An Elderly Electorate with Severe Mental Anemia

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An Elderly Electorate with Severe Mental Anemia

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You know what they say about poor nutrition. Works for thinking too. Garbage in, and all too often, yes you do get garbage out.
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ZoWie wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:06 pm You know what they say about poor nutrition. Works for thinking too. Garbage in, and all too often, yes you do get garbage out.
Careful, you might just get the conservative wacko conspiracy theorists a new subject to go after. They'll probably say when the fast food industry began offering healthy options it made people start believing in the liberal lies.
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I was thinking of intellectual garbage, as generally results from a mental diet of too much Internet, but perhaps too much fast food of the nutritional variety does have some kind of peripheral contribution to what I see as the general intellectual deterioration of American thought from the late 20th century on.
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Supersize my sound bite please. Why my health is failing I will worry about later, if at all.
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My computer has gone rogue, and keeps putting popups on my screen wanting me to download the latest pretty much useless AI additions to the op-system. An elderly electorate with a mental diet of corporate swill.

If my posts have become less coherent lately, it's because my machines have turned against me.
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Because of the way the reply button works it does not show up in my notifications list and i sometimes miss stuff.

Like what they did to youtube? i don't.

It's getting more and more difficult to wade through the bullshit.
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YouTube is showing symptoms of what is usually a terminal condition.

Note the degeneration of the line beneath the playback screen. It now shows ominous gaps. Hulu showed similar ominous gaps right before it started adding commercials.

If they stick commercials in my videos, I'm pulling them and nuking my account.
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ZoWie wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:23 am My computer has gone rogue, and keeps putting popups on my screen wanting me to download the latest pretty much useless AI additions to the op-system. An elderly electorate with a mental diet of corporate swill.

If my posts have become less coherent lately, it's because my machines have turned against me.
Same here on Facebook links.
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So far, in months of investigation, I have found exactly one (1) one use for AI. It's real good at de-noising digital photos. It works like a champ, because it decides whether it's processing detail vs noise introduced by the circuitry in the camera. You have to be a pro to tell the difference, though. It jumps right out at me, but that's because my degree is in movies.

AI is embryonic and it will evolve and make other changes, but right now it's mostly about creating excuses to drive up stock prices and make money for insiders.
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