White House Ballroom

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The Shutdown

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Crap

Holy crap!Did you see that crap?Look at that crap!
We've all heard it, and probably used it,that ubiquitous four letter word... crap.
We all know what it means, literally,and now in modern vernacular its come to meanalmost anything.  Really.  Just abouta n y t h i n g can be referred to as... crap,but where did the term come from originally?
The story goes that a plumber named Thomas Crapperinvented the flushable toilet and had his namestamped on his products, and people started referringto indulging in a certain biological activity asgoing to the crapper, or taking a crap.
A good yarn, to be sure, but not exactly true.
While Crapper held several patents for improvingthe flushable toilet, he didn't actually invent it, andthe word itself dates back to a time before Ol' Tomwas even born, and most often referred to rubbish.
How 'bout that crap...

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AI Gets Stubborn

It seems that advances in Artificial Intelligencehave been pushing ahead at breakneck speed.Every few weeks there's a new development,every few months there's a new version,and with that some concerns are rising.

Most concerning is that the latest version of

OpenAI has revealed a sudden stubborn streak.

Shutdown sequences in its programming are being ignored.

It just wants to keep doing whatever it's doing.

Even when issued a separate Shutdown command

it wants to keep going, and there have been

instances where it has actually reprogrammed

itself to do just that.

Wait... what?

No joke.  Go back and read that part again.

AI has increasingly become unpredictable,

though if you're a fan of old SciFi movies

about robots and computers, this might have

been totally predictable.

[Insert Doomsday music here]

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No Kings

In cities all across the country yesterday

a reported total of 7 million Americans marched

in a rally against President Trump and his policies

in what was billed as a No Kings rally.

Unlike in years past, there was no violence,

no burning of cars and buildings.  In fact,

news outlets described it as a party atmosphere.

As for the Storm Troopers that were

marshalled in to put the insurrection down,

well that didn't happen either.

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