AI Bad for Health

 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B8kkyRd74/

This is American. 

It's a video of AOC discussing how AI is determining if humans get health care. 

Seriously. 

IWSG -- Em Dash and AI

 https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html

Two AI writer discussions appeared in my Facebook feed:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19bRo5drrz/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BWs4nY5EW/

So I guess using an Em Dash — means I am a robot. 🤖 (In html — is how to make it appear.) 

Is this related to the question? I don't use any of the stuff listed. I don't want AI to write for me, or to steal works of fellow writers. I'd like it to make chores easier, to assist with health care (assist, not take over, not be a primary), and tasks like that. 

Two pictures 📸 from my birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 

A journal and purple pens! 

I'm grateful I was able to celebrate with friends and family this year. And I'm thankful for the memories. 

IWSG unethical practice in the publishing industry

 

https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html

Upon looking up examples, this seems to primarily be an issue for non-fiction writers, particularly with research papers. But plagiarism was mentioned. That, I guess. 

Honestly, I thought the examples would be about how certain genres seem mostly dominated by gender (scifi= male authors, romance = female authors). But that didn't come up at all in my search. 🤷‍♀️ Feels true though. 

My friend had a big writing achievement recently. I'd like to celebrate that. Woo Nathalie! Her fictional story takes place in Ancient Egypt (she's an expert), and I'm excited to read it one day. 

Social security email

 https://www.facebook.com/share/19AjqaEzuy/

There is a great deal of debate and discussion about this email from the SSA. So, if anyone wanted to read it, and doesn't subscribe and thus didn't see it, here you go. 

Alligator Evolution

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1NXDgBRV3L/

1- This is the Give A Shift About Nature group, right? So, just a brief pause on the planned atrocity, to take a look at what has just happened. It's the Florida Everglades. That area is supposed to be for protected wildlife. Any man-made structure in that area is a disruption to the special environment there-- no matter what the purpose of that structure is. 

Saying that it will benefit the wildlife because they can rise up the food chain and develop a preference for eating humans-- creatures which have a remarkable reputation for evolution and survival-- is just... 🦖 ... We're watching people bet on human extinction. New dinosaurs, robot 🤖 take over, starvation, roast to unaliving, nuclear winter, or asteroid! Predict the correct apocalypse and win... win the same unalive as everybody else. 🤦 

This is yet more proof that no one "at the top," no elected official with actual authority and power, does, in fact, give a *shift* about nature.

2- There's an incredibly old story about two brothers, Cain and Abel. And Cain unalives his brother. To everyone pointing out that absolutely every single solitary president the US has ever had did a bad thing, a similar bad thing, or a way worse bad thing... okay, valid. BUT we still made murrddeeery illegal, even though Cain did it a way, way, super long time ago. We didn't just 🤷 shrug it off. "Oh, well, we were gonna morally oppose this, but one person did it, so guess we'll let it slide." If forty or so people screw up, we don't have to give up on the hope and dream of ***someone*** actually doing better. We do NOT have to accept that one more person being a screw up means the future is damned. We CAN keep aiming to achieve a compassionate society, a utopia where people come together and support each other, and keep working to do better for each other. 

That can still be a goal. No matter how terrible our past is. Absolutely everyone can decide they desire a more loving and compassionate future where people are supportive and care about each other.

Doom-scrolling comments proves that we have a long, long, LONG way to go. And that many people do not desire that utopia. 

A world for everyone isn't the goal of everyone. 

Thus, some people hope for an apocalypse. Such as alligators evolving into much more dangerous predators who prefer the taste of humans.

3- Believing 🐊 animals cannot evolve will definitely protect you. Yes, if a super-gator corners you in twenty years, explaining that evolution is against your belief system will definitely stop the animal and make it rethink it's philosophy of existence. 🤔🤨🤫

("Unalive" used instead of "dead" because the Facebook algorithm flags words like death and murder.) 

IWSG Try a New Genre

https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html

I haven't really tried the Choose Your Adventure genre, but I have considered it. They were my favorite as a young teen. I thought about it. My friend did one, and it was amazing, but I saw just how much work it is! Maybe someday. I feel like I'd need an app or something to organize it all. 

 

No Congressional Approval

https://www.facebook.com/share/1LTHkCJ8gn/

Congressional approval is required for the United States military to get into a war. 

So, essentially, Don stole some weapons and units and ordered people to break the law for him, and here we are. 

But what else could distract US citizens from masked goons abducting people- including high ranking officials- in broad daylight? 

Or another attempt to pass a bill that will result in far more COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE lives ending. But hey, at least the veterans who will go to this war he started, can know for sure they'll only have a chance to get medical care if they voted for him, and are married- straight, and will be able to get a job with health insurance to get that medical care, so long as they need no days off or anything. Because those are the kind of "budget laws" he is trying to get passed. Which tracks, because he frequently mocks military service people. 

But hey, at least we know if they retaliate, he'll make sure the states don't get a single penny to repair any damage. (Partly because we no longer make pennies.) But he'll get the funding for his "golden dome," which will maybe protect .6% of the country on a good day, but that's nothing compared to the damage it will cause. 

🤦‍♀️ Hey, maybe other nations won't do anything about the massive human rights violations happening in America, in too many cases to, whoops, actual citizens (because when skipping Due Process, a lot of totally innocent people get picked up too, just for being at work, school, a store...). 

It's very dark. 

We study all these amazing countries that were once leaders. Egypt, Rome, Mongolia... Places fell. Did the people see it coming? 

The United States is no longer able to claim leadership of the free world. The might is over. But it'll probably go out with one last, unforgettable horror. His supporters will enjoy that, even if every last one fails to survive Nuclear Winter. That'll be fine, because at least others will fail too. 🫣

And history won't have a chance to properly discuss how technology was hidden in power cords to circumvent "air gapped" voting machines and scanning vote readers, connecting the machines to StarLink, and allowing manipulation. It was discovered, it was proven, damning evidence has been gathered, but it hasn't been discussed yet in the courts officially. The companies involved did just get military contracts though. But really, those only become valuable if...ummm...well, bigger orders come when the military needs to buy because 🤔... hang on, what were we talking about? Surly a president wouldn't act without Congressional approval to start a war to properly repay the illegal military contracts given in exchange for committing the greatest fraud in the history of the United States? 🤔🤨🫡

Fascinating. 

Yeah, how could this happen? Oh, basic math. Right. 

Well, maybe we should expect a tad less from someone with federal convictions for doing very similar activities. Thank goodness they opted not to sentence while the election was happening, and then opted for no time served after the results indicated a win.

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