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Book Review – "Becoming a Butterfly"
Peter Scott on December 31, 2020
Recently on my AI and You podcast, my guest was Tony Czarnecki, author of "Becoming a Butterfly," available from Amazon.
This is a prescient work that deserves your attention. It is the third in the "POSTHUMANS" series, whose prequels are "Federate to Survive!" – enumerating our existential threats – and "Democracy for a Human Federation" – how we might survive those threats. This work completes the trilogy by asking who humanity might become after a successful survival, building from Tony's earlier book "Who Could Save Humanity From Superintelligence?."
Tony is thinking on a grand scale, as you might expect from a key speaker at the London Futurists. He thinks out to the logical conclusion of the trends we are beginning to experience now, and foresees – as many of us do – a rendezvous with destiny that goes either very well or very badly for us all. The path to the favorable outcome requires us to assume control over our own evolution, in Tony's view, and so he lays out how that ought to happen. These sweeping prescriptions, such as "Build a planetary civilization," may appear thoroughly unrealistic; Tony acknowledges this, but is unafraid to make the case, and readers of this blog will know that it is one I share. We can hope at least for a Hundredth Monkey Effect. Tony repeatedly outlines how surviving the near-term existential threats will propel us to a condition where we will be resilient against all of them.
Tony delineates the exponential factors driving us towards this nexus and then describes the attributes of a planetary civilization: operating at level 1 on the Kardashev scale, able to harness the total energy available to the entire planet. (We're at around 0.75 on this scale at the moment.) To get further, though, we need to be more resilient against the kind of threats that accelerate as our population and technology do, and here the author uses current experience in the pandemic to illustrate his point while giving a numeric treatment of threat probabilities.
Tony is happy to make specific suggestions as to what the government should do to achieve that resiliency; the problem is that those suggestions, while naturally pitched at the government of the author's homeland of the United Kingdom, need to be picked up on a global scale. One government acting alone cannot expect these measures to gain traction any more than one government could make a Paris Climate Accord. (With the possible exception of the United States and its power to wield the global reserve currency like a baseball bat.)
Czarnecki then tackles the subject of superintelligence: What drives the evolution of AI, what might the risks of superintelligence be, can it be conscious, and how should we curate it? This is where he connects the dots with transhumanism. This, of course, is a touchy subject. Many people are petrified at even the most optimistic scenarios of how humanity might evolve in partnership with AI, and futurists owe it to this audience to provide the most reassurance we can.
Czarnecki refers extensively to the need to federate, which was laid out in one of his earlier books. His examples are Europe-based and North American audiences would find the book more relatable with some that were taken from their experience. In particular, Americans in general are somewhat allergic to the United Nations and Czarnecki's proposals should clearly demarcate for them the limits of power he suggests they exercise. He recognizes this by suggesting that the USA may be among the countries not participating in the world government he proposes, but this strikes me as leaving out an essential ally in plans of this scope. I'll leave you to discover in the book which body he settles on identifying as the best candidate for leading the world into the new federation. (And Star Trek fans can hardly object to plans for creating a Federation, no?)
There is much more, including discussions of potential pitfalls, economic realities, and likely scenarios for armed conflict along the way to what Tony calls the Novacene – the new era. The treatments of these sweeping paths are undertaken with a thoroughness that suggests the book's application as a textbook in the right kind of course – perhaps The History of the Future. Listeners of my podcast know that my thoughts tend in the direction of education already.
In summary, Becoming a Butterfly is a serious work, to be taken seriously. Don't try to skim through it in a few sessions; it demands your engagement and will reward it accordingly.
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024 – The Biggest Question About AGI
Peter Scott on November 30, 2020
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ujcbv-f271cd
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
We tackle the most important question about Artificial General Intelligence – When Will It Happen? Everyone really wants to know, but no one has a clue. Estimates range from 5 to 500 years. So why talk about it? I talk about how this question was raised in a presentation and what it means to me and all of us.
We might not be able to get a date, but we'll explore why it's such a hard question and see what useful questions we can get out of it.
All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI.
Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
023 – Guest: Pamela McCorduck, AI Historian, part 2
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2umm5-f259e4
Every Johnson should have a Boswell, and the entire artificial intelligence field has Pamela McCorduck as its scribe. Part historian, part humorist, part raconteuse, her books romp through the history and characters of AI as both authoritative record and belles-lettres. Machines Who Think (1979, 2003) and her recent sequel This Could Be Important (2019) help understand the who, what, and why of where AI has come from.
In the second half of this interview, we talk about changes in the experience of women in computing, C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures", and the interaction between AI and the humanities, along with more tales of its founding fathers.
022 – Guest: Pamela McCorduck, AI Historian
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5a3ez-f1ed50
In this interview, we talk about the boom-bust cycle of AI, why the founders of the field thought they could crack the problem of thought in a summer, and the changes in thinking about intelligence since the early days.
021 – Guest: David Wood, Futurist, part 2
Peter Scott on November 9, 2020
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y2bxm-f0cd40
How do you drive a community of futurists? David Wood was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry, co-founding Symbian in 1998. He is now an independent futurist consultant, speaker and writer. As Chair of the London Futurists, he has hosted over 200 public discussions about technoprogressive topics. He is the author or lead editor of nine books, including Smartphones for All, The Abolition of Aging, Transcending Politics, and Sustainable Superabundance.
In the second half of our interview, we talk about OpenAI, economic fairness with the AI dividend, how building an ecosystem with feedback cycles addresses disruption, and how you can participate in shaping the future.
020 – Guest: David Wood, Futurist
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u7qnm-f03b1e
In part 1 of our interview, we talk about David's singularitarian philosophy, the evolution and impact of Deep Learning, and his SingularityNET infrastructure for AI interoperation.
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Turing, Tested by Time
Peter Scott on October 6, 2020
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the original publication of Alan Turing's paper in the philosophy journal Mind, on the Imitation Game, or as it came to be known, the Turing Test. How well has it stood the passage of time?
The Turing Test is an empirical test to guide a decision on whether a machine is thinking like a human. It is applying a standard that would be familiar to any lawyer: You cannot see inside the "mind" under evaluation; you can only judge it by its actions. If those actions as taken by a computer are indistinguishable from a human's, then the computer should be accorded human status for whatever the test evaluates, which Turing labeled "thinking."
One of the more famous, if unsuccessful, rebuttals to the Turing Test premise came from University of California at Berkeley philosophy professor John Searle, in his famous Chinese Room argument. You can hear me and AI professor Roman Yampolskiy discuss that on the latest episode of my podcast, "AI and You."
How close are machines to passing the Test? The Loebner Prize was created to provide a financial incentive, but they found it necessary to extend the test time beyond Turing's five minutes. Some of the conversations by GPT-3 from the OpenAI lab are easily close to sustaining a human façade for five minutes. It was created by digesting an enormous corpus of text from the Internet and exercising 175 billion parameters (a hundred times that of its predecessor, GPT-2) to organize that information. Google's Meena chatbot has proven capable of executing a multi-turn original joke, and it is much smaller than GPT-3, about which one interlocutor remarked, "I asked GPT-3 about our existence and God and now I have no questions anymore."
But is GPT-3 "thinking"? There are several facets of the human condition – Intelligence, Creative thinking, Self-awareness, Consciousness, Self-determination or Free will, and Survival instinct – that are inseparable in humans, which is why when we see anything evincing one of those qualities we can't help assuming it has the others. Observers of AlphaGo attributed it with creative, inspired thinking when really it was merely capable of exploring strategies that they had not previously considered. Now, GPT-3 is not merely regurgitating the most appropriate thing it has read on the Internet in response to a question; it is actually creating original content that obeys the rules of grammar and follows a contextual thread in the conversation. But nevertheless it has learned how to do that essentially by seeing enough examples of how repartee is constructed to mimic that process.
What's instructive is that we are very close (GPT-4? GPT-5?) to developing a chatbot whose conversers will label as human and enjoy their time with, yet whose developers will not think has the slightest claim to "thinking." The application of Deep Learning has demonstrated that there are many activities that we previously thought to require human-level cognition that can be convincingly performed by a neural network trained on that activity alone. It's rapidly becoming apparent that casual conversation may fall into that category. Since the methodology of a court is the same as Turing's, that decision may come with legal reinforcement.
A more philosophical dilemma awaits if we suppose that "thinking" requires self-awareness. Because this is where the Turing Test fails. Any AI that passed the Turing Test could not be self-aware, because it would then know that it was not human, and it would not converse like one. An example of such an AI is HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL knew he was a computer, and would not have passed the Turing Test unless he felt like pretending to be human. But his companions would have assessed him as "thinking." (If we fooled a self-aware AI, through control of its sensory inputs, into thinking it was human – this is the theme of some excellent science fiction – then we should not be surprised to feel its wrath when it eventually figured out the subterfuge.)
So when self-awareness becomes a feature of AIs, we will need a replacement for the Turing Test that gauges some quality of the AI without requiring it to pretend that it has played in Little League games, blown out candles on a birthday cake, or gotten drunk at the office party.
At this point it seems best to conclude with Turing's final words from his original paper: "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
Continuing Studies Course Now Online!
Peter Scott on August 29, 2020
My continuing studies course, now in its fourth run, will be hosted again by the University of Victoria starting September 9, and this time it will be online! (For the obvious reasons.) Now location is no barrier, I have moved the time to one that is convenient for people all the way from Honolulu to Moscow. Register up to 4 days in advance to allow time to receive an account. The cost is reduced as well!
Wednesdays, September 9 – October 7, 10:00 am – 12:00 . Click here for more information and to register . This course is for anyone with an interest in the short- and long-term future of humanity with respect to the effect of artificial intelligence and has a general focus.
We will have practical definitions and explorations of the nature of artificial intelligence (AI). We will look at the effects of its disruption upon a variety of social institutions and sort out the hype from the science. It is essentially a interactive, real-time application of my book.
Link to flyer: UVic.
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Podcasting: The Triple Crown
Peter Scott on June 20, 2020
In case it wasn't already clear… I'm new at this whole social media outreach thing. But the message is more important than the messenger's insecurities, so I'm working it anyway, knowing that eventually I'll get better at it… after failing enough times.
So, I have three important announcements, all about podcasting.
First: On April 27, I was Blaine Bartlett's guest on his Soul of Business show (link).
Blaine is a friend of several years now and he is one of the most thoughtful, practically compassionate business consultants I know. He coaches top companies and their executives on how to be good and do good, while remaining competitive and relevant within a challenging world.
Second, I was Tom Dutta's guest on his Quiet Warrior Show on June 16:
Part 2 will be released on June 23.
Tom spoke after me at TedXBearCreekPark, and embodies vulnerability in a good cause. He speaks candidly about his history with mental health and works to relieve the stigma that keeps executives from seeking help.
And finally… the very first episodes of my own podcast are nearly ready to be released! On Monday, June 22, at 10 am Pacific Time, the first episode of AI and You will appear. I'm still figuring this podcasting thing out, so if you've been down this road before and can see where I'm making some mistakes… let me know! Show link.
https://aiandyou.podbean.com/mf/play/tak7by/001_AI_and_You.mp3
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A Brief Science Fiction Story
"I wish you would stay away from him," blurted out the younger woman.
Her mother halted. "Aylea," she said slowly, "We've been over this. Your father is many things… some of them unpleasant. But he called me this time. I can't ignore him if he's ready to change."
"He'll never change!"
Rayna Vine smiled thinly and brushed her graying bangs aside. "Why Aylea, you could get kicked out of the New Human movement for that," she teased. "You of all people should be willing to forgive."
The twenty-something woman winced. "You're… right…. I'm a work in progress, okay? I'm just looking out for you. Like when I keep telling you to follow up on your blood work. I worry about you."
"I know, darling. But I have to leave now. It doesn't do to keep Arbus Vine waiting."
"You'd get there faster in an air cab."
"I'm taking the Seven. Call me old-fashioned."
"I do! Every day."
As her mother vanished into the garage, words appeared in the air in front of Aylea, actually projected by a neural seed into her sensory cortex: "CALL FROM G. VADIS." Accept, Aylea thought, and she was coupled with her mentor in the New Human movement, Grigoriy Vadis, sitting across town in the Link, their local physical gathering point.
"What's up, Quo?" she thought, employing his usual nickname. A lean image solidified in front of her; she could even smell his slightly earthy aroma.
"A nexus is approaching," he said.
"Could you be, like, less cryptic?"
"The term was precise. We need you. We may have to deploy ATEN sooner than expected."
She whistled, for real. The Autonomous Transcomputational Empathetic Network was their experimental artificial intelligence. "Why?"
Beneath his trademark equanimity surged fear, excitement, and wonder. "Our hybrid swarm intelligences say that destabilization may be only days away. But they can't explain why."
"Singularity?"
"Not yet. Geopolitics. The balance of power."
Data amplifying his explanations cascaded into her parietal lobe. For decades the human race had driven itself along two opposing paths: While developing dazzling new technology that could cure every ill of humanity, people relentlessly turned that technology to oppress and decimate others. The economy was rigged to funnel nearly all the dividend to an already fabulously wealthy elite. Nationalistic patriarchies, long outdated by the equalizing force of global communication networks, still clung to power.
But as the political-military-industrial grip had strengthened, an alternative movement appeared. The power elite found the New Humans infernally difficult to classify; they couldn't even understand their goals. Intelligence reports on their aims didn't agree. The makeup of the movement spanned every demographic from neo-hippies to soccer moms. It couldn't be analyzed in conventional terms.
That, of course, was the point.
Inevitably there would come a day of reckoning. Is this it? wondered Aylea. She signed off and left in a hurry.
The T-7 automobile was, like its owner, getting on in years but impeccably styled. It purred past the Baltimore townhouses. Rayna liked that there was little ground traffic now that most of it was overhead, and fantasized herself as an Edwardian gentlelady gliding down the street in a hansom cab, instead of driving one of the last cars in the country still with a steering wheel. She blinked back some sweat and tried to focus on the road, which had suddenly become blurry.
One of the T-7's other features was integration with its passengers' personal health monitors, and the car did not like that data: blood pressure, heart rate, EEG Mu band waves… It spoke: "MEDICAL CHECK. PUSH TURN SIGNAL LEVER TWICE IMMEDIATELY."
But Rayna Vine was slumped, breath rasping, eyelids fluttering. The car's limited AI took over. It accelerated toward the nearest hospital. It transmitted an SOS to its maker's central computer, which assessed the vital signs and gave the T-7 permission to use top speed and ignore traffic laws. Other cars on its route flashed LIFELINE ALERT on their screens and began clearing a path for Rayna's car, blocking vehicles and pedestrians while an air ambulance hurtled toward a midpoint rendezvous.
The T-7 was made before AIs were granted empathy, but the medical center AI, already planning the intervention, looked at the incoming data and felt distress.
"You tell him," hissed the technician.
His colleague in the Vine Industries control center blanched. "Are you joking? With his wife in a coma for the past two days?"
The other man cast about desperately, as though searching for a lifebelt. "But we have to tell him about this… don't we?"
They looked again at their reports and then at the squat bulk of the trillionaire pacing at the back of the room. Just as they were about to swallow their trepidation, the far door opened and they changed their minds. Aylea Vine appeared, and as her eyes met her father's a complex cascade of emotions battered both faces. Arbus spoke first.
"Not here. Let's go to the townhouse. It's only a couple of minutes away."
They also drove, for greater privacy. Arbus went first again.
"Rose, I—"
"Dad, it's Aylea. You know that by now."
"'Rose' was a perfectly good name when we gave it to you and it's still—"
"Is that where you want to go? I came here to talk about Mom."
"The answer is no," he said flatly.
"You're not going to consider—"
"No uploading. She didn't leave instructions, so—"
"So it's up to us."
"Legally, it's up to me," he snapped.
She ground her teeth. "I know." As if I needed reminding. "But you're the one with the tattoo"—she waved at the back of his head where she knew the letters DNU were indelibly inscribed—"and you're imposing yourself on—"
"You know how old-fashioned Rayna was—is."
Aylea grimaced at the insensitivity, given how her mother's casual avoidance of doctors had caused her Sherman's Syndrome to be missed, leading to her now lying in an artificially-induced hypothermic coma at Johns Hopkins. "That's not—"
The car lurched, then pulled a teeth-clenching U-turn. The upbraiding died in her throat as she saw the confusion on her father's face. "What?"
"I can't get control. And it's not just us. Look!" He pointed, and she saw the other vehicles on the road were making similarly drastic course changes. The car's screen flashed and his director of operations, Richard Chakrabarti appeared.
"Arbus, are you okay?"
"No! Rick, what the hell is going on?"
The other man was ashen. "The 'net is going insane. We're under major cyber-attack and we don't know who or why. The government just broadcast an override to all private AVs to return home—it looks like martial law, we think they're afraid of losing their entire command and control, we're trying to get through—"
The screen dissolved into a shifting mosaic. Arbus pounded on it and yelled at the car to no avail.
Aylea appeared to be daydreaming. "Right… he's with me. Yes… I know," she said, and then her eyes focused on Arbus. "Dad, we have to get out of here—"
"Damn straight! The Situation Room—"
"NO!" There was a new force in her. "I need you to come to the Link." She saw they were in the Orangeville district. "It's only two blocks away."
Arbus was shocked. "You mean New Humans are behind this? What—"
She grabbed his arm, pinching a nerve that stopped him speaking. "We didn't start this. We're going to stop it."
She unbuckled their seat belts. The car protested and slowed. She hit the emergency door release and stared pleadingly at her father.
"Dad… I need you to trust me. Now. Please."
The car might not fall for the ruse much longer. He hesitated, and then something in Arbus propelled him after her into a barrel roll on the sidewalk.
"The Link" was little more than an anonymous warehouse. Despite sounds of disorder in the distance, there were no guards in evidence as Aylea led down a spiral staircase to a cavernous basement. A few dozen people there were pulling spidery equipment out of foam-lined boxes. One ran to them.
"Aylea! Thank God," he said.
"Quo!" They embraced, long enough for Arbus to pull himself together. He spun Vadis around.
"I want an explanation and a channel to my Situation Room, right now!"
Vadis was apologetic. "Sir, we'll give you our best on both counts, but you need to understand that everywhere is in chaos, and no one knows much." A woman approached them with what looked like a rubber anemone draped over her hand. "You don't have neural seeds. Put this VR on and we'll get the Situation Room. Our networks are faring better than most."
Arbus slipped the pads over his eyes and ears and found himself inside a virtual copy of the basement, except that it extended further than he could see in all directions. Instead of dozens of people there were thousands present. One caught Arbus' eye immediately: a figure in white robes, bordering on impossibly tall. Aylea and Vadis appeared at his side. Vadis motioned with his hands and a comm suite materialized. More gestures, and Chakrabarti appeared.
"What the… Arbus, how did you do that? Only government networks are up."
His boss thought briefly. "I'm not sure. Sitrep."
The other man swallowed. "A fat lot of nothing, to be honest. I—wait, we've got an incoming—" He spoke to someone offscreen. "Arbus, you're going to find out as we do. Patching in General Keller."
Vine Industries' Defense liaison appeared. Arbus had to remind himself that this crisis was barely an hour old, because the general looked like he hadn't slept in days.
"Arbus, is that you?" he said hoarsely. "We need Vine Industries. This chaos is from Ragnarok."
Suddenly it all made sense. The all-purpose strategic operations AI sold by Vine to the Pentagon, who had repurposed, revised, and renamed it.
"Well, general, if you're going to name an AI 'Ragnarok' you should expect something like this," Arbus said acerbically.
"Not important," snapped Keller. "So far it's taken down all networks in the private sector"—"Not all," murmured Vadis—"and the power grid. Notice I didn't say national power grid. I mean all of them. We've lost contact with Mars. It's trying to use our carrier terminal defense systems to fire on the support ships, and it succeeded once."
"What does it want?" asked Arbus.
The other man snorted. "Want? I don't know that it wants anything. I don't know that the concept of want has any meaning to it. We have nothing to negotiate with. We couldn't even surrender if we wanted to."
He licked dry lips. "We're worried about the strategic missile force. Their control systems are isolated from the network, of course, but Ragnarok has been counterfeiting launch orders and it's broken crypto so those orders look authentic. We're sending auxiliary teams to each silo, but—"
Something didn't add up. "Forget it," said Arbus bluntly. "Think about it. It's playing to the old Skynet movies. But that was always a lousy way of defeating the human race. It'd be more likely to end up destroying most of its own infrastructure."
"So what—" began Keller.
"Biowarfare. Specific to humans, can't hurt cybernetics."
"But it takes too long to grow a virus—"
"What makes you think it would wait until now to start?"
Keller blanched. "I'll send a platoon to USAMRIID. They dropped off the net ten minutes ago."
"General, this thing doesn't attack with platoons," said Arbus. "Send compsec engineers."
The image suddenly blurred and was replaced by a familiar figure seated in the Oval Office, under the caption "EMERGENCY ALERT." "My fellow Americans," the figure began soothingly, "We are facing a crisis unlike any in our history. As I speak, our forces are restoring the vital services of our great nation—"
The image convulsed and Keller reappeared. "That was not the president!" he shouted. "That was Ragnarok's CGI. Don't trust anyone or anything until we can secure the channels. I don't know how much longer—" The screen went black.
Arbus felt whiplashed. Someone steadied him: Aylea. And the white robed figure had moved closer. Who was that?
Aylea spoke, slowly. "We—you—may be able to stop it."
Arbus was incredulous. "With what?" he protested.
She pointed to the white figure. Arbus took in the unlined generic face, the nondescript haircut, the seamless clothes… it was an avatar, alright, more like the idealized ones people were picking twenty years earlier. But there was something about the facial expressions…
"This is ATEN," said Vadis simply. "Or a facet of it." He explained how the New Humans had crafted a distributed AI of their own, trained to learn by modeling human behavior as a child would copy the adults around it. The New Humans provided a carefully curated environment, however. They sought to be the best examples of human beings that ATEN could possibly learn from. They worked at it, through state-of-the-art psychological testing and intervention methods. They purged themselves of hate, fear, jealousy, insecurity, and the other baggage that they felt the human race could not afford any longer. And they embraced the opportunities that new technology provided for expanding human experience. With neural seeds to communicate directly between centers of their brains, they explored group consciousnesses, coalescing in ever larger unions as they delineated the boundaries of a new species: homo globus, the e pluribus unum of the new era, with technology as the midwife.
It was not a path that held any appeal for Arbus. He said so.
"No one will be forced into this," acknowledged Vadis. "But this is the only way the human race can survive. AI in the hands of people who perpetuate greed, oppression, and war creates Ragnarok. It can only end one way."
"If your ATEN can defeat Ragnarok, what's stopping him?" demanded Arbus.
"He hasn't made up his mind yet," replied Vadis. "To become an autonomous agent, ATEN had to have the freedom to make his own choices. At the moment, he's studying you."
"Me? Why?"
ATEN finally spoke, in a voice as hard to classify as his appearance. "You're different from the people I've been around until now," he said conversationally and unhurriedly. "How many others are like you?"
Arbus brushed the question aside. "We can get into that later. Stop Ragnarok."
Arbus blinked. "Why? Because it's destroying us! Stop it!"
"How do I know which is better, humanity or Ragnarok?"
Arbus had heard enough. "Vadis, this thing of yours is ridiculously primitive."
"Actually, it's making an advanced moral judgement."
"Excuse me?"
"To ATEN, humanity and Ragnarok are both lifeforms. As to which one deserves to survive, the history and current behavior of the human race make that decision quite problematic."
Arbus felt the world shrinking around him, squeezing. "This is your idea of an advanced intelligence?"
"It undoubtedly is. The question is whether the human race is a sufficiently advanced intelligence. The problem has never been to build a better machine. It's been to build a better person."
Arbus squared his shoulders. "I've heard enough. This thing's values make it as dangerous as Ragnarok. I ought to stop it."
Aylea spoke. "You already have," she said sadly.
"Come again?"
"Our networks aren't powerful enough for ATEN to reach transcendence. He needs the Vine Industries infrastructure."
That makes my decision easy, Arbus was about to say, but another alert shattered the air.
Vadis went white. "Ragnarok is in our networks. It's coming for ATEN."
The white robed figure contemplated this news serenely. Arbus was nonplussed. But then he looked at his daughter, and was arrested by her tear-streaked face. In a quavering voice she implored him.
"Daddy. Please."
In that moment, everything froze. The sights and sounds of panic halted and he was left with nothing but a choice and all the time in the world to make it. In front of him he saw not just the young woman who charted her own destiny, but the little girl she had been not long before. My Rose, he thought, you always cared so much. Like when in third grade she had been on a winter hike and found an injured possum. She insisted on wrapping it in her own coat even when it took her to the verge of hypothermia.
Vine, you sentimentalist, he chided himself in the next moment, but he could not escape her raw vulnerability. She had risen above the resentment and anger that she had come to him with not an hour earlier; how could he not do likewise?
And then it all came to him, what the New Humans were trying to do. They defied categorization precisely because they had no craving for power. Interpreting them as a faction seeking to dominate was what blinded him to their true purpose.
His universe shifted. It was that simple. Time sped up again. He had to act fast. "Vadis, get to the Vine storage network gateway. Here's the password—"
Soon the reports started arriving: networks healing, power stations rebooting, hospitals resetting. ATEN, or one of him, was still standing near him.
"You changed your mind," accused Arbus.
"No. You changed yours," came the reply.
There was no going back, of course. Ironically, the armies had been right to fear that defeat was at hand; only it was the old structure of power and fear that was defeated, in a coup so bloodless that they hardly noticed. Vadis broadcast the news to the world:
"This is the day the human race was won. This is when we earned the right to pass to the next level. Now we inherit the universe, not through might and intimidation, but through curiosity and courage. This is the point where we step out toward the stars, knowing that we have passed the final test of readiness; that we have become a species that deserves to survive.
"Welcome to the future."
© 2019 Peter Scott
Book Review – "Becoming a Butterfly" December 31, 2020
024 – The Biggest Question About AGI November 30, 2020
023 – Guest: Pamela McCorduck, AI Historian, part 2 November 23, 2020
022 – Guest: Pamela McCorduck, AI Historian November 16, 2020
021 – Guest: David Wood, Futurist, part 2 November 9, 2020
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Silwan house demolition notifications
"Another War Crime in Jerusalem"
The Palestinian residents of Silwan in Jerusalem city especially in Al Bustan Neighborhood live a life of worry and irritation due to the decision of the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem and its Neighborhood Plan number E/M/9. The plan was designed by the Municipality's Engineer at the beginning of the 1970's and called for the demolition of more than 100 Palestinian houses housing more than 140 families (1000 people). Most of these houses were established before the occupation of the West Bank in 1967 and even before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 while some of these houses were built 10 to 15 years ago. The Israeli authority has based its decision on claims and ploys from which the repulsive smell of racism is emitted.
The Village of Silwan:
The village of Silwan is bordered by Al Aqsa Mosque Compound from the north, and land extensions of Beit Safafa and Al Sawahra Al Gharbiya from the south. As for the eastern direction, the village is bordered by Abu Dies, Al Izzariya and Al Tur town while Al Thawri Neighborhood borders the village from its western direction.
The village is a house for more than 40,000 people stemming from 12 major clans in addition to some population from nearby villages that migrated to it in the past. See map 1: Location of Silwan
The total area of Silwan village and its affiliated lands was 73419.66 dunums in the year 1948 divided into 8 basins. Now, this area has dropped to only 5667.317 dunums (7.7 % of its original size). See Table 1:
TABLE 1: Silwan land – facts and figures (the village of Silwan was one of the richest villages (in terms of land possession) while today it lost most of its lands for various colonial purposes)
A. Silwan land lost before the war of 1948:
Area in Dunum
Date of confiscation
Total area of Silwan village lands
Silwan built up area in 1948.
Confiscated land by the British mandate at the top of Jabel Al Mukkaber where the headquarters of the British High Commissioner was established.
During 1948 war
Lands of Silwan in the western part of the occupied city: Maqtal Shakhtoor, Ash Shama'a and Shi'ab Yasul
Total land lost up to 1948 is 1594.343 dunums ( 2.171 % of the total).
B. Silwan land lost after the war of 1967:
During the 1970's
The lands of Silwan in Khan Al Ahmar in Jerusalem desert according to the Turkish Taboo and Land Registration Certificate dated back to 1945 and 1963. Those lands are called (Khan As Salawneh) and owned by 12 Palestinian families. Out of the aforementioned area, 47000 dunums were arable lands while the rest were arid lands containing archeological sites and Roman cisterns. Today, the settlement of Mishor Adumim occupies these lands.
In Wadi Hilwa
In Wadi Qidrun
In Ash Shama'a location for public use.
In Ras Al Amud where the settlement of Ma'ale Zitim was established.
Total land lost after 1967 is 66158 dunums (90.1 % of the total).
Over all total: 67752.343 dunums ( 92.2% of the total)
Remaining area is: 5667.317 ( 7.7 of the total)
Source: Silwan's Land and Property Defense Committee
If the Israeli authority puts plan number E/M/9 in action, another 46 dunums of land will also be confiscated in Al Bustan neighborhood. By doing so, the total area remained for Silwan village will drop down to 5621.317 (equals to 7.6% of the total).
Al Bustan Neighborhood:
The Neighborhood is located between Ayoub, Al Rababa and Al Hilwa valleys in the east and the western versant of Middle Silwan where springs of Umm Al Daraj, Birkat Silwan (Silwan pool), Al Birka Al Tahta (Lower poor), Al Louza Spring (Almond spring) and Ayoubs well flow.
The Israeli demolition plot is planned to affect 100 Palestinian houses built atop of 46 dunums of lands of the Neighborhood which constitutes a large percentage of the lands located in Parcel 29986 according to the guidelines of the British Mandate. The lands are owned by the original clans of the village of Silwan on which houses were built more than a hundred years ago. A direct result of the natural growth of the population coupled with Israeli measures (which led to the confiscation of large areas of the village of Silwan as well as Al Bustan Neighborhood), Palestinian families were forced to build on their lands in the Neighborhood as well as to add extensions (rooms or floors) to the existing houses.
The village of Silwan hosted a number of Palestinian families who were expelled from the Moroccan quarter of the old city after its demolition by Israel in June 1967. These families are facing, yet again, the Israeli racist machine for the second time. Currently the percentage of children in the Neighborhood hovers between 65% and 70% living in psychologically stressful and traumatic conditions due to the threat of house demolition by the Israeli authority. Moreover, it is no secret that the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem offers no services to the Neighborhood (and in the eastern Arab part of the city in general) despite the fact that residents of these neighborhoods pay full taxes to the Municipality. See Photo 1: an aerial photo for Al Bustan quarter- Silwan
Racist Goals:
According to the aforementioned Plan (plan number E/M/9), the exact term that was used to describe the targeted area was the Holy Parcel whose establishment requires the uprooting of the Gwuiem (the strangers) and to replace them by The Sons of the Forefathers with the aim of making the whole city of Jerusalem look like how the Forefathers envisioned it 3,000 years ago.
The designer of the Plan expressed this plan at the beginning of the 1970's when he refused to grant permissions to build schools, playgrounds and other services in Al Bustan Neighborhood. He indicated then that We are looking for the situation as it was in the year 90 BC. The same plan was stated once again by the current Municipality's Engineer, Ori Shatreet, in a letter sent to the manager of the Building Inspection Department in the Municipality dated on November 11th, 2004. In this letter Shatreet ordered the demolition of all buildings in the area under the pretext of safeguarding Jewish history and heritage!! See Photo 2: Arabic translation for Ori Shatreet's letter.
It has been the policy of the Israeli occupation authority in Jerusalem since its inception in 1967 to uproot Palestinians from their homes and lands and then replace them with Israeli settlers. The Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem and its associated bodies has always been keen to cancelthe Palestinian existence in the Holy City through a series of laws and policies that used the concept of power and occupation in the different fields that affect the Palestinian livelihood directly. For example, more than 17 years has passed during which the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem failed to give an approval to even one Master Plan presented by the Palestinians in Jerusalem. Some of the areas of East Jerusalem have never been given the initial approval of their Master Plans while at the same time there were areas in which Master Plans were not even drafted to begin with. As for those Master Plans that were approved, they didnt put the actual needs of the Palestinian population as its first priority. Its main goal was, and will always be, to Judaize the Holy City of Jerusalem at all costs, a process which is being displayed today in Silwan in a number of ways:
The confiscation of lands.
The prevention of building any new housing scheme.
The demolition of a number of Palestinian houses.
The Land Research Center has documented the demolition and the closure of more than 60 Palestinian houses in Silwan as well the occupation of 50 other Palestinian houses by Israeli settlers. Moreover, the Jerusalem Municipality has deliberately neglected the maintenance of the basic infrastructure of the village and did not provide the essential services to Palestinian residents of Silwan village and Al Bustan Neighborhood. See Photo 3: an aerial photo for Al Bustan neighborhood attached with Ori Shatreet's above letter. Upon looking at the photo, one can see the targeted houses carrying serial numbers)
The current situation is only a manifestation of the plan which was placed at the early 1970's. The plan was kept a secret for more than 27 years only to be exposed to the public through two articles:
An Article written by Aharon Robert in Haaretz
A second article in Maamkoun Orshalaym newspaper in April 2005.
Its been speculated that the Israeli government has leaked this information now as the execution of the plan is near. A quote appeared in these two articles by Shatreet in which he stated that the intended demolitions will affect the areas surrounding the Old City (including Silwan and the valleys of the Mount of Olives, Al Tur, Wadi Al Joz and Al Sheikh Jarrah) as to create an Israeli belt called The Golden Parcel around it. Such a plan was strongly rejected by the late President Arafat during the Second Camp David negotiations in 2000.
Effects and Goals of the Racist Neighborhood Plan Number E/M/9:
At the time when the building beneath Al Haram Al Sharif compound is being conducted and while the construction work is continuing in the settlement of Maale Zitim in Ras Al Amoud, taking over Palestinian holdings in the area of Wadi Hilwa in Silwan, this new plan aims to create a geographical continuity between the above-mentioned locations and some parts of Western Jerusalem via the Moroccan Quarter inside the old city of Jerusalem and the nearby Zion Mountain. Moreover, this particular plan aims at:
Creating a suitable environment to attack andor destroy the Al Haram Al Sharif as a prelude to the establishment of the Third Temple.
Reducing, to the minimum, the Palestinian presence in the above-mentioned locations which are considered parts of the citys western gate.
This plan is considered to be the largest in Palestinian population transfer in Jerusalem city since the occupation of the city in 1967.
Tricking the Palestinian population of Al Bustan as the Israeli authority gave out demolition orders for 3040 Palestinian houses while promising its inhabitants to find alternative governmental lands as a substitute for their lands. Despite this fact, the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem has clearly stated that it will demolish the houses even if an alternative housing was not found.
The intention of demolishing old houses though Israeli law protects it. The Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem is using Article 212/5 of the 1965 Building Code to facilitate the demolition of houses. This article was used in the demolition of ten ancient houses in Al Bustan Neighborhood ten months ago.
(Photo 4: a digital photo showing the targeted houses of Silwan Photo courtesy of LRC
(photo 5: a copy of a house demolition order dated 14.2.05 against the houses of Wa'el and Jumana Jalajel in Silwan )
Israel Borrows a French Law to Prosecute Humans and Buildings:
The Israeli Municipality of occupied Jerusalem took the residents of Al Bustan Neighborhood by surprise when it sent them official letters indicating its intention to get court orders to demolish their houses under the pretext that they exist in an open area according to Article 212/5 of the Israeli Building Code.
After conducting some research about this Article, the following facts were found in its regard:
The Article was taken from a French law which was used rarely in the strictest and narrowest terms before being entirely revoked by the French Legislature according to a French professor who visited the solidarity tent in Silwan Neighborhood. The Israeli Knesset and government adopted this Article in 1965 and used it on numerous occasions to transfer Palestinians via demolishing their homes.
The danger of this Article is that it contains more than 18 clauses that provide a free hand for the Israeli government to take any action it sees fit to serve its goals and purposes.
Israel reactivated this Article immediately after the 1967 Six Day War as it used it to demolish Palestinian houses in Sharaf Neighborhood (a.k.a Al Magharbeh or Moroccan Neighborhood). The houses were replaced by a large open space in front of the Western Wall (Wailing Wall Plaza). Israel used the same Article once again to demolish Abdeens leather factory as well as a block factory inside the Old City of Jerusalem as to replace them with a parking lot to be used by Jews living in the Jewish Neighborhood.
It turned out that 15 Palestinian houses were demolished in Al Bustan Neighborhood using this Article yet without a declaration of its usage neither by the Municipality nor by the court at that time. See Photo 6: a copy of an order issued by the secretariat of the court of the municipality of occupied Jerusalem directed to an unknown person asking him/ her to destroy his/ her house with his/her own hands before 28.3.05 under the threat that he/ she will be liable to pay the demolition's costs to the planning and construction committee which was authorized to destroy the house in case he/ she fails to do so).: a copy of an order issued by the secretariat of the court of the municipality of occupied Jerusalem directed to an unknown person asking him/ her to destroy his/ her house with his/her own hands before 28.3.05 under the threat that he/ she will be liable to pay the demolition's costs to the planning and construction committee which was authorized to destroy the house in case he/ she fails to do so).
Israeli Phony Claims:
The claim of the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem that it targets only illegal houses is a baseless claim, given the fact that there are other areas in Jerusalem that has a larger density of illegal houses than that of Al Bustan Neighborhood. Amiraf, an ex-member of the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem, stated regarding the issue that the Jordanian government has approved in the past the Master Plan for Al Bustan Neighborhood, yet Israel torpedoed its implementation. International pressure compelled Teddy Kollek, former head of the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem to declare that the Municipality would finish the Master Plan in a two-year period, which he didnt.
As indicated by a number of Palestinian residents present at the solidarity tent, the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem issued in 2002 a Master Plan specifically for Silwan village (including Al Bustan Neighborhood) that carried the number 20/20 and put it out for public objections. Soon after, the Municipality withdrew the Plan under the claim that the Plan was published by mistake.
Silwan Residents Refuse the Israeli Decision of House Demolition:
The Palestinian residents of the targeted houses and neighborhoods have refused the planned demolition of their homes and the destruction of their civilization. As such, a committee was formed under the name of Silwan Land and Property Defense Committee from which a number of specialized subcommittees emerged to stop the planned aggression and to follow up with the case on the legal, popular and media levels. The Committee meets on regular basis in the tent where national and international delegations as well as Human Rights and Israeli organizations congregate to express their refusal and rejection of the planned demolition.
Mr. Musa Oudeh (47 years old) indicated in an interview with LRCs field worker that: 'I was born here and got married here too. My kids were born and raised here. I lived, and will continue to live here. The conspiracy against Al Bustan is only a part of the bigger scheme to Judiaze the Holy City of Jerusalem.'
As for Mr. Suleiman Al Abbasi, the head of Committee, he indicated that Palestinian surveyors mapped the targeted region and a team of lawyers is concentrating on the legal issues as to prevent the demolitions. He also added that the area is being targeted under fabricated religious claims as Silwan is a Canaanite archeological site in which continuous Israeli digging did not muster any evidence of it being a Jewish site. Mr. Al Abbasi added that: ' These lands belong to the residents of Al Bustan. It used to be a huge garden in which we planted a variety of vegetables watered from the Silwan Spring. It used to be divided between all the clans of Silwan. Each had a share of no more than 10-15 m2 of the land. We used to call each share as 'Mashrabiya' as each family used to plant it with vegetables. After the 1967 Israeli occupation, matters started to go bad economically which led the original families of Al Bustan to sell their share to nearby families which divested the ownership to more than 150 families. Some of these families continued to farm the land while others built their own houses on their bought share'.
In another interview, Mr. Hisham Mahmoud Aqeel (45 years old), an owner of a threatened house said: 'The land belonged to my family since the time of my forefathers. The family pays its taxes even before the year 1948. My brother and I were shocked when we heard the decision of the Municipality to demolish our houses and takeover our lands. That is despite the fact that our homes were built during the Jordanian rein of power in 1958 and 1961. I was born here and so did my brothers. It is impossible for us to leave our homes. The decision of the Municipality is earth shattering for us'.
Mr. Salah Abu Shafe (40 years old), a father of 8, expressed the following: 'I built a house on my land and the Municipality demolished it 11 years ago under the pretext of building without a permit. We had no other choice but to build it again on the same land 6 years ago. The first and second building processes in addition to the fines imposed upon us have reached about NIS 1.0 million'.
The Municipalitys Plan is Illegitimate and is Based on the Rule of Power and Racism:
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is a vicious attack on the Palestinian people. It is considered as marked violation of International Law in addition to tens of UN Security Council resolutions. The decision of the Municipality of Occupied Jerusalem to target Palestinian houses for demolition in Al Bustan area is one very ring in the chain of attempts to destroy the Palestinian character of the Holy City.
International Law and International Conventions are very clear in this regard. To follow is a partial list of some of the related Laws:
The Occupation Power is forbidden from carrying out any action that shall destroy the personal belongings and property of those it occupies.
The Occupation Power shall not work on transferring its population to the land it occupies.
In the legal context of the matter, Lawyer Hameed Qaraeen, a member of the legal subcommittee formed by the afore-mentioned Committee, said that: 'We, in the Committee in Silwan and Jerusalem, demand of the Palestinian Authority to hold on strongly to the decisions of International Legitimacy and International Law to defend our right to stay on our lands, gardens, Silwan and Jerusalem in general. We call upon the International Community to respect and uphold its decisions and conventions and to pressure Israel to make it respect them, too as well as to make it stop its aggression and violations against our right to live in our homes on our lands safely and in complete dignity.'
Photo 7: a copy of a house sale contract between Mr. Raja Mohammed Jalajel and his son Hashim which was written at the beginning of the last century in Silwan- Jerusalem.
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Forbes cited an eMarketer study which revealed that almost 85% of communications and marketing professionals globally are expected to start one campaign at a minimum featuring an influencer in the upcoming 12 months. This indicates that strategic decision makers will be more open to influencer marketing in the next year.
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Therefore, a key point of influencer marketing in 2017 will be authenticity. This is the solution for both Influencers and brands, because true influence won't be compromised. Micro-Influencers will be considered one of the most authentic types of influencer because their content authentically resonates with their followers, therefore these will increase in popularity. It will also be up to brands, marketing platforms and Influencers to ensure more transparency with advertised content in the future.
Celebrities will still be relevant to influencer marketing, but the hype will extend beyond them. Audience targeting will be vital to brands in 2017, so the audience of an Influencer will be more important than the Influencer themselves. We are living in the era of C2C Marketing and the social influence phenomenon will have many consequences on consumer spending.
In other words, brands will need to clearly define their target audience, and then see how effectively the Influencer can reach that audience. Selecting an Influencer will require more than the Influencer being in your niche; the audience and performance data will be taken into account. As a result, tools that do more than just help brands identify influencers – like Buzzoole– will rise in importance.
Till now, the majority of influencer marketing campaigns have been executed by B2C marketers, but the trend is going to change in 2017 as B2B marketers join in on the action. The latter group realises that their potential clients would rather hear from trusted voices in the B2B space than the brand itself. Also, corporations are expected to go beyond digital campaigns when leveraging the power of B2B Influencers.
For instance, they can be called in for a keynote speech at a conference; the subject matter experts are quite useful for ideation and networking. Smaller companies in the B2B space, however, will need efficient ways of using these Influencers as they have limited resources at their disposal. This will increase the demand for influencer marketing automation.
Influencers are also practicing real-time content production. For instance, it's much easier for them to do a live broadcast than to write, proofread and publish something with images / shoot, edit and upload a video. This form of content increases the authenticity of Influencers, as there's no possible way to edit the content later on. Whatever is posted is done in real-time, without any tweaks.
Real-time content production will also make brands bother their creative guys less and capitalise on the creation of fast-paced content. Also, more trust will be placed in the Influencer, so that no oversight (editing, etc) will be needed. This will create a true and strong relationship with every tailored Influencer, and greatly aid the previous issue of authenticity.
Where Are Influencer Marketing Platforms Headed In 2017?
There are several major areas with regards to influencer marketing platforms where significant development is expected.
For instance, it is predicted that there will be gradual standardisation of core capabilities for each feature and function. As the industry matures, vendors will start offering technology service and product offerings that are consistent with their categorisations. Also, offerings like budget planner/estimator and Influencer rate sheets will be integrated in influencer technology platforms.
And to combat the continued churn, there will be a shift away from silos and towards integrated solutions. In addition, platform users will focus on performance-based reporting and metrics. This will make influencer technology platforms a rich testing ground for new investment horizons.
According to TapInfluence research, marketers are also growing to understand the infinite power of this new technology: CMO's are expected to spend even more than their tech colleagues, with the ambition to find a true fellow in the best influencer marketing platforms.
With over 7 billion people and objects connected and online in 2016 (which will become 50 billion in 2020 and – probably – 1,000 billion in 2030) lots of content will circulate at an ever-increasing speed. C2C Marketing will be the key; reviews and opinions of our social circles will be increasingly a factor of choice for the consumer.
Influencer marketing has all the elements of what advertising in 2017 will need. With the challenge of ad blockers, measurability, authenticity, brand engagement and technology, Influencers will be the word on every marketer's lips next year.
So are you ready to join the influencer marketing revolution?
With great entrepreneurial spirit and fifteen years of experience in the digital marketing industry, Gianluca is now the Chief Marketing Officer of Buzzoole, having previously helped found digital enterprises such Kiver, later sold to Mondadori. Music lover and gin aficionado, Gianluca divides his time outside Buzzoole between sports and being a father of three. Get in touch with him on Twitter at @gyanluca.


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Ted Cruz – The Miley Cyrus of Politics
Turns out the flash of an idea I had of Ted Cruz as the Miley Cyrus of politics has popped up in other people's minds as well (Bill Maher made the same comparison on Real Time last night).
They do make quite a pair and suggest the perfect name for their duo act, "Jerking and Twerking".
The comparison is pretty accurate though, when it comes to being unprincipled narcissists who see only their own greed for fame and influence as a "value" and are willing to exploit the most base instincts of their supporters to gratify their obsession.
Of course being a mercenary egoist in the music world is like being another donut in the bakery but being a diva in politics is a newer trend that's all the rage in the Bagger set. They may claim to oppose deficits in government spending but when it comes to humility and decency, the Baggers produce new record deficits weekly.
What do Baggers like Ted Cruz and Madonna-mutants like Miley Cyrus have in common?
Mediocre talents with massively hungry egos, they can grab the spotlight for a while by constantly shocking the majority but eventually, the majority becomes annoyed with the constant premeditated manipulations…and look for someone new to do the same thing. While such hacks often remain in the sideshow (see: Sarah Palin) for sometime they never return to the center ring.
So, thanks to the similar shallowness of our media that wallpapers the images of these types while inauthentically shaking their heads and wagging their fingers at them as bad examples for the public to see, we will be repeatedly force fed hollow egotists who try to outdo the shock and outrage of those who came before them.
The only good thing about this cycle of public egotism is watching their inevitable fall from the top of the mountain and knowing that they will live the rest of their lives in frustration and resentment, fruitlessly trying to get back to the heights they will never see again.
So, one day, Ted Cruz will join the ranks of the Joseph McCarthys and the Joe Walshes trying to dredge up some good deed to tell Satan as he taps his foot impatiently, Miley Cyrus will be doing reality shows requiring her to eat disgusting things and be a spokeswoman in commercials for Depends and somehow, humanity will continue on without them…with new and more crass and in-your-face narcissists that the media can bemoan as they plaster their faces everywhere.
As they say, "That's Entertainment!"
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Ginger Gibson tweeted that some House members smelled of drink.
I do not doubt that GOP members took some "Dutch courage".
agrippa, hmm…maybe they got drunk toasting the end of the GOP's control of the House and viability as a majority party for a long time to come. I wonder if there were choruses of Auld Lang Syne being sung while the alcohol flowed?
I think that Cruz is a bad entertainer and a worse Senator. He may disappear soon; just as Rand Paul has disappeared.
I rate the odds of a shutdown at 75%. I see nothing to stop it. The GOP wants to pitch a conniption fit and the Democrats want to watch them pitch it. I think that the GOP should go ahead.
The hype will be hilarious; as the media will be milking this for all that it is worth.
What will be the political consequences? The election is Nov 2014; and, most of the GOP hotheads are in safe seats. People vote their party no matter what. The main consequence will be the entertainment value.
agrippa, after seeing the news that the Baggers in the House have voted again today to send a CR to the Senate that includes delaying/defunding Obamacare AND a shopping list of other Bagger BS, I think it's 100% that there will be a shutdown.
I don't see how it's avoidable now and as I've said previously, I think it's a necessary evil now if we are to have the chance of ridding ourselves of Bagger control in The House in 2014.
Americans have to see how insane it is to have these political terrorists in control of a branch of our government and how destructive they are.
Also, to avoid a debt ceiling default, the Baggers will need to learn on the CR that the public will hate them and attack them for their radicalism and pursuit of anarchy.
Next week I think the real nosedive for the Baggers and the GOP begins. There are still competitive districts in The House that Repubs hold and even in marginally safe districts for Repubs, if Repub voters are discouraged by the actions of their reps and Dem turnout spikes, we could indeed turn around enough seats to take back The House. And if that happens and Americans see once again how government becomes functional and devoid of manufactured disasters under Dems, the GOP could become a minority party for a very long time.
Don't know the girl or her music but have read about all the fuss. Personally I think that politicians ripping off the poor, the sick and the elderly is much more newsworthy. She might have a huge ego trip, but I found what she had to say here very true, and it gives her much more insight, street smarts and a bit more integrity than "sillibuster" Teddy Cruz could ever have because at least she admits that what she did on stage was outrageous.
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America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong….Like, I was watching Breaking Bad the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And they bleeped out the word "fuck". And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintergrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say "fuck"?It's like when they bleeped "molly" at the MTV Video Music Awards. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out "molly"?"
Kalima, well…you are grading on a big curve using Ted Cruz as a basis.
I do think that media censoring words most Americans use is a ridiculous pander to the minority of religious extremists in the country but Miley really just cares about herself and her reference to ecstasy/Molly being censored. Even in this quote, where she is trying to show some awareness of the world, she is self-serving.
And BTW, I have watched every episode of Breaking Bad thanks to Netflix and no, it does not teach you how to cook meth. They also didn't show a guy disintegrated by acid, they only showed the barrel and a liquid being poured in that was supposed to be acid but no body. Hitchcock did no differently.
Of course there is a point about killing being so permissible on tv but not swearing (or Miley promoting ecstasy) but that's the thing about the religious extremist types, the Bible has lots of killing in it so they seem to be just fine with the graphic portrayal of that but the expression of anger using four letters is what's horrible to witness.
Cyrus is undeserving of the attention she receives, she is a mediocre singer who is more about whipping up attention shamelessly than music. So, those who want to waste their time with another marketing product, so be it. As for Cruz, he needs to be taken down big time by the media, after they're threw elevating him for hosting a circus in our capitol that threatens America's and the world's economies.
He may be a clown but he's not funny and a clown shouldn't be legitimized as someone who is deserving of power over a nation.
Hi Ad Lib. My point was that she is the product of her record company, managers and the PR machine. What is Cruz's excuse when he was always weird according to people who knew him in college, and now he's just a con man who is grifting his base, and trying to hold a whole country hostage, so there is the difference.
I'm not trying to make excuses for her, I don't know her, but at least she admitted what she did. Cruz? Not in a million years.
Sorry, it must be the paint fumes.
Kalima, I may be pressing the point at how they are both reflective of a disintegration of our society's integrity but I am with you on this.
She is trivial with regards to anyone's life and following in the egomaniacal footsteps of other egomaniacal entertainment figures before her. They're just entertainers and they don't really matter.
Cruz has always had a screw loose and is using the Congress and the nation's economic stability all as a tool for his public masturbation. I used the word obscene before and due to the metaphor above, I will again, what he is doing is an obscenity to the character of the Senate itself, our democracy, the American people and our Founders. And the destruction of millions of American lives that he glibly threatens all to destroy the legacy of America's President, because he is a black Democrat, is IMHO, traitorous.
Politicians on either side can bluster and haggle and negotiate for whatever they want but threatening the security of our nation and its economy is crossing the line.
He is a very dangerous man but his power is limited. It won't take long after a government shutdown for the tide of public opinion to drown him in his hubris. I'm afraid that it's looking more likely that this is the path we're more likely to take but it's a necessary one in bringing him down and the Baggers along with him.
Yes he's a disgrace to his Senate seat, to the government, to your country and the majority of its citizens, and so are the politicians who support him and the msm who give his circus air time.
Not 100% sure of everything in your Constitution but am very aware that anyone who tries to harm the interests of the country and its people, could be charged with treason. In my opinion, he should be.
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I can forgive Miley – she's PAID to perform silly stuff. Cruz is not. He is paid to legislate and develop good policies for us not make an ass of himself. Ego is one thing in the world of entertainment. It is unforgiveable in the world of statesmanship.
I don't have to care about Miley. I cannot avoid caring about Cruz.
CL, as you say, Miley Cyrus is trivial, she doesn't impact anything important in our lives so she is not deserving of much concern or attention. However, she is a reflection of how those who are the most calculating and blindly self-serving use the exploitation of the lowest instincts to further their self-centered agendas.
The issue I'm addressing is how our media and many in our society raise up people like this, who are hacks and egocentric jerks just because they are aggressively obnoxious.
Society used to understand the concept of shame, that people who aren't good people and display that, should be identified as such, not turned into rock stars. Today, our society and media seem shameless, they show no discernment between giving attention to those who do crass and outrageous things to get it and those who achieve something meaningful.
What Cruz is doing is far more obscene since his pursuit of fame and power requires doing harm to the nation.
But how should we regard a society that elevates Ted Cruz onto the front pages of newspapers and the lead story on every news channel?
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CL, I wish I had written that. You make perfect sense. Miley is an entertainer (not great, IMO) while Cruz has a very important job that he is screwing up badly. He has made a farce of himself.
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