maybe AI hallucinations

 

what we are all going gaga about 

is not Intelligence at all
I am concerned we are heading for 

a post-real world in which there is no 

basis for anything. Meanwhile, the actual 
research into machine intelligence that 

could yield amazing results is conflated 

with this machine idiocy




Ah, prurient interest
That's what the Epstein Pedofile hysteria
is about

This whole time-line is a
post-real farce -- maybe AI hallucinations

A State has many possible functions
As such, profit is not among them
That is the province of Business
They are quite different Archetypes

To have self-rule government that
answers to us, we each need to fulfill
our responsibilities to create, maintain,
and assure effective oversight to that
end.
It's not a fault, but a success for
government to provide the desired
benefit for those who make the effort
to make that happen.



Democrats are cowards.  Yes, some
are; some are not; some at times,
not others.  The brand is a myth,
spread by the real cowards.

It's all over
The mine-run believes without question:
We are meant to go along to get along.

When you are not feeling threatened,
you can allow yourself to feel more
in touch, to feel for someone else
as a potential friend.



Salty bitterness
with an absurd dose
of surreal

When you insist: "Israel has a
right to self-defense" Yes, when we
use those words to mean our common
vision of how that works. When you/
they use these Nazi connotations (doublespeak?),
equate horrific torture, starvation, bombardment,
maiming and murdering masses of innocent
civilians, I cannot condone the barbarity of
that translation.  If that is your language,
than, NO -- they have no right to such 
"self-defense"  No one has a right to misuse
our common understandings, our common world
so unconscionably inhumanely.



I never had an interest in making money,
accumulating wealth
I could never understand why anyone would.
I was always interested in making art,
accumulating experience



Apparently the current administration
is making America irrelevant, gauche
and barbaric.



Lazy in my aging
Giving in to my fading senses,
uncomfortable musculature



I get it
You admire the fascists
You secretly love their promise
of order and brutality.
You know you should never
admit your true feelings
What to do?
Bash the Democrats as
weakling opposition

Somehow we've convinced ourselves
it is worthwhile spending our precious
human lives on pursuing wealth beyond
our ability to properly shepherd.


7/27-8/3/25

bashing Democrats to our disadvantage

Part of the insane situation we are
dealing with now is the result of
stupid divisiveness, bashing
Democrats as if a monolith of
cowardice or even corruption.
Yes, there are elected members of
government that exhibit those faults,
not because they are Dems, but flawed
humans.  Rather than vent wrath like
a prejudiced fool, suggest alternatives;
discover who is out there doing clearly
what you believe they should, and
promote them, or run for something
yourself.


blaming "Democrats" a large and diverse
group, is no better than blaming:
gays, the poor, people of color, men, women,
children, the old, teens, social media, ...


Democrat bashing is playing into Trumpism.
I am not saying Dems don't do wrong.
-- we all do.
I am not saying we ought not criticize.
I am saying there is ever so much more to
vociferously criticize done by these current
Republican office holders, from which are
coming ever more oppressive existential
throat tightening. While that is the case,
why give them your added support by putting
down the opposing party, from which we need
more members voted in to have any chance
to counter the miscreants? Better to show all
the support we can for the Dems who are doing
what we need from them, or trying to, encourage
such behavior. No one is perfect (certainly not AI)
We all get things wrong. Concentrate on when they
get the good things done.


The people in public office were voted in by
the majority of people who voted in their
elections.


We do know of, see, many political
office holders who show courage, do
whatever they can, even creatively,
to effectively do the jobs they believe
they were elected for, serving the needs
of the people. These people you
complain of, who disappointingly
don’t act as we want from our
representative – who voted for them?
How were they elected?


Gov't officials at all levels exist who are doing
all they legally can to correct, solve, fight back
courageously, sometimes are jailed, beaten,
killed. How dare you berate "Democrats"
wholesale. Sure, point out specific incidents
of bad behavior, not forgetting to understand
where the greater dangers lie. Just be sure to
also thank, congratulate, empathize with all
these public servants working above and beyond
for our benefit.


What EXACTLY do you want those terrible
Democrats to do? How do you want them to
do that? What are you willing to do to make
that happen?


Biden was besieged from so many directions,
often paid for and propagated by Musk and
his tech buddies.  AI fortified disinformation,
social and other media tricks that make it
so onerous to sort out complex realities from
the easier to shovel shit.
We never even gave Harris a chance, despite
it being so horribly obvious that no matter her
faults, real or assumed, her Presidency would
be so much more beneficial to us, and the world
in general, than even the lesser criminality
and destruction most expected from Trump
and associates, based on previous experience.


Donald Trump was elected because Elon Musk
and other billionaire tech bros invested major
fortunes into disinformation campaigns on
airwaves, social media, wherever low information voters
(people doing their best to live their lives, without time
for politics) can be shown: "This Is What's Happening"
as if it were


Democrats may want to consider educating the
electorate -- not just about their candidates; about
our nation's blueprint of how our Democracy is
set up to work, how laws and policies happen,
what they can do, individually and in groups,
to impress their will on those who run.

life could be beautiful

 


Life could be beautiful, wonderful
Yet so rarely is
Why?
Humans perversely create ugliness, destroy beauty
What can we possibly gain, but misery?
How do we allow this insanity to persist?


We do know of, see, many political
office holders who show courage, do
whatever they can, even creatively,
to effectively do the jobs they believe
they were elected for, serving the needs
of the people.  These people you
complain of, who disappointingly
don't act as we want from our
representative -- who voted for them?
How were they elected?

Where is the true "conservative" movement,
concerned to conserve the health of our
resources, including our people; those who
appreciate the wealth of beauty, of our
natural world? People who are sincere about
maintaining the best of what we have, we are?
Today's conservative appears to be entrenched
in a philosophy that believes money, a social
construct, has ever so much more value,
more meaning, than human beings.


I need to be in touch with my feelings.
For that, my emotions must have content.


So emotionally overladen, I could not
enjoy my beautiful day


I like the low light, ambient music
No desire to invite other points of view


What are the authorities to do when everyone
has access to AI generated IDs?



Make your plan scientifically
Figure out your hypothesis -- how you
think you can create a well-functioning
enterprise.
Then, experiment.  See how your plan
works in the real world.
Based on your outcomes, make all
necessary adjustments.
Keep trying and refining until you get
it right, open to adaptation to changing
circumstances.


You MAGA Christians,
you're so religious!
Don't you recognize an AntiChrist
when you see him?

7/20-26/25

sad realizations

 



If you loved your country, you 

would treat her people better.




hating those who cause us 

intentional pain is an important 

human reaction to help us to avoid 

such people or enclose them -- hate 

for hate's sake, or for the sake of 

causing intentional pain to those 
who are not us, that's evil

I saw it happening
like a slow-moving trainwreck
too intensely overwhelming to block
-- didn't you?

I am always being told to care 

about others. Meanwhile, there are 

all these folks destroying vast 

numbers of lives, but, that's fine, when
they are potentially profiting.

I hear antisemitism is on the rise.
I have no reason to doubt that.
Anti everyoneism is on the rise.
Persecuting protesters against the
Gaza massacres as "antisemitism"
muddies the perception.  It leads me
to think:  is what they are decrying
antisemitism, or anti-genocide?

Watching the CNN story of Live Aid,
I imagined -- could such an event
be organized to take place IN Gaza,
live streamed, televised, throughout 

the world, to raise aid and awareness, 

shame the murderers?

There is no objective truth when 

we are speaking of human affairs.

Family is not what you expect it to,
want it to be.  Family is what it is,
your lesson in humanity, to do with
as you will.

Children are not, in general, stupid.
They are inexperienced.  In the vast
realm of experiences, aren't we all?
We do a serious disservice, insisting
they avoid strangers, yet not teaching
them how to meet, get to know,
successfully interact.  How could we
not be sowing loneliness?

The purpose of life is to live --
whatever that means to you.

Stop expecting what never existed 

to suddenly relent, because you 

want to believe in the possibility 

of connection.
There's naught to gain in blame 

of those who don't believe in you.

Nothing of note to say.  Just 

repetitions
and sad realizations.

As bad as their truths are, what 

wears me down
is the lying.

Ever more quickly, disastrously, 

destroying our planet, source of 

all resources/wealth, so very bad 

people gain ever greater power
to tell us all how our world may work (or not)

7/10-18/25

Life as an immersive experience

 




Democrat bashing is playing into Trumpism.
I am not saying Dems don't do wrong.
-- we all do.
I am not saying we ought not criticize.
I am saying there is ever so much more to
vociferously criticize done by these current
Republican office holders, from which are
coming ever more oppressive existential
throat tightening. While that is the case,
why give them your added support by putting
down the opposing party, from which we need
more members voted in to have any chance
to counter the miscreants? Better to show all
the support we can for the Dems who are doing
what we need from them, or trying to, encourage
such behavior.  No one is perfect (certainly not AI)
We all get things wrong.  Concentrate on when they
get the good things done.



Gov't officials at all levels exist who are doing
all they legally can to correct, solve, fight back
courageously, sometimes are jailed, beaten,
killed.  How dare you berate "Democrats" 
wholesale.  Sure, point out specific incidents
of bad behavior, not forgetting to understand
where the greater dangers lie.  Just be sure to
also thank, congratulate, empathize with all
these public servants working above and beyond
for our benefit.


The people in public office were voted in by
the majority of people who voted in their
elections.


What EXACTLY do you want those terrible
Democrats to do?  How do you want them to 
do that?  What are you willing to do to make
that happen?



The Medicaid work requirement says to me:
Medicaid exists to provide health insurance for
employees working for those who do not provide
health insurance, or high enough wages for the
medical needs of their employees.


What are you doing but virtue signaling
by trying to make people feel bad for not
restricting their thoughts to your parameters?


Why would we want to be ruled by tech bros,
fixated in their sophomoric college ideations?




It occurs to me that the MAGA hatred of 
immigrants might derive from feeling that these 
hard-working, long-suffering, yet still willing and 
polite, people are making them look bad, 
evincing all the Christian virtues




Donald Trump was elected because Elon Musk 
and other billionaire tech bros invested major 
fortunes into disinformation campaigns on 
airwaves, social media, wherever low information voters 
(people doing their best to live their lives, without time 
for politics) can be shown:  "This Is What's Happening" 
as if it were


Children left to their own devices
How do they learn to survive,
as thriving human beings
or do they let AI
set their scene?




this is how we communicate effectively 
with the disappointing Dems -- elect the 
people we want 



blaming "Democrats" a large and diverse 
group, is no better than blaming: 
gays, the poor, people of color, men, women, 
children, the old, teens, social media, ...


6/21-7/8/25

"free stuff"

 

Nobody is getting free stuff. This idea is a shared illusion. Everyone is getting paid. Those who produce and sell the products, those who work and pay taxes, those who are paid to contribute economically as consumers while keeping their dysfunctions out of the workplace, are all being paid. No one is losing. It's a win/win/win.

Many of the people reviled with concerned that they get "free stuff" are working very hard; and not getting sufficient compensation to pay for basic needs. Others are seriously disabled, requiring major accommodations to be effective employees. Most employers prefer not to make such accommodations (quite understandably), so these people can not be employed. Government or private concerns could develop special training and projects to employ those who could work, but rarely do.

Others, though not traditionally disabled have such chaotic lives (for any of many possible reasons) that they are unemployable.

Others will be employed and able to make their own contributions to the general revenue; but for right now that has not happened.

Yet, these people are all actively contributing to the overall economy while their lives are sorting out.

Spring into Summer

 

how is it that so  many "God-fearing" Christians 

believe their mission to be defining and punishing

the sins of others rather than look to their 
own soulless acts to ask for forgiveness?

I've been writing a dystopian fiction story, to escape from 
the dystopian reality ( or rather, AI made post-reality)




I suggest the kind of ambition we would want to encourage 
has nothing to do with acquiring monetary wealth, which, 
after all, is really a social fiction, and likely to lead to the kind 
of greedy bad behavior we abhor. We need that equality of 
resources that would encourage everyone to use their abilities 
in socially beneficial efforts, because that is the social fiction 
we have mutually beneficially agreed to live by.



Don't hate.
Or, rather, hate bad acts, and their terrible results,
not the actors, who may be persuaded to change,
but not be treating them as unmitigated adversaries.


How do we recognize and train social  thought
based on a kind, empathetic, morality?


Taxes are meant to support the background structure
that allows "your" money value. If you don't like what
they pay for, you are within your rights, in a democracy,  
to say so, find and engage like-minded others to get
together and change what is collectively paid for, and
how it is paid.


If you live in an autocracy, this money thing is only
a small part of your restrictions.


Seems to me, if we don't want people engaging in
potentially dangerous behaviors for the high,
we ought to issue everyone dopamine, bypass
the seeking behaviors.


Of course there are idiots on "both sides" in every
massive group of humans. Under all the hype,
we are not Republicans or Democrats, but stupid
f'in' humans.


We complain about the Democrats, but who didn't
do their due diligence and elected these people?
And, most likely, those very reps. you complain of,
are just what others wanted.  It's We the People who
are in charge, whatever we choose to do with that.


Democrats may want to consider educating the 
electorate -- not just about their candidates; about
our nation's blueprint of how our Democracy is
set up to work, how laws and policies happen,
what they can do, individually and in groups,
to impress their will on those who run.


Attraction
Attunement
Attachment
three stages of relationship
build upon each other
intersect



Why should any of us agree the conversation
is over, when we have not been heard?


dumbing down, 
locking in, creating a failed democracy in favor of 
might is right where the greatest might is the wealth 
to pay desperate soldiers


5/22-6/18/25