NO AI

I open this favorite place holder and am greeted by multiple USE THIS TO MAKE YOUR WRITING BETTER.

AI.

AI, where everything is based on whatever internet input is thrown through the "brain" to teach the artificial intelligence about reality. 

Like reality lives on and in the internet.

ARE. YOU. KIDDING?!?!?!

Reality is not on the internet--what is on there is a tiny bit of reality and a whole lot of gaslighting social influencers, random bullshit from folks that want to be famous, rich and well, get a bunch of likes for nothing.

No one is putting their serious work out there to be stolen.  NO ONE.

And now, every tech bro is trying to make a killing off of their robotic brain program.

So, AI, how about going out in your backyard and growing a garden---not a picture of a garden, not a plan of a garden---a thing that produces actual living vegetables and fruits.

Grow a baby, not a program of a baby, a real baby that grows into an adult and reproduces---in the real world.

Make a friend, at a park, that you talk to, walk with, play with----and not via a phone.

Describe the feeling of the sunlight on your head, the warmth radiating off the concrete in August, the sound and feeling of wind as it rustles through the leaves and your hair.

Your art reeks of stolen photos and drawings, your writing is grammatically correct and without wisdom or creativity, your presence on the planet is a sign that money has no morals, ethics, honesty or empathy.

IF WE CAN MAKE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WE CAN:

• end poverty
• end cancer
• end addiction
• end genetic problems before or at birth
• provide everyone with great healthcare, great educations, great infrastructure and great work/life balance safety nets
• end war
• end crime

but instead, we force it on people, throw it into everything online, use it instead of customer service people, use it instead of computer people, throw it, without reason into every computer system while putting computer systems into everything so that, without constant upgrades our cars, appliances, etc, etc, fail.  

Instead of artificial intelligence, we need to work on life---real life.

NO AI!

history repeating

gotta good beat and you can dance to it...

seriously, i'm hearing alot about trump/hitler similarities.

what i'm not hear is about the industrial revolution/the tech revolution similarities; the whole crappy  rise of oligarchs that removed anything stopping them from profiting off the destruction of the rights and improvement of the average citizen---especially women, POC and other invisible groups---invisible because they were powerless AND not because they were not around.  

Inevitably, the rise of oligarchs leads to a severe shift to the right, a rise in authoritarianism, and tribalism.  

Goal one:  if everyone blames the other crabs at the bottom of the bucket for their conditions, no one blames the ones that put them in the bucket.

We love to talk about the founding fathers like they were gods; but they were just educated men, landowners, and MEN.  (ben franklin was closest to a regular guy---and these days he is reminding me a lot of steve bannon---OMG, terrible thought---i always liked ben, but I wasn't living in North America back then, i had relatives that were, ancestors if you will, and they were good sturdy peasant stock---a statement that pissed off my grandmother to no end, but i did the genealogy and my ancestors arrived to escape and do better----usually as servants, bond servants, and releases from the poorhouses, and, i suspect a couple from prisons for actual crimes.  Reality sucks.

Before the Industrial Revolution, most of the American power base consisted of landed gentry, frequently landed by the very royals and nobility they left Europe to escape.  The French had not yet revolted, and Europe was ruled by hereditary monarchs, noblemen that had sworn fealty to monarchs in exchange for land, fealty meaning, they would send their warriors to fight for their king, merchants, that lived at the will of the royals and nobles above them, the clergy---that had a rather strong position in each kingdom, and the peasantry.  The peasantry were NOT citizens, they basically belonged to whatever fiefdom they were born in, needed permission to marry, could not own land and whatever they made, grew, or herded belonged to the landowner.  They lived at the pleasure of their owners and had no rights.  (sounds wonderful, right?)

The revolutions of France and what became the USA changed that to a point.  The constitution and Bill of rights changed more, but white trash was still white trash, and POC were  not even considered of the same species.  AND women, women and children were chattel.

For years, the only ones voting or enjoying the BILL of RIGHTS were landowning white men.  Military service did provide some folks with land that didn't have it before, and the westward expansion provided more white men with land---frequently soldiers, but sometimes immigrants came for this very reason----and they were given the land of those people that had lived on that land for tens of thousands of years.  Funny how easy it is to steal from those whose humanity has been denied.

The goal should not BE repeating history---think been there/done that---the goal should for everyone, from individual to state to country to world----improving on the situation of all of us, always.  AND I include all species in that---all life.