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Read From The Future, Words Look Silly - RealityFragments.com
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I read the news every morning with my coffee - the stereotypical man who reads the newspaper, modernized to scanning things through his phone and computer. It's a terrible way to start the day, but in the information we have to know what's going on or we're stuck in the mud. Certain words and phrases
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Scraping A Living Out Of the Age of Scrapers - RealityFragments.com
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One of the reasons I have not been writing as much for the past for months was analysis paralysis. For years in corporate technology settings, I promised myself that I would make good on getting to writing at some point. I made a decision in the early 1990s to pay bills and help support parents
on Fri, 1PM
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The Bachelor Hunt for the Domestic Rug In The Wild - RealityFragments.com
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I suppose my first mistake was cleaning the condo. This task cleared many flat surfaces from the detritus of my life that all seemed important at some time. This included the floor. This included lifting a rug I had from the front door to the living room which some might call a 'runner'. It doesn't
on Thu, 2PM
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Boring Whales Through AI And Committees: New Territory. - RealityFragments.com
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The reported 20 minute conversation between whales and humans-via-AI is interesting and is probably one of the best uses of AI that I can think of (rather than writing gibberish for the Internet). Of course, this fires up the imagination - effectively, it's a first contact scenario, which can...
on Wed, 1PM
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“In the Future, the World Will Make Sense” - RealityFragments.com
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I was taught at a young age that the world made sense but when I grew up I found that it made as much sense as we had made sense of it. I suppose as a child being made comfortable with the idea that the world made perfect sense made me easier to deal with.
on Tue, 11AM
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Democracy Is About People, Stupid. - RealityFragments.com
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There's little that hasn't been written or said about the U.S. Presidential Election. When asked about it, I have been saying that there were two bad candidates and one of them had to win. This pisses off people who are emotionally attached to one of the two. I'm ok with that. One represented...
on Mon, 1AM
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I had some dalliances with the outside world, some with interesting people, but mostly not. The community I live in is remarkably ignorant and petty. Someone dropped an egg on the stairs and the ja…
on Jun 25
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I read the news today, oh boy “A Day In The Life”, The Beatles (John Lennon/Paul McCartney), 1967 Oh, the news. There was a time when I thought mankind as a species had lost it’s way, b…
on Jun 23
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I’ve installed AIs locally so I can do my own experimentation without signaling to tech bros what I’m doing. I’m trying to get away from the subscription models that they’re…
on May 25
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Decreased Interest in Strategy Games: Why?
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Games in general are powerful tools for humanity because just like any other version of play in the animal kingdom, there’s value. Kittens learn to hunt by sinking their razor sharp claws and…
on May 23
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Killing Off the Geese that Lay Golden Eggs
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We all know the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs, and the idiot who killed the golden goose got no more golden eggs. It’s been considered good practice not to kill something that …
on May 22
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Having written a paragraph I’m particularly proud of, I got lost in finding something to so that I could keep pace. I reached for one of my favorites, “When The Levee Breaks” done…
on May 21
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The Oversimplification of Democracy.
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There’s a lot of “Vote for xyz or zyx might win!” going on already in social media, with more than 5 months before an election. It’s a sign that people are used to a system …
on May 20
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It’s hard not to feel at least a little dismayed every day these days. It seems that the news is full of headlines that twist knives of fear in our fragile human hearts. We’re largely kept pretty b…
on May 19
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I had just returned to Florida from a 30 day ‘vacation’ in Trinidad and Tobago, and I was invited to have dinner with some friends who both worked where I had in different departments. …
on May 16
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The world is a strange place. Something captured my imagination. Being a pollster in Gaza and the West Bank. This, apparently, is a real thing. I found out this morning that people did polls in Gaz…
on May 14
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Joe Trump, effectively the main presidential candidate in 2024. I don’t know how we got here, with Presidential Candidates like Donald Trump and Joe Biden as presidential candidates. Well, ac…
on May 14
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How To Keep Bored People Entertained In The Future.
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Sometime in the future, assuming humanity survives despite itself, there will be archaeological digs that will try to understand we, the predecessors to whatever comes next. They’re going to …
on May 13
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N.R.A. Thinks Middle East Needs Second Amendment Rights.
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The Nationally Ruffled Association’s1 (NRA) spokesperson, Mr. Rooster McGraw the 3rd (he was emphatic about that), has broken their silence on the war in Gaza and put out a press release, tap…
on May 12
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Quotes Are Not What You Want Them To Be…
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I like looking into the background of quotes that I come across – I source just about everything I write, with the exception of what is imagination or opinion. In doing so this morning, I was…
on May 11
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I have been living in two very different worlds lately. The world I share with you has been full of violence, protest, nonsensical conflations and corporations taking advantage of individuals. It&#…
on May 10
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Yesterday, as I did some errands, I encountered a young woman whose name tag read, “Secret”. We had a few moments to chat, and I casually mentioned that her name probably caused her som…
on May 8
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Robots Portraying AI, and the Lesser-Known History of Economic Class.
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Some time ago, someone on some social media platform challenged why we tend to use robots to symbolize AI so much. I responded off the cuff about it being about how we have viewed artificial intell…
on May 7
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I’m not sure where it came from, but this thing about a woman choosing between a bear and a man has been going across social media. At first, I laughed, because I completely understand why so…
on May 6
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Years ago, I saw ‘This Space Intentionally Left Blank’ in a technical document in a company, and I laughed, because the sentence destroyed the ‘blankness’ of the page. I don…
on May 5
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DALL-E did give me another option on this, but it lacked pubic roots and so I opted for this one because… Well… Onion. One of my favorite websites that I never seem to visit enough is T…
on May 3
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Truth in Political Advertising.
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Imagine. Imagine what I tell you. Imagine what I tell you is true. Imagine what I tell you is true. What I tell you is true. Do not imagine. Do not believe others. I can only help you if I stay in …
on May 2
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I have avoided this topic for some time. I oversaturated myself yesterday about the college protests over the Israeli-Hamas war, where civilians have been showing up dead faster than police can arr…
on May 1
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I came across something in the vein of ‘others’ yesterday when I was researching ‘TikTok, History and Issues’. It was in ‘Young Americans are defending the U.S. after …
on Apr 30
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This morning I woke up with a question: Why do we say that water runs, but it never walks or crawls? Instead it runs slowly, or it drips? It ends up this is a peculiarity of English. In researching…
on Apr 29
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Almost A Month of Mastodon: Thumbs Up!
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On April 1st I joined Mastodon, eschewing centralized social media networks because I felt like an experiment rather than a participant. My experience so far has been great. I have some followers, …
on Apr 28
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Daily writing promptDo you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?View all responses If we truly look at we humans have achieved over the centuries, what we have created, it has been …
on Apr 27
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A quote by Frank Zappa comparing his style of guitar solo with that of others – and the improvisation. It oddly
on Apr 27
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When you read a lot, you find connections. I recently found an example of this through the Marginalian, with the article “The Source of Self-Regard: Toni Morrison on Wisdom in the Age of Info…
on Apr 25
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Throughout my younger years, as a student, whenever the book list came out for the next year and it had literature, I would read all the literature books over the course of the summer before school…
on Apr 24
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Storms rage Shifting pieces Of reality. Where anger ends Humility begins.
on Apr 24
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Writing is how we passed information on beyond our lifetimes. Many cultures did it verbally prior to it, but with the advent of writing it became easier. Of course, the ideas that were published ma…
on Apr 22
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Daily writing promptHow do you use social media?View all responses It’s not often that I respond to Wordpress.com writing prompts. “How do you use social media?” popped up, and us…
on Apr 20
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When I was basically told off by some people who thought I was ‘looking for a cookie’, then dug into the history and growth of ‘Some Other Race’ in the U.S. Census, I was su…
on Apr 19
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It wasn’t a very big spider. In fact, as spiders go, it seemed like a fairly small one. We took a moment to consider each other carefully. I had opened my door leading to the corridor, leadin…
on Apr 18
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‘Some Other Race’, or as I say, ‘Other’, is a growing demographic as I mentioned yesterday. Had I not been given as much resistance in discussion, I would have gone along th…
on Apr 17
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‘Some Other Race’, or as I say, ‘Other’, is a growing demographic. In 1987, a 16 year old version of me walked into a financial aid office in Texas. I was an emancipated min…
on Apr 16
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It wasn’t too long ago that I was in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, sitting in the local steakhouse at the bar next to a then friend who kept introducing me as being from Trinidad, a prop of the …
on Apr 16
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There are times when the world falls away to make way for a new one in my mind, where focusing on one train of thought can change the way I see the world. These are moments unscheduled or planned, …
on Apr 15
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The insistent tick of a man cutting bamboo with a cutlass outside makes it’s way through the dusty window, while an orange winged parrot surveys the scene with interest in a nearby hollowed p…
on Apr 15
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Yesterday, I wrote a bit about echo chambers, social networks and ant mills. I had a conversation with ChatGPT about it – if you can call it a conversation – and it told me that the equ…
on Apr 12
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A Note To GenZ About Social Media And More.
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I was reading ‘Social Media Companies Are Having a Bad Moment’, something written by Nick H. Penniman, who I assume is a GenZ based on the call to action, and I smiled a bit. I can neve…
on Apr 11
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Manipulation doesn’t really require much. It’s pretty easy to manipulate or be manipulated, and despite the negative connotations, manipulation doesn’t always have to be bad. What…
on Apr 10
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Persuasion, Manipulation, Oh My.
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I spent a lot of time writing ‘From Inputs To The Big Picture: An AI Roundup’ largely because it’s a very big topic, but also because I spent a lot of time considering the persuas…
on Apr 10