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It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

The future where everything is horrible: unimaginative, lame, pointless to experience The future where I visit Japan again and hear a new album from a band I love: that's what I'm talkin about

I mean, hell yes, but what if it is AI writing that song?

This album and especially this song is one of the things that got me through this past month. It is very topical and timely. Also, Nicole Atkins is ridiculously underrated. youtu.be/SpUzUK0Wgs8

Thank you for introducing me to Nicole Atkins; I’m already enjoying exploring her catalog

just insert your favorite piece of music and BAM we're back in business bsky.app/profile/nick...

My son and I are seeing Rush in San Antonio tomorrow (Friday) night!

Rush was my first concert in the mid 90s. God bless them for still playing.