I have a lot of sympathy for military veterans.
And I choose text because I would not blare my lately deliberately unvarnished views (good or bad, accurate perceptions or not, they are mine) with a bullhorn or machine personally..ymmv. I am myself very sensitive to information with light touches and sledgehammers have made me respond in kind but with text alone.
Locally I avoid everything. India is not ready for this and it is breaking the functioning parts. Hopefully over there you get this under control.
I am no luddite. But I do not believe in “moving fast and breaking shit”, “normalizing data leaks” irresponsibly. So I am leery of irresponsible Zuckerbergian or Musky use of information. Technology is not a beast to wield casually. It should be used with the appropriate level of care. Text with a human being and context I can process normally.
Mistakes happen and they can be corrected ss I forgive many errors..but not all.
Lol.. funny how the brain works..
I like Coleman Spilde’s movie reviews and use them to prod my brain. He comes off as a sweet man and I have been a friend to the community from way back. Wonder what happened to DUer blue bear..we had a rare laconic back and forth a few times..I was nam_78two back then. He was sweet..
Edit: well..one cannot speak in absolutes when communicating anything you barely get. But in my state (this idiotic communist state in India very friendly to the worst kinds of business interest and with a creepy misogynistic movie industry) with very rare exceptions (really just my delivery men since I am a medical marijuana user and would not want them maliciously targeted to teach disobedient women like me to stay in line..I post here for that reason..and my doctors who are cool and hopefully bright enough to avoid these creepy scammers in ai, data, and “art”)..outside ordinary life this place is too creepy. Normal life is cool. This shit hell no. It will break what works.
And non locally…the marijuana and vegan industries minus any tech or gaming etc and only the most basic honest logistics, no. And this has been really bad.
One cannot speak in absolutes as a rational human. But odds are really bad that the few things I mentioned aside anything local to me was anything but corrupt with machines exploited for plausible deniability.
I have not been in the US since 2014. But it sounds rough..
And what I write is mainly for all the human experts/regulators with full context and rare people who get it. It is not possible to craft a general message that does not potentially add to the nuisance value..I am not liability conscious. But I am responsible, because unlike all those damn idiots. I have always believed in real accountability (because I am constantly held accountable and that is good when it is not a greedy performance but the real thing). Like Winston from 1984, I am belatedly taking a small amount of pleasure in what, while a chore, can if done with finesse and delicacy have some overlap with a scientific problem.
Very little of this will survive as I am trying to survive and this bloody Ubik from hell cannot mine me rapaciously and extractively.
I am democratic and transparent in sane ways..not bodily function overshares (goddamn idiots with no concept of human dignity..bulk! Scale! “Demographic dividends!” Airheads..).. and will draft my messages keeping both in mind.
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