ISBN?

Me: A LONG ROOOAD getting from there to here...

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I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

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Because at that moment, there will be 20 2024 hours to go.

I got a new passport and learned you can get any image you want printed onto a passport holder, and this had to happen.

I briefly considered making some original cover art based on how the Guide itself is described in the story, but I then thought about all the reasons not to pull out something that says "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters in view of some jittery border guard who may not get the literary reference.

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