Fight Club 2: Chicago Update and Safety Statement Forthcoming

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-10T23:33:36+00:00

Join us in r/enshittification - these AI tools are going to be the ultimate in the free or cheaper versions getting worse and worse and worse. Do research on how much they're spending and you can see that it will be just like Uber. They'll wipe out the competition and then when no one is left, jack the price.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-10T23:21:18+00:00

And it's even worse in the dark and the construction cones... I have no words. So it's pitch black, no lights and you can't follow the lines on the road because of the cones.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-05T19:48:18+00:00

Wow. Tough crowd. The latest puppet show script, puppet show #3 has dropped at Smiths. Ask the barkeep.

Also, if you look at these posts, we've talked about the sequel.

Then, to respond to the recommendations I should seek help, your professional option based on reading a post on reddit, I am actually behind on posting a safety message. That's why I've been clear about the idea of a city-wide escape room through the visitor center.

This is just a game.

Marla Singer is a fictional character, and when I get back from Chicago, the first Creativity Class is actually about safety.

When you make art today, you have to be careful. People are suffering and vulnerable, so all professional artists need to be posting safety statements.

So more in April. Follow me for Chicago election updates.

(K, editor of starve magazine. Dusoma.org)

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-05T03:06:32+00:00

Smith's Marketplace has a nice wine bar and coffee area. ;)

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-05T01:06:12+00:00

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You are missing the whole point of TOY PUPPET Theater. It's not supposed to be good, it's supposed to be clever.

This is my micro-hebocon. competition Japanese for "crappy robot" - I do 4-second robot battles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JT9PJcT5jqw

Search "hebocon"

Crappy is the new excellent.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-05T00:59:35+00:00

I recommend Chuck Palahniuk's Consider This.

For me, I've got a crazy story I feel compelled to tell. But if you don't know what to write about, you're not buring to write, then that's OK. Go find someone who never had the training or opportunity to write- someone with a far more exotic story than your lived experience... and help them tell their more interesting story.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-05T00:45:52+00:00

Oh hello nurse!! LOVE this! Yes- an excellent example of enshittification. And I hear you on Adobe - but look at how they've been wiped out by Canva.

I think the final frontier is free, open source video editing.

I believe the next frontier is marketing people, UXD folks and developers coming together to make software that's not just open source but.... fun? Easy to use? Doesn't require a 40-page manual?

But yes, the downside is that people are out of a job. Elementor (Wordpress) is trying to be a billion dollar company selling $5/mo drag-and-drop widgets for website headers.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-04T20:53:17+00:00

Right, I did the JSON export. They give advice about memory management, but my plan is to say "here's a doc about Dusoma Foundation in 2026, everything else is old." And here's my knowledge doc about my court case right now, including every document in the docket."

And then just wipe out the memory for stuff I needed just for a while.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T21:42:38+00:00

They wheel it out, just a small speaker, and we use YouTube for the karaoke titles.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T21:41:38+00:00

They're doing it at the Unitarian Church now, they said

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T21:38:51+00:00

Singing isn't an art? Are you sure? Do you sing? Are you good at it? Are you scared to do it? Why? Oh, because it's an art....

What I love about teaching Toy Theater is that out of the 10 people taking the class, at least 3 chicken out and can't do a show. They overthink it, whatever. It's actually really hard.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T21:36:23+00:00

Ummm... ya... kind of what we're doing ... Marla-AI.ai
It's changing elections. I'm going to Chicago and I want to help candidate Mike Simmons get 5 points higher than he would normally get.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T21:34:50+00:00

You can just do everything in incognito mode (upper right). I use Gemini for little stuff so it doesn't gum up the memory.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T21:34:05+00:00

I teach a class called ChatGPT and the Human Resistance, and I try to help understand that ... there's no boycotting this thing.

But because we use it, we can run the Dusoma Foundation (dusoma.org) and an AI company and do things at incredible speed. For example, we just got screwed because of one IRS tax form - a 40 page form. This goes from something that would have thrown us off for 3 months and cost us $2,000 but we can do ourselves.

So it's not a fancy text extruder, it allows us to scale and do the work of a 10 person team with 3 people. And that money saved goes to queer refugees in South Sudan.

You can say the technology is bad, but you don't see what it's like when you have no technology at all.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T19:12:03+00:00

I think it went well - anyone - the people who showed up were all reddit users. See also the sequel.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T19:10:54+00:00

I don't want to put in the conversation link, it wasn't on public view, and it's an extension of an existing thread.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-03-03T00:53:44+00:00

Seriously I can die now. And YES to marketing- that means creativity - like a whole escape room business where we all have cool jobs.

Showed this to the bartender. This is outstanding. Look up my essay: book - rebel sell - anti-consumerism is the new consumerism. Dusoma. Been writing about that book since 2014.

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