hazel

thinking sadly about the rise of AI slop in fiction spaces, esp fandom spaces: fiction (and fanfic) is so much about authorial voice through whatever lens you're writing. and AI slop just completely compresses that into the AI House Style.

the thing that makes fanfic distinct from many other genres is that is a thousand or ten thousand voices telling the same story over and over, in the traditions of oral storytelling. There is a man named Steve and he is a Captain. but every voice is different even if the plot is the same.

thinking sadly about the rise of AI slop in fiction spaces, esp fandom spaces: fiction (and fanfic) is so much about authorial voice through whatever lens you're writing. and AI slop just completely compresses that into the AI House Style.

and AI House Style is boring and repetitive to read with complete overuse of certain sentence structures eg "She ate the apple. The apple did what apples have always done: let itself be eaten. The world turned." like blah fun once maybe but unfun done 16 times in the same 20k fic. >

"You seem like a person who appreciates bluntness, so: your weight is a disgrace." Plus like 15 variations on the same theme, which is I guess true but definitely unhelpful.

I can't speak for anyone else in Wellington, ofc, but our council rates for 26/27 are $2000 less than last year, and our predicted Tiaki Wai rates for 26/27 are about $2500. So, in the round, it is an increase but (a) less than expected and (b) not that surprising given the whole. poo. thing.

drove past Te Ara Tupua on the way to Queensgate (glasses shopping for my partner) and just a really steady number of people out - lots of kids too, which is nice to see because the old SH2 adjacent route was not possible for kiddos

I'm sure it will make active mode commuting much more pleasant between the Hutt and the city but it's just as nice seeing it used as a good family walk - another public space for people to enjoy

I bought a bunch of 80s Analog anthologies at the Upper Hutt bookfair this morning and I'm really looking forward to reading some classic sff.

(some of those titles may have been changed for brevity). there's one I keep thinking about recently about, like, a post-calculator world where one (1) man proves humans can still do basic arithmetic, I keep flashbacking to it whenever I am forced to contemplate large language model AI.

I bought a bunch of 80s Analog anthologies at the Upper Hutt bookfair this morning and I'm really looking forward to reading some classic sff.

there is so much politics in my feed and nobody ever tags it and so I am left to discern whether it is the US Supreme Court or some fash party in the UK or, like, Shane Jones (of #nzpolitics fame) who is being talked about

some legal/philosophical thoughts of a late night because I can't sleep: I've recently been thinking about how the law interacts with physical reality. I've been thinking about it as a thing that sort of floats around, and is sometimes attached to, the observable world >

> they're different methods of creating a link between the world as we live in it and the laws we place upon it; different ways of framing that relationship.

some legal/philosophical thoughts of a late night because I can't sleep: I've recently been thinking about how the law interacts with physical reality. I've been thinking about it as a thing that sort of floats around, and is sometimes attached to, the observable world >

> I don't really have any conclusion or unified theory of statute but what has been crystallising for me more in the last while is that what the law doesn't say can be as important as what it does, and that what's not on the page can be a mirror or distortion of reality as much as anything that is >

some legal/philosophical thoughts of a late night because I can't sleep: I've recently been thinking about how the law interacts with physical reality. I've been thinking about it as a thing that sort of floats around, and is sometimes attached to, the observable world >

> the former is a different kind of attachment between the law & the physical world from the latter. law generally expresses itself as rights, obligations, requirements, duties, etc. it sometimes directly says, hey, here is a thing >

some legal/philosophical thoughts of a late night because I can't sleep: I've recently been thinking about how the law interacts with physical reality. I've been thinking about it as a thing that sort of floats around, and is sometimes attached to, the observable world >

sometimes I think about how I could have been paying, say, $200 more in rates per year since we bought in 2012, and how much that might have alleviated both the massive rates increases we're seeing now and the massive infrastructure deficit that has led to it. then I'm mad.