👁️ I feel like a man possessed this morning

👁️ Making note for future self.

When I duplicate a folder as a ‘backup’ in case I mess up the planned reorganisation of said folder - make sure that it is somewhat smaller than 148Gb

Adding to reasons I was having 🖥️ problems this morning.

👁️ This is what success looks like. It has been a minute of two since I Iast saw this.

👁️ 🖇️🔎 In a nutshell - 4 people in 3 countries on 3 continents over 8 years.

👁️ Happy to report that it isn’t SI -yet - but even if they change a letter - it’s still going to make mistakes.

👁️George Will no less - but don’t be lulled into a false sense of security. Don’t stop before we hit the finish line.

👁️ I often complain about appalling customer service handling by various corporations - particularly the AI ones that aren’t really AI, rather a voice recognition bot following a basic rules engine … so I felt a real shiver pass through my body when the AI voice answered.

How can I help you?

But ‘fair dos’ to Verizon - a fairly complex problem solved in a few minutes - great voice recognition and routing - no human in the loop.

👁️ My Drafts count is down to the 30s - no small event.

👁️ Give or take that’s still 24 million people

7 percent of Americans trust Trump’s leadership in regulating AI.

👁️ Dear CitiBank your voice enablement software that works as a front end to get to talk to a human totally sucks. Change it. Please.

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“The group protects its power by protecting its story”

… today’s random Johnism

👁️🏗️ ChatGPT gets more like HAL every day …

No. We agreed exactly what needed changing, but I didn’t actually make the change to the file.

👁️ I mused on muse this morning - and no thanks. Unlike the rest of the world - I do have a memory so I don’t care what he and his acolytes say … I care about what they do - and they don’t do good things.

👁️ I have been wrestling with why Claude was suddenly making so many mistakes. Solved. For whatever reason it decided to ‘remind me’ that I can use Haiku - though when I say ‘remind’ - it did so very quietly - like not all. for some reason it just decided to start that way.

👁️ Oh - he thinks it’s a comedy …

👁️ I just used Siri to create a new shortcut and 💥 - years of frustration out of the window.

👁️Watching the 🍎show on YouTube seemed wrong .. so I didn’t. I used 🍎📺.

👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.

👁️ ‘Flapping Shoe’ - great new name for POTUS 47 - so symbolic, and an honest representation of this once great nation.

👁️ Earlier today, I was told that ‘A1’, pronounced ‘AONE’, is very dangerous. She’d read an article in Stuff warning that ‘A1’ posed a threat to the human race.

She was surprised I hadn’t read it. Her understanding was that I knew about this sort of thing.

Should I trust this person - or run?