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Breaking: AI unlikely to take over the world!

AI Isn't Coming for Your Brain – It Can Barely Sell You a Subscription
Breaking: AI unlikely to take over the world!
I'm sure you will have had some truck with AI of late, either as a user, an observer, or, increasingly, a victim. We all seem to be victims of AI at present. Every social media platform is rapidly filling up with 'AI slop' - machine generated content, either memes or videos that no matter how impressively realistic they are than last years 'AI slop', they remain annoyingly identifyable as 'AI slop'. Even if you're not a social media victim of this invasion, as an observer it’s hard... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Monday, June 30, 2025 1:56:00 PM Categories: AI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Robots
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A Fond Farewell to Wine

Twelve Months Dry, Still Unimpressed by Humanity
A Fond Farewell to Wine
Normally when I write a blog post it's because I'm triggered about a topic. Something either angers me, amuses me or otherwise appeals to my sense of being a messenger to convey an important idea, as though I'm a frustrated cub reporter for a local newspaper. The opposite is true today. I'm writing about a simple milestone - I've just completed one year without drinking alcohol. Although I've had it in mind to blog about this for several months as the anniversary approached, I feel... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Monday, June 2, 2025 5:40:00 AM Categories: Alcohol Blogging Family Lifeskills Wine
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♻️ Recycling’s Agency Fallacy: The Left’s Betrayal and the Populist Surge

It’s Not Your Fault. Recycling guilt won’t clean up political neglect.
♻️ Recycling’s Agency Fallacy: The Left’s Betrayal and the Populist Surge
In the quiet pueblo blanco of Olvera, where I’ve lived for fifteen years, a war has erupted. Not over healthcare, jobs, or the creeping cost of living, but over something far more mundane: rubbish. The town hall has hiked refuse collection fees and doubled down on a door-to-door recycling scheme, complete with barcode-tagged bins linking every scrap to your name. Non-compliance, though unspoken, carries the threat of fines. This isn’t just about sorting plastic from paper - it’s about ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Friday, April 25, 2025 5:57:00 PM Categories: Economics Economy Envrionment Politics Recycling Work
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