Hey. Yeah, this is probably a very bad habit, but I'm still thinking about whether I could, should keep doing this. Yeah, I was reading the paper today. It's Sunday, June 11th and …
”ChatGPT infiltrates student life."
It infiltrates everybody's life, apparently, and apparently it's used by some people to search for the perfect gift. And I'm looking at what this person already knows about the person they're trying to gift to and thinking you're having trouble? Okay. Well, yeah. Taylor Swift tickets. Yeah. Out of the question. And obvious, too. AI made the obvious suggestion, but, well, whatever. AI and ChatGPT. I was listening yesterday to a presentation on ChatGPT and left with the impression it's all a little more trouble than it's worth. That's what I'm thinking. But that's my point. That's my take on it. My opinion. Other people might find it very useful.
I don't know. Anyway, …
"A model for governing AI.”
Well, and it's an international model. What a surprise. Yeah. Maybe we could cooperate on this shit. Yeah, because the internet, it's international, right? And somebody's got to kind of take charge of these things. One thinks, one hopes, and hopefully they're acting wisely.
And speaking of wisely, here's a book I really would like to read. …
“What we still don't know about Facebook” is the title of the review, I guess, and the book is The Power of One: How I Found the Strength To Tell The Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. Okay. Having the strength to tell the truth is difficult and blowing the whistle on Facebook is remarkable. And, well, I just want to read this book, because I've just been through enough in terms of dealing with all this technological stuff, and I have a lot of concerns about what gets out there and how much control we have and how much control there should be exerted over things and things like taste and doing the work, expecting overnight success, finding meaningfulness in simply doing things to do them without thinking about what it all leads to. But having said all that, okay, I really like this article about the flight attendant who was furloughed, but is now a bestselling novelist. And the thing that got to me was she's writing about what she knows. She's fictionalizing it.
And let's see. Yeah, there was something, another point I was going to make. Oh, she is writing her third novel, I believe it is, as a full-time writer. She's living a dream, et cetera. Oh, somewhere here, I think it says she's writing her third novel. Yeah, I, I'm going to have to look that up and make sure, so hold on a second.
Okay. I was right. She's writing her third book. She is also, let me find the, move this out of the way. Yeah. I'm moving the image of me talking. She's now working on an adaptation of Falling for Universal Pictures, writing her third book and figuring out logistics for an upcoming book tour that includes the challenge of packing for 12 author events. Wow. It's, it's unusual to have the ability to do this sort of thing, and it just shows you the great difference between somebody who has, I suppose the …
Yes. Somebody who is listening at the door and possibly wondering what I'm saying. Okay. Now, having dispensed with that, she's now working on the adaptation of Falling, writing her third book, figuring out logistics for an upcoming book tour that includes the challenge of packing for 12 author events. Now, this is extraordinary stuff and it doesn't happen to everybody, but the point is that a person who has achieved something like that is what I would call a success as opposed to say, becoming a New York Times bestselling author based on algorithms alone. What it seems like, anyway.
Okay. In any event, yeah, because somehow the fan base kind of just disappeared on me. I don't know, I guess somebody liked my books, and of course the comics are always fun. I'll try to remember to include images from the comics that I particularly liked [in this post]. So that's it, I think. Other than the fact that my left side is clenching in constantly and somehow I try to ignore that. I don't know. Anyway, talk to you later there.
Yeah, okay. Did I fail to mention that I've been thinking about starting a smartphone filmmakers club? Just thinking about it. No promises. Okay? No promises. Yeah. I'm scared. Alrighty. Talk to you later!
PS: Please Don’t Call My Job a Calling
To wit:
As Ms. Ettarh told me, “Workers are seeing that unless they work together to fight back, institutions will grind them to dust.” For starters, employers can recognize that we work for more than love.
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PPS: From Stage 32
PPPS: And speaking of a “horrifyingly disingenuous response to a congressional inquiry,” voila!
And, finally, the Funnies! :)
Another Sunday with Yours Truly