Month: November 2023
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Reboot
Rebooting computers to fix them is bad, but we’ve all been trained to do it. Rebooting cultural franchises (comics, movies comic movies, etc.) is bad, but we’ve all been trained to accept it. Rebooting governments is bad, but sometimes electorates go mad and it’s the only way to restore sanity, so we’ve been trained to…
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The mirror universe gets your product, too.
AI personal assistants sound great, until you look at the user journeys for the evil personas – spammers; phishers; identity thieves; various fraudsters, hucksters, and grifters; organized crime; corrupt officials; zealots of various beliefs; bureaucrats in totalitarian regimes, etc. When the efficiencies gained by a technology are hard to get, understand, or use, they tend…
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No Peace
If you are angry at “the government” but live in a representative democracy, where you are able to participate in free and fair elections, then you are the government that you are angry at. Either you’ve made bad choices and are now being forced to live with them, or you’ve neglected your responsibilities and are…