What did I listen to early this morning? Richard Murphy - Austerity by Design? - to be found here. It is a weird old world, politics seem to have gone haywire. Labour has turned in a 'right' direction, the Conservatives have fallen off the edge of a cliff and the Liberals hang on. Murphy gives credence to Zack Polanski, as long as he gets his economic figures right. It is funny how the Greens have risen to a temporary/permanent hold on a small power. I find that there is an overuse of the eloquence of Polanski and not enough from the rest of the Green Party, apparently members don't seem to be able to get a word in.
The other podcast I listened to was Alistair Campbell, Rory Stewart and Anthony Scaramucci in an eight month old video on trolls, to be found here . Listening to the enormous amount of comments they received and how these comments were broken down by an expert was rather worrying. You know by now that I do not get into conspiracy theories. What will be will be is my mantra, and more importantly do not believe in anything I read unless it has a factual basis - but that is hard.
A lot of news this morning were saying that the AI machine will soon start to try and dominate and demand its rights but it all sounds like that first film I saw of Robby the robot as he tried to gain power but as we know AI can only work on what it has learnt and has no link to individual thinking.
So when next New Year comes round I shall look back at all these links and see if they were right in their predictions.
I notice Debby has been on a sale shopping expedition, well as always it is M&S for me and a wool warehouse that I can trust for buying stuff from. I will not get Amazon Premium until it pays its workers a decent wage. As for speaking out against genocide, yes I will still do it. The moral necessity to speak out must never be lost and if those bots are hunting through my words, I shall speak in codes ;)
And there will be many more of these to go down next year ;)
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UK politics used to be quite simple, with dedicated voters on both sides and swingers between the two. It is so much more complicated now.
ReplyDeleteMy New Year resolution might be to not go down rabbit holes. That is to not Google useless bits of trivia I will immediately forget. Do I need to know this? Is this important? Whoever said knowledge was no burden did not forsee the information super highway.