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The Partial Lunar Eclipse
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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A whole barrage of pictures, none of which were perfect or even good, the AI on my phone wouldn't correct for an eclipsed moon, and 100X Zoom is hard to steady.
Nonetheless a screenshot of all the images looks pretty good!
Tics and Twitches
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
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I'm on 4, waiting for the elevator. And I can hear her swearing and cussing up a storm, she's pissed off, somebody's catching hell and the elevator's rising and she's getting louder and louder, then the door opens and she's alone...
She sees me, looks down, ashamed, scuttles past...
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I'm pretty much out of groceries, there's nothing in the fridge I can find to eat. And it's a few days to payday. I grab a rock and head over to the neighbours, rattling it in the pot, I'm going to make Stone Soup and I'm hoping maybe she has some things I can add to it, only she isn't home and the broth, well, it's pretty much water and I'm pretty sure this is not how the story's supposed to go...
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She comes over to raid the fridge, lets herself in, ignores me in the chair while she helps herself to blueberries and ice cream, grabs a Pellegrino, goes back to the fridge for more berries and ice cream, she can't help herself...
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Making dinner, pasta, I've been paid and the stone's gone back into the stone pile. Run into neighbour, dinner's a Ground Elk bolognese, invite her over. After dinner she sits, she's obliged, she feels she needs to keep me company, manners and all can't eat and run only she doesn’t; she sits and gambles on her phone, then breaks to rifle the bookshelf, grabs a stack to “borrow”; she begins reading Pablo Neruda’s “100 Love Sonnets”; her face is a mirror to her internal emotions, she's smiling, lips pursing, tight, then the edges lift, then she's sad, disturbed, she's furrowing her brow; she’s filled with all manner of twitches and tics.
I scroll my phone a bit, then excuse myself to go for a cigarette and she gets the hint, checks herself out…
The Internet's Darkest Rabbit Hole
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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This is a curious tale about an AI Influencer who goes by the name of A. Egon Cholakian, who posts inane and misleading videos online, and then leads to a mysterious former Chiropractor Igor Danilo who has styled himself a new Jesus, built a cult, created a following via the "Creative Society" and "AllatRa", has compounds in the Ukraine filled with both pro-Putin and pro-Trump propaganda...
This is the real purpose of AI - to "influence" and further dumb-down an already ignorant public.
It is a fairly deep and dark rabbit hole, and while I'm grateful for the information (basically, we live in an era where all conspiracies are coming true...) - I find the delivery of it, in the standard YouTube podcast format of a little-too-long-in-the drama and suspense department, a little bit - ...
Well, if this is what it takes to bring in the viewers I guess that's it, personally I don’t want for the entertainment, merely the understanding.
Out of Storage
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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Google's working the hard sell on me. I deleted a bunch of photos, and now apparently I'm using more storage! Despite having turned off all back-ups. I guess it's time to take an hour or two and back-up all my photos.
We all just rent our lives from the Company...
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