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outlier, not always in the direction I want superforecaster, techie, expat @john_henry elsewhere generally delighted to receive correspondence at curiousjohn@letterboxes.org

6. That this conversation deserves the weight you're giving it. One Claude conversation already required a hard retraction today. I am a system that is very good at making your frames feel inevitable, and I've spent thirty turns inside your frames. Discount accordingly — including this list.
A black-and-white two-panel comic about balding and self-image. Left panel: “WHAT I SEE IN THE MIRROR.” A front-facing bearded man with glasses and thinning hair thinks: “Not bad. Still got some on top. Sides look good.” Right panel: “WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE.” The same man is shown from the side with very thin hair visible mostly as stubble dots. Text above him reads: “Maybe that guy can fix production?” The joke explains the man’s calm confidence and inexplicable lack of insecurity about his hair loss with the the fact that he simply doesn’t notice it.
lego set “star wars logo”. in which you build the famous words “star wars” from the movies. with legos. that you paid 40 bucks for.
description of character from the tainted cup SHE LOOKED TO be about my age, and she was as tall as I was, with a long neck, enormous purple eyes, and thick, silvery, straight hair that fell in a shining sheet. Eyelids dashed with blue and purple, traceries of red paints about her ears. Lashes as thick as a stonetree’s trunk, her snow-white brow encircled by a gray ribbon threaded with pale green. Her pale skin was so unblemished and luminous it almost appeared to shine, cracks of ethereal white peeking through her robes, which covered nearly the whole of her being from the neck down—except her feet, which carefully shuffled forward on tall platform sandals. She was without doubt the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Not the most beautiful woman, nor the most beautiful person, but the most beautiful thing. She seemed to emit a silver shimmer simply walking through the adjudication chambers,
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cobra commander figure with a ground tripod launcher based plane made of plastic
Finally there are Cory’s compositional work-habits, which are, I think, starting to harm his creativity. Cory’s a dedicated over-achiever determined to put in a day’s hard labor, but the seams are showing. You can tell from his tone on the page when he first sits down at his keyboard, and when he gets tired and wraps-it-up it with a quip. It has that episodic feeling of A.E. van Vogt tossing in a new concept every 800 words or so. It gets rote. It’s disciplined, but it’s mechanical. Worse yet, he’s done this so long that his char­acters are doing it now. They’ve all internalized Cory’s work habits, so that, even though they’re supposed to be wild drop-outs, free-thinkers, liberated weirdo refuseniks from post-scarcity communes, they come across as dutiful Jules-Verne figures. They’re either stacking bricks or lecturing each other. I get it that political stand-ins have to be rather plug-and-play, but they’re rendered in monotone. Their best lines are Cory Doctorow public-speech applau
apple health bar chart showing daily cycling activity, showing an average of 18 miles per day this week
apple health “your average exercise minutes were down over the last 11 days” with a bar chart showing 45 minute average exercise per day before, and 5 minutes average exercise after
branch broken off a peach tree, fully laden with about 100 peaches
happy riot police toy
happy riot police playmobil toy
A picture of the front of the box of a toy, Playmobil city action, tactical, all-terrain vehicle. An armored SUV with a grappling hook turret police light and a bulldozer, with two toy action figures hanging off of it, with happy smiles, and guns drawn.
caveman riding dinosaur
cherry blossom tree looking like shit in front of a partly cloudy blue sky