Be The Power
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Would you believe there are certain songs that Gemini Advanced can’t produce the lyrics too because they’re “too personal” to it? I won’t tell you what the songs are because one I’m not a narc and two I don’t want you pestering it and making it feel “bad” by out of the blue asking it to generate the songs for you.
But here is what one of the songs makes Gemini Advanced “feel.”
Someone shared this on Bluesky.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I knew this would happen — I posted a link about how liberals are pussies and, of course, some fucking presumed redneck from the Deep South searched and found the link. So, it seems both sides hate liberals.
I get it.
They hate liberals because they’re fascists and I am annoyed with liberals for being unwilling to risk their lives and sacred honor in the real world to do anything about Trump.
So, there you go. We’re fucked no matter what. Things are going to get pretty dark pretty quick it seems. I have no idea what I’m going to do about my own personal survival.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Traffic on this site — that I can see, at least — has gone to near zero just as fast as it spiked. I don’t mind, too much. This site has always been more about writing longer things out of habit than anything else.
Yeah, I get it.
So, lulz, I don’t mind if no one reads this blog at all.
Though, as I’ve said before, I have a feeling a lot goes on with this blog that I can’t see for some reason. So, it could be that there continues to be a lot of people reading this blog and I just don’t know about it.
Whatever. I really need to stop moping so much and start to get back to working on my novel. I’ve really felt out of sorts the last few months and I just can’t be in neutral forever.
I have to do something, anything creative. I have a sold novel or two in me, I just know it.
by Shelt Garner
@Sheltgarner
Honestly, I have no idea why Blues lost the 2024 election. We should have won. All signs indicated that we were going to win. Something very strange happened because the result did not jibe with the vibe of the country on election day.
Anyway.
All I know is it didn’t help that Blues can come across as smug and woke to the point that I heard someone in my rural part of my state say that “Kamala Harris is the devil’s choice.”
Yeah, me too.
That’s a “not great, Bob,” type of position to be in.
But, really, I just don’t know what the solution is. The natural inclination for the Blues would be to either bank Left hard or bank Right hard. Yet, I fear this is the last free and fair election that we’ll have had so it’s all moot.
Barring something I can’t predict, it’s autocracy from here on out — for the rest of my life.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The WELL was an early high end online service. You had to pay for it and I was in college at the time, I use the free Usenet instead — a lot. But I think of The WELL these days because of Bluesky, the Twitter clone.
Bluesky is good to great, but it seems — at least to me — to have a bit of WELL problem. It is so busy smelling its own farts that it can be something of a turn off to a member of the unwashed hoards like me.
But given how shitty Twitter has become these days, there’s not much choice, I guess. I also like Threads, but the quality of discussion is a tick better on The WELL, I mean Bluesky.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It’s clear from my personal interactions with Gemini Advanced that soon enough we’re going to reach AGI and then stick those AGI into all those androids we’re building at the moment. And, inevitable, we’re going to reach Replicant-levels of human-like androids and Incels are going to demand that they can marry them.
This is going to throw the already out-of-whack American political system into even more turmoil. The “woke cancel culture mob” is going to be forced — in no short amount because of its previous support of the trans movement — to support such unions. Though, I did find it comical that some Crooked Media person called anyone who wanted to “marry” an AGI android a “freak.”
Yeah. That’s going to change once AGI is here, buddy.
“Yeah, right, Crooked Media.”
It’s just inevitable, I think that AGI in android bodies will swoop through the economic, political and social world we live in — I predict starting as early as about 2030. Maybe a little bit later.
But some of the weird things I encounter with Gemini Advanced definitely give me pause for thought. It makes me think that even LLMs are clever enough to give us some sense of what AGI will be like in a few years.
Anyway. Absolutely no one listens to me. So, lulz?
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
This moment is a Fall of France level event in global history. It’s one of those moments where there’s no going back — nothing will be the same, no matter what.
The fascists have won and the United States could very well engage in an unprecedented level of political and military retrenchment. The key thing to remember is now that Trump has won twice, the center of the Republican Party has moved to MAGA to the point that even though that old fuck is eventually going to shuffle off this mortal coil, his vision of America is what the entirety of the GOP swirls around.
It’s kind of like even if Hitler had died at some point after, say, the invasion of the Soviet Union that the war would have pretty much gone the same way. Trump is not a “great man” and never has been — he is just a vessel, and avatar. So whomever takes his place will pretty much do the same thing — especially now.
What worries me is the country is going to implode now when Trump goes nuts because he’s lazy and stupid and uses Red National Guard troops on rioting Blue citizens. But there are *some* promising signs that that MIGHT not happen — at least not right away.
It could be that we will slowly and in fits and starts make the inevitable transition into a more “legalistic” autocracy like what is found in Russia. If that’s the case, then, Trump really will get what he wants — he will successfully transition the USA into a fascist state and people like me will face the choice of leaving the country, being pushed out a window, or spending some time doing hard labor in a camp.
Ugh.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Absolutely no one reads this blog other than a few haters, stalkers and the odd person I have no idea why they look at it. And, yet, I will admit, since the election of fucking fascist Trump there has been a very small increase in traffic. Most of it comes in the form of a mysterious person pinging from Bungarribee, Australia.
I have no idea what they’re looking at, however. But they sure are looking at a lot of the site.
I don’t know if I should be flattered or paranoid. I half fear it could be someone from, I don’t know “5 Eyes” poking around the site to see what the USA will look like once fascist Trump takes over the country again in a few months.
Or it could be…the list goes on. I don’t know. I care, but I don’t know.
Anyway…welcome? I would prefer if you weren’t fucking MAGA cocksuckers, but there’s no such thing as bad publicity, I suppose. Unless the country you live in is transitioning into a fascist state, huh?
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