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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Made_Monster
You KNOW that we are living in the Twilight Zone right now. Plus a bunch of Star Trek's (Return of the Archons) and some Hitchcock. Bang! You're Dead. With Billy Mumy.
https://slate.com/culture/2013/05/alfred-hitchcock-gun-contr...
Food items that yesterday contained ARTIFICIAL ingredients, today have SUPERIOR ingredients.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
I have found most bosses to be pretty damn dense, mostly interested in making sparkling reports to THEIR boss. In fact, I rated them by how fast they stole my ideas. The ideas weren't so brilliant, so I was glad to let go of them, as long as they got a life somehow.
The sharpest bosses (rare) would steal them with a week. One took about 6 years, and got them wrong. A couple of us were and are real open source junkies and argued that instead of screen-scraping various Learning Management Systems, (LMS) all of which had proprietary databases to lock school systems into their software with no possibility of export, that we give away a database schema for all schools use open source, and sell the software around it in a competitive marketplace.
It's called giving customers choice. Nahhhhhhhhhh.
He later scrawled a big brainstorm map on a board, mentioning the open source LMS, Sakai [0] Showing his deep understanding of open source, he spelled it "Sockeye".
I read tech magazines and one issue of "Fast Company" (2005) was on my desktop. When the boss entered the office for who knows what, he couldn't get his eyes off the magazine cover. It was a picture of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons with a feature article "Is Your Boss a Psychopath?" [1] I would have gotten the magazine without it, but (surprise) he aced the quiz inside.
I'm not making this up. [2] Image hosted at x02.me
Conclusion: Try to outsmart management. It's easy. I did it many times. I'll share some later on.
Cheers.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050709032131/http://www.fastco...
As Scott McNealy bragged about having one of the first P.T.Cruisers, "I've got mine."
One day they stopped working and the fridge had to be rebooted.
"Just search baby!"
And now "someone else's database"
Books are essentially files (chapters) bound together by being coherent, consistent, aligned and building upon each other. This is not something you want to see go away. I have used "The Internet of Unconnected Bytes" for too long.
Putting things together in interesting and valuable ways is a creative act. Files are that way.
Applesauce isn't.
People don't even answer text messages and emails, as if they are coming from Mars and there's a surcharge on long distance calls.
Who here wakes up, looks at the phone and there are zero dots?
Geez, I send messages, really nice photos, encouragement, invitations. Growing old ain't easy.
If the watch recorded the very unique motion I use to instill my eye drops, GREAT, but I use little magnets on the range hood to record my eye drop activity (give or take a few times I forget)
Where I differ is that I actually realize the folly of "simplifying by making more complex" and "drop" the matter. Complexity bias remains a hobby with me instead of a business model.
And so, something "artificial" is renamed "super" despite having flaws that "ordinary" can discern.
And so Velveeta is renamed "Camembert"
[0] https://x02.me/i/tv6spw.pdf (pdf 1.3MB graphic)
Being a "wealthy country", despite the wild concentration of wealth by a few who are actually profiting, and recklessly so, from AI and its disruptive power, means the corresponding loss of, or change wave shift of jobs.
Along with loss of jobs, comes real danger to local and national environments, not only a "see if I care" issue with the wealthy, but, along with loss of jobs, seems to be a demonstrable goal of the current administration.
So there you have it. Another tool to crush the average Joe, at a time when job and environmental destruction are well in progress, and even the slow on the uptake person realizes that this all is only making a very small part of America great, a gilded age for a handful.
I simply need to scan important stuff that I can back up, or use digital input devices, all of which I hate (even pens)
I looked up linux (and other) SIMPLE notepad apps last night (late).
Just please tell me why, when Apple is pouring a fortune into AI (and selling wasted costly RAM space) why G.D. notes app REMOVES LINE BREAKS from text.
Please, world get the simple stuff right before trying to break the speed of light barrier. I live here, not there.
Scanning might have to do.
It preserves line breaks.
There is no honor among warring nations.
Asking for a friend.
105 mb disks meant (almost) everything was NFS mounted, and NFS did a great job.
But to your point, with 8 megs, Emacs Makes A Computer Slow.
And there was no budget for upgrades to anything.
Perhaps my story will explain what others experienced. I flew out to visit a customer on my first day on the job with the most capable sales rep in the world. Well, we did great, but eventually she left, and I was working with pinch-hitter sales reps from SoCal, doing roughly twice my previous workload, and holding the fort well.
It was not easy, so when there was a division meeting in Santa Barbara, I didn't feel like going, but my wife booked a flight and a car, on the spot, and I ended up driving the 3 or 4 hours through LA to the meeting, and got an SE of the quarter award.
My sales rep's replacement was a kid with no product understanding, and who hung around his boss, learning the ropes, a lot of 880 traffic from my home and home office. We didn't coordinate sales calls and brought duplicate literature and presentations. He did manage to get one customer to go ballistic.
During all this time, even as a techie, I was bamboozled how Sun actually sold as much as it did. The sales side of the fence looked to me, as a newbie there, like a mess, so I started reading "MBA" books and that helped me personally, but no greater understanding of my organization. But what the hell did I know, being on the front lines.
I was considering shifting home base to Santa Clara but left for a startup rather than be part of a team with a minor league talent and a very large territory.
That was before our market went to hell, and before Oracle.
A shame, but I gave the job 200% or more. And wear the Java jacket proudly.
I bought it at a thrift store for real cheap.
The murders continue and a certain mindset demands a fall guy for everything.
Iran itself was blamed.
This was a criminal activity ultimately in the hands of humans, explaining the extreme sanctions being placed on the ICC.
Part of literacy is not needing Bozo the Clown graphics to attract attention.
I'm not singling out this article, but I can't recall a single article in the past month that was as readable as a beautiful text document (give or take necessary and not "banner" images.)
Gimme back my text terminal!
And have a highly readable day, one where your intelligence is respected and not mocked.
BIG problems today: Asking the wrong question, and solutions {looking for problems, redefining problems to meet the solutions (three guesses what this is) and of course, creating new and greater problems.}
As for these "warlike" gestures, announcing your position is bonkers even for bunkers. Like "Dr. Strangelove" a few can survive a nuclear war, as in the BOEING E-4B NIGHTWATCH: THE DOOMSDAY PLANE, National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) for POTUS and Key Officials. [0]
From Dr. Strangelove [1]
> Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha. But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years.
That was fast.
> Case Summary
Amway Corp., one of the largest multilevel marketing companies in the U.S., and two of its affiliates—World Wide Group, L.L.C. (WWG) and Leadership Team Development Inc. (LTD)—will pay $225 million to resolve allegations from the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Washington that the companies use unfair and deceptive tactics to recruit members to its direct selling and multilevel marketing opportunity.
On iOS 27, it looks like changing the settings for eight different apps taking 5 or 6 steps each.
https://archive.ph/AE72I#selection-712.0-731.53
Original: https://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligenc...
Google Translate blocked my IP. Found another.
> “Innovation is still happening, and the U.S. is still leading the frontier on it,” said a senior White House official also involved in the area. “But at the same time, if we don’t put some type of regulation in place, even minimum regulation that holds companies accountable if something were to go wrong. … The American people will hold us accountable if something were to happen.”
And that's the classic definition of CYA.
It's not the disaster. It's accountability, the one thing politicians fear most, and even the lightest "regulation" shifts all the blame: "minimum regulation that holds companies accountable"
Don't ask me how I ..........
> Builders like me though, we deeply know that AI doesn't solve 99% of the problems in the world. They might even create more problems in the near future. For example, how does AI solve teens' mental health problems due to social media? How about loneliness epidemic which is getting worse with AI chatbots?
Amen, brother. There are so many problems left unsolved, especially relating to teens and seniors. We once again have a solution looking for a problem, but real human needs aren't considered. Something about weapons and mass surveillance (that would be the big bucks) gets attention. World society needs to stop falling for people who divide in order to conquer.
We are speeding to the "science fiction writer" point, where a visitors from outside remark "They had great opportunities but fought each other from day one and despite a few lucky breaks finally managed to kill everyone."
We are in fact living Twilight Zone episodes right now. I'm not a gambling person, but I see fights over our new weapon of choice (big data, not small drones) with increased power and water infrastructure attacks, because they're so frickin easy and getting easier, made to look like internal sabotage, because such a scenario would make a "great" case for cancelling elections, regardless of cause (the cause being negligence of security measures where they count, not an all-encompassing surveillance stae.)
Again, solving the wrong problem, but it's "right" for some people.
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works [0]
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People [1]
Flock ALPR camera, Distributed Denial of Secrets [2]
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-...
[1] https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software...
No mention of Epstein in the latest Denmark and restriction of the press news.
"Thank you for your inattention to this matter" .... DJT
EVERY action, repeat, EVERY ACTION since January 2025 has been to distract from Epstein.
Because not a single one makes sense except in this context.