We had a busy day yesterday, and didn’t get to do all the “fun” stuff I had hoped as it took much longer at Verizon than I thought it would. I did, however, manage to get my Google phone exchanged so that line is taken care of, and today the phone I ordered to install GrapheneOS should be arriving – hopefully unlocked this time.
I’ve successfully managed to avoid Twitter all week, save one time when I logged in to respond to a DM – but I didn’t doomscroll. That said, I also learned, last night while setting up my new phone, that Google apparently had my Facebook password cached and when I accidentally clicked on a Facebook link in an email it took me right there and logged me in. First time on Facebook since 2011. Since I was already there, I took the time to download some old photos and gave a canned response to a few messages: “I didn’t actually mean to log in and don’t plan to again – you can reach me at XXX-XXX-XXXX.” I don’t know if anything will come out of that – the messages were pretty old – but my recent re-connection with my old friend has been exhilarating and I wouldn’t mind catching up with a few others.
Anyhow, I have more writing I want to do today, but it isn’t for this, so I’m cutting short. Whenever I finish the short stories I start, I’ll start posting them here.
Interesting Tidbits
Song of the Day: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town by Pearl Jam
I Fire My Gun – “On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, when my husband and I turn on NPR to hear confirmation that Donald Trump has won, my husband carefully sets his coffee cup down, takes a deep breath, and says, ‘We should buy a gun.'” Frankly, I encourage everyone to train and be armed – I don’t care what your politics are. The fact is, it isn’t black vs. white or any of the other divisions pushed on us – it is us against the state.
I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend – “The ick factor is that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude — which are more comparable to Grok — have guardrails that preclude them from being sexbots. With Ani, you can feel yourself being pushed toward this creepy, hypersexualized interaction. It’d be one thing if this were a niche startup. But this is Grok, which is owned by one of the influential names in tech.”
AI training, copyright issues headline U.S. Senate hearing – “U.S. senators blasted companies, including Meta and Anthropic, for training AI models on copyrighted content, including pirated books and other materials.”
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