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12/6/24 02:03 pm
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And because the news isn't good enough, here's some more. ☜(ˆ▿ˆc)

How AI is accelerating and devaluing book publishing.  Artificial intelligence is pushing the publishing world toward volume. That could drown out the good work.


I sure do love working for over a year on a work as well-crafted and unique as I can make it, only to have greedy, selfish opportunists keep my book down by piling a bunch of AI-generated fake books on top of it. (-᷅_-᷄๑)
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More good news on the AI front! ヘ( ´Д`)ノ

Harper Collins is selling their authors' work to AI tech company

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11/18/24 01:33 pm
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Now the talk is about how to unify Republicans and Democrats, as if that's a problem.

Nope.

Never was. Conservatives and liberals will always have their differences, but that's not a problem. There are plenty of marriages out there to prove it. James Carville/Mary Matalin and Joe Scarborough/Mika Brzezinski jump to mind. What we have today is something quite different.

On one side we have Republicans, Democrats and Independents. On the other side we have MAGA.

For those who didn't get the memo, MAGA is a hate group.

A hate group.

A misogynistic, white supremacist, "Christian" nationalist, anti-democratic hate group. They are un-American. They just don't realize it.

Yet.

Normalizing MAGA would be like the Germans saying, "We need to make peace with the Nazis and reunify Germany!"

Um, no. No, we don't.

What needs to happen is this: the Nazis need to cease to exist; they are evil. There is no benefit to humanity in normalizing evil. After the war, the Nazis who weren't executed for their crimes were rehabilitated. Deprogrammed.

And that's exactly what needs to happen with MAGA.
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The finger pointing's begun, and everyone's blaming the economy for Chump's win. But Trump has no plan for the economy; the only economic plan he's mentioned is tariffs, which will raise costs on all imported goods. Kamala's economic policy was endorsed by 23 Nobel prize-winning economists and The Economist; while the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch, said her economic plan was superior to Trump's. So it's not the economy, stupid.

Nope, the blame is going everywhere but where it belongs ─ on the voters. Over the past 40 years that Trump's been in the public eye, he's proven himself to be an immature little boy in the body of an old coot, with all the impulse control of a ten-year-old ─ no insult intended to ten-year-olds. He's a white supremacist, a misogynist, a rapist, a convicted felon, guilty of treason (remember the coup?), and yet the majority of uneducated clodpoles voted for him anyhow. Argh.

So now we're all trapped in that Twilight Zone episode where Bill Mumy is a little boy with unfettered powers who rules the town with an iron fist. ヽ(゚Д゚)ノ

If the democrats ever do regain control of the government, there's a number of things they need to do. Somewhere near the top of the list is to pass legislation requiring that all podcasters and other alternate news sources based in America conform to FCC regulations regarding journalistic integrity and standards, making it illegal for any of these outlets to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation ever again.

Number two is to fix the supreme court and overturn that idiotic immunity ruling. There's no excuse for a US president to commit a crime in the performance of his duty.

It goes without saying that we need to eliminate the electoral college.

We need to introduce legislation preventing anyone guilty of treason from running for office.

We need to pass legislation placing all of the financial burden of book bans entirely on the banners. Right now they're blowing our tax dollars on this foolishness, and that's not what our tax money was allocated for. If they want to ban books, they should have to pay for it out of their own pockets. Let's see how many books they ban then.


To prevent the creation of any more illiterate voters, we need to bring American schools up to the level of Sweden, Denmark and Japan. American students should not be graduating unable to read. As for their critical thinking skills...sheesh.


And we need to make it illegal for Congress to award themselves pay raises, or else make it legal for every other American worker to award themselves pay raises whenever they feel like it.
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I have never been so ashamed of America. (-᷅_-᷄๑)