Weather for the day… nice. This blog today is from my walks over the past two weeks, about four or five walks (don't ask)..
Podcast for the day is, well, a bunch of them over two weeks. “Pod Save America“ episode, “Tucker? I Hardly Knew Her."
Then, "Your Undivided Attention" podcast, with Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology, episode: "Can we govern AI" Fascinating podcast!
And I have to also include Pod save the World (Zelansky & Russia, Pod Save the UK, The Wilderness and Lovett or leave it! Oh, and a couple of Janes on open source intelligence.
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We need to be clear about some thing, trans and gay people, LGBTQ+ whatever, are not "breeding" (what fools call "grooming") more of the same. They're offering knowledge and insight and people are coming to their own self-actualization and personal awareness of their own situation. They are responding to what they were born with and finally see why they’re so miserable. This is a fundamental psychosocial/physiological issue. What we’re getting from the right is weird attempts at breeding authoritarians, and fascism, right-wing Christian nationalists that has spawned an anti-democracy movement. One is humane and human, while the other is authoritarian leaning towards criminality. As DHS or the FBI. It's not a secret. Only to those doing it.
As far as this right wing nonsense against Bud light, about someone who did one thing in support of humanity… I really don’t see a problem with light beer going away anyway, or a lot of that kind of corporate beer. "Rain water" one European called it at a party when I was at university. That going away? OK. I mean, some of is good… But not a lot of it (I'm also just not into lite beers). I said this before, maybe half the microbrews are actually good, but numbers among corporate beers? Way worse. Getting better over the past decade(s) though.
Fox News, with each host replacing a disgusting fired host just lowers the bar for conservatives with for worse to come...
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We need to be clear about some thing, trans and gay people, LGBTQ+ whatever, are not "breeding" (what fools call "grooming") more of the same. They're offering knowledge and insight and people are coming to their own self-actualization and personal awareness of their own situation. They are responding to what they were born with and finally see why they’re so miserable. This is a fundamental psychosocial/physiological issue. What we’re getting from the right is weird attempts at breeding authoritarians, and fascism, right-wing Christian nationalists that has spawned an anti-democracy movement. One is humane and human, while the other is authoritarian leaning towards criminality. As DHS or the FBI. It's not a secret. Only to those doing it.
As far as this right wing nonsense against Bud light, about someone who did one thing in support of humanity… I really don’t see a problem with light beer going away anyway, or a lot of that kind of corporate beer. "Rain water" one European called it at a party when I was at university. That going away? OK. I mean, some of is good… But not a lot of it (I'm also just not into lite beers). I said this before, maybe half the microbrews are actually good, but numbers among corporate beers? Way worse. Getting better over the past decade(s) though.
Fox News, with each host replacing a disgusting fired host just lowers the bar for conservatives with for worse to come...
Fox News: "Our promise. Forever lowering our standards to please the masses."
Meta is considering banning ads on its platforms in Europe because the laws there are so strict that because of AI and everything that's going on, they find it too hard and expensive to comply to those laws.
America is the country of patriots with about a third of whom have mistaken the word authoritarianism with patriotism. These are people who have mistaken/forsaken values and ethics and morality for populism, criminals, and apparently, rapists. Or at very least, sexual offenders.
While most Americans agree on our most important topics, about a quarter of America's deep into identity politics with Trump or some other nut, damaging issues of import. Add religion and that’s how you get to authoritarianism. Even the kind that outlawed religion. Weird? Now you're getting it. Or it's "The Handmaid‘s Tale", bastardized, for a toxic patriarchy of insanity
How is it Republicans support personal freedom of choice for carrying a gun? Regardless how out of control it is? Or support NOT getting an abortion? They demand freedom of religion (only IF it's Christianity). Then force that into our secular government. Which exists to allow us freedom of religion. But they don't want that, just freedom of THEIR religion. Of Christianity. They didn't even pick the best one. I've been through them all, or mostly. Buddhism, more correctly the "Buddha Dharma" (not the full blown ones, as humans always ruin a good thing, but a version of it), is much better in so many ways.
But when it comes to the things Republicans don’t like? Boom. Personal freedoms gone, and they're suddenly a crime!
If you walk into a voting booth, I’m sure who to vote for, if a week before election day, you still don’t know who to vote for if during that month or previous month you’re still unsure who to vote, for that’s the antithesis of patriotism of love in your country and of supporting The land and people who have supported you. If you think you have it tough is anyone coming in and wiping out your neighborhood? Stop thinking in the future for things that won’t happen. Has anyone wiped out your neighborhood? How about the neighborhood next to you? Or soldiers marching into your city or state? Stop being afraid of things that aren’t happening and won’t happen for things that might happen and it professed that they’re going to happen.
It’s odd how the people who think America is out of control, are mostly those who have forced it out of control. With white Christian nationalists being a corner tenet of that, whether they know it, or not. While many of those who do know it, praise it. Praising their religion. Praising their God. Praising their Trump. How the hell is this not obvious?
New Republican motto: "Cowardice! It immobilizes you. Seek the fear!"
Republicans: Things are shitty because Joe Biden is president.
America under Trump: Things are shitty. Oh my God, what did he do? What the fuck happened?
But when it comes to the things Republicans don’t like? Boom. Personal freedoms gone, and they're suddenly a crime!
If you walk into a voting booth, I’m sure who to vote for, if a week before election day, you still don’t know who to vote for if during that month or previous month you’re still unsure who to vote, for that’s the antithesis of patriotism of love in your country and of supporting The land and people who have supported you. If you think you have it tough is anyone coming in and wiping out your neighborhood? Stop thinking in the future for things that won’t happen. Has anyone wiped out your neighborhood? How about the neighborhood next to you? Or soldiers marching into your city or state? Stop being afraid of things that aren’t happening and won’t happen for things that might happen and it professed that they’re going to happen.
It’s odd how the people who think America is out of control, are mostly those who have forced it out of control. With white Christian nationalists being a corner tenet of that, whether they know it, or not. While many of those who do know it, praise it. Praising their religion. Praising their God. Praising their Trump. How the hell is this not obvious?
New Republican motto: "Cowardice! It immobilizes you. Seek the fear!"
Republicans: Things are shitty because Joe Biden is president.
America under Trump: Things are shitty. Oh my God, what did he do? What the fuck happened?
Today, those forces trying to destroy our Republic, our democracy, is the Republican Party:
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, made the famous remark "A republic, if you can keep it" in response to a question asked by a woman named Mrs. Powell at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
When asked what kind of government the framers had created, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." His comment reflected his concern that the government they had just established, which was based on the principles of representative democracy and individual rights, would require the active participation of citizens to maintain its integrity and ensure its longevity.
Franklin understood that a republic required a virtuous and engaged citizenry to ensure that the government remained accountable to the people and protected their freedoms. He believed that if citizens became complacent or indifferent to their civic responsibilities, the republic would be in danger of being undermined by those who sought to accumulate power and control.
Thus, Franklin's statement was a warning and a call to action, urging the American people to remain vigilant and committed to their democratic ideals, and to actively work to safeguard the republic against the forces that would seek to destroy it.
And yes, we are a democracy. To deny that and say it's a "republic" is a whistle call for those who are supporting converting America into an autocracy and/or a theocracy.
Be not fooled.
Five things you can feel good about in the world today
Thus, Franklin's statement was a warning and a call to action, urging the American people to remain vigilant and committed to their democratic ideals, and to actively work to safeguard the republic against the forces that would seek to destroy it.
And yes, we are a democracy. To deny that and say it's a "republic" is a whistle call for those who are supporting converting America into an autocracy and/or a theocracy.
Be not fooled.
Five things you can feel good about in the world today
Wreath how did economy it’s been a nightmare for decades it’s finally thriving and that’s a good thing for not just Greece and their far right who’s been profiting from it aren’t doing so well now IRAQ there’s literally been a lot of attack there and now, for the first time it seems to be slowing and the insurgency there is slowing down and become an isolated out in the mountains CHINA has been scaring the shit out of people since the balloon incident. Both inside China and out. But one of our top officials met with one of theirs in Vienna the other day and although it’s not a major breakthrough, it’s making people feel a lot more comfortable.INDIA the Hindu extremist nationalists have decided for India. I’m not quite clear on that that they may have had enough of that bullshit. Lotta noise in India for ever about Hinduism versus Islam.
The UN has recognized the Audien of Palestinians in 1848 in the area that Israel controls now. Apparently the event wasn’t great in someways, but the Palestinian issue needs to be recognized worldwide and dealt with.
Thailand, which traditionally has a somewhat autocratic government and a royal family, where you can’t speak against them or go to jail in this last election, are doing quite well towards better democracy. And apparently the military there is not as bad as the one in what are used to be Burma where they’ve either slaughtered her Force people to move out of their historical homes that is a certain culture there
What about a contest? Somehow the 50th person that signs up on thrilz gets a free year? That’s something we could transfer the Internet with give it a start date and talk about it during and after the fact. It would seem like a lot of bang for the buck. or maybe just six months and hold giving out an annual pass to anyone for someone who really does us a big favor. Like interviews us and pushes this out to a large group of people for instance
Wait! Italy lost their Parmesan reserves in an earthquake?
Find some software that will let you hook up all your social media to view analytics in one app
Regarding Mike Pence, being a godly man, and all his efforts and beliefs directed towards that goal, if he is what being a godly man is really like, it’s not a good advertisement for religion in general
What does Mike Pence need in order to win the presidential election in 2024? For his voters to not hang him. At least it would be a good starting point.
So Dianne Feinstein really needs to retire, but apparently can’t because if she does, she’ll lose her position on the committee, and Republicans will refuse to allow her replacement to take her place. Because you know Republicans in Congress if they had class, or cared about anything else like America, other than themselves, they wouldn’t be Republicans in Congress.
Remember America we said they couldn’t do worse than Dan Quayle then we got W Bush, and said we couldn’t do worse on the Republican side and got Donald Trump and said we couldn’t do worse and they propped up Herschel Walker, George Santos, who is next.? Candace actually go worse because we’re definitely seeing a path or descending slope, the garbage chute to the pits of political hell
To be clear there’s only one kind of clam chowder. I grew up with Ivers. Clam chowder is the gold standard. So there’s clam chowder New England style and clam soup Manhattan style. Just wanted to clarify that I’ve lived in both Seattle and Manhattan so I think I can speak to that fairly and evenly. I like Manhattan clam soup, but if it’s between the two it ain’t chowder
Tim Scott, black Republican, and the party of big business in the upper upper class… announcing himself as candidate for 2020 for POTUS. Who says that the radical left, which is a joke radical just look at the republican party lately look at Maga if you must instead… “Is pushing us. Into a culture of grievance rather than a culture of greatness.”
OMG give me a break! The republican party, and Donald Trump their leader is nothing but playing the victim card. Every chance they get typically when it has no meaning whatsoever. If Trump republican conservative or not the party of grievance, No one on this planet is.
And by the way, it’s quite clear he’s not really addressing the Democrats in this but Donald Trump himself and those who follow him
About right or wrong. I am what I am politically speaking, but I’ve never felt political leaving though. Some people would think I’m definitely part of them. I don’t need here to any group early although I would be labeled as such. But my orientation goes back to Aristotle I suppose. Or my philosophy prof in college or the great philosophers. Truth and honesty at all costs whenever possible. I don’t know who said that I know I just did. But the reason for my siding with one side more than the other politically anymore or lately I should say cause I hope it will change in soon, is that one side has been champion in lies disinformation of the old Soviet style, and I have blogs all about that elsewhere. I don’t care what either side thinks politically. I care what our government will do for the humanity that exists within our borders sent without. I don’t mind paying for others when we get a decent bang for the buck or when things are set up well enough that it’s not crushing me. But when “not crushing me“ means I’m not rich enough… And I have to say a hearty fuck you You selfish bastard. Since I graduated college, I knew that America’s priorities are fucked up. I just had no clue even though I warned they would if they would get this fucked up or put it on the edge of potentially falling off into even more fucked upedness
By the way, Tim Scott seems like a nice guy from all accounts, but as Tucker Carlson is out polling him when he doesn’t have a chance into that electorate doesn’t want nice guys doesn’t want decent people doesn’t want someone to work for the betterment of our country. They want me nasty asshole, and ignorant or worse.
Apparently, Tim Scott’s aide said we think that he’s such a nice guy. We won’t even have to talk about Donald Trump… Pretty much indicates how fast they’re going to lose and water obverse uninformed strategy that is.
Tim Scott said he was a virgin till 46? Still single? If that’s not a choice or whatever fine. If it’s on some weird religious thing, maybe fine, but maybe it’s a red flag too. We have a justice on Scotus and she is a red flag.
Look. I would argue we need a president, male or female, who is at least been married and had kids and live that life preferably not wealthy where they don’t have to live the way most Americans do. We need someone not that we can relate to (obviously that’s a requirement to get elected however, maybe sadly ) but who can relate to us.
“I do think that this republican party is uniquely dangerous, and not interested in governing.” Senator Brian Schatz.
I agree. We have an incredibly stupid way of choosing president. I’ve spoken on this before. Do you go to engineer for a root canal? Airline pilot for an appendectomy? Or a rock musician for your commercial jet pilot? Granted, some of them are flat rated. Not talking about those guys at all. when you have to be educated to be in a highly technical field, you get educated in that not just in general politics. I guess we can’t have a college degree in becoming president or better being president. And Joe Biden is the most experienced president in the history of America. I’m just saying the fact that is Donald Trump become president or for that matter and George W. Bush… Give me a fucking break.
Apparently a Trump aid said Tim Scott, somebody you don’t have to write nice guy at the top of the piece of paper. Whatever. Better a nice guy who’s dumb when a Trump is an idiot and mean. However, Scott running for president. Does mean he’ll be distracted from bullshit. He says & does in Congress.
“Ron DeSantis makes people feel like their needs are met, Donald Trump makes people feel like they have no need."
America desperately needs two things right now. One for someone to beat Donald Trump in the primary. Two, we need someone who’s easier to beat in the national election.
Star Trek "holodecks" create their environment. I would assume in discrete slices like a movie film or like a video tape I suppose or digital whatever however, they figured out to do it it would work potentially, if you’re in that universe. Some people have said that software like ChatGBT just serially adds the next word that fits. Damn good guess on the next word if so. One of these days we’ll be able to sit down and tell the TV not what channel, streamer, show, or movie, rather it will show us the story we ask for that we want to see, spontaneously creating it as we watch it.
If it’s good, we can save it for later to rewatch or show our friends and family. In this case, I don’t know that it would kill the video industry. You’ll still have favorite movies, stars or actors, though they too could be spontaneously created while vacationing at a resort while people watch movies they have never heard of. It may all in the end be governed by money, and laws. I’ve already tested it, had AI write a 30 second script for me. Several. They were actually good. Ready to go. We could shoot it and release it. I fed that script into an AI and it created a 30 second video. And we used that, it's on our site.
It’s kind of amazing, kind of scary, kind of disturbing. But our future is what it’s going to be. It’s just all about what we do about it ahead of time and what we want or wish to project our future should be. Unless we ignore it and just let it happen, haphazardly. Which would be insane, but so typical.
Thursday 5/25/23
Look up "Five Eyes - CIA": The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UK/USA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence. Wikipedia ...
Oh, yeah, I do remember that...
I think I said this before, but we need more movies, maybe in the Indie community, that actually and it’s gonna sound weird, praise our government for the good things it does. Maybe along the way, in the same "breath", explain some of the inconsistencies and screw ups. Share why things happen rather than people looking out from the outside and in hindsight and conspiratorially, deciding ridiculously on their own and their inner (and outer) echo chambers why something happened by ascribing massive amounts of bullshit to it. And along with that, and I just saw a movie like that. It takes some of the issues going on in the realm of hatred and shows it within the frame of the movie, not in a stupid, insipid, lame way, but in an intelligent way that speaks to our heartstrings, all to try and pull our country back together, to neutralize the bad information and especially right wing white Christian nationalist fascist bullshit we see so much of anymore.
Here’s an orientation: how do we handle Russia and China properly? We wouldn’t be in this situation and autocracy wouldn’t be on the rise around the world, had we handled things better. Granted it is starting to get tamped down. But we can still screw it up. And probably will. Our only saving grace is, truth tends to win out because it's hard to entirely end and takes far too much energy. Autocracies after all, are rather fat and lazy and eventually, die under their own political and moral obesity.
On that statement I understand that the irritation we feel in the present for things that were screwed up in the past. Especially if no one listened to you, if you had recognized it, rather than listen and absorb, they simply spin it all off into negativity.
I think I said this before, but we need more movies, maybe in the Indie community, that actually and it’s gonna sound weird, praise our government for the good things it does. Maybe along the way, in the same "breath", explain some of the inconsistencies and screw ups. Share why things happen rather than people looking out from the outside and in hindsight and conspiratorially, deciding ridiculously on their own and their inner (and outer) echo chambers why something happened by ascribing massive amounts of bullshit to it. And along with that, and I just saw a movie like that. It takes some of the issues going on in the realm of hatred and shows it within the frame of the movie, not in a stupid, insipid, lame way, but in an intelligent way that speaks to our heartstrings, all to try and pull our country back together, to neutralize the bad information and especially right wing white Christian nationalist fascist bullshit we see so much of anymore.
Here’s an orientation: how do we handle Russia and China properly? We wouldn’t be in this situation and autocracy wouldn’t be on the rise around the world, had we handled things better. Granted it is starting to get tamped down. But we can still screw it up. And probably will. Our only saving grace is, truth tends to win out because it's hard to entirely end and takes far too much energy. Autocracies after all, are rather fat and lazy and eventually, die under their own political and moral obesity.
On that statement I understand that the irritation we feel in the present for things that were screwed up in the past. Especially if no one listened to you, if you had recognized it, rather than listen and absorb, they simply spin it all off into negativity.
Try allowing it in your silence, in your informed inner commentary, as it forms. Commentary… For the past problems to inform future progress. And in that way? You won’t look the fool. You won’t say things you regret when you realize later you were wrong. I’m speaking about faulty information and about others on their facts being not based in reality, and in that your reputation will be ever enhanced.
I’m listening to a Janes podcast about open-source tradecraft. See my comment above. Just now they’re talking about machine intelligence and using machines or technology in trade craft, including AI digesting and reporting with considerations of “hallucinations“ in AI, as an important consideration. They’re talking about, how one shares something where there’s a black box and you don’t know why it kicked out accurate information. And that’s a problem. I’m not sure it is. Because what you have to do there is be able to explain or prove the contentions.
I’m listening to a Janes podcast about open-source tradecraft. See my comment above. Just now they’re talking about machine intelligence and using machines or technology in trade craft, including AI digesting and reporting with considerations of “hallucinations“ in AI, as an important consideration. They’re talking about, how one shares something where there’s a black box and you don’t know why it kicked out accurate information. And that’s a problem. I’m not sure it is. Because what you have to do there is be able to explain or prove the contentions.
So you just tell the AI to print out a detailed itemized description of how it came to its conclusions. And if that makes sense to you and it fits the evidence, how is that not a solution? Perhaps not every time, but it’s a basic rule. He also has a good point about this on the podcast, that we shouldn’t hold the machine to a higher degree that a human. Because as humans, we too are faulty even with the best of raw and supportive intelligence.
Interesting. He goes on to say in the podcast pretty much what I just said above, what he added, and we have to add to that, is the statistical percentage of its success rate. And if that’s good, how can we not give it as much credence as we do with pure human intelligence? Or something like that...you get the idea…
Nice. He then says “we delude ourselves that we know how we think.”
They’re going on to say there always has to be a human in the loop. I would say they probably wouldn’t do things any different than I do with AI or even Wikipedia at this time. They’re great starting points. They offer information you may have forgotten or didn’t know about. And you take all the best of that and you vet it. I want to ensure the information is accurate and you have verify the sources and verify them. I would argue from multiple disparate directions if possible and then you’re good to go.
Then the host says if he gets something from the black box he initially feels like he's not gonna trust it. But if it can then be proven that it can do things that human can’t? So some of the issues we’re going to be up against are cultural. I think he said cultural, again... you get the idea, right?
The host says that Janes prefers to be right rather than first. And therein lies the problem with so much of our news and media today and in 24 hour news cycles in our for-profit news. And as well, in our tribalism.
Interesting. He goes on to say in the podcast pretty much what I just said above, what he added, and we have to add to that, is the statistical percentage of its success rate. And if that’s good, how can we not give it as much credence as we do with pure human intelligence? Or something like that...you get the idea…
Nice. He then says “we delude ourselves that we know how we think.”
They’re going on to say there always has to be a human in the loop. I would say they probably wouldn’t do things any different than I do with AI or even Wikipedia at this time. They’re great starting points. They offer information you may have forgotten or didn’t know about. And you take all the best of that and you vet it. I want to ensure the information is accurate and you have verify the sources and verify them. I would argue from multiple disparate directions if possible and then you’re good to go.
Then the host says if he gets something from the black box he initially feels like he's not gonna trust it. But if it can then be proven that it can do things that human can’t? So some of the issues we’re going to be up against are cultural. I think he said cultural, again... you get the idea, right?
The host says that Janes prefers to be right rather than first. And therein lies the problem with so much of our news and media today and in 24 hour news cycles in our for-profit news. And as well, in our tribalism.
Best of luck out there!
Cheers! Sláinte!
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