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The AI stuff in particular is going to get weird before it gets commonplace and accepted. What we are looking at is an alien intellect's idea of what normally appeals to humans eating their normal human food. Eventually, it will get good enough to replace whole offices of people that do that stuff - but, it'll still just be a tool of humans, a force multiplier, allowing the very creative a virtual ad department at their beck and call. Compared to decisions like Dylan Mulvaney for Bud Light, it can't be worse? We're getting closer to the Technological Singularity everyday - when you look at something whether it's and ad, a TV show, listen to some music, or even pornography, and can no longer tell whether it was real or AI generated, we'll probably be already past that singularity point.

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At the end of the day, I suppose the real test is, given other choices, how much do human consumers like what AI produces.

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I tried complaining to my cat, but nothing changed. What am I doing wrong?

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Sorry that Pizza had was just horrible.

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I thought it was funny as heck.

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That you occasionally write about things I don't care about is part of the deal. I mean, I can skip past it right?

I don't 'watch' TV anymore, but it's partly because my earballs don't work so good anymore, even with hearing aids, and closed captioning makes my brain hurt. But I sometimes give shows you discuss a look, because you've proven to be a pretty good indicator of what I like. OTOH, I'm not willing to spend much on streaming channels for something I don't watch a lot. It's difficult balance, but please continue your recommendations and discussions and blurbs. I think I'll try Sisu.

As for science, I know enough about it to know that most reporters/journalists/talking heads/policy promoters/bureaucrats essentially have negative knowledge about it. They are seriously (and frequently, I think) deliberately ignorant and obtuse. I refuse to be lectured by such mental midgets. (Am I insulting mental midgets? So be it.)

The original Perry Mason novels (I've read all of them, some 80 or so) were incredibly predictable but fun. Especially when you realize how they reflected society writ large in the 1930s and 1940s. The TV show was fun, mostly because the 4 main characters were so well cast. Again, very predictable but a satisfying hour of watching for the most part. (Back in the 60s I could buy them at used book stores for 10 cents apiece. Wish I still had them. Lost in an actual flood.)

And Erle Stanley Gardner was one of the first to try to help those innocents who had been found guilty. He founded "The Court of Last Resort" to help them. An all-around good guy I guess.

He also wrote as A.A. Fair a series about Donald Lam (a disbarred attorney) and Bertha Cool (he had a thing for names, like Ham Burger in Perry Mason) that I liked a lot. They were private detectives, but Lam couldn't get a PI license, so he worked (sort of -- he did his own thing and they argued a lot) for Cool.

He wrote a shit-ton of stuff, so I never read all of hit, but like so many that popular he was a heck of a story teller. I am aware of other major characters he wrote about, and have read a few. He makes Stephen King look sad, both in terms of output and plotting.

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I HATE when a filmmaker isn't true to the time period of a show. Probably the most common - and egregious one - is the use of foul language where it is completely out of sync. It's like producing 'Romeo & Juliet' and having Romeo say to his friends, 'Yo, peeps...' Criminal.

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