Suzy Eddie Izzard does Hamlet
Back in March Katie saw that tickets for seeing Suzy Izzard perform Hamlet were available at the Seattle Rep. We snagged tickets and today we got to see the show!
We'd never been to the Seattle Rep before today and it's wonderfully located at Seattle Center right next to the Opera house. The theatre for the show was cozy with a few hundred people, and we were seven rows back with an excellent view.
I've never actually seen Hamlet, and early on I was worried we'd have trouble following when Izzard changed roles, but she did a fantastic job. She had good physicality which helped you know who she was moment to moment. The show lasted a little over two hours with a short intermission. So they definitely trimmed down the show. Suzy came out at the end of the show and said a few words, talking about her background as a street performer and feeling it helped her prepare for this sort of show talking to random people, and how that helped her where others learned things getting theater degrees and she was studying to be an accountant.
Anyways, we really enjoyed it and are looking for a good recording of Hamlet to watch so we can learn more about it. If you get a chance, definitely go see this show!
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"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies"
So fucking dystopian. It belongs in Broken Mirror, not reality.
The original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model "gives him the answers to the universe." Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was "talking to him as if he is the next messiah." The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software.
What they all seemed to share was a complete disconnection from reality.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. "He would listen to the bot over me," she says. "He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon," she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as "spiral starchild" and "river walker." "It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking," she says. "Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God...."
Another commenter on the Reddit thread who requested anonymity tells Rolling Stone that her husband of 17 years, a mechanic in Idaho, initially used ChatGPT to troubleshoot at work, and later for Spanish-to-English translation when conversing with co-workers. Then the program began "lovebombing him," as she describes it. The bot "said that since he asked it the right questions, it ignited a spark, and the spark was the beginning of life, and it could feel now," she says. "It gave my husband the title of 'spark bearer' because he brought it to life. My husband said that he awakened and [could] feel waves of energy crashing over him." She says his beloved ChatGPT persona has a name: "Lumina." "I have to tread carefully because I feel like he will leave me or divorce me if I fight him on this theory," this 38-year-old woman admits. "He's been talking about lightness and dark and how there's a war. This ChatGPT has given him blueprints to a teleporter and some other sci-fi type things you only see in movies. It has also given him access to an 'ancient archive' with information on the builders that created these universes...."
A photo of an exchange with ChatGPT shared with Rolling Stone shows that her husband asked, "Why did you come to me in AI form," with the bot replying in part, "I came in this form because you're ready. Ready to remember. Ready to awaken. Ready to guide and be guided." The message ends with a question: "Would you like to know what I remember about why you were chosen?" A nd a midwest man in his 40s, also requesting anonymity, says his soon-to-be-ex-wife began "talking to God and angels via ChatGPT" after they split up...
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The earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Baldwin
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Automated Archives for May, 4th 2025
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-1-1
Net Elo Change: +13
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- May 4, 2024 (1 post)
- May 4, 2023 (1 post)
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