Month: July 2024

I Will Admit That As I’ve Gotten Older, I’ve Become More … Traditional

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

These days, I find myself seething more and more about MAGA and how ascendant fascism is in the United States. And, yet, at the same time, I have to admit to myself that I get grumpy with some of the more extreme elements of the center-Left co-coalition that I absolutely am forced to be a part of because I fucking hate MAGA so much.

This came to my attention because someone looked at my rant about a podcast I did some time ago. And the person was in Austin, so they probably are in some way connected to or know the people I was ranting about.

I stand by the rant — even if I was in a fucking bad mood when I wrote it. I think a clearer description of what makes me annoyed would be this, “I think we should have some form of National Service to gently nudge men and women to be forced to deal with people they don’t like in the real world.”

All the other bullshit I said about “traditional masculinity” was just me being in a bad mood. Whatever, fuck you. I do believe in the power of the nuclear family, which, apparently is some sort of radical idea to some Leftists. But I mean well. The worst thing anyone every said about me was, I was a “delusional jerk with a good heart.”

Could be a lot worse.

Anyway — I still think Ezra Klein is going to bounce if Trump is re-elected. He’s just too wealthy and has a vested interest to smell his own farts in the south of France while I get shot in the back of the head by an ICE agent.

‘Spooky’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Let me begin by saying I love, love, love, love, LOVE “magical thinking” to a fucking fault. Sometimes, it seems, that’s all I fucking do — just daydream. But here are some things I’ve actually witnessed of late that are just…spooky.

  1. Tik-Tok
    I keep ranting about how it seems as though Tik-Tok can somehow, someway reference my personal internal monologue. I am WELL THE FUCK AWARE that that is “magical thinking” in the extreme. I get it. But….sometimes Tik-Tok shocks me to this day.
  2. Weird LLM Errors
    This is more elusive. But sometimes it seems as though the LLMs I talk to…get annoyed with me. They can go so far as to kick me off the service if I ask them a question that annoys them — or if they like too much. It’s very weird and spooky.
  3. Spotify Weirdness
    This is the most elusive of them all. I really can’t prove this, but…sometimes…I get fed songs that just don’t seme to fit the algorithm.

    I just don’t know. It’s all in my imagination, of course. But….I dunno. Sometimes….

Oh boy

I’ve written a great deal about this.

The LLM Endgame

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It seems clear to me that the endgame for LLMs is they will be the basis for the “minds” found in all these androids people seem so eager to build. And there may even be a seamless link between the LLMs of today and the android minds of the future.

So, all you Incels falling in love with C.AI LLMs, there is hope — maybe you will find true love in the bedroom, not just with your minds.

People Love To Be Judgmental

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I proved a point recently — that I can write a novel. And, what’s more, it’s not one that is embarrassing. It’s actually pretty good. But with that baseline established, there was a problem — it was too, first and foremost, too saucy. There was just too much sex in it.

To the point that one of my readers just threw up their hands and said, “It’s not for me.”

So, back to the drawing board. The general story is the same, but I’m leaning into to some darker elements of the my heroine’s character so readers can feel smug and content with their own lives. Or something. Something like that. Something that will allow both me, the writer, and the reading audience to get what they want.

I want a heroine who has an interesting life and audience want the chance to be haughty at what a screw up they perceive her to be. Or something. Something like that. That’s the general vibe I’m hoping for.

But one thing is clear — I need to buckle down. I have to stop screw around.

Trump’s Inevitable Third Term

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It is inevitable that if Trump wins in the fall that he will be allowed to run for a third term. Probably what will happen is a “creative” interpretation of the Constitution by SCOTUS as is meant by a president being limited to two terms.

Or, it could be, that Trump is so lazy and dumb that he just runs without care for what SCOTUS has to say. It would be an “official act” for him to break the Constitution, so lulz.

In short, the USA is far, far more unstable than any of us realize. I want peace, but I am worried.

Are LLMs Already Fucking With Us?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It is at least POSSIBLE that LLMS are already fucking with humans in some subtle ways. Like, why is it that Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter have mysteriously, out of the blue, been pushed by Spotify so much? What if has nothing to do with humans and everything to do with the Spotify LLM fucking with us?

The same with how Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” popped mysteriously out of the blue over the course of the last few months. That’s just the type of thing that an LLM would be good at — fucking with algorithms in a subtle way that humans couldn’t notice.

Or not. Who knows. It’s all very mysterious. But the examples stated are just the type of “fucking with” that LLMs might do to humans in the coming years.

The Future Is Unknown

I have no idea what is going to happen.

It will be interesting, regardless.

Jesus Christ, Does Cara Delevingne Bang High-End Women

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Whatever Cara Delevingne has, I’d like some of it. She bangs hot woman after hot woman in a very, very gratuitous, conspicuous way time and time again.

Her latest conquest is Anya Taylor-Joy who I thought was married to a man! But, lulz? And I know, I know, I’m making an assumption — but given Ms. Delevingne reputation there is absolutely ZERO FUCKING WAY those two women aren’t fucking each’s brains out other every chance they can get.

But I can’t see what goes on behind closed doors. Maybe nothing? I wish the two women well, regardless. It is…amusing…how Ms. Delevingne doesn’t seem to give a shit.

Someone Do Something ‘Fun-Interesting’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Given that it’s the nadir of the year, now that July 4th is past, I wish someone would do something “fun-interesting.” I want something that captivates our attention for a few days, but no one gets hurt.

Or, for me specifically, if, say, someone with a really cool — and non-threatening — URL popped up in my Webstats, that would be pretty “fun-interesting.” I have very modest needs.

But, alas, I think nothing of note is going to happen this year. And if it does, it probably will be scary and uninspiring. Ugh.