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Jan. 18th, 2020

Relaxing Arisia continues; I couldn't sleep last night so I didn't make the early Steven Universe panel I hoped to, but I staffed the bake sale for a good chunk of the morning, met friends for lunch and a wander around the dealers' room, then took a nap before going to a panel and then dinner. And now I feel kind of bad about not going to a party or a panel, but I'm still really tired and am trying to be sensible.

The panel was "Feet of Clay, Mind of Light"; I didn't live-tweet because I was cross-stitching instead, but I made notes of a few things that struck me.

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Fascination with, and stories about, sentient life in non-organic bodies go back to ancient times. From the Jewish lore of the golem to the robots of SF to AI entities like the Marvel character Vision, what do these characters say about our uneasy relationship between our minds and our all-too-breakable bodies?

Jeffrey A Carver (m), Laurence Raphael Brothers, Andrea Hairston, Heather Urbanski, H. M. White

( yes, the panelists pushed back against that description )

Oh, and someone mentioned AI bias, so I recommended Janelle Shane's book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You; she's the blogger behind AI Weirdness, which I often link to, and her book is a little weirdly structured but is a very charming and accessible look at how AI works at present.

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I binged all ten episodes to date of Steven Universe Future, which was announced as a limited-run series but with, in Cartoon Network's usual baffling PR decisions, no information on how long it would be. Anyway. Some thoughts behind the cut.

( SPOILERS )

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Arisia, "Feet of Clay, Mind of Light"
Steven Universe Future, episodes 1-10

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