Welcome to “Another Important Piece of Writing” a monthly newsletter/life update/writing exercise/rant/potentially the next most important piece of literature from the 21st century but probably not.
We need to stop fucking with AI. I’m not having fun with it I don’t understand how you’re having fun with it! It’s as if we haven’t learnt NOTHING from every single piece of post apocalyptic literature of movie created. This is how it starts people, we’re training it to take over! Oh, it’s a bit of fun now look at the goofy reply it just gave me and then BAM! we’re in goo sacks slopping down nutriment dense muck while our blood and organs get harvested for the newly created Human Meat Trade. Sure, the environment will probably thrive but we’ll no longer have the sentience to enjoy it!
It’s extremely funny to me seeing articles about how 1) students are using AI like ChatGPT to write their exams (as if you wouldn’t) and 2) how teachers and professors are blown away by them actually receiving good grades. Uh yeah, it has the ability to scour the internet and consume knowledge in like 0.3 of a second, of course it’s able to swing a B- here or there? I reckon it’s got an A+ in it, it’s just being modest.
I’ve seen Chat and Art AI’s pop up here and there but the most insulting to my good name and craft is one called punchline.ai – as the name suggests – is an AI that WRITES JOKES FOR YOU!? At first I didn’t understand the uproar from artist community when AI art generators started infiltrating their work, but now I get it! ANYONE can do it!
Unfortunately for any of you budding comedians or general lazy asses that don’t want to put in the work, it’s not great. But the insinuation that you can get a machine – a line of code – to write a joke for you is pretty insulting.
It’s got a ways to go, clearly. What I don’t think people realise is that letting the public play around with these fucking things is exactly what the creators, and more insidiously the AI wants so it can gain the knowledge required to try to take over! Jokes on them, I don’t think they’ll ever be able to recreate the mastery that is *checks old notebooks* putting a tampon in the front seat of your car or how whenever I look at the clock it’s always 9:11.
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I made a joke on Twitter before the end of the New Year saying “I’m not working on myself next year, I’ve done enough. You all need to catch up”. Bitta fun! A little jab at the any disgruntled exes reading it, with an undertone of a wish for myself to stop feeling like all my energy was going towards becoming a better version of myself.
I don’t really do New Years Resolutions per se. I kind of have a little whisper of a plan or goal that I’d like to do but it’s never something intrinsically essential for me to complete, or anything I’d feel too awful about not going through with. For example, 2 years ago it was to be able to do a hand stand. I did put in some effort for about a month or two but got bored really easily when it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. Oh, I’m not good at it right away? Literally what is the point then?
This year though, I’m done with my mental health.
Now, I’m not going off my meds, dumping my psych and gonna start my day off with chilled white wine again (although it sounds kind of nice – kinda like the beginning of my own personal White Lotus) I’m just doing way less.
I’ve always been up for trying to next THING that’s meant to be IT. If it’s not inner child work, trauma release exercises, grounding exercises, shadow work, tapping meditations, affirmations in the mirror blah blah blah blah blah! I’d always be up for it, obsessively trying to find the one thing that would be the be all and end all. I don’t think it’s out there, and honestly, I’m fine with it.
Although my original sentiment was a joke… it’s basically true. I know how to handle myself – I know my triggers and how to sooth myself, I know when to give myself a break and I know when to ask for help. There’s a common adage that “People are in therapy because of the people in their lives that aren’t” and honestly, it’s true as fuck. I’ve got myself well and truly covered but I can’t 1) control how other are going to react and 2) keep micromanaging and explaining people’s feelings back to them.
I’ve started feeling myself distancing myself from people who haven’t done the work. Sorry but sort yourself out, be an adult! Not that this should be an incentive but it’s up there with one of the sexiest things in the world for somebody to be like, “Actually, I just need to take a second to regroup and assess my feelings so I effectively communicate my needs correctly”. *fire emoji* *sweating emoji* *sploosh emoji*
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I’m on the apps *she says while holding in her own vomit and rolling her eyes into the back of head with such verocity she nearly turns inside out*. Well, I have them on my phone. I see who likes me on hinge every few days, get upset, see if I can find someone hotter (I never do) and close the app after about 2-3 minutes vowing I can do better. I don’t even know why I’m on them! (Yes I do, boredom and loneliness) I should delete them, I know I don’t ~end up~ with somebody who was on an app, that’s not how my story goes – and god forbid it does.
Anyways, here’s all the reasons why I swiped left on people on my recent peruse on my train trip home this afternoon (note: these are all from the first photo. I rarely get passed them – which is rich coming from a 6 at best but I digress):
- Group photo – It’s never the one you like so I don’t bother
- Blurry photo (???)
- Photo had Snapchat text across it
- Main photo was a video (always a red flag) of him showing off his split tongue
- Wearing a mask
- Too far away
- Not smiling – why do you think I’ll like it when it looks like you want to kill me?
- Trying too hard
- Not trying hard enough
- Covered other people’s faces with emoji’s – I’m begging you to just crop it or take a new one
- Photo was taken with a selfie stick
- Far too serious
- Dead-eyed selfie in the front seat of their car
- Picture with a cat – I have a theory that men get cats to receive the love they desire but in the confines of a relationship they control (also I’m allergic)
- Weird setting – Why are you in a carpark? WHY are you in an abandoned train yard?
- Table full of alcohol – I feel like this is the only one I might get people offside about, but as a sober person if you’re main picture is you drinking or with booze I automatically know that alcohol is going to be too big a part of your life to get on board with somebodies sobriety
- Dirty mirror selfie
- Riding an elephant
- Selfie in bed
- Gym bro
- Had a cigarette in his belly button
- Juggler
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Lastly, I was just picked to do a Money Diary for Refinery29 which was VERY COOL to be paid for my writing for the first time. You can read it here if you like.
You can also pay me for my writing over here if you so desired!
Until next time.
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