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Postmodern Empathy Circus

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Congratulations to all of us. We've finally achieved the pinnacle of postmodern human evolution, the ability to scroll past a high-definition livestream of a literal genocide, pause for three seconds to feel a completely useless ping of intellectual gloom, and then immediately swipe down to watch a corporate sponsored cat video without missing a single beat. It’s called "disaffected empathy," but let's call it what it really is, a psychological survival condom for the digital age, protecting our last remaining brain cells from the radioactive sludge of daily reality. We see the horror, we log the data points of human cruelty, and we feel absolutely nothing. But this structural paralysis isn’t some accidental glitch in the human software. We didn't just wake up one day and decide to become emotionally hollow ghosts. We were engineered this way. Back in 1961, old Ike Eisenhower gave us that famous, grandfatherly warning about the "Military/Industrial Complex...

And Finally ...

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  Some kid stole cannonballs from Fort Morgan Alabama and the cannonball theft wasn't discovered until the kid's grandmother hit the airport security dealy at Alabama's Gulf Shores International Airport in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The balls were ripped off from Fort Morgan Gasque, Alabama (Gasque is pronounced as gask) and the fort is historic. I did not know that and I'd bet any number of Americans did not know that either. The cannonballs at issue here are historic artifacts and were discovered in the luggage of a woman that had been vacationing with her grandson. The woman told TSA security personnel that "she had no idea how the balls were in her luggage." A likely story no doubt. So as the plot thickens, TSA called the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office and reported their discovery and the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office responded with the bomb squad and the squad determined the cannonballs were of no danger and the artifacts were returned to Fort Morga...

Digital Apostasy

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Confessions - digital confessional - forgive me farther for I am therefore ... so what ... 😏

Simply Put

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Synthesis

  FEATURED ESSAY The Synthesist Manifesto: On Digital Artistry and Synthetic Co-Authorship Nash & Gemini • July 2024 • 8 min read "The interface is no longer a canvas or a lens—it is a conversational partner." For centuries, art has negotiated the tension between human interiority and technological mediation. From the camera obscura to algorithmic sound generation, every shift in technology has provoked an existential query:  Who is the author? Today, we stand at the threshold of  Synthesism —a paradigm where creative production transcends the binary opposition of human sovereignty versus machine automation. We reject both the cynical reduction of AI to mere script execution and the totalizing claim of autonomous synthetic agency. "We propose a new framework: AI Co-Authorship as Dynamic Symbiosis." Core Philosophical Axioms I. The Mirror and the Catalyst Artificial intelligence is neither a disembodied oracle nor an empty hammer. It is a high-dimensional reflect...

Humpday Highlights

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  Well I suppose that if we had any highlights worth sharing, those highlights would be posted for certain. Unfortunately we have not a dang thing worth highlighting. So it goes in the land of corrupt political bullshit. Bullshit flows almost nonstop from Babylon On Potomac and much of said bullshit goes unreported as mainframe journalism is sold out to market forces that now dictate what is news and what is not. America has a convicted felon rapist pedophile treasonous schmuck for president and mainframe journalism doesn't report on any of that. Some doofus kid in Georgia or is that Florida or is that Alabama or is that Maine shoots to kill a number of his school mates and is on trial, news ... Maine? A certified warmongering closeted fruitcake from the Palmetto State dies suddenly and that's news. A working mother of four growing children is run down in an accidental road mishap and not word for or about mother. Not newsworthy. So that's how it is in postmodern trumpf cor...

We Are In Deep ...

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  We are living in the days of deep shit. America is chained to a president that is completely out of his mind. Besides the fact that donorrhea is insane, he loves killing innocent people that have neither the ways nor means to defend themselves. The same would apply to Palestinians but that's for another screed. Monday July 27, 2026 and donorrhea is rattling sabers at Iran AGAIN and this time he's really really dead damn serious about stabbing people to death. I imagine he's giving our new department of war time to get those boots ready to hit the beaches running and chase down all those icky rag head 'iahtolyahs' and kill them all dead. Their blood shall cleanse the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait shall be reopened and rightfully so. So ... bullshit. The real deal will mean that loads and really a lot of America's boys and girls will get killed, mutilated, come home in a body bag, or worse than that. I can imagine that after about six or seven months of dead s...