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James's avatar

If you ever get bored with the Scrolls, I think there may be a future for you at The Onion.

Or, hey, ¿por que no los dos?

Brent Bill's "Holy Ordinary"'s avatar

Well done!

Kaja Sommer's avatar

This is a picky comment: the AI picture has a typo — Deportrer.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

The AI picture is created by substack

Kaja Sommer's avatar

Hmm. Substack spellcheck is subpar.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Image models are trained on billions of pictures, not on spelling rules

Kaja Sommer's avatar

No worries! It’s interesting that you like AI so much.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Oh I don’t like AI. I’m just amazed it can spin up real code and complex systems, and in the next breath misspell something obvious in an image.

Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Damn substack’s English skills are worse than some of us humans

Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Damn you’re observant!

Mike A's avatar

I will never sacrifice my empathy. Its what makes me uniquely human.

Tim Miller's avatar

Love it!

Madeleine Ann Eames's avatar

“If we treat empathy like a feature to be disabled, we’ve already lost the plot.” Yes, sadly. I have felt and seen this even up here in Canada. I feel with all we now see, we think lack of empathy and violence is a normal response.

Michael Rose's avatar

And the app makes the viewer fall in love with Kristi Noem and/or Tom Homan.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Only if you opt into the premium tier. That’s where the app auto-generates Stockholm Syndrome, a soft-focus montage of Kristi Noem riding a horse in slow motion, and a pop-up from Tom Homan explaining that cruelty is actually a love language. Swipe right for authoritarian thirst. Swipe left for empathy. Spoiler: empathy crashes the app.

Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Now i’m terrified 😱

Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

The Punchline at the end in bold letters about how we treat empathy is why The Virgin Monk Boy Scrolls are a NECESSITY, not just some funny satire (which i admit i enjoy laffing at & enjoy most of the time ) - the only time i don’t enjoy is when the truth hits home so hard & gives me nitemares. While I’m awake, not just when sleeping. Keep up the scary but so true & necessary funny/brilliant work. Please. Almost made me forget my manners, they’re so often rare these days. 🙏