Any time someone asks if an online thing is fake or real;
Instead of going for the all or nothing:

1. Yes
2. No

There’s always the more amusing but empirical:

3. There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

Jargon is strangely funny out of context. I have a crude setup that de-jargons and disambiguates stuff, which causes those of you much more knowledgeable than me to ??? occasionally.

• git clone - foolish person doppelganger?
• chromium - the metal?
• codium - drugs?
• terminals - airports?
• prompt - fast?
• posse - gangs?

Maybe the best kind of educational mischief looks just wrong enough to prompt an AI assisted investigation. I’ve surprisingly tricked quite a few people into understanding web feeds.

I like wordplay. I helped someone with a conundrum recently. There’s a deep ambiguity where bimonthly = biweekly. The AIs get it right/wrong on a flip of the (contextual) coin.

Then I realized; bots are smarter but it’s complicated. It’s hard to generally distinguish its output. If that’s intelligence, then it has surpassed the average in general. Too easy?

It’s like we’re testing our individualized general ignorance (if that’s a thing). In short; it excels at what you don’t know (yet). Apparently, I’m already an AI whisperer.

I know there were questions about my thoughts on AI. I think time-travelling back to the future is more interesting though. I wasn’t around, but it’s deja vu.

Accessible programming is the theme but I wonder. I’ve met many people who can’t read (no joke).

Maybe the next “big social transistor” scales to the nano (video) message (nm) or pico (from micro).

“Titles and thumbnails” are exoteric. Who knows, perhaps “natural language programming” becomes the most esoteric of them all.

I read about the history and legacy of the Delta Clipper recently. It’s incredible how notability and the right people propels niche technology into popular culture. It “Fulton follies” onto the mainstream and amasses social proof.

There’s an artful wisdom gained from age, maybe. I’m still young though so let’s say; personal experience. It’s understanding that sometimes you don’t have to play the game.

Knowing my luck, I’d have light expertise on Intel CPUs right about now if I still had interest in playing games. I heard somewhere once that processor imperfections influence the numbering of its variants (i3, i5, i7). If so, then the wonders of economies of scale?

I sometimes forget that KiB style units are confusing. The kB / KB is practically ambiguous. Kibi is “2 to the 10” or 1024 (binary), but…

1 kB ≈ 1 KB ≈ 1 KiB ≈ 1000 B ≈ 1024 B? Read my mind?

The SI metric system is still a great feat though and unifies primary dimensions (length) on equivalent units (meters). Instead of hands, inches, feet, chains, furlongs, barleycorns, rods, and links — it’s just meters prefixed arbitrarily. Time’s probably messed up though.

True story: I saw a ‘6 soft white rolls’ bread package morph into “6 50 foot white rolls” because of metric illness.

Contact forms are magical informants. Can you smell what kind of spam the spammers (and scammers) are cooking?

1. AI traffic/content farming services
2. Blockchain services
3. Coin recovery services
4. Guest posters for any of the above
5. Link sellers
6. Cloaking dealers
7. Cyber security spooks
8. Rich people asking us poor people for money
9. Visionary astrologers and foretellers

The last four years have taught us valuable lessons. In the shopping mall at the “end of the world”, the three most valued goods are toilet paper, toilet paper stocks and finally, toilet paper stockpiling. Accounts of toilet paper recall options are most likely bogus.

As for my biased opinion.. Everyone should consider foss and switch key systems to Linux and BSD for redundancy. That’d be wonderful, even if circumstances eventually optimize towards a futuristic catch 22.

I’m reluctantly coming around to the idea that spofs are a balancing act of sorts. Balance, as in misery loves company, convenience, insurance, and blame ability. The combined legal, technical, and economic consensus unwittingly incentivizes hardcore centralization.