While Spotify is beginning to do more with AI, they have all this data about users it’s interesting that they haven’t done *more* with AI. What I would do is use one of the better open source AIs and use that as the interface for Spotify.
That would be interesting.
It would be be interesting if you had instead of a cacophony all these songs to choose from — a datastorm, if you will — you would have a Knowledge Navigator type situation that would be at your beck and call.
That seems to be the logical progression of things, all things considered. It would be interesting, if nothing else.
Trump has his SS now, apparently, with a whistleblower claiming that ICE agents are being told they can just crash into your house and seize you as necessary. I keep expecting ICE, because of mission creep, to show up on my front doorstep and demand me explain my online ranting.
It’s just a matter of time at this point, I fear.
I’ve decided that I while I won’t fight back, I will stand my ground. I know my rights and if I’m not doing anything untoward, I’m in the right. I’m going to scream at the top of my lungs — and have some choice words for some MAGA people I know — as I get dragged out into the night.
Allegedly, according to some weather apps, where I live is set to get as much as 26.2 inches of snow this weekend. Apparently, however, not only is that complete bullshit, but weather conditions have change to the point that we’ll all be lucky to get anything but a little bit of icy rain.
But if we did get that much snow, the thing I would worry about, of course, is the lights going out. I got some perishables that I would not have to heat with that in mind, but of course, I’ve started to eat them already.
And, yet, I think I’m safe. I don’t think we’re getting that much snow and I will hopefully get off my ass and start back to working on the novel starting as soon as possible.
I have been kind of zoning out the last few days, now that I’ve entered, yet again, the “bad guys closing in” part of the novel. What I hope to do is really be more thoughtful about what I write so I won’t have as much work to do down the road.
The key thing I’m going to have to do is stop being so lazy when it comes to my scene summaries. It’s fine to use AI to write scene summaries, but it’s not fine to hone a little bit too close to what AI proposes for the scene when you actually sit down to write.
So, what I think I’m going to do is read the scene summaries a few times and then just write without using them as so much of a literal guide. That way, anything I write will be completely in my own voice.
That’s the goal, at least.
I don’t want anyone to just roll their eyes at me and say I’ve just written AI slop instead of a novel with my own hands. So, in the second half of the novel I really hope to prove to myself — if no one else — that I’m the author of the novel and not AI.
We have to accept that we are in a new age, a new era. America is now run by a mad king, an America Caligula, and as such we have to look at things in a different way.
If we just lulz Greenland and let Trump seize it, then Canada will be next. And given the fact that Trump is, like, the Foundation series’ The Mule, he probably will get away with it. He probably will invade Canada, destroy all that and while there will be a lot of upheaval in the USA because of it, it’s not like he’ll be impeached and convicted.
Trump is, for the moment at least, not only a mad king, but a god-king. There’s just nothing we can do about the situation. Or, at least, there’s nothing we’re willing to do about the situation.
The US democratic political system is going to implode and it definitely looks as though China, the USA and Russia will divide the globe up into different spheres of influence.
Thankfully, Russia has an economy the size of Italy, so it can only do so much trouble in Europe unless it uses nukes — which is highly unlikely.
As for the USA, my fears about either dying in a camp or being thrown out a window by an ICE agent are growing…more possible, if not probable.
I suppose it was inevitable that there would be some screw up on the part of the center-Left in Minnesota so MAGA would have some sort of talking point. Something, anything, that they could pivot to whenever the tragic murder of Renee Good came up.
Well, it happened.
For some dumb reason, some protesters got it in their head to actually protest during a church service. Don Lemon was there for some reason. Anyway, I kind of feel sorry for Lemon — because of fucking racism, he’s going to be tared and feathered as being a part of the demonstration when as best I can tell, he was just there when it happened.
Anyway, now the two sides have their respective reasons to be angry and to talk past the other side.
We have a long, long, long three years ahead of us when it comes to Trump. And, as such, there are any number of ways that he could really screw things up. Given his love of besmirching anything that anyone holds sacred, it seems logical that Trump would inevitably go after the Constitution.
There are a few excuses I could imagine him using to do such a thing. One, the most obvious one, is so he can run for a third term. The second, less obvious, but equally potent to the MAGA base would be to pass a balanced budge amendment.
I say all of this in the context of a growing suspicion on my part that Trump is a Russian agent of some sort. Putin notoriously pass through a series of constitutional changes in Russia as he was consolidating power. It would make a lot of sense if Trump did too, because, lulz, form follows function.
As such, Trump has such an absolute hold on the American political system that once he broached the subject of a Constitutional Convention, there would be no stopping it happening.
And, as I understand it, there’s no avoiding the very real possibility that any such convention would be populated primarily with MAGA participants so Trump would, at last, make America Trumplandia once and for all on an existential basis.
The thing about what’s going on in the US right now is everyone is distracted that Trump can get away with seemingly anything before anyone notices enough to look up from their video game play.
But, occasionally, something does break through and usually it’s because of one thing: it’s simple.
It’s simple enough that the late night talk show hosts can make a joke about it without any explanation.
Trump wants to take over Greenland through force because he didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize — how much more simple can it get?
I don’t think that anything is going to really happen — at least in the United States — because of these Greenland-Nobel Prize shenanigans on Trump’s part, but I do think it’s going to leave a little bit of a mark.
People will couch things that happen later in terms of, “well at least Trump isn’t starting a war because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace prize.”
The issue is that it’s still up to the Europeans to do something about Trump. The US is “Trumplandia” now so, lulz, we can’t do anything. But if the Europeans don’t blink, then that just MIGHT have some sort of political consequences for Trump in some shape or form.
Oh boy. It definitely seems as though Europe has the opportunity to do what the US population — to date — just hasn’t been able to do: stand up to Mad King Trump.
There is a small chance that if Europe collectively took a swing at Mad King Trump and actually clocked him that that in itself, MIGHT break the spell the US population is under and cause something to happen.
The thing about Trump to date is he’s been nuts, but just sane enough that people are willing to ignore the deranged part of his personality. But, with this weird letter to Europeans, we may — just maybe — have crossed some sort of Rubicon that SHOULD cause Europeans to stand up against Trump’s lunacy.
And, yet, in this New Age of Trumplandia that we live in, anything is possible. I guess it’s possible that Europeans will back down and let Trump have Greenland. Ugh. Do something, Europe. Anything.
I didn’t entitle this “Will Trump Invade Canada?” because I am doing anti-SEO. I don’t want a wave to anxious Canadians coming to this site looking for answers that I just can’t give.
All I have is my opinion. As an American.
Now that we’re in a new normal where Trump is actively remaking the world in his own image, yes, I do think it’s possible that Trump could order an invasion of Canada.
There’s not a high probability, but it exists.
And that probability increases if there is any sort of skirmish between Canada and the US over…ugh…Greenland.
The issue is, I can’t tell you that there is anything or anyone in the US political system at the moment that would stop Trump from invading Canada. Things are so fucked up that Trump literally could invade Canada and Republicans would be silent and Democrats powerless.
There would be a wave of revulsion in the USA population that it happened, but it still would happen. And Trump would, in fact, demand that the entire fucking nation of Canada be the “51st state.”
And the really unnerving thing about the whole situation is because Canada isn’t some uniform block of people, there would be a lot of Canadians (as I understand it) would, after the shock wore off, at least want to negotiate some sort of peaceful assumption of power by the States over Canada.
Or, put another way, Canada would probably implode into parts that wanted to be American and parts that didn’t. (I think, I’m an American, but that seems to be the state of play on the ground in Canada at the moment.)
Anyway, I can’t predict WHEN this will happen, just that it MIGHT. We still have (at least) three years of Trump to go and he’s growing so bonkers that it literally could happen at any time or at no time.
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