bit of funny literary history: in the modern day people are worried about people passing of their work as their own. But in olden times popular authors had to worry about other authors passing off their own work as theirs.
I had a neat dream last night. It was a show that was about androids about transformer size (the old cartoon ones I mean), but instead of transforming most of them are feminine. Also the show was doing a betrayal arc where one member reprograms a mechanical leviathan in their digital pipeline between locations and awakens her elite companions to create a virus and kill all organics (they’re on Earth and the group has humans hanging out with them, like the earlier mentioned cartoon). She is stopped my the Pinkie tech wiz android who the leviathan knocked into a portal instead of eating because it knew her and didn’t want to kill her, and said Pinkie bot went ballistic at the traitor (both for the betrayal of their friendship and reprogramming her fishy friend to kill her) and deleted the unfinished virus, while the rest of the group were able to take down the elite bots because said bots were programmed as islands and didn’t understand friendly fire, attacking each other since their program was to retaliate without question.
Out of things I’m scared of, height is still the most powerful. Had a dream where I see someone fall from a high place in a tourist attraction. It’s such a simple thing but the idea of falling from somewhere high up is terrifying.
I got to meet the psychologists that they hired to help work on the movie.
They were at an APS conference I was presenting at the year the movie came out. Got to sit and talk to Dacher Keltner about the research that went into it.
They were quite proud of their work and of how the movie turned out.