the angles cut me when I try to think

Further update: Greg is trapping goblins in the Dollar General

I was chatting about this with @the-wolf-emoji on discord yesterday, but I have always found the sort of religion that conceives of gods as literally, physically being incarnate as their idols quite compellingly alien. Like, Inanna-the-god and Inanna-the-big-fancy-statue really were (well, mostly, varying across time) one and the same, and keeping the statue finely dressed, adorned and perfumed was an important job of every priesthood. And the kidnapping of gods was a real way for one city/kingdom to demonstrate its total victory and domination over another.

Sennacherib conquered Babylon and either destroyed or stole the statues (sources differ), which meant that the next several Assyrian kings of Babylon were rejected by the people as illegitimate, and it was only when the statue of Marduk was restored by Šamaš-šuma-ukin that Babylonians accepted the legitimacy of an Assyrian king.

I am anti-genAI, especially in creative fandom spaces, but I'm even bigger against witch hunts and harassment. Because that's all what this "exposed authors" document list (and future lists) is going to do. It doesn't matter if there's a big disclaimer about NOT attacking the people listed. The internet will do what the internet does nowadays and backstab anyone they deem unworthy, especially toward ones that they've been given the greenlight to attack. The obsession and paranoia about wanting to make sure that every single fandom creation is not made with AI is, quite frankly, getting out of fucking hand. No, I don't want to read AI works. But I don't have enough time in the day or much less the ability to care about checking. If I suspect something is amiss, I'll just do the fandom of old: Don't Like, Don't Read. Don't Like? Don't Engage. Hit the back button.

No one owes anything to anyone. No photo proof. No video proof. No screenshots or anything else.

There are people out there using grammarly to edit their work because English might not be their first language, or they don’t know enough people to find a beta, or they’re dyslexic, or god knows how many other reasons.

There are people out there who are on the spectrum and their written work reads like ChatGPT because that’s how their brain works. There are people out there who are so goddamn skilled at what they do, others struggle to believe it’s real.

Do you know who else was like that? Michelangelo. Do you know *how many people* have stood in front of the statue of David and thought *how the fuck did any human create that?*

There are soo many telented people out there who are infinitely better than you, be it written word or drawn image, or hell, even a photoshopped picture. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do.

Stop adding to the witch hunts. Stop trying to cancel people loudly.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

It's impossible to detect whether text was created by AI because the patterns AI writing follows come from human writers

BIRTHDAY GIRL'S BETRAYAL, also readable on my website.