Thoughts and not beliefs, with the occasional wild speculation
The following are off-the-shelf, ready-to-go replies to the vexations of deniers, liars and fools. Sufficiently concise as to fill a coffee break or banter around the water cooler, they could, possibly, have an effect on the recipient. Climate change denial First, try reason. Through ample scientific evidence climate change is real and human driven, you …
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Though Science makes mistakes, it never cheats or fails whilst making them. This is probably what Max Plank intended when he said that science is always truthful. It does not claim to be error free, but it can claim to be truthfully in search of correct answers whilst getting some wrong. It has a valid …
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Since the launch of the Microsoft backed generative AI language model ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, people have been quick in leveraging its stunning output in a multitude of areas, from writing emails, poetry, news articles, doing research and even writing books. With books in particular, human authors and up-and-comping novelists are worried. Thousands of AI …
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Below are some questions that future generations of digital archaeologists and indeed anyone might pose to Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots regarding our present time. Responses here are given by our current generation of AI bots (in this case ChatGPT). Future bots will obviously be more powerful. As the ChatGPT bot itself cautions, the information it …
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In 1941, in an effort to rally American’s to enter the war in Europe, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of four freedoms in need of defense from fascism: freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Without diminishing the importance of Roosevelt’s general articulation of the meaning of freedom in …
The Republicans in support of Donald Trump and of course Trump himself are still lying that the 2020 US election was “stolen”. That the electoral system was “rigged”, that in reality (perhaps the reality of a parallel universe in which extreme dishonesty is the object of life) the fine figure of Mr Trump should actually …
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Though he seems likable, one wonders whether UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres can actually do anything to save Earth. We may stand a better chance with Greta Thunberg and other grassroots activists. At least Thunberg does not head an organisation that though not actually bound and gagged by the powers that control it, is nonetheless …
Continue reading “Climate Action: Walkation & Bikation. Silly, but makes sense.”
I make it a habit not to upload images to this blog. It’s too much work. Nothing, however, should be spared in the fight against the Evil Ones. I am writing this at 2.23 am, by now awake for nearly half an hour and likely to remain awake for a good few hours more. The …
Given Tory economics indicates the party lives in a fairy tale land of inexhaustible gaslighting and magic money trees, maybe they also believe in Hollywood endings. Rogue Chancer Finally Makes Good, staring Boris Johnson and Minions, directed by, one wouldn’t be surprised, Dominic Cummings, also recently returned from the dead. At a cinema near you. …