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A Short of the pig transformation in The Odyssey made me think of Spirited Away. That rolled from Circe's island and Yubaba's bathhouse to Kongjwi and Cinderella, then to a question: are folktales Tetris blocks shaped to fit the human brain?
Day two of the commute argument. Snagged on a verdict I saw on YouTube and rolled into the purpose of punishment and irreversibility, then swerved into aliens.
A morning argument that broke out while getting ready for work. Started at "won't AI just mass-produce idols?" and rolled all the way to what a narrative even is, and whether it belongs to humans only.
Pulling apart the idol industry's structure, I snagged on the 'med school rush = national disease' frame. Turn off the moral filter and look only at resource flow, and something looks different.
Filing away how a stereotype about 'evergreens,' broken at the equator and at altitude, rolled through the 'flesh color' controversy and the degeneration of political correctness into a conclusion about system architecture.