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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3d

MrG's Blog & Notes for Week 41 / 2025
dv.airvectors.net
-- internet radio in my home
-- antijam drones
-- renewable energy in Ukraine
-- AI is not killing jobs yet
-- Trump wants to send in the National Guard ...
-- & prosecute his enemies ...
-- & won't get Nobel Peace Prize

MrG's Blog & Notes For Week 41

dv.airvectors.net

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 12h

And Trump has declined a good deal since Tillerson said that.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

And ... there is the problem of AI tech soaking up massive investments that can't pay off any time soon, leading to an economic bubble -- like the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, which led to a bust. We seem to be faced with an even bigger AI bust, but we'll see what happens. [9/END]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

Of course, the idea of consulting an AI to deal with personal problems is completely mad. Gemini, when asked such questions -- or comparable dodgy questions -- just demurs and seeking professional help. Is that so hard? It should be straightforward to fail-safe an AI. [8/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

I was playing with the NightCafe AI image generator for a time, but I finally had to give up. I just wanted simple illustrations as I needed them, but all I could get out of it was kitsch. I just found out Gemini can generate images, I'll see if that works better. [7/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

Anybody who can write at all well would never simply copy what comes out of an AI. AI is a remarkable technology, but grossly overhyped. I was using an AI-based transcription tool to get text from audio in a video. It wasn't perfect, but no transcribers are; it did the job. [6/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

A writer can then use the notes returned as a starting point and follow up to the articles the AI links to as crosschecks, as needed. Typically, for straightforward queries the AI gives straightforward answers -- and when the AI fails, the answer just doesn't look right. [5/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

There is also the reality that human writers often make use of AI in writing articles. An AI like Gemini is really just a search engine -- but it's a search engine that returns requested information, not links to documents with the information. [4/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

AI-generated materials are noted for making mistakes, sometimes big ones. However, AI is often used to produce non-controversial materials, such as weather reports, earnings summaries, and product descriptions that are easily proof-checked. [3/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

The proportion of AI-written articles increased rapidly over the past few years, but now has leveled off at rough par with human-written articles. Readers, however, often do disregard articles that look too machine-made. [2/more

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 13h

DAYLOG TUE 14 OCT 25 / AI FAKE-OUTS: Everybody is aware that AI-generated articles are commonplace, but now a study by Graphite -- a search-engine optimization company -- says that about half of articles seen online are written by AIs. [1/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 15h

I don't believe they've thought that out very far. They rarely do.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump Regime is, from top to bottom, all very bad people. RFK-JR stands out, however, as a 100% crackpot whose brain is just not working right.

I mean, JD Vance is a 100% sleazy liar, but he doesn't look like he's out of his mind.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 17h

I was thinking like, say, $100 USD each -- but hey, there being no connection to reality, I could just as well settle for a million.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 18h

#haiku #NoKings #Trump

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 18h

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3d

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah.

Another silly question for them: "If millions of people are being paid off, so why can't you give me a link -- so I can get paid, too?"

How could such an exercise possibly be kept secret⁉️

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 19h

AND ... it will make the march a lot more FUN! 😁

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 19h

Now that you mention it, JK, these people DO seem to be highly competent at shooting themselves in the foot.

And, when busted, they double down, and shoot another bullet in the foot.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 19h

And the question to them in return is: "So where are your millions of counter-demonstrators?"

Hey, their side has the most billionaires, why can't they buy millions of demonstrators, too?

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 19h

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-- and:

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Maybe one of these days BlueSky will have a transcribe option?
Probably not soon.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 20h

And then the Americans told them to GET OUT, and backed the demand up with sanctions.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, when posters keep trying to pin Gaza on the Dems and ignore Trump, they're probably not our side, probably trolling. I block them.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1d

This one's a little oblique.

Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeine.fellas.army · 1d

The far right is angry because they’re being judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1d

Ewwwww ...

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1d

Yes -- normally I'm not big on rants like this, but in this case it's both justified and welcome.

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