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Admire or despise and anywhere in between. There exists a whole range, since perception and opinion tend to shift as more data become available. Like the 12 people. The jury. In the court of public opinion. We, human being, learn to distinguish the poisonous from the perfect, what is toxic and what is nutritious. We…
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We Are. Extra. Backgrounding in a comedy in the making. Just like those men of the mass who once surrounded Howard Cosell in the hope of showing our faces on “Bananas”. Been a long time, but the script kept rehashing. Especially when writers strike. Machine learning, writing and scripting. A new mix of formula: boy…
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We are living in the age of the Megaphone: zooming out from any city, the sight might be breathtaking, but the sound dotted with white noise and all. Lots of sound: high, low, medium, baritone, tenor, alto etc… “I heard he sang a good song…I heard he had a style”. We need our stories to…
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Thanks to “recommendation software”, machines are now matchmakers. Landline phones used to be our shrines (e.g. “Mom, this is for you”), television our fireplace. We refute and rebuke unbaked and unedited thoughts (now, they outright preach Hate yet claiming First Amendment Protection and Tax break). Today’s news announced funding cut for watchdog monitoring of human…
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Proponents of BPO suggest cost-shaving. Proponents of Automation remind us machine doesn’t take breaks, holidays etc… Proponents of re-shoring boast the hiring of locals and more taxes to the public coffer. Proponents of post-Covid era advocate not the return to 9-5 habit. Workers themselves feel like a yo-yo: school one’s self, train one’s self only…
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In one of the Rush Hour out-takes ( scenes that didn’t make the grade only to be shown at the end when credits roll up), Jackie Chan, instead of saying “Freeze”, says “Cheese”. We might consider the option of freezing where we are at this point in history. That way, all of the recurring shootings,…
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We’ve got hurricanes, fire and flood. We’ve got volcanic eruption, nuclear power plant meltdown, sea-water rising, record-breaking heat and freezing temperatures. We suffer, for our comfort and convenience (at other times). The price is right. Over consumption (supersizing of everything), overstaying our welcome on Earth and overspent. The price is right. We’ve picked up bad…
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You who inundated the airwaves, the screen, the internet, the crammed ads, the fake news and fake boobs. You who pop up, pop in and out of our lives, uninvited and unannounced. Did we ask for you? Invite you? Allow you to dominate our finite attention span? We’re numbed, one ad, one headline at a…
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Keep zooming out. More, more, more. See it? The Greek civilization. Rome and all its glory. England, China and much later the US, CANADA and ROW as seen now. People love, hate and divorce. Kids abandoned, adopted and alienated. Generations after generations. (personal) History repeats itself. In a cycle of self-destruction. It’s either self-inflation or…
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Get pushed from behind. Driving while looking in the rear-view mirror. Life itself. Ever since. No choice. No say. Born NOT to pause, but to run. Toward God knows where. But run, we do. We do it well, without thinking, without giving it a single thought. No Pause. No Reset. Those steps are for machine.…
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