When you know you’ve got to go to you kennel for a few hours but you don’t wanna.
All the Googles in Googleville...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
So here’s how I see my future; I’ve accomplished the first step. I’ve sold my soul to Google. In exchange, I received a gmail account, a spot on Orkut, a Blog on Blogger and unlimited access to Google/Froogle/Google images, groups and news. I have heard that others have received these same benefits without bartering their soul, but I cannot confirm these rumors, and besides, I wasn’t using it anyway, so it wasn’t a big deal.
Is anyone else sick of privilege? White privilege Male privilege Police privilege Government privilege
This country shouldn’t entertain privilege for anyone who has enjoyed undeserved privilege since its founding.
It’s other people’s turn now.
Cities create slums, not the people living in them. The rich create poverty, not the poor. Bigots create bigotry. Police create fear of police. We blames the victims instead of those who victimize them.
Imposter Syndrome
Sunday, May 21, 2023
All my adult life I played in a stage production called “My Working Life”. At work I wore a uniform (costume) and acted according to a script (the expectations of the job/my employers). I wasn’t me at work, I was a character in a play which earned me money that was used to enjoy my real life. In fact I took great pains not to mix my professional and private lives.
I believe this is the first social space where I’m encountering people my own age (physically, not mentally) and it’s a pleasure. If I notice you’re over 60 and a fellow geek I’ll be following you and hopefully be able to discuss the tech world from our perspective.
We need a revolution
Monday, May 15, 2023
Saving America going to take a revolution. Not necessarily a violent revolution, but a complete rethinking of capitalism and democracy. We’re seeing the limits of both systems in providing us with an equitable society and a sustainable planet. It isn’t feasible to think we can continue down this same road and not fall off the cliff at the end of it, which is just around the next corner.
The 1% decides how the 99% will live
Monday, May 15, 2023
I can’t believe we progressives will ever attain our goals for a just and equitable society as long as the people making policy decisions are wealthy people who have never had to deal with the problems facing the non-wealthy. What interest do they have in Social Security when they’ll never need it? What interest do they have in providing health care when they can always afford it? What interest do they have in the minimum wage when they’ve never had to live on it?
Too Much Data
Sunday, May 14, 2023
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.
A reminder: Artificial Intelligence is not Machine Learning Machine Learning is not Artificial Intelligence
Much of what is called AI these days is ML
Reminder: AI is not ML ML is not AI
Most things being touted as AI are actually ML
If Google installed their favorite operating system in robotic humans, they would be… Android’s android androids.
I 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.
When I get bored I rearrange things. This week it was my desk area.
MAGA loses another round
Monday, May 1, 2023
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.
Guns, Pt. 2
Monday, May 1, 2023
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.
Guns, Pt. 1
Monday, May 1, 2023
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.
I Prefer Reality
Sunday, April 30, 2023
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.
Comrade Carlson
Saturday, April 29, 2023
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.
The End Of The World
Saturday, April 29, 2023
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.