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Public Broadcasting Is In a Tailspin... PULL UP, PULL UP!

 I Never Thought This Could Happen NPR and PBS are American jewels One reminder. Call / Mail / Text your Congresspersons, The Prez, and the FCC: FUND THE CPB. SAVE PUBLIC BROADCASTING! Thanks.

Is AI Coming for YOUR Job?

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Are You Planning For It?   Is anybody (like the government)?  Pretend you work for Amazon.   Amazon CEO to Employees: "Yes, AI Will Probably Take Some of Your Jobs ." Spare change? Just to elaborate:  " Amazon has laid off  more  than 27,000 people  since 2022, and most recently cut jobs  across its devices and services group  and its  books division . Andy Jassy notes that Amazon has more than 1,000 AI services and apps that the company is working on or has already built, saying that it’s just a “small fraction” of what it’s planning to launch in the future." The Verge. More likely, you don't work for Amazon, but you are: ...A law clerk, a copywriter, an intern, a call center worker, a lab assistant...  you know, a white collar type. Don't kid yourself, the AIs are coming for your job. Especially an AI AGENT is coming.  It will do your job better than you can (soon, if not already), it costs your company much, much ...

This Great Truth Is A Lie

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It Is a Truthful Tract on Truth I Agree With Every Word of it.  I think its language is poetic.  It's ALLEGEDLY written by one of my heroes, Noam Chomsky. It's ALLEGEDLY read by the same guy.                        NOT              You Know I'm Noam You know I'm not. I am NOAM AI. And that's the truth. ANOTHER TRUTH: There are these channels on YouTube that are sort of fan fiction. Some are all AI -- images, text, design, everything  --  "prompted" by actual humans (presumably). I don't know how many of these productions there are, but a bunch. Judging by the comments below each of them, you have to wonder how many people know they are AI and how many have no idea.  There are this sort of fan fiction sites on all kinds of people, nice and courageous and nasty and cowardly. There are sites for Hitler and Erdagon, for instance. SO CHECK IT OUT . As I said, I agree wit...