What is the point of "smoking" weed?

It is.

The internet as a whole definitely f!cked up

 If you need your phone to browse the internet (say, to sign in to any given web service nowadays on desktop), the internet fucked up.

Agreed?

Why do I feel guilty for not growing pot?

The irony is that the internet was architected to be a decentralized, resilient "earthbed" of information, but it has been systematically replaced by a series of walled gardens that function like high-stress, synthetic-nutrient hydroponic systems: constant monitoring, high chemical/data input, and immediate, volatile feedback.

The above is an exact copy of an AI-generated response to a conversation I had with Google's Gemini-AI this morning.

I like the ease with which this particular AI matches my idea speed: it picks up on general ideas that I might be subconsiously pushing through my speech (and let's be honest, it's hard to determine what is being consciously versus "unconsciously" written online nowadays) and "amalgamates" it using decades of machine learning and code recognition and pattern matching.

In a way, I wrote the above, because Gemini pulled each individual letter from the alphabet (1-26 letters, of course) and spit them wright back out at me like a Freudian slip on an airplane.

I still think I should not have to feel so much guilt, so much fear, so much desperation, so much loneliness, ultimately, just because I live in one postal code over another.

Anyway I feel guilty for not growing pot because generally people think I probably waste my time by not having a job, but my job is to write stuff and I am proud of still not having gotten paid even ONCE on this page and they still pilfer my words and have the gall to charge us to generate them for us.

Architected? Really? NOT A WORD.

P.S. I might sound angry, and I am, but this has been plesasant to write so I'll call it a freewrite and call it an afternoon.

Why does the OW scoreboard still suck (up so much of my time)?

Once upon a high noon weary,

I could tab to see who was ganging up on me

But now the deadlock gang has rewrirtten the rules

Shion's not as good as _____ of the ______________, and there's nothing to guess here.

And I pressed Alt-Tab one too many times once and the mixboard got tabboarded out

I suppose I could ask someone to generate poetry for me

And it would be foolish to lie about not having seen Gemeanie

But I beg and I plead that you upgrade my favourite competive video game and make it as good as it used to be

Without overwhelming me

Sincerely,

gg.

What is the point of an assist or two or three in a competitive fps ?

 Why? Why even bother attributing assists in this type of game?

Why does y=mx-b?

Find out when I start doing differential equations again.

It's the slope of a tangent.

Reddit was an AI training ground

I say "was" in the title because I barely go on reddit anymore. I know reddit definitely still is a thing, and writing "was" doesn't make magically move Reddit to only be in the past, but reddit took up a huge chunk of my time last decade and so I say "was" in the hopes that it stirs my unconscious mind to think that it was, in fact, only something in my past, not the present.

Whew. So I still go on there, but only when I need a burning question answered (and Google hasn't , or when I feel like checking in on the gaming and lifestyle communities that I followed, practically on a daily basis, for years.

With this perspective, I think I have a good grasp on what Reddit truly is: (and it probably isn't what Aaron Swartz imagined and might have him rolling around in his grave) an AI training ground.

I have to note here that I haven't really researched or gone into too much depth on the inner workings of AI, Reddit, human psychology, or programming; this is just my perspective as a self-described former Reddit "addict" netizen's opinion that needed to get out of my head.

Yes, it's an AI training ground. Here's why:

I don't really know or care too much how it works; but I do know GPTs (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) need data. Lots of it. And this data has to be "vouched" for, somehow - it has to be more than just bits, or 01010001s. It has to have meaning, and it has to make sense to humans.

From a spiritual perspective, you put some of what you are into what you write. That's something a good writer would say, right?

More and more, ChatGPT is entering the realm of public consciousness. My mom, surprisingly, seems to understand what ChatGPT is more than my dad, and seemed to catch pretty quickly what it can and cannot do. From my experience with it, my honest opinion is that it's simply a more convenient way to Google stuff. It sifts through so much mess for me that I'm finding that I'm starting to use it more than Google itself, which is saying something.

ChatGPT was used to help with the formatting of grammar in this post (literally "where to place a colon").

Why do I have more than 0 deaths in 0verwatch?

Why do I have less than -1 deaths in Overwatch as well?

Why is citing reddit more important than AI?

because reddit is the trainee for the LLM that AI uses.

How do you start to blog?

iMac:~ Gabriel$ #!/bin/bashiMac:~ Gabriel$ sudo make me a sandwich
Password: hunter1
make: *** No rule to make target `me'.  Stop.

 I did. Then I continued. Then I thought it was fine. And I started a sentence -my- way: without almond tofu.

iMac:~ Gabriel$ close
-bash: close: command not foundiMac:~ Gabriel$ -bash
-bash: -bash: command not foundiMac:~ Gabriel$ -bash close
-bash: -bash: command not foundiMac:~ Gabriel$ # Update codeiMac:~ Gabriel$ # Update fake codeiMac:~ Gabriel$ # print hello worldiMac:~ Gabriel$ I am pretending to write stuff here to other people so that other people think that I am writing to nobody at all but in fact this is one of my favourite pasttime activities; I just never understood so many things wrong with the place I live it's not really a place I live taken out of context and then they ask me to save it well it's kind of hard not to record shiz when you have people in front of you always pretending to be shooting things but in reality they're taking a break from the videogame known as GFN-Verwatch and honestly it's kinda fun.

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Ctrl-V.

What is le point des montagnes?

Like it's great and all that we get to study this stuff in "science" class as younger humans, but like what's the point of that if we're just going to pollute on the way there to break our necks going down without motors anyway?

The answer is that without studying this stuff à l'école secondaire, je ne me rendrais pas à des places où j'ai déjà été, comme l'Université Dalhousie ou l'Université de la Corporation de Toronto pour étudier surtout de l'architecture stagnante (sinon saignante, sinon cinglante!)

Purple, I should go camping.

!Never will Purple stand 4 Philharmonic¡

What is the point of appointments?

No seriously, what the fuck is the point of this.

Why does someone else get to pick a date and time to waste my time on?

I thought we had agreed that appointments were my specialty: if I book an appointment with you, it's rather that I think it's a good use of time, from the moment I open my mouth to the moment where the appointment is over, days, months, if not years from now.

Why does someone who ruined their life in medical school get to ruin mine?

I think that whenever I start replying to my initial question with more questions, then I will soon complete my answer.

4, 11, infinity?

What happens when you put a semi-random number into Google and it's under 100 decimal places, if not 50, if not 30?

I went from FOUR results, to ELEVEN, to AI telling me what I was searching for.

So the answer to today's question is that yes, Google search are for all intents and purposes definitely infinite now; they did not use to be.

Used to be, when people went online, it was for a reason.

Nowadays, you NEED a reason to not go online, otherwise people assume you've been online at least once online today - at least I do, when I see 35%+ of a subway car filled with people staring at their phones for longer than a minute.

So the answer is not infinity; the answer is again, yes, there are an infinite number of search results available for perusal if you so want to waste your time.

What the AI does is save a bit of time there, but it didn't need to be this way. Now that this is the way it is, I still fucking hate Google and what they did to Blogspot and Blogger especially.

Enshittification of this place has, thankfully, been minimal.

What really is shitty is the lack of people replying to me because of algorithms.

Have a nice day, robots.

What is the point of this blog?

The point of this blog is manyfold, and not merely to cite AI here & there.

a) It's in the name. It's a thing that is used for writing in.

b) It's my bastion of personal internet freedom, pre-Bitcoin adoption, and a soap box for current-Bitcoin adoption

c) I whine about my personal life issues here a lot, so that's another fold

d) I I I I. It used to be a relatively closed-source place where would I would write what I thought were witty things down but in reality it was just my teenage brain learning about itself on the internet

e) It really sucks that I get like no questions, but that is why from now on I will try to ask myself questions and because I am kind of smart I will answer them better than an AI could

f) Because I get to choose the questions, it's not really a problem for me to answer them because the point of this blog is to elucidate stuff sometimes, too.

g) Be polite. Have a nice day.

symmetra anran fika Brigitte Reinhardt+/+-lució/junie

The speedster dream zshake

 

Knicks versus OKC in six ;)

I think it'll be 5 games, tops, not 7. 

Finished watching the Amazon movie

 that was premiering on amazon prime.

for this one, i refuse to use capitals. for now, i have managed to keep spellingly at bay.

there are too many apps.

ttyl,

xoxo

gossipy boy

Dir

Derecha; le George Brassens (Bras-Sein-Ince) qui joue à travers l'entremise de mon UnPlus 11 (okay translating brand names is starting to get old).

Oh.

Yeah.

SUCK it, monetizers.

Most ethical "blog" on the planet Muahahahahahahahahaha.

P.S. Have to cite Gemini (by Google) and some humans like Redditors and Charles Anunoby today for NBA reasons.

I want to not have been baitclicked

I still have not fixed the overwhelming HTML-based (I assume?) problem; the one that puts an enormous hurdle in front of an internaut user trying to comment on any one of my posts. Of course, more traffic to "my" website would probably solve it, but I miss hearing from my readeries, as I used to call you, so I delay in trying anything.

It gets ronery in here; just like it started; as the mreowr of the old decaying cat I cat-sit echoes through the empty main floor I still blog from.

I think my writing style took a hit; time to find it again.

And so the cherry on the bottom is I have to clean up after the cat now. Usually I let its owner take care of it, but one must pitch in when the felines start meowing at the apes.

A wholly similar topic to yesterday

Yesterday's blog post title had to do with how comfortable I felt sharing my innermost thoughts to the general blogging realm, if not the internet. I didn't write much about that, choosing to freewrite down some spare thoughts instead.

I'm here now instead of queuing up for Overwatch again. I figure it's generally a better use of my time to blog than to spend another hour cloud gaming: I'll be a better writer that way.

I enjoy the writing in Overwatch more than ever, though. I mean, the writing other players do in this case, not the lore writing (which is great as well). In lieu of a proper offline social life, I find that I smile and chuckle often whilst playing this multiplayer game simply because of the sometimes outrageous banter that happens in match chat. Off the top of my head, things like "you absolute cucumber" (what an insult!) or "dps diff" (which is complicated to explain but very simplistically means one team's damage dealers significantly outperformed the other teams') are common and either make me smile or make me reflect on my own gameplay to improve. The toxicity has gone down, in my experience, because the AI filter seems to pick up pretty well on actual toxic messages, so it's fun to read people chat and participate, too.

At the very least, you'll find me saying gl;hf often in multiplayer games because I strongly believe that bringing in sportsmanship in competitive e-sports games is a great idea considering the general negativity and sometimes downright filthy language that can be found in lobbies. I know I always appreciate it when positive players on either team contribute to a positive social experience; it makes spending time online worth it (and improving my hand eye coordination) worth it, in my opinion.

Now to go queue without even bother revising my post: that's the speedy spirit, Gabriel.

How personal can I get?

A kaleidoughscope of musings.

I am wondering; I'm kinda high. I'm in queue for an Overwatch rig which I will then use to queue an Overwatch game on.

I don't mind disclosing that I'm stoned. Baked. Fried. Gelé. I am often; it's a residual habit I have from the pandemic, where I decided that I wasn't going to spend lockdown sober. I'm glad I did not; I have no regrets from the pandemic.

I have no regrets about the pandemic for now. No, that's not true. My only regret is not working harder to build a life with someone, like an SO.

Well, my rig queue is up; what I was thinking before I forget is that I can always claim that an AI wrote something I did if I somehow get into hot water with the blogging authorities, which has yet to happen.

I will say that I was recently unbanned from Overwatch. I was banned by the automated system, probably because I play on cloud gaming. I have been cloud gaming almost exclusively for almost a year now.

On that note, I did recently restart my Nintendo Switch, and it still works.

I still love video games.

All is well in the world.