TOO MUCH DATA
When you think about it, which is what I’ve been doing today, there’s a single attribute the Internet shares with the NSA. They both harvest a gazillion bits and bytes every hour. Electronic storage capacities are constantly increasing. Think about filling every inch of your house with sealed envelopes containing a note. Some of those notes are worthless, recipes or cartoons. But some are important, and some are vital to your survival.
Read moreA reminder: Artificial Intelligence is not Machine Learning Machine Learning is not Artificial Intelligence Much of what is called AI these days is ML
Read moreReminder: AI is not ML ML is not AI Most things being touted as AI are actually ML
Read moreIf Google installed their favorite operating system in robotic humans, they would be… Android’s android androids.
Read moreI saw this little guy sitting on the rocks around our Koi pond. The ponds, there are 3, look so nice at night. It’s my favorite Zen place. I still don’t understand how to populate the photos page on micro.blog. So to hell with it. I’ll just post my favorite pictures here this way.
Read moreWhen I get bored I rearrange things. This week it was my desk area.
Read moreMAGA LOSES ANOTHER ROUND
It’s the 4th grade class from hell over there, “there” being Fox and Twitter. The right can’t seem to keep control once they have it. Increased debt, Twitter and Fox both on a downward spiral, their popularity with us average people is on the wane, a lot of Trump rats jumping ship. The only people to suffer when the fascists are defeated will be the bottom 90%. The rich guys at the top will make their money win or lose.
Read moreGUNS, PT. 2
More people with more guns quickly lead to fewer people. Guns can’t die like a child. A rifle from the civil war could still easily kill. Find a car that lasts that long. We cherish the presumed right to kill each other. It’s a bizarre point of pride.
Read moreGUNS, PT. 1
Once upon a time there were more people than guns. But then more people bought more guns to protect themselves from all the other people with guns. It’s between an addiction and a fetish. I don’t support unrestricted gun ownership. License, registration, and proof of insurance. Cops ask for that on every traffic stop.
Read moreI PREFER REALITY
This might just be the year I go from being non-religious to anti-religion. And to be clear, I’m not talking about becoming anti-the-religious. I’m talking about being anti-religion, the practices, the superstitions, the evil the institution has done to humanity. We should never give religion a pass when it disregards its own beliefs.
Read moreCOMRADE CARLSON
If our boy Tucker is considering that job offer from his friends at RT, he needs to do it now. Now is when Russians are in the most need of someone who will lie to them every night and reassure them that everything’s going to be fine. Plus he’s hot right now. He needs to get the ring before some other bastard who just got fired by their network grabs it.
Read moreTHE END OF THE WORLD
I believe another “End of the World"™️ has come and gone, and they’re still here. What if the Rapture has already happened, but only about 3 people were raptured. All the rest of those who hoped to go are just as screwed as they’ve always said we were.
Read moreTHE TALK SHOW WITH QUINN NELSON
I just had the pleasure of listening to The Talk Show with @gruber featuring @snazzyq. Even though I’m subscribed and enjoy each Snazzy Labs video, I didn’t realize just how intelligent and informed Quinn is. I love listening to experts discussing their field of interest. Everything these two produce is highly recommended. Mastodon
Read moreWHAT DO YOU CARRY EVERYDAY?
To nerds, everyday carry means tech. To Amazon, everyday carry means guns.
Read moreBYE, BYE, BIRDIE
Why are so many people upset about the demise of Twitter? There was a time before Twitter. I know, I was there. We had many means of communication. I joined Twitter in 2007 but didn’t use it much because at first there weren’t many people on it and at that time I was involved with several forums. There will be successors to Twitter. Will it be CoSo or Mastodon? Too soon to tell.
Read moreWHOSE IDEA WAS IT?
I’d like to see a tech-oriented psychiatrist tackle the association between AI and cryptomnesia.
Read moreTHE CLUTTERED LIFE
I’ll become YouTube famous once I start uploading my tutorials on how to accomplish simple tasks at home, work, and online in the absolutely most complicated, least effective way possible. My hacks will endanger the lives of anyone insane enough to actually try them. I will have survivors as guests if there are any. And it will become insanely popular.
Read moreABOVE THE DIRT
So, it seems being 69 isn’t so bad after all. It’s only been less than a day but nothing horrible yet. At least I’m still alive, and that beats being dead. I know I’ll be dead someday, but I intend to enjoy being alive as long as it lasts.
Read moreTHOUGHTS AT TURNING 69
Being alive really does beat being dead. We were all dead before we were born. Do you remember any of it? I don’t. If it had been fun you’d think we’d have some memory of it. So being dead must be boring as hell. Being alive is so much better, even when life sucks. I recommend life to anyone who has the opportunity to live. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Read moreTHIS EXPLAINS A LOT
From the NAACP: The origins of modern-day policing can be traced back to the “Slave Patrol.” The earliest formal slave patrol was created in the Carolinas in the early 1700s with one mission: to establish a system of terror and squash slave uprisings with the capacity to pursue, apprehend, and return runaway slaves to their owners.
Read moreQUALIFIED IMMUNITY
Police should not enjoy qualified immunity. No public official should. In this country, public servants should be responsible for everything they do. Immunity should not be allowed in a democratic republic.
Read morePOLO OR FOXHUNTING, RODERICK?
Politics has become a rich person’s game. No more denials. This is a game for those who take no responsibility and have no limits. It’s a video game.
Read moreThursday has to be the least interesting day of the week.
Read moreIn running the updates on my 12 year old ASUS laptop with Windows 10 Home, I get the following notice I’ve never encountered before. “Your version of Windows has reached the end of service”. This whole machine has reached its end of service. No surprises there.
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