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Tics and Twitches
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I'm on 4, waiting for the elevator. And I can hear her swearing and cussing up a storm, she's pissed off, somebody's catching hell and the elevator's rising and she's getting louder and louder, then the door opens and she's alone...
She sees me, looks down, ashamed, scuttles past...
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I'm pretty much out of groceries, there's nothing in the fridge I can find to eat. And it's a few days to payday. I grab a rock and head over to the neighbours, rattling it in the pot, I'm going to make Stone Soup and I'm hoping maybe she has some things I can add to it, only she isn't home and the broth, well, it's pretty much water and I'm pretty sure this is not how the story's supposed to go...
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She comes over to raid the fridge, lets herself in, ignores me in the chair while she helps herself to blueberries and ice cream, grabs a Pellegrino, goes back to the fridge for more berries and ice cream, she can't help herself...
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Making dinner, pasta, I've been paid and the stone's gone back into the stone pile. Run into neighbour, dinner's a Ground Elk bolognese, invite her over. After dinner she sits, she's obliged, she feels she needs to keep me company, manners and all can't eat and run only she doesn’t; she sits and gambles on her phone, then breaks to rifle the bookshelf, grabs a stack to “borrow”; she begins reading Pablo Neruda’s “100 Love Sonnets”; her face is a mirror to her internal emotions, she's smiling, lips pursing, tight, then the edges lift, then she's sad, disturbed, she's furrowing her brow; she’s filled with all manner of twitches and tics.
I scroll my phone a bit, then excuse myself to go for a cigarette and she gets the hint, checks herself out…
The Internet's Darkest Rabbit Hole
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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This is a curious tale about an AI Influencer who goes by the name of A. Egon Cholakian, who posts inane and misleading videos online, and then leads to a mysterious former Chiropractor Igor Danilo who has styled himself a new Jesus, built a cult, created a following via the "Creative Society" and "AllatRa", has compounds in the Ukraine filled with both pro-Putin and pro-Trump propaganda...
This is the real purpose of AI - to "influence" and further dumb-down an already ignorant public.
It is a fairly deep and dark rabbit hole, and while I'm grateful for the information (basically, we live in an era where all conspiracies are coming true...) - I find the delivery of it, in the standard YouTube podcast format of a little-too-long-in-the drama and suspense department, a little bit - ...
Well, if this is what it takes to bring in the viewers I guess that's it, personally I don’t want for the entertainment, merely the understanding.
Out of Storage
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Google's working the hard sell on me. I deleted a bunch of photos, and now apparently I'm using more storage! Despite having turned off all back-ups. I guess it's time to take an hour or two and back-up all my photos.
We all just rent our lives from the Company...
Witch Villages and Cursing Wells
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We've all heard of wishing wells, but not all wells are so innocent...
I came across this in Sir Walter Scott's letters on Witchcraft and Demonology. Curious.
Link: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2021/01/06/witch-villages-and-cursing-wells/
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