My goal for the day, is to be a B+ husband. Liked that.
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If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead
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#22Aside: In an era of generative texts and humanity pushing the bounds of what to do with them, how does one verify the authenticity of something like this? Does it matter? ~1500 people (US) die of this per year.
Murphy seems like a neat person. I'll check out her book.
I sense a bit of AI in this obit. Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag.
The way the author describes post-death events in the past tense, non-hypothetically, indicates that someone other than Murphy had a hand in its authorship.
(Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? That's not even the title of the book!)
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#23ALS is such a cruel disease. Cognitive recognition of a one way trip where all your functions shut down one by one. Highly recommend the book "I Remember Running" by Darcy Wakefield, which she wrote one finger tap at a time on her phone.
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#27I read a good chunk thinking this was a case of the telegram in The Master and Margarita:
"Have just been run over by tram-car at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three pm come".
She sounds like a wonderful person.
Funny enough, I died in 2015. Well, I thought I was clever, I added a sort of obituary on my blog's RSS to publish only if I don't write for a whole year. In php I used strtotime(+1 year) , but for testing I tried +1 minute. I forgot to adjust and deployed. So in 2015, the top post on my RSS was that I was probably dead and someone should check on me.
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#28Aside: In an era of generative texts and humanity pushing the bounds of what to do with them, how does one verify the authenticity of something like this? Does it matter? ~1500 people (US) die of this per year.
Murphy seems like a neat person. I'll check out her book. I sense a bit of AI in this obit. Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag. The way the author describes post-death events in the past tense, non-hypothetically, indicates that someone other than Murphy had a hand in its authorship. (Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? Tha…
> (Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? That's not even the title of the book!)
Perhaps there is some moderation happening on the blog.