I just had to tune out an interview on YouTube with Tristan Snell plugging his new book “Taking Down Trump”. The thing that really turned me off was his assertion that the marks that the Trump Organization and Trump University screwed weren’t stupid people. Yes, stupidity and greed underlied every thing these people were motivated by. Quick rich scams are prevalent in society and people are suseptible to conspiracy theories because they’re uneducated suckers. These suckers fell for the con that there are secrets that the establisment doesn’t reveal, and for a few thousand, the conman will reveal them. Then it turns out, the “secrets” are readily available with an internet search.

The latest of these schemes is the “AI” craze. Children, Chat GPT is an extension of Elisa, a psychoanalyst program I was first introduced to in 1972, and has been around since the sixties. Sixty years of time has passed and at least Elisa didn’t dole out misinformation like Chat GPT does. And if you weren’t either lazy or stupid or both, the information Chat GPT divulges is readily accessable via a true search engine. Not those “AI” jokes so prevalent today. But the average person is a mark for unscrupulous operations parading as “progress” or “time-saving”.

Liberal media is afraid to address the fact that people are stupid and lazy. They are suseptible to unscrupulous operators because they don’t want to do the work that necessary to be successful. My side job is creating music, and I see lazy people all the time. They have an inflated sense of self-worth, and think that people are just supposed to flock to their attempts to make music. This is especially prevalent in hip-hop/rap music.

I’ve noticed that Zuckerberg’s Meta has continued its slide into the Far-Right sphere and that slide is accelerating. Increasingly Meta, including Facebook and InstaGram have been silencing speech that is even slightly left-wing and allowing conspiracy theorists and other right-wing nutcases free reign. Trolls have been given free reign on the platforms and reporting them is almost impossible.

Any criticism of the far right elicites a threat to muzzle dissent. This comment is an example:

IG warned me that language was against their TOS and might be flagged for deletion. But they continue to encourage trolls like this account that espouse right-wing inflammatory posts. This poster is so much a coward, his account has been marked “private”. Not surprising to me, righties are the epitome of the gutless  losers that hide in the anonymity of the web, with the connivance of garbage like Zuckerberg.

Here’s an example of a troll account on IG:

It’s not amusing that Zuckerberg supports slime like this. They’re unAmerican, race-baiting authoritarians.

More screwing around with Lisp derivatives has been my focus over the past month. This is a picture of my programming tab on my iPhone:

As you can’t see, there’s a couple of Lisp interpreters, a Clojurescript tool that’s quite limited, and apps for Scala and Haskell. That’s my limit for Lisp-like apps on iPhone. I really wish the Clojurescript tool had more functionality, I happen to be a fan of Clojure. I first was exposed to it back around 2010, I have an extremely dog-eared copy of “Programming Clojure”, which was published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I guess the book is now in a third edition, and I think it’s one of the better books on the subject.