…then again, being a reverse centaur can be a pretty groovy gig, as long as the PMC is fully invested in AI. Which they are. My coding skills are atrophying but my prompting skills are improving, which puts me in a perfect position to be a mid-level manager. I can Disrupt Things.
And every time anyone has ever said they wanted to disrupt things, what they really meant is that they wanted to insert themselves into an already-working process in order to siphon off some money and make the process worse for everyone. See, for instance, the entire gig economy. And also every technology which falls under the umbrella of AI [SIC].
Reading
After finishing Derek Künsken’s The Quantum Magician, I picked up and completed Grand Rapids by Natasha Stagg. This was an interesting book. I had been aware of it for a while, as it was published by Semiotext(e), a publisher of which I am a big fan. A couple of months ago I was wandering through local bookstore Books & Mortar and found the book on one of their recommended reading shelves. Stagg lived in Grand Rapids for a number of years, and she name-drops a number of familiar places and events.
Now I am reading Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera, published by And Other Stories. I am about a third of the way through and loving every page!
Writing
I have been playing around with some simple writing prompts and vaguely poetic lines, but can’t focus on anything long enough for something concrete to emerge. I blame capitalism. And LLMs. Which is really the same thing.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Spiritual Beings, Possession
Setting: Virtual Reality
Genre: Science Fiction
Interesting Links
- Canada’s PM stomps on President Trump’s tiny little impotent syphilitic dick.
- “The Examined Life in the Age of Optimisation” (Rodney King, New York Journal of Philosophy)