Computers are programed by humans and will automatically do stupid stuff which will be their undoing. Basically the cybernetic version of “Hold my beer and watch this.”

If here is a segment of human interaction that has been prodded, programed and advanced for AI is shopping. And they still can screw it up royally. The example is this email I got this morning from Amazon:

Those who know me would laugh themselves into tears.  I am the last guy you would see climbing on a boat and going out in the high seas. I probably hold the record of being the only guy who got seasick on a docked cruise ship during a very nice and calm day.

Not only it was a shock to me how easy I can spew chunks on a marine vessel, but the sea itself has tried to kill me three times via rip currents, the last one also almost taking my beloved wife.

So where on Earth did the algorithms of Amazon come up with the idea that I may need marine emergency shit when I am the guy who has not gotten his feet wet in the ocean in 24 years?

Computers are stupid, just like the humans.

J. Kb. covered Vice’s put down of David Chapelle’s latest stand up show: Sticks and Stones. And since we are doing the One Month Out of Year Netflix Binge, I decided to watch it last night.

Meh.

I watched 30 minutes and other than the LGBTQ car sketch that managed to make me chuckle once or twice, I simply found the material actually not daring. I turned it off and proceeded to do other stuff.

I don’t know. I think I was expecting a 21st version of Richard Prior’s Live on the Sunset Strip or Eddie Murphy’s Delirious, but what I got was Chapelle’s at Chuck E. Cheese.

There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Perspectives on the Constitution: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

And yes, we are a Republic with a Democratic process included, but that is not what she is aiming at. She is after the Democracy I grew up with in which we did not elect representatives but and elected royalty. A Democracy in which the people voted itself clear of human rights and the ability not only to live in peace but to live free.  A democracy where the constitutions are re-written and interpreted as the Elected Royals see fit for their purpose because the people gave them absolute power via the democratic vote.  The people voted very democratically and elected their executioners.

The US has a very unique way of government: No matter how many votes you collect, our rights cannot be voted out of the Bill of Rights. This is something so very hard to understand in other countries. If the Many need something and a majority vote, the individual must endure for the good of the many.  The very traditional nd imbued American concept of saying “F*** you! It is my right”, flip two birds and walk away ignoring the wishes of the majority is unheard of outside the US where the diabolical “Vox Populi Vox Dei” (The voice of the people is the voice of God.) is what the puppeteers use to rule the people. Speak against this dictum from above and you are to b shunned and punished, ostracized as some sort of selfish evil creature who does not care for others.

Do you want to know something funny? I think I have voted more times as US Citizen than as a Venezuelan. I know I voted the first time in 1978 and my last was in 1988 for a total of three elections. After the soft coup which knocked down President Perez, I figured I should not bother anymore and quit giving the idiots more power.

I became an US Citizen in 1999 and voted for the first time in 2000 and in the middle of the hanging chads controversy. And I have voted in every election ever since. That also makes for three Presidents and all the other elections in between for Congress, so at least what? Five or six elections?

And yes, God willing I am voting next year because I care for the Republic and I want to keep it.

Just happened so I may get another stay at Twitter Gulag.

I made a comment to The Miami Herald post and somebody came waving the latest slogan.

But it was the back up who arrived just in time to provide me with comic relief.

You learn to enjoy the little things in life.

I bumped into this video in Twitter:

The guy is taking or pretending to take a dump in the garbage can of the NY Subway. I did a bit more research and apparently this is some sort of art thing from a guy named Zeeshan Ali who says he is half Filipino and half Pakistani living in the Big Apple.

I also found this video in YouTube:

OK, I “understand” that you want to be trendy and viral and the hog’s tits in the art community (Or what passes for it in that location.) But when you directly affect the income of a hard worker for cheap images, you deserve a nice re-injection of what you have expelled via both holes.

I doubt that even the jaded New Yorkers will stop to buy a hot dog from a cart that has a guy taking a shit next to it.

One last thing: YouTube thinks our shooting videos are disgusting and gun people channels disappear because “Guns are bad. ‘Mkay?” But Faux Artist exposing himself and defecating in public? No problem.