Rambling

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Been watching Zero Day on Netflix this evening, and man oh man, it's like an instant replay of the days news. I swear ten percent of the show is spent on the actual investigation and the other ninety percent is spent on the politics surrounding the investigation. It's a stark reminder that all of the news I hear on a daily basis is bullshit and is not worth any of my time.

I hear a lot from conservative sites about the liberal bias of the mainstream media. So why aren't we looking at who is running these various media empires? I do know that Jeff Bezos, the King of Amazon, owns The Washington Post, and maybe they have changed. But then I got to wondering, maybe the people who run these big news outfits don't have a political agenda, they just go by how many eyeballs they can capture, and since they have been in this business for a long time, they know exactly what will get them the most eyeballs and so that's the kind of material they pump out.

Now it could be that some liberal agent money to these media outlets and since their reason for being is to make money, they took it, and that may have flavored their output. Which is why the liberals screamed so loudly about Elon and his cost cutting measures - the source of cash to fund their media campaigns was drying up. But if that was the case, you might expect the flavor of the news to have changed in the last six months. Has it changed? Not that I can tell. It's still nearly pure, unadulterated bullshit.

I'm sort of glad Trump got elected. Most everyone I know hates him, and most of that comes from listening to him. I solved that problem, I don't listen to him. Shoot, I don't listen to any talking heads. But I don't think Trump is going to solve any of our big problems. For that matter, I'm pretty sure they can't be solved. The big problems that I see are INFLATION and FOREIGN WARS, UKRAINE at the moment.

I wonder if AI might be able to help with our health care system. A lot of people in the health care industry spend a lot of time talking to patients. Much of it is just having a reassuring person to talk to. I wonder if Elon could whip up some very reassuring robots. They wouldn't have to be able to do much, walk, sit and talk, maybe hold a pen and a tablet. No calisthenics, no feats of strength or dexterity. Maybe hold the patients hand. I am sure there are dozens of existing scripts for communicating with patients. AI should have any trouble.

So we could have attractive male & female robots and select one or the other depending on the patient. I can already see problems when somebody forgets to sync up the voice with correct facial mask, and some manly looking robot starts speaking in a young woman's voice and freaks out the patient, so they sue.