{"id":6142,"date":"2026-06-20T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6142"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:36:10","slug":"scared-of-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/scared-of-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Scared of Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kind of an odd situation, now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously things aren&#8217;t great, but kind of settling in to sanguinity.  I&#8217;ve done what I can do, and there&#8217;s not a lot of reason to keep charging at things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So many things are the end of the world.  I just can&#8217;t bring myself to care.  Whatever I might think about it is unimportant because I&#8217;m not one of the elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was driven home listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/np\/podcast\/marc-andreessen-on-the-past-present-and-future\/id1389660155?i=1000773319116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marc A. with Malice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI is gonna kill everybody, or keep us all from having jobs.  Or something.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, then.  Do it.  Be public about what you&#8217;re doing.  State it loudly and clearly so everybody understands exactly who you are, and what you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This afternoon saw a story about the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/np\/podcast\/marc-andreessen-on-the-past-present-and-future\/id1389660155?i=1000773319116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats wanting to stop the Skydance\/Paramount\/WB.\/etc. merger<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?  State it clearly.  What do you want to use government&#8217;s tool, destruction, to stop it?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I won&#8217;t be holding my breath for an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think I&#8217;ve gotten the OCR straightened out on cards my wife gifted me for writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve scanned enough for my next adventure..  It&#8217;s kinda sweet, but this is the sort of thing the scourge of AI will keep from happening;  somebody earning <strong>A LIVING WAGE<\/strong> should be reading and typing all of these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nope.  I just need to use tools as I can regardless of the origin.  There&#8217;ll be things I don&#8217;t like;  things I go out of my way to avoid.  But, for the most part, I just need to use them and continue trying to be a person I&#8217;m satisfied with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ergo the trying to pay the bar from the other night after I&#8217;m not seeing that my order went through on Apple Pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, for the AI (and resulting OCR)&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What do I want my voice to stand for?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Integrity.  I don&#8217;t want to be incredibly embarrassed by anything I do or enjoy.  There&#8217;s things that maybe I don&#8217;t eagerly admit to, but there&#8217;s nothing I know of that&#8217;s harming anyone else.  And, if there was, that&#8217;d bother the hell out of me.  (And I&#8217;d probably set whatever it was aside.)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From my archives&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><em>For the record - 6\/7\/2006<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br>Just because you miss a girl's phone call because you're blasting Avril in your car on the way home....<br><br>DOES NOT MEAN YOU'RE GAY.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I missed one of my new girlfriend&#8217;s calls because I was cruising around listening to Avril.  Okay.  And?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How am I using it right now, and where do I want it to go?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;m broken.  But if I can live until about the time the money cuts off and not screw anybody over, great.  Whether that&#8217;s here inside the Beltway, I don&#8217;t know.  But it can be anywhere, really, if I can get to Georgetown to meet the commitments I&#8217;ve made for their study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-But this next week could be fun.  We\\ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of an odd situation, now. Obviously things aren&#8217;t great, but kind of settling in to sanguinity. I&#8217;ve done what I can do, and there&#8217;s not a lot of reason to keep charging at things. So many things are the end of the world. I just can&#8217;t bring myself to care. 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