🇺🇸 & 🇧🇪 ⤑ well have I ever!
Ohh my, oh man. 😏 This guy done did. Did what? Not quite eat the rich, but certainly kill one, in a movie-like fashion, in broad daylight on the streets of Manhattan. Shot one Brian Thompson, C.E.O. of an American health insurance corporation – by definition making (lots and lots of) money from (thousands of) others' misery. 🤷
And for now he got he seems to be swimmingly getting away with it, too! 🙂
Not even his name known yet.
Awkwardly mixed feelings abound, because what injustice, exactly, has been done, with bullets inscribed with meaning? Seems to be a pertinent question for everyone, save, perhaps, Mr. Thompson's loved ones. :l
Will he be missed? Is the world worse off without (people like) him in it? Does this grief carry equal weight compared to your loss, or mine?
Morals and ethics stirred – good people, questionable deeds.. In that regard it reminds me of recent local news of an entirely different kind: a highly esteemed public figure defies rules and disdains lives by driving drunk. 🍺 Do as I say, not as I do. “Oh the humanity”? Zonder zonde, de eerste steen? Wazige zaak!
Here, too, our conscience makes awkward leaps and bounds, and our moral compass behaves erratically. We struggle to make sense of a confusing world of reprehensible and good people, bad vibes, and bad things and good deeds.
Luckily our very own VRT has a pressing matter pop up to curb our confusion! “Hoe werkt een botsabsorbeerder”?🤦♂️ Orr, eh – well SOME moral! is direly needed from this story. And sought, and found: “Ook verstandige mensen doen domme dingen”. "😅"
“Morbid glee” appeared to be the upshot of the Anglo-Saxon matter. The Flemish.. Not quite sure. “Sardonisch gelach in vuistjes” is an unpolished mouthful. “Povere boel” in any case. 😏
On 9/12 Luigi was finally apprehended. The story not yet finished, but quite the.
🦄 ⤑ AI: highly artificial..
..and of questionable intelligence – the mere word here is absurd and inappropriate. There is literally nothing intelligent about AI, it generates. 🤷 Regurgitates what it's been fed.
Its generated regurgitations arguably are quite something – it can be asked for beautiful pictures, say, and the LLMs make for impressive haikus (†), possibly great programming advice, email drafts, gift ideas for your dad who loves fishing, you name it. Impressive antics and magic tricks 🎉 but often, without warning, oblivious and shamelessly it will “hallucinate”. Really, “hallucinate”? More improper antro.. anthropom.. – humanisation. It almost sounds pardonable – poor overloaded ChatGPT, just couldn't handle it anymore, someone find it some benzo and a pillow.
Sadly its quirkiness may be the manifestation of an inherent inclination toward shittiness. Making matters even/far worse, like the sad crypto craze, AI gobbles up obscene amounts of energy. Someplace I read one Midgard-generated image makes for a fully charged phone. 😞
So what good will it bring us, and at what price? Speaking of price, since silly amounts of money are involved, we are made to embrace (potentially highly disruptive) technology. Microsoft would even have it dabbling in your computer. 😀 (Fortunately “everything is designed to remain local and private on-device”, what could possibly go wrong.)
So much resources that could have been devoted to matters more pressing, like world hunger or nuclear fusion. Once again homo ecophagus doubles down on frivolous destruction without too much consideration, reckless with his future, reassured by hubris.
(†) Great haikus – except, of course, when ChatGPT totally confidently
miscounts syllables. 😶 Please note that counting is something computers are
good at by their very nature, it's in the name; and that haikus by their very
definition consist of a precise number of syllables.
And then this supposedly intelligent piece of software unflappably offers you
a broken haiku! Eh.. 6 syllables? You tell it it's wrong – get 8 instead on
another line. Again you tell it it's wrong.. It will merrily acknowledge its
mistake, apologize for good measure – and, unruffled, continue! to produce
broken and proper haikus alike.
To be sure, it will also keep apologizing and promising not to make the
(rather grave) mistake again, but won't stop making it! over and over again.
Rubbing faux- and proper haikus in your face.. Downright farcical; and what does
it imply for its output in general? How can you ever trust this thing..
🎼 ⤑ music & the internet have come a long way
RED — WCD après le Deluge
Not as it used to be.
Soulseek — Napster après la lettre
All souls aboard! 🫡
🎵 The greedy 🇬🇷 Greek,
the 🇲🇽 mesoamerican black
metal fan,
the 🇪🇪 Estonian treasure chest..
Save our souls! 🎶