So there was a fire in an electrical substation in St John’s Wood. Nothing to worry about though, just faulty equipment. Definitely nothing to do with Russia. It’s good we’ve got safeguards. The power flow to London wasn’t really affected at all.
I had a momentary power cut in my Chelsea flat two days ago. Only about five seconds, but it was grid not local. Probably just event staff shorting the area while building the flower show. Not Russians.
Spain and Portugal went down hard just recently. Not an attack, it was a freak environmental thing. No Russians involved, just a … *checks notes* a heatwave… (does this say heatwave, this is cold for summer, heatwave might paint the wrong picture?) *** *** ***
Ahem. So yes to continuing with blogwrite, obviously stupid people stupid think that the glorious Russian empire sabotages English. English are nothing. Nightmare of it to think that haroshi Russia doing anything of wrong to English. Sweet foolishness funny. HA. HA. HA.
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Social media is flooded with fake photos and videos now. AI bollocks about Keanu Reeves fighting Elon Musk about how AI can never replace human thought, but actually dressed up as a trap to try and prove the opposite as real people reshare it. We have to be more careful than we have ever been, and we have to absolutely engage the things that the brainwashed masses who think they’ve found the truth hate: Critical thinking. Examining the source. And it is so hard, because we are emotional beings, but it is SO IMPORTANT. Temporarily try and distance yourself from the circumstances and expectations that make up YOU, and do it every time you hear something that triggers an emotional response. Let the response trigger, absolutely, but then when you can go into examination mode on yourself as to how it triggered. Where did this come from? Did I get sent it because I’m looking for it? What are the assumptions and manipulations in the prose? Am I being manipulated? (“Evil person x y wants us to z”)
AI is everywhere now, derivative and pat and so fucking boring but useful. The worst thing about it is that it magnifies stupid people. You can consider an argument and really think about your reasoning and examples, and someone who is their own uncle can write a basic prompt and yield an unsatisfactory rebuttal (but satisfying to whoever posts it). AI is a proxy for rednecks. You need to be able to spot it when you’re throwing pearls before swine. Don’t be part of dead internet. That’s only a few years away. Already the bulk of posts are bots or idiots with prompts. Nothing to do with Russia trying to manipulate the narrative, btw. Let’s leave Russia out of this. Dead internet is coming, where all of the activity is bots dealing with, supporting, arguing with, interacting with bots. Facebook is mostly already there. Bots and your weird uncle who inexplicably hates squirrels and feels supported by the exsquirrel bots and thinks that demagogue says it like it is. Twitter is dead.
The pictures will get better too, eventually. Right now, context evaluation is key. “My son got home from school crying about x” does not yield a studio style portrait of them crying unless you are a total psycho, even if you’re trying to pull on our heartstrings about bullying or whatever (and T*mu or T*doo app both of which are mentioned more than you would credit in this AI bullshit article economy.) Chinese companies flooding for familiarity. I’m mostly Sus about Russia at the mo just as Putin has his little pocket oompaloompa so he can flex his fading muscles without fear of repercussions.
Nuclear warheads have a shelf life. That shelf life is running out. When you’ve spent a load of money on something, you don’t want it to go to waste. Oof.
No harm in making sure you’ve got some iodine at home, and a wind up radio. I’m in London. I’ll be dead anyway.
AlBarclay 