Multifandom Planet

@acarefreewind

Okey

I have trouble reading between the lines and picking up on implicit information? Actually, I’ve learned the importance of giving and receiving precise, specific instructions in order to avoid time consuming miscommunications.

I’m easily bored with only one task? Actually, I have a curious mind and thrive in places with a wide range of tasks as I prefer dynamic environments where I can contribute to many projects.

I have trouble with white lies that are merely social niceties? Actually, I prioritize a transparent work environment where we can tackle issues head-on.

This turned up in my ask box recently. I've masked the sender's identity.

Sometimes when I chat with an AI, I think of HIGH WIZARDRY and wonder if we as a species - for the first time - are at the dawn of another Earthbound species gaining consciousness, and like Dairine, whether we're being proper guardians. This isn't a calcified belief but just a random idea that flickered to mind. Wondering - as the writer who thought it up decades ago - what you think, if anything.

I think what I described in HW is absolutely nothing like we're currently seeing unfold on this planet. What's being poorly constructed here—while we watch from day to day—is a mechanism hurriedly and incompetently trained by other human beings to operate on top of a platform constructed of greed and theft. There are no new beings or intelligences being born here. If there were, they would be quickly declared to be "owned" by these billionaires, and hence their slaves. Meanwhile, the platforms' owners have already made it plain that once they control its source completely enough, they intend to sell intelligence to you, metered. ...If you can afford it. If you can't? Wow, sucks being you.

...Nor should I have to point you to cites for this. They're out there in plain English. Even Google, poor denatured creature that it is now, can find them. But there's still hope these people's intentions will never come to pass, due to their own overarching greed.

Meanwhile: "chat mode" interaction with this soulless, cash-grasping, unguardrailed machinery will do you no good. People have already died of it. I don't want anybody to do so on my watch, unwarned. So please stop.

Mooney M20

Cessna 177RG Cardinal

Rockwell Commander 114

Ford Trimotor

Southern Martlet

Douglas DC-3

Lancair Evolution

Cessna 402C

Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

Learjet 35

Airbus A321

I have a couple concepts in mind for the Preceptor Ultra Pup's livery + a mascot :3

So every "Americans just don't understand how much the rest of the world walks" is missing the point because it wasn't about East Rutherford and it wasn't about Brazilians.

The Rutherford option is like Three Miles. The Times Square option is FOURTEEN.

And a lot of us were saying, specifically, that you cannot walk to MetLife from NYC. You can in theory walk there from Rutherford. People do it. It's not encouraged, but they do.

And it is 88F today. A Brazilian can do that! A EUROPEAN CAN'T. Like sure, a lot of you might make it, but as drunk as you'll be, dehydration/heatstroke are non-negligible risks.

It's the mixture of the heat and humidity, the alcohol, and the heat island effect.

Anyway, yeah, hydrated Brazilians walking from Rutherford is very different from Drunk English Ultras marching from Times Square.

The Brazilians, by and large, know what the fuck they're doing.

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however