AI: Acting Imperiled
Chinese companies are using AI to create movies at low of $30 cost per minute and actors and crew are losing work steadily (New York Times). The Oscar people are creating rules requiring humans to be at the center of
Tentacles
Scientists have just discovered through new imaging of soft tissue that 60+ foot octopuses roamed the seas 60 million years ago. What's the big deal? They simply evolved into the federal government.
The Stepford Syndrome
As I travel around the world, I notice that all TV newsreaders and reporters look the same, and speak with the same cadence and expressions. I'm just sayin'
Let There Be Light
NASA doesn't like the terms "back side" or "dark side" of the moon. They prefer "far side" (which immediately reminds me of the great satirical cartoons of Gary Larson). Looking at the Artemis II photos of the trip, I think
The Ups and Downs of AI
I"m thinking that AI will significantly improve elevator service in large buildings. Many years ago, the huge Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square introduced a system whereby a guest simply hit a floor number on a common pad and was
Reasons to Get Off Your Chair
A woman responsible for fundraising and special events drops me a note that she "saw me from afar" at a performance (about 10 rows or so away) and was sorry she couldn't get to me during intermission. The executive director
Judgment Time
Guilty as charged! I used to watch people in meetings, public events, the theater, and even church watch their cell phones and think, "How rude!" Then I began looking over shoulders and found many of them reading the meeting agenda and
White-Out
Isn't it a tad humiliating to tout our genius, AI, sending astronauts around the moon again, while being completely shut down by snow, which we are unable to prevent, clear, or dispose of without massive disruptions to safety, health, commerce,
No Pressure
Alysa Liu won the woman's gold medal for figure skating a couple of days ago, our first in 24 years! Watching her and listening to her prior, during, and after her final performance (she was in third place at the
I Need 27 Questions and A Chart to Determine When to Drink My Coffee?
I'm no mathematician, but I've found there's an inverse relationship on social media posts between the number of pontifical points, charts, drawings, statistics, and warnings, AND any relationship to useful, pragmatic, applicable intelligence. I call this The Fibbernonsensical Phenomenon.