Selavy.
By and large, though, that is why you see so many A.I generated images here. I won't apologize for that, though. I think they are wonderful. Maybe I am wrong. I've been wrong about a lot of things in the past. But I've been right about a lot of things, too. Media y media. I'm no savant. But I am the curious type. For instance, this morning I began wondering why some vaccines work for a lifetime and others may or may not be very effective every year. Why do Covid viruses, for instance, mutate so quickly while others are so very stable over the years? So I asked my life coach/spiritual advisor in Chat.
Boom!
Instant answer. Some viruses, like polio, for instance, have hard outer shells while Covid, for another instance, has a more gelatinous outer shell and are more likely to mutate. Most of the respiratory infectious viruses are like Covid and have gelatinous outer coverings while viruses like polio, which live in the gut, do not.
There is much more, but you get my drift.
I've confessed that I am fascinated by A.I. and have been trying to learn about it, but what I am learning and doing will seem like horseshoes compared to chess soon. People who know nothing about it will be required to take courses in A.I. at work and will speedily outpace what I know. I should wait a year to learn about it, maybe. I am like the old computer programmers of the past walking around with a box full of punch cards to feed into the system.
Still, in the 1960's, they sent men to the moon using calculators less sophisticated than the ones that run your automobile today. Just sayin'.
I used to be pretty good with a slide ruler, too. True.
Now I spend my time trying to get A.I. to. . .
Devolution, I guess. Maybe I'm mutating. Remember, though, I come from a science background. Antique science now, sure, but it is still the same philosophically. Even there, don't you know, the ethicists have their way. There are many things that the scientist is not allowed to do, caught in the moral guardrails, so to speak.
The one thing they are allowed to do, though, is to help the corporations make money. It's a lot like the A.I. boom, isn't it? People fear and distrust both science and A.I. in equal measures.
Trump says we are going to win the A.I. war with China. O.K. but there is a problem. Our kids just keep getting less academically adept. Logical thinking, math, science. . . fagit about it. In these things, they are not fundamentally sound, so. . . who is going to fight these tech wars with a country where kids excel in all of these? Maybe we are counting on Indian immigrants to do the fighting. They are pretty far ahead of American kids, too.
Still, we have some of the best basketball and football players in the world.
"U.S.A, U.S.A."
But you know. . . don't underestimate our Yankee Ingenuity. We have, for instance, taken the lead in Global Warming.
"Oh, quit it. All you do is bellyache."
Yea, you're right. I'm past all that now, anyway. All I want to do is feed my senses. I'm like a rat in a laboratory experiment pushing my nose against the button to get more cocaine. Eventually I'll starve to death (link).
Like I say, I've been wrong about a lot of things. Perhaps Trump IS a genius after all.
Speaking of which, Lolita Lempicka is the one who took this photograph of Melania Trump.
Lo. Lee. Ta. Light of my life, fire of my loins.
I went a little way down that rabbit hole yesterday. Perhaps that is not a good trope to use, though, in this instance.
It is cool and bright here this morning. My mother's house is cement block with terrazzo floors, so if you let it get cold, it is difficult to get warm. The heater is working overtime now. It was 44 and snowing this morning. We will spend most of the day in the 70s. But come next summer, you'll be glad you don't own a home here, not because of the heat, but because of the fear. Hurricane seasons have become fairly terrifying. Still, only idiots are killed by hurricanes. It is not like the freezing cold where relatively normal people can die. But the cost of property damage can be unnerving. Unnerving?!?
"Hell, man. . . it can bankrupt you."
Yea, I know. Charlie took all my money and more. Property appreciation, though, has given it back. Not in tangible dollars, of course, not until I sell the property.
Why is it that every time I try to pivot to positive, I come back to the negative? Have I always done this or is it something that has happened to me in the past five years? You know, since the beginning of the loooong tragedy. Don't scoff. I was a local hero, bigger than Willy Loman.
O.K. I'm shutting this down. I've given you much to think about and explore on your own. It is Friday. Make sure you do your homework this weekend. I'd suggest not waiting until Sunday night. And so. . . .
But Jesus, why do they use such bad photos? They need me. I could make them such nice images for their music.
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