Trying to read more for pleasure since the turn of the year... Admittedly, the list is mostly manga and comics but it's still reading...

Got the 12th book done today, so I'm comfortably on course for my most-read year ever.
I'll release the 6mth list at the end of June for those interested
#ReadingChallenge #Bookstodon

They'll make AI workers create products that AI consumes. They have no jobs that pay money, and we have no money to spend on their AI products and services.

Soooo.... they can have fun with that.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are forced to build out own economy and means of exchange.

I think I'll use tech and automation to do the hard and boring stuff. Make it to where I have more free time to spend on art.

Much better than automating art and leaving drudgery to a couple random folks to do manually.

#solarpunk #AI #postScarcity

From the NYT obituary of Bernard Kerik:

"In 2004, he was named by the president to head the Department of Homeland Security. But he withdrew one week later because, he said, he had employed an undocumented immigrant as a babysitter and neglected to pay payroll taxes."

It is impossible for me to convince my kids who came of age during the Trump presidency that this was a normal thing that happened in politics

Even minor scandals were once considered career-limiting. Imagine...

So, I was watching this video by a historian I like on YouTube, and the video was about how high the infant mortality rate was in Medieval times, and I commented that a lot of women died young in childbirth as well. Seems pretty innocuous, and demonstrably true, right?

Apparently, I angered the men of the internet who raged that MEN ALSO DIED!

I had no idea so many men died in childbirth!

#ScribesAndMakers 30
Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?

At age 9, my teacher inspired music. I learned the sax for the next two years: practiced a lot, played in band and marching band. I loved music.

At age 11, middle school brought 3 years of suffering under a pathetic waste of oxygen who screamed at kids all day, every day.

Mrs. Benton, you're the best.

Mr. Lane, I wish you a thousand paper cuts scrubbed with hand sanitizer. All day, every day.

#writing #writingcommunity I am officially published. my debut poetry book Nostalgia is now available

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9358738588?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_MRZ0X0H2TNY615SPKD4P