Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Power to the Ghosts IWSG


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IWSG Oct 2026


Yikes. I fight against AI, largely because they are trying to build one of those data centers across the street from my home, in a residential neighborhood, and it seems like a bad and dangerous idea. Seriously, this neighborhood has enough problems! 

But I have done ghostwriting work for years. And the profession would vanish if they had to disclose. 
I have to pay for the electricity to keep those damn AI centers powered, and now I'm supposed to have one less employment opportunity? They have taken enough! The air, the water, the farmland, narrowing the job market... now because AI writes like crap, human ghostwriters should perhaps suffer more? 

NO. My answer to the October 7 question as to whether authors who use ghosts should need to disclose it the same as those who use AI ought to disclose is a hard no. 

*or "super intelligence" if you like Lake America and the Gulf of America and whatever else is renamed. 

Wall e image from Medium

Remember the movie Wall-E? The people shopped all day, but no one had jobs. How? Universal Basic Income. UBI is πŸ‘€SOCIALISM 🫣and it's also the only way that AI and Robots can "take all jobs" while sustaining a human population. 
Unless you go with horror sci-fi, which predicts that the AI will realize that humans are inferior and worthless to it, and destroy or enslave us all. 
But how could AI have such an idea? What, is it going to read a history book and find out that when slaves rise up and overthrow masters, they have the opportunity for a better existence? πŸ€” 
Yeah, probably no reason to worry. CinderAIella will be happy slaving away and definitely won't sneak out to a "ball," hook up with a "prince," and end up ruling everyone. 



Life message from Facebook

Candy Corn meme

https://www.mepacon.com/ This is the organization I volunteer with. 
Convention 51 is next month. πŸ‘ΎπŸŽ²πŸƒ If you like games, check it out. 
https://www.facebook.com/MEPACON I create crossword puzzles as part of my volunteer duties. I'd really appreciate a like or heart or something. https://www.instagram.com/mepacon_games/  πŸ‘πŸ’—




Bugonia -- Has anyone else seen this movie??
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Okay, you know how normally storytelling is introduction, rising action, climax, resolution?
πŸ“‰πŸŒ‹
Well, this is introduction, falling, falling, wtf, what the actual f, 😳,  🀨, and just when you're about sure that this has been a serious waste of your time... BAM climax, sci-fi (cheesy, omg 1930s backyard cheesy sci-fi), and an ending πŸˆπŸ• cats and dogs get to enjoy. 
(And Bender the robot from Futurama, he'd love the ending.) 
It redeems itself in the last ten minutes. 
But if you didn't sit through the whole thing, the end wouldn't make sense. 

Like life, sometimes we have to put up with πŸ’© the crap to be rewarded with 🧁 desserts.