politicization kills

 

Keep your eyes well covered

So you won't see it coming

Until you drown or burn

Politicization is killing us,

and making the lives we keep

much more miserable than they

need be.  Not for useful or

meaningful reason, not even 

guaranteeing the benefit to

politicians they may think they court.

How about instead of creating and

exacerbating these unnecessary

tragedies, people working to gain

public office do so through 

reasonable programs for solutions 

to our actual issues.

We did not consent to be ruled by

machines.  Our philosophy is rule 

by law, which we all have a voice in.

An excuse about decisions being 

made by machines, or rote, is no 

excuse but an admission of guilt, 

of not doing the job we agreed to.

 

Rather than making lives better 

through goods and services refined 

for customer satisfaction, today's 

capitalism is about forcing businesses 

and consumers to deal with what has 

been decided to be best for immediate 

profitability.

The pure brutality of Netanyahu 

should be clear evidence to the 

world of the righteousness of 

Hamas' cause -- look!

What kinds of retaliation, or even 

defense, is Hamas waging against Israel?  

Only terrorist tactics were available 

to them.

If we call out their acts as brutality 

(which they were), what is the level 

of that brutality measured against 

Netanyahu's?

With this escalation toward al all out war

against more and more, don't the Israeli

people understand the danger they 

are creating for themselves?  That it 

is a matter of their continued 

existence to overthrow

Netanyahu any way they can?

While we know Trump is all about

real estate deals for the current 

Palestinian land once it's been 

(bloodily) cleared, we don't really 

know Harris's plans.

Right now she is VPOTUS -- not in

charge, and honor bound to support 

her President.  Yet, she does not have 

the decades of matter of course 

support of Israel, but comes from a 

generation in which Israeli cruelty 

and bad faith has played out.

If she has a Democratic Congress, it 

would be easier to replace authorizations 

for Israeli defense funding that now rule, 

especially if those Congresspeople are 

elected with their positions on Palestine 

in mind.

Of course, the Christian Right is 

pro-Israeli victory, despite their l

oud anti-semitism, in their quest for the 

Apocalypse, and as allies in Islamophobia.  

There are other powerful US groups 

with pro-Israel biases vying for their

voice in our national policies.

I am thinking it might be useful to find out

who Harris listens to, respects, and 

develop a dialog.

9/22-26/24

Autumn Rising

 there is artificial (machine) intelligence 

that has been useful in many and varied 

projects, that has been used and improved 

over many years

but this is not the stupid LLM being over 

hyped these days, which has nothing to do 

with intelligence but is more a kind of parlor trick

I guess I often don't do as people expect.

I don't get what they expect.

So just sort of wing it (mostly quietly)

When I was young they told me

I had emotional problems.

Apparentely I was supposed to control

my emotions?  But they wouldn't 

tell me how.

I figured out to be quiet, and keep

my own counsel.

Policies for the improvement of people's

lives sometimes are countered by

concerns that bad actors may use

these to make bad outcomes.

Doesn't it then make better sense

to counter the bad actors, prevent

or punish their harm, rather than

forego the possible positive outcomes

from such policies?

Their tactics are clearly not about

facts, but manipulating emotions.

How dare they

corrupt good words

with their nasty connotations

Why would we give people with

the abilities to amass money

the credibility to decide where

we focus our concerns and how?

psychosis = not able to cope with

consensual reality.

distract from discomfort and chase

serendipity

How is it that the ever greater impact

of severe weather on national

economies does not compel us to

understand the greater cost of not

doing all we can to mitigate the

effects of climate change?

We have the ideas, the plans to

solve our problems, and enough

computer power to number crunch

for accuracy.  What we need is

not AI, but appropriate discussion

and implementation, and means of

funding -- which the hype over AI

has been hindering, not helping.

Apparently the GOP's base philosophy

is an outgrowth of their narcissistic

fantasy that the US is meant to be a

nation for the benefit of White Christian

Businessmen, able to do as they will

without restraint or taxation.