Sanguine -

Its etymology takes such a wild turn 👀👀👀

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sanguine

#Sanguine #Dictionary #Etymology

A #LANTERN FOR MY MIND

A lot of people seem to imagine AI as some dark public altar where you place private things, and they are immediately handed to the world.

That is not how I use AI.

For me, AI is closer to a spell checker, #search tool, reading aid, and #thinking mirror.

Since my #stroke, writing is slow. One finger does the work. #AI helps me process what I read, understand what I am trying to say, and reply with more #care.

I don’t use it to expose people. I don’t include surnames, email addresses, #metadata, locations, or anything that identifies a person.

I use it the way someone else might use Google, a #dictionary, a grammar checker, or a trusted notebook.

It helps me think.

It helps me #write.

It helps me slow down before reacting. Like any tool, it can be used badly. So can a #phone, a #camera, a #diary, or a #mouth.

The question is not “AI or no AI?”

The question is: am I using this #tool with care, honesty, and above all, #kindness

That is the only part I can really be #responsible for.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum

Today's anime _and_ genre antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "mecha", here referring to shows featuring humanoid combat robots (rather than the robots themselves). From 1992 to 1987 (_mecha_ referring to the robots is 1986– in English).

https://sfdictionary.com/view/2898/mecha

I don't mean to brag, but I successfully used "miasma" whilst in conversation today. 😍

[nurse]: have you need diagnosed with a respiratory issue before?

[me]: me? Asthma.

#jokes #badjokes #dictionary

Continuing the genre updates for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: the complicated "high fantasy", coined in this sense by Lloyd Alexander in a 1969 talk (not published until 1971). We now have a 1970 from James Blish referring to James Branch Cabell.

https://sfdictionary.com/view/234/high-fantasy

It's not clear if Blish was aware of the Alexander use (other authors mentioned it before it was published), or if this is a chance occurrence, but the Cabell work is very much a high fantasy novel.