Vance, is reported to be in the middle of a conflict between what’s left of the traditional Republican Party and the so-called groypers, a far-right movement of disaffected extremists whose chief representative, Nick Fuentes, is arguably America’s most prominent neo-Nazi. Here is a taste of what you might hear from Fuentes during a typical episode of his show: “Hitler is awesome. Hitler was right. And the Holocaust didn’t happen.” (See Jamelle Bouie’s opinion column tis weekend). How do you pronounce the word “groypers,” and where did the word come from? More to be found on the Internet, https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/P_K0goAI4GjXImYMPXWu7A

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GOODBYE A.I.

(Don’t get excited: Wishful thinking on my part.. I just looked at my old copy of “Consilience” and am reminded that E. O. Wilson had faith that mankind would choose not to gamble on it. In his words, “I predict that future generations will be genetically conservative. Other than the repair of disabling defects they will resist heredity change. They will do so in order to save the emotions and epigenetic rules of mental development, because these elements compose the physical soul of the species. The reasoning is as follows: After the emotions and epigenetic rules enough, and people might in some sense be “better,” but they would no longer be human. Neutralize the elements of human nature in favor of pure rationality, and the result would be badly constructed, protein-based computers. Why sould a species give up the defining core of its existence, built by millions of years of biological trial and error? (pp 299-300 and 303).

TODAY’S REFLECTION: This isn’t Wilson speaking now, but myself reflecting on the President of the United States of America using AI to portray himself covering his citizens with his poop. Could that act function as a warning of what could become of us by our own hands/votes/use of AI?
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TO HORDE OR NOT TO HORDE?
Aye, that is the query.
Things that have carried our
load of beingness: should
we dishonor them all
by trashing? Leaving us
alone with ourselves? No!

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