Morning Meanderthal

The Morning Meanderthal - Just whatever I happen to think about in the morning.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

I am a knowlege worker, a coder, one of those people 1st to be replaced by AI. My company has started using AI, baby steps now, but its accelerating. So far, the effect on me is to increase my workload. So why? Users can now do in minutes with Copilot what used to take me hours to do. So, I should be working less, right? So, why am I working overtime and on weekends when I used to have fairly normal hours?

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

Interesting. You regard people on the right as living in an alternate reality. But, people on the right regard people such as yourself as living in an alternate reality from which you cannot escape. They regard themselves as superior to you because they have had no choice but to be exposed (due to the Left's long dominance of Academia and the news media) to the propaganda from which you have been unable to free yourself. Yet they have been able, as you have not, to see through the media manipulation. You, on your part, are so utterly convinced of the correctness of your views, you feel justified in judging those who don't agree with as morally inferior. Meanwhile, the "moral inferiors" look at you and see someone so arrogant and so full of pride you cannot see that your "virtuous views" are, in fact not your own. So, who is right? I propose a test. Simply count the burning cars and damaged storefronts. Maga did not do that. The Leftists did that. Blame belongs to those who apologize for and fail to condemn the violence of the left, yet persist in denigrating those whose greatest crime is to ignore the wise counsel of enlightened people such as yourself and vote for someone you do not approve of.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@JebraFaushay This is very old, it's not AI. Don't know who did it or how but my guess is it was done with Flash many years ago. Some may remember Flash, it is an old Microsoft graphics development program they no longer sell or support.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@BrianRoemmele @grok What is your zero person company going to sell and who will buy it?

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@TheLaurenChen Women should not be protestors. That role belongs to men, who are expendable. Women have a different calling and they are not expendable. If men do not find a cause worth risking their life and bodies for, women should notice and take heed

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

Not Hispanic myself but lived next to (legal) Hispanic immigrans for years. They were very resentful of people they regarded as Cartel driven line cutters. As for indigenous Hispanics (the ones whose ancestors pre-date the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo), their attitude is like that of the Mayflower descendants or the DAR, they look down on them. Curiously, English descended people (like me) do not look down on the Irish, German or Italian descended people the same way. I am 80 years old, grew up in the segregated South, and in my boyhood there was some anti Italian sentiment but none toward other groups. As for blacks, we (as children) hardly ever thought about them. We were poor working class kids, we had no servants unlike our upper class cousins, so we just didn't think about it - until much later. In High School most were supportive of the civil rights campaigns of the time.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@DrKarlynB But that was in Texas, you didn't need their help.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

Grok is either unbelievably deadpan straight or it completely missed the opportunity. "Agent of Chaos" could be taken as "Agent of Kaos", Maxwell Smart's nemesis. If the author intended the reference to "Get Smart", Grok missed the allusion. If he did not, Grok missed the opportunity to further ridicule him. In either case, Grok should have said something to indicate, however slyly, that it was aware of the double meaning. Or, am I missing something? Is Grok playing the straight man so perfectly that even I, puny human, am completely taken in? How would I ever know?

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

You could easily reframe this as things to thankful for. Since we are coming up on Thanksgiving, we should learn to count our blessings. The "privilege" frame is designed to elicit "white guilt" but, if this teacher had presented this exact same list as "blessings" to be thankful for instead of "privileges" to be guilty about the Left would demand she be fired for trying to sneak Christianity into the classroom.

[Ruslan Volkov @RuslanVolkov25]

7 Questions for Elon about Grokipedia:
1.Who decides what counts as truth in Grokipedia — algorithms, moderators, or you?
https://t.co/RW3Y4FuV5E will Grokipedia avoid becoming just another biased echo chamber like Wikipedia?
3.If resonance with people is lost, won’t it collapse into the same noise it claims to fix?
4.Who owns the data — humanity, xAI, or investors?
https://t.co/RmuJBc2UFE will you stop Grokipedia from being weaponized for propaganda?
6.What happens when facts conflict with political or financial interests?
https://t.co/mQHDJFRXCT Grokipedia built to reveal hidden cores of knowledge, or just to repackage the same noise with a new brand?

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@obtom62 @lsferguson No idea what you are talking about about. What was the post you were responding to?

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@TaraBull808 I am a lifelong cat fancier and have rescued many of these animals. But I am very clear on one point, they are animals, not babies, and you neither "adopt" them nor "foster" them. You acquire them, you own them or you rescue them.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

Marcus Aurelius as President?? What will be his policy on Slavery? If I want to import my slaves onto the island, will Marcus try to stop me? Will his (AI) attitude toward slaves be historically accurate or will they be "modernized"? Will his attitude toward slavery be compatible with Sharia? I notice that Mehmet the Conqueror is not in the AI Cabinet of Notables.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@obtom62 @lsferguson Said the murderer to the policeman: "It's dead, buried and in the past. Move on."

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@lsferguson Hit like if you didn't live.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@BuzzPatterson _2 to

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@myth_pilot If they use "due process" to kick foreign terrorists out of the country, what's to stop them from using "due process" to kick your mother out of the country? Huh! Bet you didn't think of that. Huh!

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Yes. This!!! Don’t sit on your laurels guys. Get out and VOTE. You have till end of day Tuesday but the sooner the better.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@_BarringtonII Your problems would only multiply. The military discovered a long time ago that men with behavior problems make the worst soldiers.

[Morning Meanderthal @gyates]

@elonmusk Donald Trump is US Grant and Elon Musk is his WT Sherman. Musk is burning the Liberals' Atlanta and they are howling.