AI Podcasters Analyze One of My Songs…

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A few months ago, I told you about some AI toys tools I’d been playing with recently. One thing I mentioned in that post was a Google tool that could take your notes and turn them into a podcast or talk show, with two hosts chatting back and forth about whatever your notes contained. After feeding the tool a brief one-pager about the topic I had in mind, I was pretty amazed at what came …

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My AI Experiments, Five Years On

1960s TV science-fiction computer
An old-style 1960s-TV-science-fiction-looking computer. Created by AI at nightcafe.studio

If you’ve followed me at all over the past few years, you’ll know that I’ve been tinkering with AI for awhile now. In the early days of AI — like, five or six years ago — it was, similar to the early days of the Internet, basically text-based. You could ask it a question or give it a prompt, and it would write text for you, …

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No Person Is Above the Law… Maybe…

Equal Justice Under Law
U.S. Supreme Court building

Back in 1974, when he pardoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford committed one of the most heinous acts in the history of the United States.

All through the Watergate saga — from the day after the break-in, when no one had a clue that the President might be directly involved; through the investigations and prosecutions and Congressional hearings; all the way up to Nixon’s resignation in disgrace — throughout that entire time, …

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Their Blood is on Your Hands…


Photo Credit: Jamin Mahmood of Vulvani, Wikimedia Commons.

Back in the 1980s, I wanted to get into the financial business. I was going to get a license to sell mutual funds. Note that I was going to “get a license.” I couldn’t just go out and start selling mutual funds, even if some company hired me. No. I had to take a 12-week course, have a 10-year background check, be fingerprinted, then pass four

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A Quote Not Written by a 2020s Liberal Socialist…

Not really going to comment much on this except to say that the document this quote comes from makes fascinating reading in light of the current situation in the United States.

The document, entitled A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend, was published in 1943 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, which was the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. A scan of the document itself is found on the …

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