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2024/10/25 #

Well the world is back up to it’s old tricks again. Pretending to be massively offended by something totally normal that I did, which btw was caused by the world in the first place, then escallating and escallating and escallating, until the whole universe is stuck, then trying to blame the whole thing on me.

This time it’s the sandwich shop trouble makers again. They created a manufactured situation yet again, this time involving mayonaise. Last week they started adding a bit of extra mayonaise in the centre of the sandwich. I didn’t say anything about it at the time, and as it happened it actually made the sandwich taste better. So I went with their new thing. But yesterday it was a different bloke who didn’t appear to know about the extra mayo thing, though I’m almost certain he did, but when I asked for the mayo, which I remind you they themselves have been adding to at least the last 4-5 sandwiches I’ve had, suddenly that’s some earth shatteringly big deal, and the bloke became offended, and everything everywhere has gone to pot, in a massively multiplayer we are infinitely offended at every single thing that you do, and by the way you are wrong about everything, and wrong just for existing, so there thing.

Well once again, nothing I can do until worldo stops being offended.

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But even the peace signs are an enormously offensive thing at the minute.

Stop being offended at everything worldo, you are really just offended at yourselves! It’s so ridiculously obvious. #

Oh yeah I nearly forgot, in what I think is an exact copy of what happened last bullying cycle, which I wrote about at the time, I’ve lost my voice. I haven’t been shouting, and the only thing I’ve eaten is the sandwich. My voice has definitely disapeared, it’s gone all croaky. Last time this happened a few weeks ago I recorded it, so it’s definitely the same exact pattern.

And guess what, several butch women last night were harassing me in walk-byes where they were aggresively shouting 'you learn'.

Oh look I got mutilated yet again.

And that’s not the only mutilation. I have quite a bad skin irritation thing on one of my toes, and that appeared the day after a person walked by stomping the very same foot at me. And that was following me picking up a gift that was left for me but that appeared to have fallen to the ground. So once again being blamed for the thing they are doing to me. Had I not accepted the gift I would have been cast as the ungrateful foreigner. Double mutilation.

Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t, blamed for everything no matter what. #

The future of court cases and the legal system

I was going through old notes and felt this one was worthy of a blog post. It was birn out of listening to various podcasts covering some of the recent anti-trust hearing in the US, particularly centering around Google. In general I was struck by how complicated these cases were, on many level. The technologies are complicated, the market dynamics are complicated, the company structures are complicated, the existing regulations are complicated.

The description from the journalists of the ridiculousness of it not being possible to show the software, the lawyers having to rely on archaic techniques like screenshots and printouts, really gave the sense that the limits of what the courts would technically be able to handle resonably were not very far away.

This also happened with the backdrop of having been somewhat imersed in the tech from both the crypto / blockchain scene and the AI / LLMs scenes. It’s very clear to me that we are about to enter a step change in the types of advances we are about to see powered by these technologies. I wondered simply, how will the legal system keep up? Is it in danger of falling by the wayside in favour of some form of autonated AI adjudication.

Anyway here were the notes:

How long until court cases that are fully analogue get transformed by AI welding real-time lawyers that can parse, analyse, synthesize and display data on the fly as they take juries through a case? Cyborg legal teams.

How will judges deal with lawyers that try to bambuzel and distort reality at unparalleled levels, from subliminal messaging, and side channel Derren Brown style psyops to uncheckable claims, with insane logic chains that only computers could follow.

How will they analyse software similar in complexity to the online advertizing market but in other domains? How long until they are pissing in the wind?

Will they have the awareness and power to tell us that the legal game is up, that it’s effectively just shadow puppet theatre? #

Today’s links:

  • Marseille is neither a drug-choked hell nor a tourist paradise: it’s the city that captures France at its best - Really enjoyed Cole Stangler’s piece about this southern city. It’s got a dark reputation that I’m quite well aware of, but apparently in recent years it’s started to nevertheless become a bit of a hub for creatives, with an influx of artists, chefs, musicians and writers. And it’s multi-cultural and generally has quite a tolerant vibe about the place. His description reminds me of East London, in the early 2000s, like Hackney and Shoreditch. Just the right mix of sunshine and grit. Definitely going to keep an eye out for all things Marseille. www.theguardian.com #

  • Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning - I had been wondering what had happened to old Thom. It’s been ages since I’ve seen him in the news. Glad he’s still making waves. Can’t help but wonder what weird and wonderful things he might come up with using AI tech though. But perhaps for it to have any effect for him, the AIs would need to get a lot more powerful. He has after all historically speaking been very okay with computers hasn’t he, more than most anyway. www.theguardian.com #

  • I am so incompetent, I lose things I never had in the first place - Adrian Chiles writes about how the world is now punishing him for it’s own short commings. I sympathise. I’ve found that having considerably improved my competence in many areas of my life, the world is constantly offended at me now. This happens multiple times per day. It’s constantly trying to trap me, and when I catch it red handed, it gets even more offended. It’s kind of hilarious. But you can’t let on, because you can guess how that makes worldo feel. It’s hard to describe, but it’s definitely a thing imo. www.theguardian.com #

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