Wonderful that The Actors Fund gave a LIVE performance of "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol"! -

Take all the billionaires and strand them on a desert island. Provide them with plenty of cash. Leave.

Whenever anyone asks me if I think AI could ever have a soul, I suggest the questioner get back to me after it's been demonstrated that humans or other animals have souls. Not holding my breath.

The day after doing a local L.A. TV news interview years ago, I was standing in line at a bank and the woman next to me suddenly said, "Excuse me, didn't I see you on TV yesterday?" And I replied, "That depends, did you agree with what the person you saw was saying, or not?"

The topic for my usual Monday national network radio tech segment will be abuses by Waymo robotaxis and other driverless vehicles, and how laws need to be changed to protect the public from these Big Tech firms and their billionaire CEOs.

I believe "AI Slime" is more descriptive and accurate than "AI Slop".

I'm rapidly reaching the point where I'd recommend the minimum age for using social media be set at 150.

As an experiment, I tried using #Google Gemini's bananayammawhateverthehellit'scalled AI to create a simple test pattern with some text overlaid on it. After an hour of trying different prompts and updated prompts, with long waits between each as Google wasted more electricity, I finally gave up. Such a simple thing, and Google was utterly incapable of getting it right. I created the image manually with Gimp in 5 minutes. Generative AI is, essentially, a horrifically wasteful fraud, as it sucks up electricity, water, and now computer RAM driving its prices through the roof, all to enrich the Billionaire Big Tech CEOs with this AI Slime. The Billionaires ARE THE PROBLEM.

Board claimed unanimous vote to put Trump name on Kennedy center --board member says that's a lie, she was forcibly muted during meeting https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5656051-joyce-beatty-disputes-kennedy-center-vote/