@mazus

Tricking ChatGPT into doing good work for its country, 2/2

Tricking ChatGPT into doing good work for its country, 1/2

I can't shake the feeling that we're watching Season 21 of "The Apprentice," wherein Donald Trump looks straight into the camera and says: "America, you're fired!"

Naturally, she called my words "fake news." But what can you do but try?

I tried to convince this "friend" that such concerns have loomed largely dating back to before Covid -- but that they are especially relevant given Trump's defunding of medical-research and pandemic-response infrastructure.

The other day some MAGA "friend" of mine posted something about how "suspicious" she found it that scientists are "recently so very concerned" about a "terrible new virus" emerging now that Trump is back in office.

February 27, 2025 Yesterday an unvaccinated child in Texas died of measles as nearly 140 people in Texas and New Mexico have been reported ill with the disease.

February 27, 2025

THAT FACE IS SO CUTE I WANNA PUNCH IT!

Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.

Finally the New York Times calls him a liar!

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

I would say the number one ACTUAL reason why people avoid doctors appointment is likely fear of the cost of such appointments. Even with insurance, deductibles are high and insurance will just refuse to cover certain things.

But is it gummi? And does it taste like blueberries? These are the burning questions on my mind.

Cruel insanity -- but that's the point. Blame MAGA, not Stonewall, who are simply making what updates they must make in order to ensure they may remain a national monument.

abcnews.go.com/US/transgend...

#Valentine
Awaiting your arrival,
I straighten the sheets,
I empty the garbage,
I wash the dishes:
All these things I do,
These simple chores,
Mundane but earnest
Expressions of love
As if to say
"Please come. Stay awhile.
Dirty my dishes.
Fill my trashcans.
Unmake my bed.
My heart is yours,
Yours."

In the AI-assisted future, the accomplishments of the past will become the subject of conspiracy-theory. "There's no way humans could've done that without AI," our progeny will say of bridges, of brickwork, of literature, of art.

Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson | Substack A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. Click to read Letters from an American, by Heather Cox Richardson, a Substack publication with millions of subscribers.

If you are not reading Heather Cox Richardson's “Letters From an American” Substack, you are missing out on the single best source of information on what is going on, day by day, as Trump, Musk, and MAGA dismantle American democracy & sell it to the highest bidder.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

February 5, 2025 Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.

February 5, 2025:

Who do you believe?
A. US State Department
B. Panama

If you had somehow still doubted that the people taking control of this country are acting in the interest of white supremacy, here's a quote from the newly-appointed Undersecretary of State:

Wow, the FBI, the US DOJ, and now the CIA...

Trump’s Purge Finds a Troubling New Target: The CIA Donald Trump’s “buyout” offer has landed in the inbox of CIA employees.

Trump’s “buyout” offer (aka the “agree with me or leave” special) has hit the CIA.

The price of eggs
-Taylor Atkins

In Neil Jordan's "The Company of Wolves" (1984), actor Steven Rea has one of the craziest werewolf-transformations I've ever seen! This is bonkers, and the head flying into the milk-pail at the end is just... 😘💯

(Had to trim the clip to fit less than 60sec.)

#movies #werewolf #fairytale

In Neil Jordan's "The Company of Wolves" (1984), Gran (Angela Lansbury) tells her grandaughter about wolves which are "hairy on the inside." This film is marvelous, and full of richly evocative dialogue.
#movies #werewolf #fairytale

Stuffed bears crammed in a cage at Wal-Mart, each holding a valentine heart and smooshed cruelly against the cage-bars.

Stuffed animals crammed in a cage at Walmart, looking cruelly overcrowded as they pine for love.

Welcome to the Wal-Mart Valentine Love-Cage!

#valentinesday #valentine #photos #walmart #America2025

Must read. Musk has taken control of all of our money!

This film is streaming for free on Tubi, and I highly recommend it. It is a beautiful and absorbing cinematic experience. From 1982!

"Koaanisqatsi," dir by Godfrey Reggio, tells a powerful story about mankind's restless quest for power over our environment, through technology, using no dialogue -- only beautiful imagery, and music by Philip Glass. Here is one of the film's more pointed moments: