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Space Hobo

I realised that my generation of nerds played heavily with Markov generation of text, back in the 90s and early 2000s. We enjoyed the hilarious monkey-cheese nonsense it spat out, and occasionally shouted in amazement as the roll of the dice landed on a unique or inspiring turn of phrase.

But that's how I see #LLMs: they're not a tool to write things in place of humans; they're a #OuijaBoard. It's fun to sit around the thing and turn the crank, generating eerie effects and complex narratives! But we all know it's a pseudo-random system based on reflexes rather than fact or conscious thought. The #kaleidoscope makes pretty patterns, but not out of any sort of artistic vision.

That doesn't mean we need a world without #kaleidoscopes or #Ouija Boards. But we're in a massive PR campaign from people who make money if we all succumb to FOMO and think "Oh gosh I dunno, I heard the AIs are smarter than us, so I should use this to generate my work for me. At least I think that's what my company's #AI initiative is about?"

I love that we're referring to the output as #slop now. I think that's a good way to deride the clear drop in quality these things bring. But we should look for more neutral metaphors like the ones I tagged above, so that people understand the limited role this stuff should play.

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settima

– Get the #OuijaBoard.
– It's got the Bible on top of it, keeping it quiet.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 19: play a #boardgame on #PlayMonopolyDay

Two neat little ladies playing that quirky 1891 novelty game in #RolandWest's The Bat Whispers (1930) summon the aforementioned bat, black-clad fiend and #Batman predecessor. Who is he? What does he want? And how can he be stopped? Do you know the answer?

YES                 NO
      GOOD B Y E

#PreCode #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

Board and planchette at the ready for a little game of #Ouija.
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ShadowPlay

#Spooky / #Horror Hivemind: Looking for some inspiration for a chapter I'm working on. Any recommendations for scenes in late 1970s or early1980s TV shows and/or movies involving a #OuijaBoard? I just watched one in an episode of the Sopranos, but I'm looking for something a bit more dated. I seem to remember an episode of The Dark Side or Night Gallery involving a Ouija board.

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Chris Amandier/Buried Secrets

I wrote a series of posts about #automaticWriting planchettes, which were a precursor to the #ouijaBoard.

Their #history (I also did a #podcast ep about this waaaay back in 2020):
buriedsecretspodcast.com/the-h

Modern automatic writing planchettes:
buriedsecretspodcast.com/moder

A rabbit hole I went down after seeing an ad for 'em in a 1955 issue Mystic magazine:
buriedsecretspodcast.com/follo

Buried Secrets PodcastThe History of Automatic Writing PlanchettesThe story of the planchette, a predecessor of the Ouija board.
#blog#weirdHistory
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Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social

"She was a Swedish mystic who believed angels guided her work. Why has this overlooked pioneer now been paired with Piet #Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad’s religion? The answer lies in the #SpiritWorld"

#OuijaBoard wonder: how Hilma af #Klint’s #occult dabblings made her an outcast | #Art #Design #Painting | The Guardian
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

Af Klint’s Group IV, No 7, Adulthood, 1907, from The Ten Largest series.
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His & Hearse Press

#TombstoneTuesday: Elijah Bond, inventor of the Ouija board

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

Born in Maryland in 1847, Elijah Bond was both a lawyer and a Confederate Army soldier. He also invented and patented several things (like a steam boiler), but he is best know for inventing the original Ouija board (patented in 1891).

When he died in 1921, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Many decades later, a paranormal enthusiast and Ouija board collector named Robert Murch spent 15 years searching for the lost inventor. He found the grave!

Through the efforts of many volunteers and donations, a fitting headstone was placed to recognize the achievement of the man below. The front of the monument bears the typical names and dates, but the backside is engraved with a replica of his infamous Ouija board. Goodbye!

A cemetery scene focusing on a whitish gray upright stone monument. It’s engraved to look like a classic Ouija board, depicting the alphabet, first ten numerals, and corners indicate answers yes and no.
#HisAndHearsePress#Cemetery#Graveyard
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paganwolfwitches :vf:

Ouija board Designs
If honest, I'm not intimadated by these, more because of my perspective, I see boards of these types liken to a tool, that " can" open portals to other realms, dimensions, worlds, future and past.

The most popular use of these is when people want to contact a person whom has crossed over, I don't have many people who have crossed over who would want to make conversation with me, more so if we clashed when they were alive in the life I knew them...

#ouija#ouijaboard#supernatural
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